I strongly suspect (likely incorrectly) that may people, including myself, do NOT like the time to change from time to time. I have lived the majority of my life in areas where they do not change the time at all, and it is... awesome? How do I describe this? Not getting hit with a rock is... awesome?
Switching times is very annoying to me. Not switching times is... the "natural" state of things and is... awesome?
I just switched times and altering my natural rhythm of sleeping/rising is extremely annoying. I have had some SEVERE bouts of insomnia in my life. I found that creating a rhythm makes it easier to avoid insomnia. Now that I am back where they switch times twice a year, I am annoyed as hell and having a hard time adjusting. It makes no sense to me to adjust the time. Why are people so focussed on daylight? The sun is up when it is up. Changing the time is an absurd solution.
I already do, but you don't save as much money as you might think when you factor in all of the preventative maintenance that must be done because you can't be sure that the original owner performed maintenance religiously. Changing ALL of the fluids (transmission, brake, oil, coolant) and filters is not cheap. Depending on the age, you may want to also get the timing belt/chain serviced, rotors for the brakes, etc. Buying a new car obviates all of these efforts and the car is under warranty. But I still buy used cars.
20 or 30 year old appliances work fine
Oh. I thought we were dealing with reality here. That 20 year old refrigerator, if it is still working, uses more energy to keep stuff cold than a newer one costs overall. Spending money in one area to lower costs in another bears no relation to "lower expectations".
don't switch phones/laptops/iPads every year
Most of the people I know, do not switch out every year. All of them are eventually forced to switch due to planned obsolescence, but it is not every year. Examples would be laptops that have processors that are no longer "supported" in Windows 10 or Huawei not offering security patches for phones that are older than 2 years. I guess people could just stop using modern technology entirely, I mean who needs to receive phone calls or use the Internet? Surely YOU are not that important where you need any of those "conveniences".
buy a small house with a small yard
Can't afford even a small house, much less a large house. This one is easy to do; Just don't buy a house at all!
or better yet, a 2-family where some other schmoe pays your mortgage.
As much as I would love to lower my expectations, the concept of living off of someone else's labors is disturbing to me. If this is part of lowering my expectations, I want no part of it.
I dunno dude. Your prescription doesn't seem to help much. Got anything more useful?
You advertise that riding a bike to work is "great"; however, pardon me while I punch huge holes in that view.
Riding 20 miles will require effort. Effort implies sweat. Being coated with slime for 8 hours until the ride home is NOT pleasurable.
When riding a bicycle, you are exposed to the elements. Riding against the wind (80% of your journeys) will, again, engender sweat. But wait, it gets worse. Water falls from the sky from time to time. I don't know about you, but I found it impossible to stay dry. Thankfully, I never really had to deal with snow.
Drivers occasionally try to hit you. I am not talking about the driver not paying attention here, I am talking about the driver locking eyes with you and intentionally moving their car in such a way as to make it impossible for you to not get hit. Granted, those are rare, but it did happen to me 3 times in 10 years. I intend to live longer than 10 years and it hurts getting hit by a car.
Again, drivers, but this time we will deal with the people who don't pay attention. I found myself in life threatening situations frequently. I generally rode in residential streets to keep it from being a minute to minute threat on my life, but every intersection was a gamble if there was another car around. Stop signs are optional if you will only be running over a cyclist, apparently.
Riding a bike is useful and great, but you oversell it. By FAR.
but why is it that whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator disenfranchising or otherwise outright fucking voters over it's virtually always a republican?
While comments like this carry some amount of data, they are ultimately only useful for boosting the opposing party...
Let me illustrate: but why is it whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator clamoring for longer copyright terms, or just outright stealing from the Public Domain, it's virtually always a democrat?
Your views and actions implicitly accept and encourage the two party system that we have.
Both parties are thoroughly corrupt. Framing things where one party is better than the other is utterly pointless. If you vote for either party, YOU are fucked. Voting for a particular party only matters insomuch as there are some fuckings that are, subjectively, worse than others. I mean, either way, they are still taking all your money, but at least the democrats tend to take the time to try and encourage you to enjoy the fucking. Sometimes.
While I do have to wonder why anyone would run an FTP server on a server being used for Elections (what EXACTLY is an election server?), what has been described is not necessarily a problem.
A properly configured FTP server used to be how the Internet shared files, long before WWW became as abused as it is today. Anonymous login is/was a feature that is/was routinely used.
Assuming a secure and intelligent setup and purpose for the FTP server, sharing data is not necessarily an issue.
Perhaps I should read the article, but the TL;DR version failed to get my panties bunched up.
The market has spoken. People prefer thin light phones with bigger batteries over fat heavy ones with short battery lives that they can replace themselves.
What makes you think that the market has spoken? Perhaps it is spy agencies that have spoken and they want a battery to always be there so they can signal the microphone or camera to turn on even when the phone is explicitly off?
For myself, I know of NOBODY who has asked for, or wanted, unremovable batteries.
I still need to test it with the HTC Vive VR and my most commonly played titles for that.
Oculus had a sale where they sold the whole setup for like $400 or $500 or something absurdly low. Despite running the original Oculus on Linux, apparently, the latest incarnation is specifically prohibited from running on Linux. And they wondered why VR isn't hitting it big: They don't allow you to do what you want and it is locked down tightly for monetization purposes. TL;DR on why VR isn't taking off is GREED.
I have used the Steam VR support. It is pretty good. I am betting with the Vive, it will be fine. A shame I didn't buy a Vive.
Oh. You gotta try out the Steam Labs VR stuff. There is one area where you have a bow and arrow and defend the front gate of the castle against barbarians. The game is insanely fun for being so silly. Pay attention. There is a torch nearby. Nothing indicates that you can light your arrows on fire before shooting them, but you can.;)
However, the fact that it had a vulnerability in it isn't a good reason to dislike it for the sake of that reason alone, unless you're willing to dislike any other software that has had a vulnerability equally much.
I think you are missing that any vulnerability in SystemD is a root level vulnerability. That also goes for its "modules". The blindness and arrogance evident in the main component allows for misplaced trust in its modules, so if you can violate any of the "modules", you can violate the system as a whole.
There is a reason organic life expresses great variation, even within species. But yeah, SystemD will be the one thing in the universe to find security without variation.
Gets rather tough to keep paying more and more in property taxes every year once you quit working.
Doesn't matter. You are no longer producing; therefore, you no longer matter. Yes, you will get "eaten". Welcome to the hyper-capitalized world where society eats both its young and old. It won't be more than 200 more years before it is discovered that yes, there are limits and that yes, all resources have all been concentrated in just a few places...
The thing is, RMS has a habit of coming across unhinged on a topic, and then a few years later you realise he was dead right about it.
Richard Stallman disgusts me.
Then, I realized that he is merely a mirror to the folks at Microsoft and Apple, and they disgust me. They disgust me even more than RMS does because RMS is merely a reaction to the original disgusting thing: Turning software from a tool towards using computers into a tool towards gathering money.
I want software freedom. Microsoft wants to take it away so that they can gather resources (money). Richard wants to take it away so that all software everywhere gives freedom to the end users. Both positions are disgusting.
We have machines that allow us to express ideas and concepts freely. The tool used to express these ideas is called "software". Attempting to control creators or users is evil.
Where has 'curiosity' gone; especially in males!? They all seem too much into self grooming products and how they look these days.
Very insightful. I would argue that "curiosity" is actually a very rare trait amongst people, adults in particular. In a way, "curiosity" is being actively bred out of society. There is no need for curiosity and its existence challenges those would seem themselves as our masters.
Ignorance is a glorious way to live. Magic becomes much easier and more visible. *sigh*
For many, it's a religious thing for bringing about the "end times" from the Bible's Revelations. For the end times to come, all the Jews have to go back to Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, before Jesus will come back for his second-coming.
When I was younger, this was easy to believe. As I grew older, I discovered rational thought, unaltered by emotion. At this point in my life, I can not seriously believe that anyone is trying to "make" the end times come. If we are to believe there will be end times, they will occur without any prodding or help. If there will not be end times, then any efforts that are put towards making them occur, at best, will be self-imposed and have nothing to do with the actual religious aspect of a "saviour" coming down from the heavens.
Hm. Vista was slow because of the DRM in the kernel. Windows 7 was faster because they figured out how to not make the DRM such a resource hog, but Windows 7 was just as anti-consumer as Vista.
Starting with Windows 8, it started degrading.
I would say it became unpalatable around Windows 8. It was already degrading before that. Windows 10 is just a "what the fuck is this shit?! I will never submit to it." step in the wrong direction.
Well, honestly, trying to trace out all the file locks and kernel locks is too hard for them without making the system unstable by accident, so yeah. They went with the tried and true rebooting.
It is disgusting to me that they don't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand the shit they are selling to everyone... but here you have it. It is what it is: A steaming pile of crap.
So the executive is being investigated but the peon is already penalized. If the executive is penalized, it is likely that they will be able to avoid at least some of the penalty and profit much more than the peon did.
but most people will eventually not need to drive when renting fleet time on robot cars.
Your entire premise is not really wrong; however, I would like to point something out to you: Autonomous cars will never actually be autonomous. What I mean by that is there will be places you can't go to. Maybe they will be restricted by time, maybe they will be restricted entirely by location.
An example that I will never be a part of, but let's say that you organized a protest in Washington DC. Nobody shows up because none of the "autonomous" cars will bring people to that location. They could take a bus or a taxi... maybe buses will still be available but Taxis will be "autonomous" too. Screwed again.
Want to go camping where there are no roads, just trails? Well, the "autonomous" vehicle might be able to take you within 20 miles of where you actually want to go and drop you off. Have fun hiking the rest of the way with your children and carrying all that water to last your family for a week.
Farm/Ranch work? ROFLMAO.
Removing the ability for the human to have non-overidable control of their vehicle is going to go over like a turd in a punch bowl. A horse gave power of mobility to humans way back when. Vehicles do that currently. Autonomous vehicles will try to take all that away.
Reducing carbohydrates from your food intake will cause you to lose weight... assuming you are not already on a huge caloric intake.
If your calories are reasonable in relation to the activities that you perform, cutting carbs will cause a reduction in weight, a reduction in blood pressure, and a reduction in your A1C aka blood sugar levels.
Some mild exercise is definitely called for too, but that means walking briskly from the car to the store, walking briskly while inside the store, and walking briskly back out. Boom. Minimal exercise performed without affecting your daily routine other than speeding it up a bit. No extra time taken.:)
I can guarantee that what I described can work for losing up to 60 extra pounds (260 down to 200 and still dropping). Will it happen overnight? No, but then, nothing will.
Muslim countries tend to drink the least, and in some of them consumption is a crime.
ROFLMAO.
You answered why Muslim countries APPEAR to drink less than other countries: Because there are penalties. I can guarantee you that there is a LOT more drinking going on in Muslim countries than is generally reported. Take Kuwait or Saudi Arabia where alcohol is explicitly banned. They find drunk drivers all the time. But alcohol use there is zero? Sure it is. Sure it is.;)
In other places - like the USA - where you dont have any real poverty
*cough* * cough*
Living a sheltered life in America are we? There are pockets of poverty in America as abysmal as anywhere else in the world. I would even add that the percentage of Americans feeling economic stress (not poverty, but being threatened with instant poverty) is very high. Much higher than any casual look at financials would reveal. Hell, 90+% of Americans are threatened just by getting sick.
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I strongly suspect (likely incorrectly) that may people, including myself, do NOT like the time to change from time to time. I have lived the majority of my life in areas where they do not change the time at all, and it is ... awesome? How do I describe this? Not getting hit with a rock is ... awesome?
Switching times is very annoying to me. Not switching times is ... the "natural" state of things and is ... awesome?
I just switched times and altering my natural rhythm of sleeping/rising is extremely annoying. I have had some SEVERE bouts of insomnia in my life. I found that creating a rhythm makes it easier to avoid insomnia. Now that I am back where they switch times twice a year, I am annoyed as hell and having a hard time adjusting. It makes no sense to me to adjust the time. Why are people so focussed on daylight? The sun is up when it is up. Changing the time is an absurd solution.
Lower your expectations
Sounds great.
buy used cars
I already do, but you don't save as much money as you might think when you factor in all of the preventative maintenance that must be done because you can't be sure that the original owner performed maintenance religiously. Changing ALL of the fluids (transmission, brake, oil, coolant) and filters is not cheap. Depending on the age, you may want to also get the timing belt/chain serviced, rotors for the brakes, etc. Buying a new car obviates all of these efforts and the car is under warranty. But I still buy used cars.
20 or 30 year old appliances work fine
Oh. I thought we were dealing with reality here. That 20 year old refrigerator, if it is still working, uses more energy to keep stuff cold than a newer one costs overall. Spending money in one area to lower costs in another bears no relation to "lower expectations".
don't switch phones/laptops/iPads every year
Most of the people I know, do not switch out every year. All of them are eventually forced to switch due to planned obsolescence, but it is not every year. Examples would be laptops that have processors that are no longer "supported" in Windows 10 or Huawei not offering security patches for phones that are older than 2 years. I guess people could just stop using modern technology entirely, I mean who needs to receive phone calls or use the Internet? Surely YOU are not that important where you need any of those "conveniences".
buy a small house with a small yard
Can't afford even a small house, much less a large house. This one is easy to do; Just don't buy a house at all!
or better yet, a 2-family where some other schmoe pays your mortgage.
As much as I would love to lower my expectations, the concept of living off of someone else's labors is disturbing to me. If this is part of lowering my expectations, I want no part of it.
I dunno dude. Your prescription doesn't seem to help much. Got anything more useful?
I didn't buy my first car until I was 27.
You advertise that riding a bike to work is "great"; however, pardon me while I punch huge holes in that view.
Riding 20 miles will require effort. Effort implies sweat. Being coated with slime for 8 hours until the ride home is NOT pleasurable.
When riding a bicycle, you are exposed to the elements. Riding against the wind (80% of your journeys) will, again, engender sweat. But wait, it gets worse. Water falls from the sky from time to time. I don't know about you, but I found it impossible to stay dry. Thankfully, I never really had to deal with snow.
Drivers occasionally try to hit you. I am not talking about the driver not paying attention here, I am talking about the driver locking eyes with you and intentionally moving their car in such a way as to make it impossible for you to not get hit. Granted, those are rare, but it did happen to me 3 times in 10 years. I intend to live longer than 10 years and it hurts getting hit by a car.
Again, drivers, but this time we will deal with the people who don't pay attention. I found myself in life threatening situations frequently. I generally rode in residential streets to keep it from being a minute to minute threat on my life, but every intersection was a gamble if there was another car around. Stop signs are optional if you will only be running over a cyclist, apparently.
Riding a bike is useful and great, but you oversell it. By FAR.
but why is it that whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator disenfranchising or otherwise outright fucking voters over it's virtually always a republican?
While comments like this carry some amount of data, they are ultimately only useful for boosting the opposing party...
Let me illustrate: but why is it whenever you hear of a politician or public administrator clamoring for longer copyright terms, or just outright stealing from the Public Domain, it's virtually always a democrat?
Your views and actions implicitly accept and encourage the two party system that we have.
Both parties are thoroughly corrupt. Framing things where one party is better than the other is utterly pointless. If you vote for either party, YOU are fucked. Voting for a particular party only matters insomuch as there are some fuckings that are, subjectively, worse than others. I mean, either way, they are still taking all your money, but at least the democrats tend to take the time to try and encourage you to enjoy the fucking. Sometimes.
TL;DR, your comment is stupid and useless. :)
One person can't learn it all, code it all, and secure it all.
I disagree... but, you won't find the person who actually can do it all for the prices they are willing to pay. Not even close. :)
While I do have to wonder why anyone would run an FTP server on a server being used for Elections (what EXACTLY is an election server?), what has been described is not necessarily a problem.
A properly configured FTP server used to be how the Internet shared files, long before WWW became as abused as it is today. Anonymous login is/was a feature that is/was routinely used.
Assuming a secure and intelligent setup and purpose for the FTP server, sharing data is not necessarily an issue.
Perhaps I should read the article, but the TL;DR version failed to get my panties bunched up.
The market has spoken. People prefer thin light phones with bigger batteries over fat heavy ones with short battery lives that they can replace themselves.
What makes you think that the market has spoken? Perhaps it is spy agencies that have spoken and they want a battery to always be there so they can signal the microphone or camera to turn on even when the phone is explicitly off?
For myself, I know of NOBODY who has asked for, or wanted, unremovable batteries.
There are lots of laws giving women extra rights and benefits. If any man, at any time, can declare he is a woman, those extra rights are worthless.
I didn't care about any of this until the words that I just quoted were spoken.
Are we prepared to take away from the women what they have fought so hard for?
Definitely.
undoing an accidental flamebait moderation by posting.
Charter (Spectrum) is worse. No static IP without a business account. No customer-owned modems allowed for business accounts at all.
I was thinking about getting a business account with Spectrum. This is a HUGE deal breaker for me.
I still need to test it with the HTC Vive VR and my most commonly played titles for that.
Oculus had a sale where they sold the whole setup for like $400 or $500 or something absurdly low. Despite running the original Oculus on Linux, apparently, the latest incarnation is specifically prohibited from running on Linux. And they wondered why VR isn't hitting it big: They don't allow you to do what you want and it is locked down tightly for monetization purposes. TL;DR on why VR isn't taking off is GREED.
I have used the Steam VR support. It is pretty good. I am betting with the Vive, it will be fine. A shame I didn't buy a Vive.
Oh. You gotta try out the Steam Labs VR stuff. There is one area where you have a bow and arrow and defend the front gate of the castle against barbarians. The game is insanely fun for being so silly. Pay attention. There is a torch nearby. Nothing indicates that you can light your arrows on fire before shooting them, but you can. ;)
However, the fact that it had a vulnerability in it isn't a good reason to dislike it for the sake of that reason alone, unless you're willing to dislike any other software that has had a vulnerability equally much.
I think you are missing that any vulnerability in SystemD is a root level vulnerability. That also goes for its "modules". The blindness and arrogance evident in the main component allows for misplaced trust in its modules, so if you can violate any of the "modules", you can violate the system as a whole.
There is a reason organic life expresses great variation, even within species. But yeah, SystemD will be the one thing in the universe to find security without variation.
Gets rather tough to keep paying more and more in property taxes every year once you quit working.
Doesn't matter. You are no longer producing; therefore, you no longer matter. Yes, you will get "eaten". Welcome to the hyper-capitalized world where society eats both its young and old. It won't be more than 200 more years before it is discovered that yes, there are limits and that yes, all resources have all been concentrated in just a few places...
The thing is, RMS has a habit of coming across unhinged on a topic, and then a few years later you realise he was dead right about it.
Richard Stallman disgusts me.
Then, I realized that he is merely a mirror to the folks at Microsoft and Apple, and they disgust me. They disgust me even more than RMS does because RMS is merely a reaction to the original disgusting thing: Turning software from a tool towards using computers into a tool towards gathering money.
I want software freedom. Microsoft wants to take it away so that they can gather resources (money). Richard wants to take it away so that all software everywhere gives freedom to the end users. Both positions are disgusting.
We have machines that allow us to express ideas and concepts freely. The tool used to express these ideas is called "software". Attempting to control creators or users is evil.
Where has 'curiosity' gone; especially in males!? They all seem too much into self grooming products and how they look these days.
Very insightful. I would argue that "curiosity" is actually a very rare trait amongst people, adults in particular. In a way, "curiosity" is being actively bred out of society. There is no need for curiosity and its existence challenges those would seem themselves as our masters.
Ignorance is a glorious way to live. Magic becomes much easier and more visible. *sigh*
For many, it's a religious thing for bringing about the "end times" from the Bible's Revelations. For the end times to come, all the Jews have to go back to Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, before Jesus will come back for his second-coming.
When I was younger, this was easy to believe. As I grew older, I discovered rational thought, unaltered by emotion. At this point in my life, I can not seriously believe that anyone is trying to "make" the end times come. If we are to believe there will be end times, they will occur without any prodding or help. If there will not be end times, then any efforts that are put towards making them occur, at best, will be self-imposed and have nothing to do with the actual religious aspect of a "saviour" coming down from the heavens.
TL;DR, Shit be crazy.
Hm. Vista was slow because of the DRM in the kernel. Windows 7 was faster because they figured out how to not make the DRM such a resource hog, but Windows 7 was just as anti-consumer as Vista.
Starting with Windows 8, it started degrading.
I would say it became unpalatable around Windows 8. It was already degrading before that. Windows 10 is just a "what the fuck is this shit?! I will never submit to it." step in the wrong direction.
Well, honestly, trying to trace out all the file locks and kernel locks is too hard for them without making the system unstable by accident, so yeah. They went with the tried and true rebooting.
It is disgusting to me that they don't have enough technical knowledge to fully understand the shit they are selling to everyone... but here you have it. It is what it is: A steaming pile of crap.
So the executive is being investigated but the peon is already penalized. If the executive is penalized, it is likely that they will be able to avoid at least some of the penalty and profit much more than the peon did.
Nice.
but most people will eventually not need to drive when renting fleet time on robot cars.
Your entire premise is not really wrong; however, I would like to point something out to you: Autonomous cars will never actually be autonomous. What I mean by that is there will be places you can't go to. Maybe they will be restricted by time, maybe they will be restricted entirely by location.
An example that I will never be a part of, but let's say that you organized a protest in Washington DC. Nobody shows up because none of the "autonomous" cars will bring people to that location. They could take a bus or a taxi... maybe buses will still be available but Taxis will be "autonomous" too. Screwed again.
Want to go camping where there are no roads, just trails? Well, the "autonomous" vehicle might be able to take you within 20 miles of where you actually want to go and drop you off. Have fun hiking the rest of the way with your children and carrying all that water to last your family for a week.
Farm/Ranch work? ROFLMAO.
Removing the ability for the human to have non-overidable control of their vehicle is going to go over like a turd in a punch bowl. A horse gave power of mobility to humans way back when. Vehicles do that currently. Autonomous vehicles will try to take all that away.
You sound like someone who needs to hear this:
Reducing carbohydrates from your food intake will cause you to lose weight... assuming you are not already on a huge caloric intake.
If your calories are reasonable in relation to the activities that you perform, cutting carbs will cause a reduction in weight, a reduction in blood pressure, and a reduction in your A1C aka blood sugar levels.
Some mild exercise is definitely called for too, but that means walking briskly from the car to the store, walking briskly while inside the store, and walking briskly back out. Boom. Minimal exercise performed without affecting your daily routine other than speeding it up a bit. No extra time taken. :)
I can guarantee that what I described can work for losing up to 60 extra pounds (260 down to 200 and still dropping). Will it happen overnight? No, but then, nothing will.
Have a nice day! :)
Me too, except I simply removed most carbohydrates from my diet. I lost even more weight, but now my pants don't fit.
That being said, some exercise would likely be very healthy for me.
Way to kill the joke. LOL. :)
Muslim countries tend to drink the least, and in some of them consumption is a crime.
ROFLMAO.
You answered why Muslim countries APPEAR to drink less than other countries: Because there are penalties. I can guarantee you that there is a LOT more drinking going on in Muslim countries than is generally reported. Take Kuwait or Saudi Arabia where alcohol is explicitly banned. They find drunk drivers all the time. But alcohol use there is zero? Sure it is. Sure it is. ;)
In other places - like the USA - where you dont have any real poverty
*cough* * cough*
Living a sheltered life in America are we? There are pockets of poverty in America as abysmal as anywhere else in the world. I would even add that the percentage of Americans feeling economic stress (not poverty, but being threatened with instant poverty) is very high. Much higher than any casual look at financials would reveal. Hell, 90+% of Americans are threatened just by getting sick.