The problem is that Neo900 guys take Maemo 5 religiously. There's a crapload of easy changes that would improve it, starting with getting rid of the thrice damned/opt split that causes no end of woes. If you take Maemo and sanitize its worst offences, you can get a pretty usable system. Yet the Neo900 team seems to disqualify better hardware just because Nokia's version of Maemo lacks needed drivers. That's sick.
To put it another way: free speech means some folks will say things that match your opinion (a "good" thing!), but sometimes, they dare to say stuff you don't agree with! And the latter can't be allowed.
Or, for the mandatory vehicular analogy, a car can be used to bring kittens to an orphanage, or to plow into an orphan on the street and splatter it over the pavement.
That's not a problem with the tool but with the user. And the reason James Clapper here wants to forbid you to use encryption is pretty nefarious, even if he claims to want only "your good". So he and his agency should first learn to behave before telling us what to do.
While I really applaud your project (N900 is still the best phone), Neo900 is so miniscule an upgrade it's not worth the price. You're replacing 2009 specs with not so good 2010: 256->512MB ram, slightly faster CPU, and basically that's it. The worst thing, you seem to stick with exact versions of Nokia's software, which is what drags you down. Doing something hybrid would allow using modern hardware.
Get me something with a hardware keyboard, a sane GNU-based userland and decent specs and I'd be really happy.
that the sites are down more as a public statement than out of fiscal prudence
You mean, the populist faction of the Neocon Corporate Party could possibly do something just to put the public blame on the authoritarian faction? That cannot be!
How is physically and emotionally harming someone a comparison to copying music?
Well, you have someone deprive others of dignity and basic rights (such as free speech and culture), harming them forever, for a fleeting pleasure/gain.
Even worse, you can't trust just _a_ CA. You need to trust every single of them. Including CNNIC, Etisalat who conduct massive MITM attacks themselves, Turktrust and co who are merely criminally sloppy, and the whole rest, 95% of whom I suspect to not even wince when a three letter agency requests a fake cert pair.
The core problem is, government spending keeps recklessly increasing -- and even its second derivative keeps increasing. And that's common to most countries.
There's no way other than shocking the $PARLIAMENT-critters. If you think they have any responsibility on mind, note that they call being reluctant to raise the debt caps "reckless".
it did not scale to fit my 1400x1050 screen, leaving large whitespace borders on both edges. If that's what it does on a 4:3 screen
It's no good on 4:3, too. The current layout uses almost whole width for comments, save that useless left panel (trying to disable it in Options has no effect). In the beta, it's around 40%.
And that's why screens with aspect ratio of 16x10 or worse are not good for any productive use.
I tried using a 32 inch 16x9 as two 8x9s, but at least the monitor I tried was made with the assumption it will be used only for movies and movie-like games, resulting in unusably low quality at viewing distance used for working with text. Smaller 16x9 monitors are in turn unusable because of being narrow strips that are of no use in either landscape and portrait.
The debt ceiling is not a calamity. It's an important safeguard to restore sanity -- or rather, to slow down the collapse. It desperately needs to be lowered, not raised.
Isn't that what the Free Markets are about? The most economically efficient survive and the least economically efficient do not?
Slap quite clean but unpopular energy with MASSIVE regulations, force them to clean up every single bit of pollution, etc. On the other hand, let the dirty variant pollute all they want, literally dumping everything into the air. Because, you see, campaign donations are not bribes but wisely taking part in the political process, right?
The one where you need to prominently let every user that interacts over the network (and not merely a recipient of the program itself) download the source. The thing is, hardly any protocol and payload other than html/xhtml over http allows arbitrary ancillary data.
And that's merely only one of use restrictions of AGPL.
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They just took a picture of a room that gets no Verizon service at all. You can find oh so many of them.
The problem is that Neo900 guys take Maemo 5 religiously. There's a crapload of easy changes that would improve it, starting with getting rid of the thrice damned /opt split that causes no end of woes. If you take Maemo and sanitize its worst offences, you can get a pretty usable system. Yet the Neo900 team seems to disqualify better hardware just because Nokia's version of Maemo lacks needed drivers. That's sick.
No one cares if stuff like this comes late. I'd be more concerned about using Facebook as a news source.
To put it another way: free speech means some folks will say things that match your opinion (a "good" thing!), but sometimes, they dare to say stuff you don't agree with! And the latter can't be allowed.
Or, for the mandatory vehicular analogy, a car can be used to bring kittens to an orphanage, or to plow into an orphan on the street and splatter it over the pavement.
That's not a problem with the tool but with the user. And the reason James Clapper here wants to forbid you to use encryption is pretty nefarious, even if he claims to want only "your good". So he and his agency should first learn to behave before telling us what to do.
While I really applaud your project (N900 is still the best phone), Neo900 is so miniscule an upgrade it's not worth the price. You're replacing 2009 specs with not so good 2010: 256->512MB ram, slightly faster CPU, and basically that's it. The worst thing, you seem to stick with exact versions of Nokia's software, which is what drags you down. Doing something hybrid would allow using modern hardware.
Get me something with a hardware keyboard, a sane GNU-based userland and decent specs and I'd be really happy.
that the sites are down more as a public statement than out of fiscal prudence
You mean, the populist faction of the Neocon Corporate Party could possibly do something just to put the public blame on the authoritarian faction? That cannot be!
... and your comment hit it spot on, for both interpretation. Bravo!
How is physically and emotionally harming someone a comparison to copying music?
Well, you have someone deprive others of dignity and basic rights (such as free speech and culture), harming them forever, for a fleeting pleasure/gain.
Do you also complain that 100mbit ethernet is not 100*1024*1024 bits per second?
My ISP, as sucky as it is, doesn't cheat here. Heck, it's only disk manufacturers who routinely do.
You don't change an unit in wide use for more than six decades just because some committee feels they don't get enough attention.
The article notes that Apple doesn't do any of the frequency gaming stuff.
... that AnandTech found and had an interest in revealing.
This doesn't even require the reversed Hanlon's razor: without other systems to compare to, it's a bit difficult to spot suspicious optimizations.
How is it morally wrong to know what someone else paid for the same 'product'?
To the contrary: it is morally wrong to hide that data. This is known as "price discrimination".
Ok, so out of ~300 suspicious CAs, you are vulnerable to MITMs signed by 299 others.
A lot of people think the Internet is http/https only, and Facebook stands to gain from perpetuating that myth. IMAP doesn't let them display ads.
Even worse, you can't trust just _a_ CA. You need to trust every single of them. Including CNNIC, Etisalat who conduct massive MITM attacks themselves, Turktrust and co who are merely criminally sloppy, and the whole rest, 95% of whom I suspect to not even wince when a three letter agency requests a fake cert pair.
or to have them ritually mutilated.
Or parents for that matter.
So you somehow prefer the first, second and third wave of immigration over subsequent ones?
The core problem is, government spending keeps recklessly increasing -- and even its second derivative keeps increasing. And that's common to most countries.
There's no way other than shocking the $PARLIAMENT-critters. If you think they have any responsibility on mind, note that they call being reluctant to raise the debt caps "reckless".
it did not scale to fit my 1400x1050 screen, leaving large whitespace borders on both edges. If that's what it does on a 4:3 screen
It's no good on 4:3, too. The current layout uses almost whole width for comments, save that useless left panel (trying to disable it in Options has no effect). In the beta, it's around 40%.
And that's why screens with aspect ratio of 16x10 or worse are not good for any productive use.
I tried using a 32 inch 16x9 as two 8x9s, but at least the monitor I tried was made with the assumption it will be used only for movies and movie-like games, resulting in unusably low quality at viewing distance used for working with text. Smaller 16x9 monitors are in turn unusable because of being narrow strips that are of no use in either landscape and portrait.
The debt ceiling is not a calamity. It's an important safeguard to restore sanity -- or rather, to slow down the collapse. It desperately needs to be lowered, not raised.
Even if AGPL wasn't good for "just" DNS and DHCP servers alone, that's enough to make it non-free. That's discrimination against fields of endeavour.
Libertarian solution: allow dumping nuclear waste into air and water...
Considering that burning coal produces more nuclear waste per watt than fission power, this is already what we do.
Isn't that what the Free Markets are about? The most economically efficient survive and the least economically efficient do not?
Slap quite clean but unpopular energy with MASSIVE regulations, force them to clean up every single bit of pollution, etc. On the other hand, let the dirty variant pollute all they want, literally dumping everything into the air. Because, you see, campaign donations are not bribes but wisely taking part in the political process, right?
The one where you need to prominently let every user that interacts over the network (and not merely a recipient of the program itself) download the source. The thing is, hardly any protocol and payload other than html/xhtml over http allows arbitrary ancillary data.
And that's merely only one of use restrictions of AGPL.