Well, we can be fairly certain the EM drive does not work. The only question is why does it appear to work. Just like the 'faster than the speed of light neutrinos" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... we KNOW that the result is impossible, the question is WHY are we seeing what we are seeing. The Germans may have been too sloppy (Germans? Sloppy?) to find the exact cause. Their use of the word "may" really concerns me. Regardless, the German explanation is far more likely to be true than a reversal of the "law of conservation".
I don't think the article quite reaches the level of Fake News. But it's certainly a tempest in a teapot.
I have never seen such a large amount of partisan activity on this site before. Soooooooo many Hillary supporters and sooooooo many people who want to crucify Trump. It is drowning out the regulars who despise both people and parties and do not engage in partisan politics. Just WTF is going on here? Surely the people of Slashdot did not suddenly turn ignorant and partisan and lose all sense of rational thought.
Yeah, yeah, I get it. Trump sucks. Yeah yeah, I get it, he does not play the corruption and nepotism games as well as the more established players do. For Jebus' sake, why does the Democratic party not understand that people voted for Trump because the people wanted to throw a fucking wrench into the political machine that has been grinding them and their family into poverty and economic slavery. Trump was NOT voted in because anyone thought he would be awesome and yet I still see people arguing this point. Everyone knows the system is rigged and the people chose to break the system. Beware of assuming that people voted for Trump because they liked him and thought he was honest. If you fall into that trap and fail to address WHY Trump was elected, you will find yourself getting your head lopped off in the revolution that will result from ignoring WHY Trump was elected. The System needs to be reformed. The political parties must clean up their corruption or their will be blood.
I am still awestruck that ANYONE thinks Trump was elected for positive reasons. The only reason he was elected was to wreck the political machine. No more, no less. Nobody believed any of his promises or that he fully believed any of his own proposed stances. Republicans and Democrats need to clean up their shit.
Nor the tax breaks for the ultra rich including Wall Street.
One of these things is not like the others. You are utterly delusional if you think she would not be catering to the ultra rich. Giving service to the ultra rich is standard regardless of political party. It is a quid pro quo for getting elected.
It is good to recognize differences and see those differences as a reason to vote, or not, for someone... but don't let partisan ideas cloud your mind.
By design, security is ALWAYS inconvenient -- hopefully more inconvenient to the bad guys than to the users.
This is the wrong approach to 'Security'. I am reminded of a line by a character in a book by Robert A. Heinlein where a business mogul was talking to his lawyer: "Look, I don't pay you to tell me what I can or can not do. I pay you to advise me on how I can do what I am going to do anyways in the most legal way possible."
I am, by consensus, considered a security expert. I have worked with the military in active combat zones. My job was to ensure that their communications were as secure as possible. My job was NOT to tell them could not communicate at the time because it was insecure or to take a server of theirs offline because it was not in a secure state.
Security can be inconveniencing and uncomfortable, especially when trying to change ignorant behaviors; however, there is no need for security if nobody is doing anything. The entire reason security as a concept exists is to assist people in doing what they need to do, regardless of the security implications, while minimizing risk to them while doing it. If security gets in the way of the goal, then security is WRONG. Sometimes, people need to do stuff that security would think is an unacceptable risk. Security advises the executive, it is NOT the executive.
This is why I have my current job. The entire IT management and security team were so focused on denying everything, in the name of security, that the organization I now work for fired ALL of them. If security is your goal, turn off your computers and kill yourself. There will be no more risks. If your goal is getting stuff done while minimizing risks, call a real security expert and listen to the advice.
The issue was never that Apple wanted to fix a flaw or whether or not it was even a flaw. The issue is that the device was modified after it became the customer's property. If Apple had felt that such a decision should have been made, they should have offered it as an option to the consumer instead of forcing it upon them.
We can see what not asking the owner of the device for permission to modify the behavior of the device can do.
Step aside and let the adults speak. You have no understanding of what is going on here and have no emotional maturity. You are also anonymous, so your opinion means jack and shit.
That may or may not be true; however, having an Anonymous Coward saying it gives it about as much weight as... well, nothing is that lacking in weight.
Several people have recommended some good personal firewall/router solutions. Most of them will require some amount of configuration to make secure. The "best" are the ones with custom distributions of Linux or BSD, but of course, those require the most amount of knowledge and time to make the most secure. Try some of the commercial options if you are not wanting to dig deep, but do a port scan of the device after it is installed to ensure that there are no ports open and listening on the Internet facing side.
I will keep an eye out to see more information about how you were hacked. It sucks feeling violated like that.
I have worked as a network engineer and I am currently working as a security engineer. With more details, I can help you reduce risk to an acceptable level in general and provide insight into how to avoid having the same thing happen again. Good luck.
Just so we are on the same page, I was not saying anything negative about your original post/question. I was merely helping someone understand why more information would be useful so they would not perceive the query from Sexconker as immediately unhelpful. Many of those types of questions are frequently unhelpful, but in this case, that is not true.
While I appreciate your view, there are a few thigns you should be aware of:
This is Slashdot. Much of the original crowd is pedantic for a reason. The original poster is indeed asking about routers and some people have answered that question directly. Sexconker has identified, correctly, that Mindprison is wanting to not get hacked.
It is clear that Mindprison is under the impression that a secure "router" would help him not get hacked; however, if that it not what got Mindprison hacked, a more secure router will not help. Sexconker is trying to get to the root of the problem so that actual help can be delivered. Mindprison could buy a recommended router and STILL end up being hacked again. So how would just casually recommending a secure router help in this instance?
As numerous other folks have pointed out, a router is not defined strictly as a security device. Slashdot has many network and security engineers in its ranks. I am one of them. My first line of thought went exactly as Sexconker's did: How can I actually help this person when they did not fully and accurately, using technical language, explain their problem? So he asked a question that many of us were thinking. (I think Sexconker is a he, I am actually unsure and it really doesn't matter).
Denigrating him and the mods who modded him up (I was not one as I rarely read Slashdot while logged in anymore) is not terribly useful in this situation. To complicate matters even more, your minor tirade is actually an appropriate response sometimes, but this was not one of those times. Just keep reading other comments and you will still get the immediate type of response that you and Mindprison were looking for.
Honestly though, Mindprison should have responded to Sexconker's question because then, the actual problem could be identified and addressed.
Eh? How is NOT having children selfish? We are not absolutely required to follow any biological imperatives and it seems as if we are breeding such biological imperatives out. Just let it be.
All I heard was noise and compression artifacts. I tried to make sense of it but it was too hazy and indistinct to come up with a word out of it. I do hear a 'Y' type sound at the beginning, barely.
When a coworker showed this to me, I failed to appreciate it. It was just nonsense really. I imagine there are millions of sounds that can be made that can appear to sound one way or the other when trying to make sense of it.
TL;DR, some people, when looking at clouds, see a rabbit while someone else looking at the same cloud might see a tree. *shrug* Where is the big deal?
The roots of trees find your water pipes. The roots of trees insert themselves into those water pipes. A tree's gotta drink, right?
Ultimately, I need to choose between trees or running water... or, I could spend thousands of dollars every few years repairing my water pipes.
What do you think most people are going to choose? If your answer matches reality, then you are correct. If it does not, you either need to modify reality or deal directly with reality. Reality can be ignored... but at your own peril.
**Hint: Reality is trees getting cut down in urban areas.
I smell a government agency having a problem with seeing their last reason to exist vanish.
It is correct for you to be suspicious; however, your reason is specious. The first A in the NASA acronym is why you are wrong. They are not just 'S' administration.
I assume the 'agency' having issues with this is not actually NASA but another contractor prompting/forcing NASA to be afraid to give their assent since the downsides of assent are immediate and the rewards are off in the distant future. The best NASA can hope for is for nothing to happen... and in the real world, something is always happening.
You mean like "Steps Recorder"? I forget what it was called in previous versions but in Windows 10, under Accessories, there is a tool called Steps Recorder and it does exactly what its name says it does. It used to be limited to 99 steps, I am unsure what its limitation is now.
(I am still on Win 7 and preparing to move everything except gaming to Linux when Win10 cannot be avoided anymore...)
If you MUST play the latest games, yes, Windows10 is unavoidable. I changed my mindset from looking at the games I couldn't play to looking at the games I actually could play and then chose which games I would spend my time on. I do fuck around with Windows occasionally just to see what is going on, but my life would be just fine if Windows10 disappeared forever. It would cause me no issues, and, as a matter of fact, it would likely make my life better since all of the software writers would be targeting a new platform.
Under-representation is a problem because there are people that currently feel excluded from OSS
Why do they feel excluded? I see no barriers to entry other than having a computer and an Internet connection of some sort.
I mean, some people get their panties in a twist over Linus playing hard ball. If someone with different genitals or culture can't handle that due to the dictates of their genitals or culture, then too fucking bad. Don't play in kernel development then. Find another project, don't try to fuck with shit that is not directly aimed at cultures and genitals by trying to make it about culture and genitals.
Without knowing the specifics of what you are describing in relation to your hiring practices, I will have to agree that you are encouraging and not actively discriminating... however, your thought processes indicate to me that you are likely actively discriminating but just have not had much luck with it yet.
Your nick is echoing around in my head as someone I have respected in the past... but now, I am filled with caution. You might be dangerous. Discrimination, reverse or not, is evil. As I said, your words seem fair, but the specifics of how you achieve that fairness...
If you know a way to compensate for them, so that a Latino kid with immigrant parents living in a ghetto neighborhood in Detroit would have equal opportunities with a white male from San Francisco then I would like to hear it.
The only difference in opportunity is economic in nature. Buy the Latino kid a computer and Internet access and that kid will have an equal opportunity. Oh wait, I am a white male who grew up poor and nobody bought me a fucking computer and Internet connection... and yet here I am.
Nobody paid for my college... because I never had the opportunity to go! Nobody encouraged me to get into computing, as a matter of fact, the only reason I could get into computing is because I REALLY wanted it and scraped by for MONTHS to pay $60 for a compiler (DICE Dillons Integrated C Environment) to use on my refurbished Commodore Amiga 500.
Fuck this SJW shit. Outreachy can burn in hell as can ALL who discriminate... ESPECIALLY those who discriminate in the name of justice. Go ahead and tear down society. I can't wait to see how the society you are creating works (or actually doesn't, because nobody can be held responsible because of their feelings).
You are letting people manipulate your heart which is manipulating your brain. Get out of the pot smoke and see reality. It is brutal and unforgiving. This SJW bullshit is only making it worse. The piper must be paid.
Look, there is a way for Outreachy to speak to "historically under-represented" people without specifically excluding "historically over-represented" people; however, that is not what has been done.
You are on the wrong side of the argument. Enjoy.:)
It used to be that you earned respect through your actions and abilities. Now young people think that "respect" is a right, no matter what.
I think we need to categorize "respect" because there are two different interpretations of what the word actually means:
Basic human respect: Not denigrated or dismissed merely because of "insert external quality here".
Respect: Granted trust based on previous accomplishments.
Everyone "deserves" (should be granted?) the first kind of respect, regardless of the type of shitstain that they are. Very few can EARN the second type of respect.
The problem is that the two definitions of the word respect are being merged... likely on purpose.
It would seem to make sense to exclude white males since they are not traditionally underrepresented in tech.
And it would make sense to exclude GIRLS from the BOY Scouts... Let me know how that works out for you.
This is not equality, this is overt racism/sexism. I understand and support the need for "inclusivity" but blatantly discriminating against white males because of historic injustices is only going to serve to create another round of hatred and divisiveness. But yeah, go ahead and victimize innocent young boys who had nothing to do with creation of any social injustices. That will surely make things fair.
As a privileged white male who has been forced to pay for previous injustices already, I am at the point where I am almost ready to advocate for wholesale genocide of all non-white races and enslavement of all females... just to get people like YOU to shut the fuck up. Apparently, only privileged white males care about equality and we can and will get there... despite the fucked up attempts being championed by people as ignorant as you.
I recently ran updates on my Windows box and found out that the "find my computer" app was installed, running, and can not be disabled except by logging in to my Microsoft account.
I do not have a Microsoft account, will never have a Microsoft, and now, can not keep my computer from telling Microsoft where my computer is without having a Microsoft account. Of course, with all of the other telemetry, I am sure they already knew where my computer was every time I booted into Windows.
I dunno man. Windows 10 is so incredibly invasive and disturbing that even games can't tempt me into using it. If access to only the latest games is worth your privacy, then go for it. Help create a mass of willing participants that the rest of us can not escape from.
If I don't know the layout of the IP header, I can still write quality networking software, and if I know XSLT, I can still do cool stuff with XML, even if I don't know how to write a good parser.
In theory, theory and reality match. In reality, they don't.
What you are saying is good, in theory. What happens when the layer you are relying on is not working as advertised? Nothing happens. I do mean nothing. They can't understand what is going on and work stops. Or it acts buggy but they did everything they could to make it right, so it gets shipped anyways.
Yes, there are not enough people who understand programming and the problem space from top to bottom to write all of the software we need, so yes, your theory will be used... but, just look around you.
Slashdot Mirror
White flags broke out across the country.
France has fought a hell of a lot more wars than America and they didn't hang back in either WW1 or WW2.
It's a fucking joke. Let it go. Why do people feel the need to be offended about every-fucking-thing?
Well, we can be fairly certain the EM drive does not work. The only question is why does it appear to work. Just like the 'faster than the speed of light neutrinos" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... we KNOW that the result is impossible, the question is WHY are we seeing what we are seeing. The Germans may have been too sloppy (Germans? Sloppy?) to find the exact cause. Their use of the word "may" really concerns me. Regardless, the German explanation is far more likely to be true than a reversal of the "law of conservation".
I don't think the article quite reaches the level of Fake News. But it's certainly a tempest in a teapot.
I have never seen such a large amount of partisan activity on this site before. Soooooooo many Hillary supporters and sooooooo many people who want to crucify Trump. It is drowning out the regulars who despise both people and parties and do not engage in partisan politics. Just WTF is going on here? Surely the people of Slashdot did not suddenly turn ignorant and partisan and lose all sense of rational thought.
Yeah, yeah, I get it. Trump sucks. Yeah yeah, I get it, he does not play the corruption and nepotism games as well as the more established players do. For Jebus' sake, why does the Democratic party not understand that people voted for Trump because the people wanted to throw a fucking wrench into the political machine that has been grinding them and their family into poverty and economic slavery. Trump was NOT voted in because anyone thought he would be awesome and yet I still see people arguing this point. Everyone knows the system is rigged and the people chose to break the system. Beware of assuming that people voted for Trump because they liked him and thought he was honest. If you fall into that trap and fail to address WHY Trump was elected, you will find yourself getting your head lopped off in the revolution that will result from ignoring WHY Trump was elected. The System needs to be reformed. The political parties must clean up their corruption or their will be blood.
I am still awestruck that ANYONE thinks Trump was elected for positive reasons. The only reason he was elected was to wreck the political machine. No more, no less. Nobody believed any of his promises or that he fully believed any of his own proposed stances. Republicans and Democrats need to clean up their shit.
Nor the tax breaks for the ultra rich including Wall Street.
One of these things is not like the others. You are utterly delusional if you think she would not be catering to the ultra rich. Giving service to the ultra rich is standard regardless of political party. It is a quid pro quo for getting elected.
It is good to recognize differences and see those differences as a reason to vote, or not, for someone... but don't let partisan ideas cloud your mind.
By design, security is ALWAYS inconvenient -- hopefully more inconvenient to the bad guys than to the users.
This is the wrong approach to 'Security'. I am reminded of a line by a character in a book by Robert A. Heinlein where a business mogul was talking to his lawyer: "Look, I don't pay you to tell me what I can or can not do. I pay you to advise me on how I can do what I am going to do anyways in the most legal way possible."
I am, by consensus, considered a security expert. I have worked with the military in active combat zones. My job was to ensure that their communications were as secure as possible. My job was NOT to tell them could not communicate at the time because it was insecure or to take a server of theirs offline because it was not in a secure state.
Security can be inconveniencing and uncomfortable, especially when trying to change ignorant behaviors; however, there is no need for security if nobody is doing anything. The entire reason security as a concept exists is to assist people in doing what they need to do, regardless of the security implications, while minimizing risk to them while doing it. If security gets in the way of the goal, then security is WRONG. Sometimes, people need to do stuff that security would think is an unacceptable risk. Security advises the executive, it is NOT the executive.
This is why I have my current job. The entire IT management and security team were so focused on denying everything, in the name of security, that the organization I now work for fired ALL of them. If security is your goal, turn off your computers and kill yourself. There will be no more risks. If your goal is getting stuff done while minimizing risks, call a real security expert and listen to the advice.
The issue was never that Apple wanted to fix a flaw or whether or not it was even a flaw. The issue is that the device was modified after it became the customer's property. If Apple had felt that such a decision should have been made, they should have offered it as an option to the consumer instead of forcing it upon them.
We can see what not asking the owner of the device for permission to modify the behavior of the device can do.
Step aside and let the adults speak. You have no understanding of what is going on here and have no emotional maturity. You are also anonymous, so your opinion means jack and shit.
That may or may not be true; however, having an Anonymous Coward saying it gives it about as much weight as ... well, nothing is that lacking in weight.
Several people have recommended some good personal firewall/router solutions. Most of them will require some amount of configuration to make secure. The "best" are the ones with custom distributions of Linux or BSD, but of course, those require the most amount of knowledge and time to make the most secure. Try some of the commercial options if you are not wanting to dig deep, but do a port scan of the device after it is installed to ensure that there are no ports open and listening on the Internet facing side.
I will keep an eye out to see more information about how you were hacked. It sucks feeling violated like that.
I have worked as a network engineer and I am currently working as a security engineer. With more details, I can help you reduce risk to an acceptable level in general and provide insight into how to avoid having the same thing happen again. Good luck.
Just so we are on the same page, I was not saying anything negative about your original post/question. I was merely helping someone understand why more information would be useful so they would not perceive the query from Sexconker as immediately unhelpful. Many of those types of questions are frequently unhelpful, but in this case, that is not true.
While I appreciate your view, there are a few thigns you should be aware of:
This is Slashdot. Much of the original crowd is pedantic for a reason. The original poster is indeed asking about routers and some people have answered that question directly. Sexconker has identified, correctly, that Mindprison is wanting to not get hacked.
It is clear that Mindprison is under the impression that a secure "router" would help him not get hacked; however, if that it not what got Mindprison hacked, a more secure router will not help. Sexconker is trying to get to the root of the problem so that actual help can be delivered. Mindprison could buy a recommended router and STILL end up being hacked again. So how would just casually recommending a secure router help in this instance?
As numerous other folks have pointed out, a router is not defined strictly as a security device. Slashdot has many network and security engineers in its ranks. I am one of them. My first line of thought went exactly as Sexconker's did: How can I actually help this person when they did not fully and accurately, using technical language, explain their problem? So he asked a question that many of us were thinking. (I think Sexconker is a he, I am actually unsure and it really doesn't matter).
Denigrating him and the mods who modded him up (I was not one as I rarely read Slashdot while logged in anymore) is not terribly useful in this situation. To complicate matters even more, your minor tirade is actually an appropriate response sometimes, but this was not one of those times. Just keep reading other comments and you will still get the immediate type of response that you and Mindprison were looking for.
Honestly though, Mindprison should have responded to Sexconker's question because then, the actual problem could be identified and addressed.
Don't be selfish. Get with it and have a family.
Eh? How is NOT having children selfish? We are not absolutely required to follow any biological imperatives and it seems as if we are breeding such biological imperatives out. Just let it be.
All I heard was noise and compression artifacts. I tried to make sense of it but it was too hazy and indistinct to come up with a word out of it. I do hear a 'Y' type sound at the beginning, barely.
When a coworker showed this to me, I failed to appreciate it. It was just nonsense really. I imagine there are millions of sounds that can be made that can appear to sound one way or the other when trying to make sense of it.
TL;DR, some people, when looking at clouds, see a rabbit while someone else looking at the same cloud might see a tree. *shrug* Where is the big deal?
I like trees. I want trees to shade my house.
The roots of trees find your water pipes. The roots of trees insert themselves into those water pipes. A tree's gotta drink, right?
Ultimately, I need to choose between trees or running water... or, I could spend thousands of dollars every few years repairing my water pipes.
What do you think most people are going to choose? If your answer matches reality, then you are correct. If it does not, you either need to modify reality or deal directly with reality. Reality can be ignored... but at your own peril.
**Hint: Reality is trees getting cut down in urban areas.
Good luck. :)
I smell a government agency having a problem with seeing their last reason to exist vanish.
It is correct for you to be suspicious; however, your reason is specious. The first A in the NASA acronym is why you are wrong. They are not just 'S' administration.
I assume the 'agency' having issues with this is not actually NASA but another contractor prompting/forcing NASA to be afraid to give their assent since the downsides of assent are immediate and the rewards are off in the distant future. The best NASA can hope for is for nothing to happen... and in the real world, something is always happening.
You mean like "Steps Recorder"? I forget what it was called in previous versions but in Windows 10, under Accessories, there is a tool called Steps Recorder and it does exactly what its name says it does. It used to be limited to 99 steps, I am unsure what its limitation is now.
he may have later injected himself with more dangerous stuff, such as heroine
I am assuming an autocomplete issue here but my understanding is that you inject yourself into the heroine, not inject the heroine into yourself. ;)
(I am still on Win 7 and preparing to move everything except gaming to Linux when Win10 cannot be avoided anymore...)
If you MUST play the latest games, yes, Windows10 is unavoidable. I changed my mindset from looking at the games I couldn't play to looking at the games I actually could play and then chose which games I would spend my time on. I do fuck around with Windows occasionally just to see what is going on, but my life would be just fine if Windows10 disappeared forever. It would cause me no issues, and, as a matter of fact, it would likely make my life better since all of the software writers would be targeting a new platform.
I haven't yet seen a monthly bill for my copy of Windows.
I merely bolded the relevant part of your sentence. Carry on as usual... for now
Under-representation is a problem because there are people that currently feel excluded from OSS
Why do they feel excluded? I see no barriers to entry other than having a computer and an Internet connection of some sort.
I mean, some people get their panties in a twist over Linus playing hard ball. If someone with different genitals or culture can't handle that due to the dictates of their genitals or culture, then too fucking bad. Don't play in kernel development then. Find another project, don't try to fuck with shit that is not directly aimed at cultures and genitals by trying to make it about culture and genitals.
Without knowing the specifics of what you are describing in relation to your hiring practices, I will have to agree that you are encouraging and not actively discriminating... however, your thought processes indicate to me that you are likely actively discriminating but just have not had much luck with it yet.
Your nick is echoing around in my head as someone I have respected in the past... but now, I am filled with caution. You might be dangerous. Discrimination, reverse or not, is evil. As I said, your words seem fair, but the specifics of how you achieve that fairness ...
If you know a way to compensate for them, so that a Latino kid with immigrant parents living in a ghetto neighborhood in Detroit would have equal opportunities with a white male from San Francisco then I would like to hear it.
The only difference in opportunity is economic in nature. Buy the Latino kid a computer and Internet access and that kid will have an equal opportunity. Oh wait, I am a white male who grew up poor and nobody bought me a fucking computer and Internet connection... and yet here I am.
Nobody paid for my college... because I never had the opportunity to go! Nobody encouraged me to get into computing, as a matter of fact, the only reason I could get into computing is because I REALLY wanted it and scraped by for MONTHS to pay $60 for a compiler (DICE Dillons Integrated C Environment) to use on my refurbished Commodore Amiga 500.
Fuck this SJW shit. Outreachy can burn in hell as can ALL who discriminate... ESPECIALLY those who discriminate in the name of justice. Go ahead and tear down society. I can't wait to see how the society you are creating works (or actually doesn't, because nobody can be held responsible because of their feelings).
You are letting people manipulate your heart which is manipulating your brain. Get out of the pot smoke and see reality. It is brutal and unforgiving. This SJW bullshit is only making it worse. The piper must be paid.
Look, there is a way for Outreachy to speak to "historically under-represented" people without specifically excluding "historically over-represented" people; however, that is not what has been done.
You are on the wrong side of the argument. Enjoy. :)
It used to be that you earned respect through your actions and abilities. Now young people think that "respect" is a right, no matter what.
I think we need to categorize "respect" because there are two different interpretations of what the word actually means:
Basic human respect: Not denigrated or dismissed merely because of "insert external quality here".
Respect: Granted trust based on previous accomplishments.
Everyone "deserves" (should be granted?) the first kind of respect, regardless of the type of shitstain that they are. Very few can EARN the second type of respect.
The problem is that the two definitions of the word respect are being merged... likely on purpose.
It would seem to make sense to exclude white males since they are not traditionally underrepresented in tech.
And it would make sense to exclude GIRLS from the BOY Scouts... Let me know how that works out for you.
This is not equality, this is overt racism/sexism. I understand and support the need for "inclusivity" but blatantly discriminating against white males because of historic injustices is only going to serve to create another round of hatred and divisiveness. But yeah, go ahead and victimize innocent young boys who had nothing to do with creation of any social injustices. That will surely make things fair.
As a privileged white male who has been forced to pay for previous injustices already, I am at the point where I am almost ready to advocate for wholesale genocide of all non-white races and enslavement of all females... just to get people like YOU to shut the fuck up. Apparently, only privileged white males care about equality and we can and will get there... despite the fucked up attempts being championed by people as ignorant as you.
I can play GTA 3 and GTA San Andreas on Linux.
I recently ran updates on my Windows box and found out that the "find my computer" app was installed, running, and can not be disabled except by logging in to my Microsoft account.
I do not have a Microsoft account, will never have a Microsoft, and now, can not keep my computer from telling Microsoft where my computer is without having a Microsoft account. Of course, with all of the other telemetry, I am sure they already knew where my computer was every time I booted into Windows.
I dunno man. Windows 10 is so incredibly invasive and disturbing that even games can't tempt me into using it. If access to only the latest games is worth your privacy, then go for it. Help create a mass of willing participants that the rest of us can not escape from.
If I don't know the layout of the IP header, I can still write quality networking software, and if I know XSLT, I can still do cool stuff with XML, even if I don't know how to write a good parser.
In theory, theory and reality match. In reality, they don't.
What you are saying is good, in theory. What happens when the layer you are relying on is not working as advertised? Nothing happens. I do mean nothing. They can't understand what is going on and work stops. Or it acts buggy but they did everything they could to make it right, so it gets shipped anyways.
Yes, there are not enough people who understand programming and the problem space from top to bottom to write all of the software we need, so yes, your theory will be used... but, just look around you.