Do you remember back when Microsoft first offered updating drivers as well as security fixes? Way way back when? Yeah. They sucked then too and common wisdom was to uncheck updating drivers. Unfortunately, we can't do that anymore and here we are.
I use Linux exclusively anymore. I do have dual boot and I boot into Windows every now and then to run updates on it, but I do all of my gaming, coding, etc in Linux. I would do OpenBSD instead, but gaming is important enough to me to leave me on Linux instead. Currently on Mint 17 but I am in the process of developing my own distribution from scratch that covers most of what I think is important. I may share my distro, but there are hundreds and mine won't offer anything special other than being from my point of view and it certainly won't be as flexible and/or user friendly as Debian/Fedora, etc.
But hey, if you really hate this shit, then go roll your own. There's always FOSS. Go for it instead of sitting on your ass bitching about it.
Has it maybe occurred to you that the person you are responding too HAS done what you asked and is STILL bitching about the situation? Yes, yes, it is certainly possible.
I know that I have "rolled my own". And, I agree with the person you are responding to. Once the masses become comfortable with it, the laws will follow and then we will not be able to roll our own anymore. Everyone should say something about this situation.
Hm. I seem to recall two posts being deleted many years ago. One was a Scientology related post. I forgot the other. Regardless, you are essentially correct: Slashdot posts do not get deleted (except through force of law).
No, Tesla is not making a profit. The financials are public, look at them.
2018 Q2, $520 million loss on revenue of 4 billion.
You Musk/Tesla shills are unbelievable, denying reality.
You Musk/Tesla haters are unbelievable, denying reality AND twisting words.
The mother fucker said Tesla was not losing money on the materials and labor for producing the car and then held up that Tesla needed to pay for depreciation/R&D/etc.
I am unsure how you take what he said and then run off at the mouth saying that Tesla is an unprofitable company. His statement had nothing to do with your statement... and then you have the nerve to call him a shill. Dumbass. YOU are the shill. A negative one, but a shill nevertheless.
I have seen you on Slashdot for many years. At no point in time have you ever come directly into my spotlight. You just did. Are you angry at Musk or are you just being contrary to be contrary? I don't get it. You are not a sockpuppet, so why the irrational hate? Why bring up an argument nobody was having? The person you were responding to was talking about per unit prices and profit, not company-wide. Why bring it up as a refutation to his claims when your claim does not actually refute his claim? What is twisting your brain so far out of order that you are provoked into using faulty logic like that?
This seems like the wrong approach to take. Why show what it looks like when a drone and an aircraft collide? There are already rules about operating things around airports... or are we to assume that drones are routinely flying at 20,000+ feet in normal flight patterns?
It seems that there are already laws that cover the physical issues with drones... so why all the made-up hand wringing? I am guessing that there are things that can be observed fairly easily with drones that were not so easily observed before and that some people do not want those things to be observed, possibly because they are illegal.
Trolls from all sides have always been trying to influence elections and such. What difference does it make if a few foreign actors have now been "discovered" to be doing it too? I mean honestly, haven't there always been foreign actors doing this shit? There is nothing new here. Why all the hand wringing?
TL;DR, if it were so easy to influence change, it is already being used. There is nothing new here so why the sudden spotlight?
Hey guys! The world is not a static place. Things change.
Soap bubbles are very pretty, but they don't last long. Neither does anything else in the world. Appreciate what you see when you see it but stop trying to keep it. You can't keep it and it is a mental disease to try.
People, including myself, have already explained to you that individuals are a blip in greenhouse gas emissions. The vast majority of emissions comes from industry. For myself and 99.9% of the rest of the people on this planet, we do not get to share in the wealth that industry creates, so why would you put the onus of climate change on those same people with "per-capita emissions".
You are intellectually dishonest in your thinking and in your arguments. Furthermore, I don't like you as a person. All of that said, I still modded something you said in another "article" in a positive manner because what you had said there was positive.
TL;DR, stop talking about climate change and emissions until you are honest with yourself. The individual has close to zero influence or control over emissions. Even the dumbasses who "roll coal" don't make a difference.
You seem angry bro. Relax. It all goes away sooner or later.
Bezos must know of some other Earthlike planet in our solar system that can somehow support over 100 times the cureent human population of planet Earth
Why would you want to grow a population in a gravity well? The outward growth will likely start with orbiting the Earth, grow to orbiting other planets/moons with resources, then fill out the asteroid belts, then directly orbiting the Sun, and eventually habitats will be moved to nebulas. In other words, the habitats will go where the raw materials and energy sources exist. There is no point in living in a gravity well. It is better to be mobile.
In long enough timelines, the Universe itself ceases to exist, but on much shorter timelines, planets become uninhabitable, stars become unstable, and nebulas "dry up". Being mobile allows you to deal with all of these issues.
Colony ships that would look something like the Death Star from Star Wars will be the long term future of humanity... if we can reach it.
Is there enough energy available on Earth to sustain this?
Why would you use energy from/earth for sustaining an off world colony?
Remember all rocket fuel we have now is petroleum based.
Almost completely wrong. Liquid oxygen has no petroleum in it. Kerosene is partially used which is a petrochemical.
Would the energy required leave the planet a raped burnt out husk?
We could not possibly lift all humans off of this planet. The population is growing faster than we could possibly remove them. If you are born on this planet, you will likely stay on this planet.
The greatest expansion in space faring humans will be humans that are born in space. No energy from Earth will be required.
The final nail in the coffin for your concerns is that there is enough energy on Earth to kickstart completely independent societies outside of Earth's resources. Meaning once those societies are constructed, they will not need any more energy from Earth and will be able to kickstart new societies on their own. Once that is achieved, expansion is essentially limitless within the galaxy and likely to other galaxies as well.
A 3-17% yield decrease leads to a 80-350% increase in price? Call me skeptical, but this seems a bit out of band.
By the time all the middlemen are done sucking "their portion of the profit" out of it, yeah. This seems accurate. If you were growing everything you needed to make beer and then brewed it yourself, a pint of beer would not cost 5 quid.
This will be abandoned when they find out that people being treated like slaves by the.01% causes depression. Since 99.9% are slaves, there is no point in finding out who is depressed, just pass the Soma out to everyone.
A long time ago in a land far far away, Firefox used to come with one example of a "live bookmark" aka RSS feed. This one example used BBC World News.
Eventually, they stopped adding it, but I LIKED it. So I add an RSS feed to BBC World News to all my Firefox installations.
It is the only RSS feed that I use, so I get most of my information the old fashioned way. But I am going to miss, extremely, the loss of the BBC RSS feed.
Does that answer your question or were you looking more for people who rely on RSS exclusively?
The threshold for having a "shitty day" for most people in the US is generally somewhere between "stuck in traffic" and "lost my job", not "I haven't eaten this week".
Your argument was almost valid, and then you said "lost my job" vs "I haven't eaten this week".
Yeah, for some people "lost my job" means "end of my life". Can't feed the kids, can't keep a roof over the head, wife leaves you (welfare is FAR more useful if there is no male around).
Your point would have been completely valid had you not used "lost my job" as an example of merely a shitty day in the US. There is a reason why middle aged males have the highest successful suicide rate.
So I'm not sure if there really is the problem being claimed...
You would be correct. It is not the engineers that decide such things in anything other than Open Source projects. This is purely a management issue. Hiring touchy feely types as engineers will do nothing for what this guy is claiming.
If you choose to conflate what SpaceX is doing with Elon Musk as a person, your opinion is about as informed as your dating profile is honest (you're arguing alone and dating alone, amirite bro?)
Hm. I do conflate what SpaceX is doing with Elon Musk as a person.
I think the fact that he created a fucking rocket company is absolutely amazing and extremely laudable.
Why didn't Gates or Ellison do anything even remotely interesting with their "winnings"? That says something about them too.
IIRC, that is exactly how they were discovered; through anomalous traffic.
This whole thing screams that there is a Top Secret investigation going on and that someone who knew about the compromise but not about the investigation revealed to Bloomberg.
I kind of don't care about any of this. I assume all hardware is compromised, it is merely a question of who compromised it this time. Nobody respects the rights of the average person.
What a vile and disgusting statement, false in every regard.
Well, that is one way to look at it.
What makes you think change in society, which you call progress, will be an improvement?
There is no way to tell ahead of time whether or not there will be an "improvement"; however, like Evolution itself, over enough time, things seem to "advance".
As a person who is subject to dying and not terribly far away from it, I support the idea of natural death. It causes change. There are some Golden Ages which ended because of death and that seems to be a shame; however, the majority of time, it has been self serving kings and emperors who have made everyone's lives miserable and it is good that things changed.
I think there is a quote by Max Planck (not going to verify because it really doesn't matter WHO said it) that goes something like this: The progress of Science advances one death at a time. Once a scientist has found a "truth", they tend to enforce that truth far beyond the applicability of that truth. Could you imagine still "believing" in the Niels Bohr model of the atom?
And yet another strangely prophetic captcha: stings
The electronic trespass rubric seems like a sham to me. If there were a tornado coming through, you'd want to know. A national emergency like some fool N Korean lobbing stuff at the USA, yeah, a real one (not the stupid fake one of recent memory) is important.
The story, the lawsuit, and the people are all batshit insane.
That being said, I did feel violated when I received the message. I also felt violated when I received warnings about weather. I didn't buy my phone to allow the government to communicate with me. We could have missiles coming over from Russia or China and I would still feel violated by the alerts. It is *MY* device, not theirs.
TL;DR, got my Note 3 out to use since I can put Lineage OS on it and avoid this crap.
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Do you remember back when Microsoft first offered updating drivers as well as security fixes? Way way back when? Yeah. They sucked then too and common wisdom was to uncheck updating drivers. Unfortunately, we can't do that anymore and here we are.
I use Linux exclusively anymore. I do have dual boot and I boot into Windows every now and then to run updates on it, but I do all of my gaming, coding, etc in Linux. I would do OpenBSD instead, but gaming is important enough to me to leave me on Linux instead. Currently on Mint 17 but I am in the process of developing my own distribution from scratch that covers most of what I think is important. I may share my distro, but there are hundreds and mine won't offer anything special other than being from my point of view and it certainly won't be as flexible and/or user friendly as Debian/Fedora, etc.
But hey, if you really hate this shit, then go roll your own. There's always FOSS. Go for it instead of sitting on your ass bitching about it.
Has it maybe occurred to you that the person you are responding too HAS done what you asked and is STILL bitching about the situation? Yes, yes, it is certainly possible.
I know that I have "rolled my own". And, I agree with the person you are responding to. Once the masses become comfortable with it, the laws will follow and then we will not be able to roll our own anymore. Everyone should say something about this situation.
Hm. I seem to recall two posts being deleted many years ago. One was a Scientology related post. I forgot the other. Regardless, you are essentially correct: Slashdot posts do not get deleted (except through force of law).
No, Tesla is not making a profit. The financials are public, look at them.
2018 Q2, $520 million loss on revenue of 4 billion.
You Musk/Tesla shills are unbelievable, denying reality.
You Musk/Tesla haters are unbelievable, denying reality AND twisting words.
The mother fucker said Tesla was not losing money on the materials and labor for producing the car and then held up that Tesla needed to pay for depreciation/R&D/etc.
I am unsure how you take what he said and then run off at the mouth saying that Tesla is an unprofitable company. His statement had nothing to do with your statement... and then you have the nerve to call him a shill. Dumbass. YOU are the shill. A negative one, but a shill nevertheless.
I have seen you on Slashdot for many years. At no point in time have you ever come directly into my spotlight. You just did. Are you angry at Musk or are you just being contrary to be contrary? I don't get it. You are not a sockpuppet, so why the irrational hate? Why bring up an argument nobody was having? The person you were responding to was talking about per unit prices and profit, not company-wide. Why bring it up as a refutation to his claims when your claim does not actually refute his claim? What is twisting your brain so far out of order that you are provoked into using faulty logic like that?
This seems like the wrong approach to take. Why show what it looks like when a drone and an aircraft collide? There are already rules about operating things around airports... or are we to assume that drones are routinely flying at 20,000+ feet in normal flight patterns?
It seems that there are already laws that cover the physical issues with drones... so why all the made-up hand wringing? I am guessing that there are things that can be observed fairly easily with drones that were not so easily observed before and that some people do not want those things to be observed, possibly because they are illegal.
Trolls from all sides have always been trying to influence elections and such. What difference does it make if a few foreign actors have now been "discovered" to be doing it too? I mean honestly, haven't there always been foreign actors doing this shit? There is nothing new here. Why all the hand wringing?
TL;DR, if it were so easy to influence change, it is already being used. There is nothing new here so why the sudden spotlight?
Hey guys! The world is not a static place. Things change.
Soap bubbles are very pretty, but they don't last long. Neither does anything else in the world. Appreciate what you see when you see it but stop trying to keep it. You can't keep it and it is a mental disease to try.
Just stop.
His punishment of China killed me.
Business is rough. I feel empathy, but not sympathy for you. Time for a new business model eh?
E.g., if we can't even use a cartoon mouse from the 1920s, why can we use these dead actors?
We can't. They can. Answer: Money.
Dude. You are beginning to sound like a nutcase.
You are absolutely right about nuclear power being a major part of the solution. It could be. It should be.
People are fucking weird. You aren't convincing them. You won't convince them.
Let it go.
Blame Jimmy Carter for banning breeder reactors.
Oh. Thorium and molten salt reactors are not viable.
Why is it that so many people misunderstand the purpose of electric cars?
Willful ignorance and/or useful idiots. (for some definitions of useful)
per-capita emissions? Really?
People, including myself, have already explained to you that individuals are a blip in greenhouse gas emissions. The vast majority of emissions comes from industry. For myself and 99.9% of the rest of the people on this planet, we do not get to share in the wealth that industry creates, so why would you put the onus of climate change on those same people with "per-capita emissions".
You are intellectually dishonest in your thinking and in your arguments. Furthermore, I don't like you as a person. All of that said, I still modded something you said in another "article" in a positive manner because what you had said there was positive.
TL;DR, stop talking about climate change and emissions until you are honest with yourself. The individual has close to zero influence or control over emissions. Even the dumbasses who "roll coal" don't make a difference.
You seem angry bro. Relax. It all goes away sooner or later.
Bezos must know of some other Earthlike planet in our solar system that can somehow support over 100 times the cureent human population of planet Earth
Why would you want to grow a population in a gravity well? The outward growth will likely start with orbiting the Earth, grow to orbiting other planets/moons with resources, then fill out the asteroid belts, then directly orbiting the Sun, and eventually habitats will be moved to nebulas. In other words, the habitats will go where the raw materials and energy sources exist. There is no point in living in a gravity well. It is better to be mobile.
In long enough timelines, the Universe itself ceases to exist, but on much shorter timelines, planets become uninhabitable, stars become unstable, and nebulas "dry up". Being mobile allows you to deal with all of these issues.
Colony ships that would look something like the Death Star from Star Wars will be the long term future of humanity... if we can reach it.
Is there enough energy available on Earth to sustain this?
Why would you use energy from /earth for sustaining an off world colony?
Remember all rocket fuel we have now is petroleum based.
Almost completely wrong. Liquid oxygen has no petroleum in it. Kerosene is partially used which is a petrochemical.
Would the energy required leave the planet a raped burnt out husk?
We could not possibly lift all humans off of this planet. The population is growing faster than we could possibly remove them. If you are born on this planet, you will likely stay on this planet.
The greatest expansion in space faring humans will be humans that are born in space. No energy from Earth will be required.
The final nail in the coffin for your concerns is that there is enough energy on Earth to kickstart completely independent societies outside of Earth's resources. Meaning once those societies are constructed, they will not need any more energy from Earth and will be able to kickstart new societies on their own. Once that is achieved, expansion is essentially limitless within the galaxy and likely to other galaxies as well.
A 3-17% yield decrease leads to a 80-350% increase in price? Call me skeptical, but this seems a bit out of band.
By the time all the middlemen are done sucking "their portion of the profit" out of it, yeah. This seems accurate. If you were growing everything you needed to make beer and then brewed it yourself, a pint of beer would not cost 5 quid.
This will be abandoned when they find out that people being treated like slaves by the .01% causes depression. Since 99.9% are slaves, there is no point in finding out who is depressed, just pass the Soma out to everyone.
no one in congress opposed this bill from either party
But if you vote Democrat then the world will become a better place to live.
BOINK!
The cognitive dissonance of some people just blow my mind. (Yes, there are people who are saying brain-dead shit like that)
I guess I am counted among the 0.01% of users.
A long time ago in a land far far away, Firefox used to come with one example of a "live bookmark" aka RSS feed. This one example used BBC World News.
Eventually, they stopped adding it, but I LIKED it. So I add an RSS feed to BBC World News to all my Firefox installations.
It is the only RSS feed that I use, so I get most of my information the old fashioned way. But I am going to miss, extremely, the loss of the BBC RSS feed.
Does that answer your question or were you looking more for people who rely on RSS exclusively?
The threshold for having a "shitty day" for most people in the US is generally somewhere between "stuck in traffic" and "lost my job", not "I haven't eaten this week".
Your argument was almost valid, and then you said "lost my job" vs "I haven't eaten this week".
Yeah, for some people "lost my job" means "end of my life". Can't feed the kids, can't keep a roof over the head, wife leaves you (welfare is FAR more useful if there is no male around).
Your point would have been completely valid had you not used "lost my job" as an example of merely a shitty day in the US. There is a reason why middle aged males have the highest successful suicide rate.
So I'm not sure if there really is the problem being claimed...
You would be correct. It is not the engineers that decide such things in anything other than Open Source projects. This is purely a management issue. Hiring touchy feely types as engineers will do nothing for what this guy is claiming.
If you choose to conflate what SpaceX is doing with Elon Musk as a person, your opinion is about as informed as your dating profile is honest (you're arguing alone and dating alone, amirite bro?)
Hm. I do conflate what SpaceX is doing with Elon Musk as a person.
I think the fact that he created a fucking rocket company is absolutely amazing and extremely laudable.
Why didn't Gates or Ellison do anything even remotely interesting with their "winnings"? That says something about them too.
Why is this "news"? You search for something and you find good and bad things. So. Fucking. What.
Meh.
IIRC, that is exactly how they were discovered; through anomalous traffic.
This whole thing screams that there is a Top Secret investigation going on and that someone who knew about the compromise but not about the investigation revealed to Bloomberg.
I kind of don't care about any of this. I assume all hardware is compromised, it is merely a question of who compromised it this time. Nobody respects the rights of the average person.
What a vile and disgusting statement, false in every regard.
Well, that is one way to look at it.
What makes you think change in society, which you call progress, will be an improvement?
There is no way to tell ahead of time whether or not there will be an "improvement"; however, like Evolution itself, over enough time, things seem to "advance".
As a person who is subject to dying and not terribly far away from it, I support the idea of natural death. It causes change. There are some Golden Ages which ended because of death and that seems to be a shame; however, the majority of time, it has been self serving kings and emperors who have made everyone's lives miserable and it is good that things changed.
I think there is a quote by Max Planck (not going to verify because it really doesn't matter WHO said it) that goes something like this: The progress of Science advances one death at a time. Once a scientist has found a "truth", they tend to enforce that truth far beyond the applicability of that truth. Could you imagine still "believing" in the Niels Bohr model of the atom?
And yet another strangely prophetic captcha: stings
The electronic trespass rubric seems like a sham to me. If there were a tornado coming through, you'd want to know. A national emergency like some fool N Korean lobbing stuff at the USA, yeah, a real one (not the stupid fake one of recent memory) is important.
The story, the lawsuit, and the people are all batshit insane.
That being said, I did feel violated when I received the message. I also felt violated when I received warnings about weather. I didn't buy my phone to allow the government to communicate with me. We could have missiles coming over from Russia or China and I would still feel violated by the alerts. It is *MY* device, not theirs.
TL;DR, got my Note 3 out to use since I can put Lineage OS on it and avoid this crap.