I know a lot about Linux, but I do not work with Linux. However if there would be an issue at the department where I work and it would need some knowledge of Linux, I would be the go-to guy.
For all I know he used to work as an IT person and used TOR against the will of his employer and the only job he could get was as a border control person. Or he hinks doing IT as a job sucks. Or...
I know a LOT of people who have knowledge of other things outside their field of work. That does not mean anything by itself.
This might be true for New York. It isn't for the rest of the world where you can become a taxi driver if you like to.
Have a car, get the proper licence and insurance. Ploof, you are a taxidriver. It is part two and three that are the issue. If they would have the proper licence and insurance, nobody would bat an eye.
If your friend is driving from point A to point B and you drive in the same direction and you decide to share the costs: No problem. It does not even have to be your friend.
The moment YOU decide where you go and the driver had previously no intention of going there and you pay him for that ride, at that moment you are a business and you fall under business regulations.
And when you suddenly have hundreds of friends who you drive around all day for money it becomes even clearer.
The line is only not clear if you don't want it to be.
The company paying the fines for the drivers would be illegal in Europe. Because that would encourage driving dangerously.
Also: in Europe fines would increment each time. SO a first time could be 1700EUR, the second time 3400EUR, next 10.000EUR and 6 months suspention. Then even more and no drivers licence for ever. It will go up to jail time if you are really stupid.
So what will change is that there soon will be a providion for higher penalties for repeat offenders.
If labour cost in the US would be the same as in China, the price would also be similar. And with labour, I also include the price of higher management.
You do not know what is better: Trowing people on the street or helping them? I think I found where the problem is. These people are unable to fend for themselves.
There obviously is a difference between helping people and locking them up.
On a desk? At home I often lean back with my feet on the desk. Not having a cable makes that easier. A second and very important thing (perhaps not for you) is that it looks so much nicer.
So you are going to unplug it and think you are safe? Watch the video. It is also battery driven, so unplugging it won't work.
Further: This is just a design idea. You could easily put it into e.g. a USB device or anything else or just tape it with a battery under a desk.
And I understand that they are not build for security, but they are used for it. People doing their bank business. They use it to log into email accounts. They are used to order things online where they enter credit card numbers.
You are aware that the average user will not be able to perform the Linux part. So you must use the GUI. Enter the root password (The what now?) and then click on OK and so on. Installing something like Google Earth gives me errors when I try to do it.(Yes, I know how to solve it) No such issue on Windows.
The main difference is that for most of the software finding it is easier on Linux. Still there are applications that are not in the repo and at that moment Windows is easier.
The clicking of next a few times is not that much of an issue, unless you install a LOT of software. Not so for the home user. If you can't spare 2 minutes, you ahve other problems.
What they will say is "I seached and clicked on the link that looked like the offical website." Oh and it was the place to download, because it even said so in the white thingy on the top.
Or: "Well, I wanted to download from the site, but they told me I must pay, so I downloaded a free version that I wanted for this program." (Because the free version is hidden on the website.
https://ninite.com/ might be easier or just charge them for what you are worth and ignore them if they have problems.
Why does Windows keep this antiquated process around?
Liability? The software that people install is not Microsoft software, nor is it compiled by Microsoft.
With Linux there are also some third party install programs. Most because they are not open source.
So it is not Windows that keep this antiquated process. It is the people who write the programs who all have a different idea on how to do things. Just having a discussion if a user should or should not have an option as default will give various answers.
Obviously what Microsoft could easily do is make something similar and ask developers to give the programs to them in a certain format. I am also sure that Microsoft does not want to be a reseller.
OK, tell me what you don't need and we will take it offline.
When I look at the shared directories at the various companies I worked and work at, it would not only be a great idea. In a small company I moved anything that I saw and that was older then 2 years to a directory "Backup". In several years nobody complained and asked where the data was.
In companies where I proposed it, the answer was always: "We might still need it." Just look at what people have in their cabinet. They are unable to throw away the presentation you have in 2005, because reason.
And now you want to throw away data that might have been useful? Perhaps you are different, but the majority of people don't do this with their own data.
See, you are legally obligated to hold onto some things for a given period. Deleting it before then can get you into legal trouble if you suddenly find it needed.
In some countries keeping data, especially customer data, longer then needed can cause legal problems as well.
I for one am for "If you do not need it, trow it away." I do this at home and at the office. If I haven't touched it in a year, I don't need it and I trow it away. (Excluding music, records, photos and things of sentimental value)
You could do the same with data as well. The advantage is that looking for something will be much, much faster. Even now seaching for some codesnippet will be faster with google then on my own machine looking for something that I might have had.
That said, I don't do with data as I do with other things. Why not? Because it is easier to keep it then to throw away what I might not need anymore. Hoarding data does not give me a financial gain. So what that I did not read these mails in 10 years? In comparison it does not contain a lot of space, so no real gain.
Official papers need to be kept for 5, 10 or even 30 years and they take up place. There is a rent cost to be payed for by companies (e.g. in Belgium all contracts still need to be signed and the original must be kept for X years). So if they reduce that from 30 to 20 years, you pay X amount less.
Keeping data is, for now, cheaper then deleting it. Just add some HDs and the issue is solved. I believe that is the real reason. And if you have done something wrong, somebody somewhere will have either a copy or will testify without a copy. It just makes it a bit harder, but in the end it is security through obscurity, so you can't rely on it.
In Belgium voting is mandatory. No, that is wrong. Being there is mandatory. They can not make voting mandatory, as they have no idea what you are doing in the voting box. You could be checking your mail, for all they care.
Many people do not vote or vote in such a way that the system does not accept the vote (e.g. voting twice on paper).
The problem with the computer system is that it takes so much longer to vote. Older people do not know how to work it. 50% of the computers broke....
I am against open votes. Not because of what would happen afterwards, but because it will influence people by social pressure. People will decide on how to vote if they see what others are doing. This can be because your boss votes in a certain way or because your friends vote in a certain way.
I saw this where we were a group of about 20 and we were asked if we wanted to go to bar A or to bar B. 17 wanted to go to bar A, 2 did not decide and I said that I was going to bar B, regardless and they should have a nice time at bar A. Instead of them going to bar A as they wanted, one by one they changed their 'vote' and in the end we went all to bar B.
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I know a lot about Linux, but I do not work with Linux. However if there would be an issue at the department where I work and it would need some knowledge of Linux, I would be the go-to guy.
For all I know he used to work as an IT person and used TOR against the will of his employer and the only job he could get was as a border control person. ...
Or he hinks doing IT as a job sucks. Or
I know a LOT of people who have knowledge of other things outside their field of work. That does not mean anything by itself.
I fucked him. Now what?
Just the warning here what can happen http://i.imgur.com/1HTsarr.jpg
This might be true for New York. It isn't for the rest of the world where you can become a taxi driver if you like to.
Have a car, get the proper licence and insurance. Ploof, you are a taxidriver. It is part two and three that are the issue. If they would have the proper licence and insurance, nobody would bat an eye.
If your friend is driving from point A to point B and you drive in the same direction and you decide to share the costs: No problem. It does not even have to be your friend.
The moment YOU decide where you go and the driver had previously no intention of going there and you pay him for that ride, at that moment you are a business and you fall under business regulations.
And when you suddenly have hundreds of friends who you drive around all day for money it becomes even clearer.
The line is only not clear if you don't want it to be.
The company paying the fines for the drivers would be illegal in Europe. Because that would encourage driving dangerously.
Also: in Europe fines would increment each time. SO a first time could be 1700EUR, the second time 3400EUR, next 10.000EUR and 6 months suspention. Then even more and no drivers licence for ever. It will go up to jail time if you are really stupid.
So what will change is that there soon will be a providion for higher penalties for repeat offenders.
Thanks Obama!
If labour cost in the US would be the same as in China, the price would also be similar. And with labour, I also include the price of higher management.
You do not know what is better: Trowing people on the street or helping them? I think I found where the problem is.
These people are unable to fend for themselves.
There obviously is a difference between helping people and locking them up.
I don't play the game, but what you describe is pretty much what happens in the real world. Especially the road part.
Might make a lousy game, but it looks like a pretty good City Simulation to me from what you describe.
Great. I will start implementing it into systemd.
If you look at science as a product, these guys are the Marketing Department. And yes, we need them.
Kids are now not just thinking about going not X-Factor or whatever to become famous, now science is a way to do that too.
Mind you, 99.999% will not become famous, regardless.
On a desk? At home I often lean back with my feet on the desk. Not having a cable makes that easier. A second and very important thing (perhaps not for you) is that it looks so much nicer.
Not everything needs to be functional.
Because they will use it as a trade off to become legal in cities around the world, where they are (often rightfully, at least in Europe) illegal.
So you are going to unplug it and think you are safe? Watch the video. It is also battery driven, so unplugging it won't work.
Further: This is just a design idea. You could easily put it into e.g. a USB device or anything else or just tape it with a battery under a desk.
And I understand that they are not build for security, but they are used for it. People doing their bank business. They use it to log into email accounts. They are used to order things online where they enter credit card numbers.
Dell (and others) get money for that. That is what they use to pay for the Windows licence.
You are aware that the average user will not be able to perform the Linux part. So you must use the GUI. Enter the root password (The what now?) and then click on OK and so on.
Installing something like Google Earth gives me errors when I try to do it.(Yes, I know how to solve it) No such issue on Windows.
The main difference is that for most of the software finding it is easier on Linux. Still there are applications that are not in the repo and at that moment Windows is easier.
The clicking of next a few times is not that much of an issue, unless you install a LOT of software. Not so for the home user. If you can't spare 2 minutes, you ahve other problems.
With a second button saying : "Click here to do a manual install where we will ask you gazillion of silly questions".
What they will say is "I seached and clicked on the link that looked like the offical website." Oh and it was the place to download, because it even said so in the white thingy on the top.
Or: "Well, I wanted to download from the site, but they told me I must pay, so I downloaded a free version that I wanted for this program." (Because the free version is hidden on the website.
https://ninite.com/ might be easier or just charge them for what you are worth and ignore them if they have problems.
Liability? The software that people install is not Microsoft software, nor is it compiled by Microsoft.
With Linux there are also some third party install programs. Most because they are not open source.
So it is not Windows that keep this antiquated process. It is the people who write the programs who all have a different idea on how to do things. Just having a discussion if a user should or should not have an option as default will give various answers.
https://ninite.com/ will do already a lot already to overcome that.
Obviously what Microsoft could easily do is make something similar and ask developers to give the programs to them in a certain format. I am also sure that Microsoft does not want to be a reseller.
OK, tell me what you don't need and we will take it offline.
When I look at the shared directories at the various companies I worked and work at, it would not only be a great idea. In a small company I moved anything that I saw and that was older then 2 years to a directory "Backup". In several years nobody complained and asked where the data was.
In companies where I proposed it, the answer was always: "We might still need it." Just look at what people have in their cabinet. They are unable to throw away the presentation you have in 2005, because reason.
And now you want to throw away data that might have been useful? Perhaps you are different, but the majority of people don't do this with their own data.
In some countries keeping data, especially customer data, longer then needed can cause legal problems as well.
I for one am for "If you do not need it, trow it away." I do this at home and at the office. If I haven't touched it in a year, I don't need it and I trow it away. (Excluding music, records, photos and things of sentimental value)
You could do the same with data as well. The advantage is that looking for something will be much, much faster. Even now seaching for some codesnippet will be faster with google then on my own machine looking for something that I might have had.
That said, I don't do with data as I do with other things. Why not? Because it is easier to keep it then to throw away what I might not need anymore. Hoarding data does not give me a financial gain. So what that I did not read these mails in 10 years? In comparison it does not contain a lot of space, so no real gain.
Official papers need to be kept for 5, 10 or even 30 years and they take up place. There is a rent cost to be payed for by companies (e.g. in Belgium all contracts still need to be signed and the original must be kept for X years).
So if they reduce that from 30 to 20 years, you pay X amount less.
Keeping data is, for now, cheaper then deleting it. Just add some HDs and the issue is solved. I believe that is the real reason. And if you have done something wrong, somebody somewhere will have either a copy or will testify without a copy. It just makes it a bit harder, but in the end it is security through obscurity, so you can't rely on it.
In Belgium voting is mandatory. No, that is wrong. Being there is mandatory. They can not make voting mandatory, as they have no idea what you are doing in the voting box. You could be checking your mail, for all they care.
Many people do not vote or vote in such a way that the system does not accept the vote (e.g. voting twice on paper).
The problem with the computer system is that it takes so much longer to vote. Older people do not know how to work it. 50% of the computers broke. ...
The problem isn't that they did not vote how I preferred it. The problem is that they (perhaps) didn't vote on how THEY preferred it.
I am against open votes. Not because of what would happen afterwards, but because it will influence people by social pressure.
People will decide on how to vote if they see what others are doing. This can be because your boss votes in a certain way or because your friends vote in a certain way.
I saw this where we were a group of about 20 and we were asked if we wanted to go to bar A or to bar B. 17 wanted to go to bar A, 2 did not decide and I said that I was going to bar B, regardless and they should have a nice time at bar A. Instead of them going to bar A as they wanted, one by one they changed their 'vote' and in the end we went all to bar B.