Learn them how to do a restore first. Backups are useless and a waste of time if you do not know how to restore. When looking for a backup system, look at the restore part first and go from there. Because restoring is the goal, backing up is (only) the means.
The definition of an enemy government is if it has members that are not members of the NSA.
What That means it includes the USofA itself? Then we must spy on them as well. Or do you think they do not listen in on Obama? Who gave him his phone, do you think?
There is no talk about him helping governements. Germany looked into him as a witness for their own inept situation. Sure, if you call that 'helping a foreign country' then I hope he does not help an old lady cross the street, because that would be helping mother Russia.
The issue is that the NSA gave him a reason to do what he did. If they would have done nothing illegal, then there would have not been an issue.
The US people were dressed in ignorance and the NSA decided to rape the people because they were asking for it? Never blame the raped. Always blame the raper.
So I guess that means that the US doesn't care about breaking laws in other countries.
If this is the great freedom the USofA is talking about, perhaps the terror-its are right in hating America's Freedom. Perhaps you now understand why so many people dislike the USofA.
The rest of the world does not go around shouting how they are the land of the free and that they are the world police that will bring said freedom to others. (By force other any other means.)
You missed the 'growing up' part. And those kids ARE being monitored and followed. Even if they do not have any device that can be tracked with them, they will be seen by Google Glass. They will be seen by CCTV. They will be responding to be in the park with friends. Their moms and dads will tell grandma they will take the kid to the park.
And if you think that this is just about walking outside, then you have no concept about what privacy is.
In Europe, privacy is much more elaborate. e.g. no mug shots of people who were arrested because of privacy reasons (Yes, I understand why it is possible in the USofA.)
Privacy is different of what it used to be and what we think it was. This because of recording. e.g. when you used to do something stupid when you were young, your friends would know. You were drunk and you learned a lesson not to do such a thing anymore. Perhaps a few times they will laugh about it and repeat it during your wedding. That is the end.
Now when you do it, it will not only be recorded. It will be put online. It will be searchable by others that you have no influence over. And if you do something that becomes illegal later, you are screwed.
Changing your opinion? Not possible as it was recorded.
Must be great living in a world where you are afraid of what you might do wrong, without knwing what it was. Talk to people who have lived in countries that have been followed. I have. Being at a public IT meeting and the person asks to turni the camera's off so he can give some more details about what he is working on is impressive. Not being able to ask that as the camera's are always running is frightening.
The power is (not will be) abused. Look at your kid playing in the park and think if you want your kid to grow up in that fear or if watching TV is more important.
Any refusal to sign something by the monarch would lead to an unprecedented constitutional crisis, possibly resulting in the end of the monarchy but in practice this is never going to happen
It has happened in Belgium where King Boudoujn refused to sign the law about abortion.
So if they wanted, I am sure the UK politicians would be able to find a way around it as well.
They are not lying. What it generally means is that there will be no support given, nor any effort to make it work. They do not say that it won't work.
In the various companies I have worked, we never supported Linux (and I am talking just webpages here) and sometimes even only Internet Explorer specific versions. This means that if you have Firefox on Linux, we will verify if you filled out things correctly and if that does not help, you are on your own. I will not open a ticket. I will not do any updates. It worked yesterday and not today? Though luck. (Ok, we might give hints like deleting cookies)
The reason is indeed money. Not so much because we do not want to do it, but because we would have no idea where the end of the cost would be.
With Windows and the most recent browsers, we cover easily 95% of the possible people with problems (and that is a low number) The other 5% will have very specific soft and hardware. Imagine you have build your own hardware with your own OS Bios, you made a Hurd kernel and build a browser based on Mosaic. The website does not work. Should I now start to look at the Apache logfiles to see what is happening? This wile all the other people have no issue?
That would be an unreasonable request The issue is where to draw the line. Only (recent) Windows with IE. Firefox? Chrome? Mac? Iphone? Android?
Unfortunately, as a business you can not satisfy each and every customer. There will be some that you can not serve if you want to make a profit.
Car analogy: If you bought a car, the company will take out as many errors as possible. However sometimes they miss one. During warranty, they will repair it for you free of charge.
Now imagine that you bought a car and you want some of the same security features new cars have, like seat-belts and third break light. The old company does not do any security upgrades anymore. You still have several options. 1) Pay the company to do it for you (as you suggest above) 2) Pay another company to do it for you 3) Do it yourself
Number 2 and 3 are possible because you or somebody with the ability can just take a screwdriver and start. So what they need to do is OpenSource it when they don't give any support anymore.
That is nice on paper. I suppose he was asking about real life. So perhaps the question is not who could do it, but who will do it.
All this talk about who should or could do it does not seem to be working anymore. If something is broken you either repair it or replace it. Yes, that might mean replacing some old pieces of paper by something better that DOES work and means something besides nostalgic reasons.
(Probably going to hell for even thinking about this.)
We can now sue the studios for low quality movies.
I mean, I had to endure the low quality of Hollywood for a very, very, very long time. The quality of the movies is so low that it is almost not worth downloading them via TPB. And the fact that they are FullHD does not help either with the overall quality.
I live alone and I cook about 5 or 6 times a week. The other 1 or 2 I go to a restaurant (Real one, not fast food) with friends. I spend almost no time on cooking as most of the time I cook the ultimate 'fast food' using a wok.
I bought a Wok cookbook at a second hand store and started cooking. Takes about 10-15 minutes to prepare my dinner (including prep time) and I use fresh vegetables and meat.
For work I prepare salads withe iceberg salad and make 5 of them on the Sunday. The iceberg salad is so it stays fresh. For those 5 I take about 20 minutes to one hour, depending on my mood.
So that is not even 2 hours per week I spend cooking.
The most important part of all this is planning. I started by writing down what I would eat for the whole week and bought accordingly. I now have enough experience that my shopping-list looks like: 2 crops iceberg 5 x for salad (e.g. for 5 days, smoked salmon, shrimps, tuna, mozzarella,... Adding tomatoes and onions and the like if needed) 1 chicken filet (Good for 2 or 3 days wok) 1 x fish 1 x veal 1 x pork 1 x bag mixed vegetables for wok 2 x different vegetables
Then if needed different sorts of rice, different sorts of noodles, soya sauce, garlic, coriander, pipe onion, eggs.
I only need to do groceries once per week, so no time loss there either.
To me cooking each day is better then re-heating food. the sole thing that helped me do this was the planning part. Writing down what I was going to eat the coming week. That and buying a book about cooking with a wok and the looking for combinations that would taste good AND are fast to do.
Please define "temporarily". Is this the temporarily holding your breath or the period Pluto was temporarily called a planet? Or even the temporarily time a copyright is valid?
If traffic is an issue, delivery can be done by motor. At least in Europe they are allowed to swerve through traffic. This will allow them to reach almost any destination in a short time.
Looking into quadcopters, the flight time is very limited as well as the weight they can cary. And then there is the weather.
There might be very limited places where they could come in handy for very specific tasks, but each one I can think of has a more reliable solution, even if the multicopters never crash. And cheaper as well.
I just don't get what the issue is. In Belgium and most (all?) of Europe when you get married, you get married twice if you want to. One is at city hall. That can be a basic procedure. Basically 'Sign here and her. Witnesses, sign here and here. You are married now. Next." They do make it a bit nicer, but it is a basic signing of contract.
Then there is the marriage by the religion of your choice. As long as the proceedings are not illegal (e.g. sacrifice of a baby) then you can do that as well.
There are people who only do the second, but that means that they are not married by law. Many people do not do the second, which means they are not married by religion, but they are by law. So one is marriage by law and the other is ceremonial.
This works well, I think. It is called separation of church and state. Perhaps a nice idea for other countries as well. (That last part was sarcasm.)
On a whole, this is not a bad thing. I am sure most people know the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra. The problem is that 'broke' means different things for different people.
For the end-user, the previous version of Windows worked. e.g. I personally had never any issue with Win95. However the IT department still said it was broken. From their point of view it was. From mine it wasn't.
Even if you can show that changes are for the improvement of the user. Even if you can prove it. Even then people will be reluctant. A simple way around it is to involve them in the process. A few key people from the ground (not management) to be in not only the testing but also the development process and THEY will be your ambassador of project and you will notice issues much earlier.
Perhaps it is not so much change people are against but people are just lazy (or conservative with their energy).
When my dad asked what he should buy as a computer as per normal I asked what he would be doing with it. Most people will answer email or web or games. His answer was "I don't know, but everybody has one." I ahve waited all my life to respond to that and the response was "Just because everybody jumps of a bridge, would you too?" Well, not in those words. I explained that there were better options for him. I do know that there are many old and elder people who are interested in learning how to work with a computer. My parents are just not the type. Buying a phone is a challenge. I was just able to buy a 'normal' cellphone for them. Previously I bought a phone designed for the elderly and that was too complicated. A smart phone? No way! No idea what I am going to do in the future. Perhaps I have an old Nokia lying around somewhere that I can send them. The ATM is going OK, but was also a challenge. It is technical after all.
So what was the solution I have for them? Something they already have: peoples skills and a phone. If they want to contact anybody, they can call them. No need to send an email and get no reply because people forget to answer. If they want to look something up, they can go to the bar/restaurant (they live in Spain where people live more outdoor anyway) and ask somebody. The worst case scenario is that they have to buy the guy or girl a glass of wine (and get one back).
Instead of calling me on how to turn on the screen to get to the googly page, they have (another) excuse to call me and I do the search for them. Or even worse, explain them that they have been had by entering their credit card to protect their PC and in 10 years still get charged for a program they no longer use. Or thought they were helping this nice Nigerian gentleman.
As I know them, I knew they would not be using the computer anyway. They have never used or worked with a computer at work. So absolute zero experience. So that is why I advised against it. To me it was a technical solution for a social problem. So no-go. Computers are not always the answer. Obviously YMMV.
Yes. It is very useful to do this to understand other 'real' problems. It is training of the mind. I am sure nobody has problems with a sportsman playing against imaginary opponents or a boxer rope jumping.
You do not say to a boxer that he should not do that, because it is not a real boxing match..
That is if he understands that it is fiction. If he were to write about the climate of the 76 planets of the Galactic Confederacy AND saying that those also existed, THEN it would not make sense. (OK, he can write about Teegeeack.)
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Learn them how to do a restore first. Backups are useless and a waste of time if you do not know how to restore.
When looking for a backup system, look at the restore part first and go from there. Because restoring is the goal, backing up is (only) the means.
If he wants, he can:
$ nmcli
Usage: nmcli [OPTIONS] OBJECT { COMMAND | help }
OPTIONS
(snip because of lameness filter)
The definition of an enemy government is if it has members that are not members of the NSA.
What That means it includes the USofA itself? Then we must spy on them as well. Or do you think they do not listen in on Obama? Who gave him his phone, do you think?
There is no talk about him helping governements. Germany looked into him as a witness for their own inept situation.
Sure, if you call that 'helping a foreign country' then I hope he does not help an old lady cross the street, because that would be helping mother Russia.
The issue is that the NSA gave him a reason to do what he did. If they would have done nothing illegal, then there would have not been an issue.
The US people were dressed in ignorance and the NSA decided to rape the people because they were asking for it? Never blame the raped. Always blame the raper.
If this is the great freedom the USofA is talking about, perhaps the terror-its are right in hating America's Freedom.
Perhaps you now understand why so many people dislike the USofA.
The rest of the world does not go around shouting how they are the land of the free and that they are the world police that will bring said freedom to others. (By force other any other means.)
You missed the 'growing up' part. And those kids ARE being monitored and followed. Even if they do not have any device that can be tracked with them, they will be seen by Google Glass. They will be seen by CCTV. They will be responding to be in the park with friends. Their moms and dads will tell grandma they will take the kid to the park.
And if you think that this is just about walking outside, then you have no concept about what privacy is.
In Europe, privacy is much more elaborate. e.g. no mug shots of people who were arrested because of privacy reasons (Yes, I understand why it is possible in the USofA.)
Privacy is different of what it used to be and what we think it was. This because of recording. e.g. when you used to do something stupid when you were young, your friends would know. You were drunk and you learned a lesson not to do such a thing anymore.
Perhaps a few times they will laugh about it and repeat it during your wedding. That is the end.
Now when you do it, it will not only be recorded. It will be put online. It will be searchable by others that you have no influence over. And if you do something that becomes illegal later, you are screwed.
Changing your opinion? Not possible as it was recorded.
Must be great living in a world where you are afraid of what you might do wrong, without knwing what it was. Talk to people who have lived in countries that have been followed. I have. Being at a public IT meeting and the person asks to turni the camera's off so he can give some more details about what he is working on is impressive. Not being able to ask that as the camera's are always running is frightening.
The power is (not will be) abused. Look at your kid playing in the park and think if you want your kid to grow up in that fear or if watching TV is more important.
It has happened in Belgium where King Boudoujn refused to sign the law about abortion.
So if they wanted, I am sure the UK politicians would be able to find a way around it as well.
I see you are part of the group that likes Groucho Marx quotes
They are not lying. What it generally means is that there will be no support given, nor any effort to make it work. They do not say that it won't work.
In the various companies I have worked, we never supported Linux (and I am talking just webpages here) and sometimes even only Internet Explorer specific versions. This means that if you have Firefox on Linux, we will verify if you filled out things correctly and if that does not help, you are on your own. I will not open a ticket. I will not do any updates. It worked yesterday and not today? Though luck.
(Ok, we might give hints like deleting cookies)
The reason is indeed money. Not so much because we do not want to do it, but because we would have no idea where the end of the cost would be.
With Windows and the most recent browsers, we cover easily 95% of the possible people with problems (and that is a low number) The other 5% will have very specific soft and hardware. Imagine you have build your own hardware with your own OS Bios, you made a Hurd kernel and build a browser based on Mosaic. The website does not work. Should I now start to look at the Apache logfiles to see what is happening? This wile all the other people have no issue?
That would be an unreasonable request The issue is where to draw the line. Only (recent) Windows with IE. Firefox? Chrome? Mac? Iphone? Android?
Unfortunately, as a business you can not satisfy each and every customer. There will be some that you can not serve if you want to make a profit.
On they Internet NOBODY is paranoia. They ARE following you.
Car analogy: If you bought a car, the company will take out as many errors as possible. However sometimes they miss one. During warranty, they will repair it for you free of charge.
Now imagine that you bought a car and you want some of the same security features new cars have, like seat-belts and third break light. The old company does not do any security upgrades anymore. You still have several options.
1) Pay the company to do it for you (as you suggest above)
2) Pay another company to do it for you
3) Do it yourself
Number 2 and 3 are possible because you or somebody with the ability can just take a screwdriver and start.
So what they need to do is OpenSource it when they don't give any support anymore.
That is nice on paper. I suppose he was asking about real life. So perhaps the question is not who could do it, but who will do it.
All this talk about who should or could do it does not seem to be working anymore. If something is broken you either repair it or replace it. Yes, that might mean replacing some old pieces of paper by something better that DOES work and means something besides nostalgic reasons.
(Probably going to hell for even thinking about this.)
We can now sue the studios for low quality movies.
I mean, I had to endure the low quality of Hollywood for a very, very, very long time. The quality of the movies is so low that it is almost not worth downloading them via TPB. And the fact that they are FullHD does not help either with the overall quality.
Call me back when Roku finally adds support for uPNP and/or DLNA.
OK. Please post your phone number.
I live alone and I cook about 5 or 6 times a week. The other 1 or 2 I go to a restaurant (Real one, not fast food) with friends. I spend almost no time on cooking as most of the time I cook the ultimate 'fast food' using a wok.
I bought a Wok cookbook at a second hand store and started cooking. Takes about 10-15 minutes to prepare my dinner (including prep time) and I use fresh vegetables and meat.
For work I prepare salads withe iceberg salad and make 5 of them on the Sunday. The iceberg salad is so it stays fresh. For those 5 I take about 20 minutes to one hour, depending on my mood.
So that is not even 2 hours per week I spend cooking.
The most important part of all this is planning. I started by writing down what I would eat for the whole week and bought accordingly. I now have enough experience that my shopping-list looks like: ... Adding tomatoes and onions and the like if needed)
2 crops iceberg
5 x for salad (e.g. for 5 days, smoked salmon, shrimps, tuna, mozzarella,
1 chicken filet (Good for 2 or 3 days wok)
1 x fish
1 x veal
1 x pork
1 x bag mixed vegetables for wok
2 x different vegetables
Then if needed different sorts of rice, different sorts of noodles, soya sauce, garlic, coriander, pipe onion, eggs.
I only need to do groceries once per week, so no time loss there either.
To me cooking each day is better then re-heating food. the sole thing that helped me do this was the planning part. Writing down what I was going to eat the coming week. That and buying a book about cooking with a wok and the looking for combinations that would taste good AND are fast to do.
I hope that when he gets back to the USofA it will be not by a pardon or by giving him amnesty, but because he is welcomed as a hero.
Please define "temporarily". Is this the temporarily holding your breath or the period Pluto was temporarily called a planet? Or even the temporarily time a copyright is valid?
On the other side, there are luckily agencies that do not lie and just admit they torture.
If traffic is an issue, delivery can be done by motor. At least in Europe they are allowed to swerve through traffic. This will allow them to reach almost any destination in a short time.
Looking into quadcopters, the flight time is very limited as well as the weight they can cary. And then there is the weather.
There might be very limited places where they could come in handy for very specific tasks, but each one I can think of has a more reliable solution, even if the multicopters never crash. And cheaper as well.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=making+explosives&sm=3
See? That wasn't hard at all. I get about 79,500 results. I am sure there will be better words to search for if you are determined.
I just don't get what the issue is. In Belgium and most (all?) of Europe when you get married, you get married twice if you want to. One is at city hall. That can be a basic procedure. Basically 'Sign here and her. Witnesses, sign here and here. You are married now. Next." They do make it a bit nicer, but it is a basic signing of contract.
Then there is the marriage by the religion of your choice. As long as the proceedings are not illegal (e.g. sacrifice of a baby) then you can do that as well.
There are people who only do the second, but that means that they are not married by law. Many people do not do the second, which means they are not married by religion, but they are by law.
So one is marriage by law and the other is ceremonial.
This works well, I think. It is called separation of church and state. Perhaps a nice idea for other countries as well. (That last part was sarcasm.)
People don't like change. News at 11.
On a whole, this is not a bad thing. I am sure most people know the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra. The problem is that 'broke' means different things for different people.
For the end-user, the previous version of Windows worked. e.g. I personally had never any issue with Win95. However the IT department still said it was broken. From their point of view it was. From mine it wasn't.
Even if you can show that changes are for the improvement of the user. Even if you can prove it. Even then people will be reluctant. A simple way around it is to involve them in the process. A few key people from the ground (not management) to be in not only the testing but also the development process and THEY will be your ambassador of project and you will notice issues much earlier.
Perhaps it is not so much change people are against but people are just lazy (or conservative with their energy).
When my dad asked what he should buy as a computer as per normal I asked what he would be doing with it.
Most people will answer email or web or games. His answer was "I don't know, but everybody has one." I ahve waited all my life to respond to that and the response was "Just because everybody jumps of a bridge, would you too?"
Well, not in those words. I explained that there were better options for him. I do know that there are many old and elder people who are interested in learning how to work with a computer. My parents are just not the type. Buying a phone is a challenge. I was just able to buy a 'normal' cellphone for them. Previously I bought a phone designed for the elderly and that was too complicated. A smart phone? No way! No idea what I am going to do in the future. Perhaps I have an old Nokia lying around somewhere that I can send them.
The ATM is going OK, but was also a challenge. It is technical after all.
So what was the solution I have for them? Something they already have: peoples skills and a phone. If they want to contact anybody, they can call them. No need to send an email and get no reply because people forget to answer. If they want to look something up, they can go to the bar/restaurant (they live in Spain where people live more outdoor anyway) and ask somebody. The worst case scenario is that they have to buy the guy or girl a glass of wine (and get one back).
Instead of calling me on how to turn on the screen to get to the googly page, they have (another) excuse to call me and I do the search for them. Or even worse, explain them that they have been had by entering their credit card to protect their PC and in 10 years still get charged for a program they no longer use. Or thought they were helping this nice Nigerian gentleman.
As I know them, I knew they would not be using the computer anyway. They have never used or worked with a computer at work. So absolute zero experience. So that is why I advised against it. To me it was a technical solution for a social problem. So no-go. Computers are not always the answer. Obviously YMMV.
Yes. It is very useful to do this to understand other 'real' problems. It is training of the mind. I am sure nobody has problems with a sportsman playing against imaginary opponents or a boxer rope jumping.
You do not say to a boxer that he should not do that, because it is not a real boxing match..
That is if he understands that it is fiction. If he were to write about the climate of the 76 planets of the Galactic Confederacy AND saying that those also existed, THEN it would not make sense. (OK, he can write about Teegeeack.)