This goes all the way back to the Seattle Asian Pacific Economic Forum in the 1990s, and Snowden released multiple documents relating that the NSA is using its capabilities engage in industrial espionage on behalf of some select companies.
Last year the federal government allowed intelligence operatives to sell the services to private companies while under the employ of these services.
Wikileaks cablegate also relates a lot of these sorts of incidents.
So, there's reams of evidence. If you can't see it that's a personal problem.
Pussy Riot were a group of western-influenced intel operatives trained in the USA to interfere with Russian internal politics. They shold probably have been execute for treason.
A radical plan indeed. All I have to say to the genius who came up with this plan is "nigga, you dumb."
The best thing they can do is throw the hardware down a hole and write it off, then forget their Surface RT ever happened.
Seriously, a Windows tablet that won't run Windows software, that is named and promoted so confusingly that you have had MS execs fuck up and forget which is which.
If Microsoft can mandate that manufacturers include Secure Boot, and if Microsoft can mandate that it can be deactivated, Microsoft can also, in the future, mandate that it can not be turned off.
I'm sure you already know this, but your job as a reputation manager is to remind us all about how GREAT Microshit it.
I'd rather Google and Apple fuck me in the ass than Microsoft. At least Google and Apple wear condoms and give reacharounds. MS will give you a virus or two and tell you to jerk yourself off.
You don't even have the balls to log in and you're calling me a troll? That's rich. I could understand your desire to maintain some anonymity if you had something useful or controversial to say, but it just seems pathetic to me to hide behind the AC cloak because you are cowardly.
Slashdot is pathetic, though, and thanks to Rob and people like yourself it gets worse daily.
Dice owns Slashdot now. Be careful of your criticisms - I received permanent negative karma from Roblimo for calling out his douchey video advertisements.
Neither, it's all about money. The Mozilla Foundation is given "donations" in order to implement features that make you easier to track and monetize. Why do you think that Adblock isn't an official Mozilla subproject? Why isn't that functionality enabled by default?
Look at who gives money to Mozilla and your answers are right there.
I can just imagine all the billionaire eugenics pushers working through and with the UN like Bill Gates laughing at the filthy peasants eating bugs and lining up for his sterilization "vaccines," just creatures created for his own amusement and pleasure.
Why the fuck not eat bugs? Next up, human shit. There's some undigested corn in there probably!
Stewardess is perfectly acceptable when referring to a female. The only people who should be offended is the males, who have their own word - steward.
It's really strange that we need to come up with neuter terms for everything. This doesn't actually increase anybody's chances for success or failure in life, it just makes language less precise.
More exactly, "flight attendants" should be called waitresses, because all they really do nowadays is get food and drinks. Their little pantomimes with the seat belts have been replaced by video recordings.
What with having the grad students do all the research and teaching, and hiring testing services to provide the books, syllabi, and even testing materials, what's the point of even having University professors any more?
I think it would be more efficient for everybody if you could just purchase degrees directly from Pearson.
I hear lots of numbers being thrown around by mainframe guys but unfortunately they always seem to tell only part of the story. This is a recurring theme.
256 simultaneous DMA transfers of what word length on how fast a bus?
"Businesses have critical dependencies on specific software and business methods that tie into it."
DEC thought they had the customers' balls in the vice of lock-in. So did IBM.
Business logic can be moved, systems can be emulated or virtualized, things change. It may take some time and an initial trajectory change, but there is no law of nature that says Windows will go forever.
Perhaps the only choice is choosing not to buy a next-generation console. I have this sneaking suspicion that from now on all consoles will require persistent net connections. This much was intimated during the PS4 intro as well.
Steam games will still work without Internet access, so the Steam Box may be the console of choice from here on out.
It only makes sense to trim unused legacy code from any library. If Google isn't using Webkit any more, why leave their own specific stuff in there?
It isn't a problem to fork code and remove legacy stuff. It was done when KHTML was forked into Webkit, and it will probably be done again. The only losers in the event of a fork like this are possibly the independent developers who contribute to Webkit, but it is doubtful that they were contributing code that is Google specific.
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Those aren't drivers that HP is serving up. It's spyware masquerading as a printer driver.
Use CUPS, you will be happier.
This goes all the way back to the Seattle Asian Pacific Economic Forum in the 1990s, and Snowden released multiple documents relating that the NSA is using its capabilities engage in industrial espionage on behalf of some select companies.
Last year the federal government allowed intelligence operatives to sell the services to private companies while under the employ of these services.
Wikileaks cablegate also relates a lot of these sorts of incidents.
So, there's reams of evidence. If you can't see it that's a personal problem.
Pussy Riot were a group of western-influenced intel operatives trained in the USA to interfere with Russian internal politics. They shold probably have been execute for treason.
Of course it's idiotic. That's why you block facebook.com in the gateway's hosts file.
What's with you anti /etc/hosts people? I suspect you're involved in either marketing or surveillance.
You're such a fuckin' commie with your labor union speak.
This has nothing to do with unions, and everything to do with modernization of systems, and the Siemens company.
The French codified auto racing rules in French. That's fine. The Americans and Brits codified much of programming and that is the language of choice.
Danku for commenting in English.
A radical plan indeed. All I have to say to the genius who came up with this plan is "nigga, you dumb."
The best thing they can do is throw the hardware down a hole and write it off, then forget their Surface RT ever happened.
Seriously, a Windows tablet that won't run Windows software, that is named and promoted so confusingly that you have had MS execs fuck up and forget which is which.
Nigga, you dumb.
If Microsoft can mandate that manufacturers include Secure Boot, and if Microsoft can mandate that it can be deactivated, Microsoft can also, in the future, mandate that it can not be turned off.
I'm sure you already know this, but your job as a reputation manager is to remind us all about how GREAT Microshit it.
I'd rather Google and Apple fuck me in the ass than Microsoft. At least Google and Apple wear condoms and give reacharounds. MS will give you a virus or two and tell you to jerk yourself off.
This is some of the dumbest shit I have ever read on Slashdot, info-shill. Are you working for HBGary or are you part of the L3 information squad?
It might have taken if you had a lower ID umber.
If the "success" of SlashBI and CloudSlash is any indication of the success they will have, it'd be best not to!
Pretty soon pointing out shills will be enough to get you sent to GITMO, or at least a mental institution for paranoia.
Since the USA has decided to implement much of the old Soviet system, this kind of statement is fully supportable.
You don't even have the balls to log in and you're calling me a troll? That's rich. I could understand your desire to maintain some anonymity if you had something useful or controversial to say, but it just seems pathetic to me to hide behind the AC cloak because you are cowardly.
Slashdot is pathetic, though, and thanks to Rob and people like yourself it gets worse daily.
Dice owns Slashdot now. Be careful of your criticisms - I received permanent negative karma from Roblimo for calling out his douchey video advertisements.
Think about this: Google built a big brand new building right across the street from the NSA.
Now think again about what you wrote, and why it makes you look stupid.
Neither, it's all about money. The Mozilla Foundation is given "donations" in order to implement features that make you easier to track and monetize. Why do you think that Adblock isn't an official Mozilla subproject? Why isn't that functionality enabled by default?
Look at who gives money to Mozilla and your answers are right there.
I suppose it's easier than improving the algorithm, which is just pathetically bad at this point in time.
I can just imagine all the billionaire eugenics pushers working through and with the UN like Bill Gates laughing at the filthy peasants eating bugs and lining up for his sterilization "vaccines," just creatures created for his own amusement and pleasure.
Why the fuck not eat bugs? Next up, human shit. There's some undigested corn in there probably!
Your mistake was buying the wrong phone. Another phone has been eating Nintendo's lunch for years and years...
Stewardess is perfectly acceptable when referring to a female. The only people who should be offended is the males, who have their own word - steward.
It's really strange that we need to come up with neuter terms for everything. This doesn't actually increase anybody's chances for success or failure in life, it just makes language less precise.
More exactly, "flight attendants" should be called waitresses, because all they really do nowadays is get food and drinks. Their little pantomimes with the seat belts have been replaced by video recordings.
What with having the grad students do all the research and teaching, and hiring testing services to provide the books, syllabi, and even testing materials, what's the point of even having University professors any more?
I think it would be more efficient for everybody if you could just purchase degrees directly from Pearson.
I hear lots of numbers being thrown around by mainframe guys but unfortunately they always seem to tell only part of the story. This is a recurring theme.
256 simultaneous DMA transfers of what word length on how fast a bus?
"Businesses have critical dependencies on specific software and business methods that tie into it."
DEC thought they had the customers' balls in the vice of lock-in. So did IBM.
Business logic can be moved, systems can be emulated or virtualized, things change. It may take some time and an initial trajectory change, but there is no law of nature that says Windows will go forever.
Perhaps the only choice is choosing not to buy a next-generation console. I have this sneaking suspicion that from now on all consoles will require persistent net connections. This much was intimated during the PS4 intro as well.
Steam games will still work without Internet access, so the Steam Box may be the console of choice from here on out.
It only makes sense to trim unused legacy code from any library. If Google isn't using Webkit any more, why leave their own specific stuff in there?
It isn't a problem to fork code and remove legacy stuff. It was done when KHTML was forked into Webkit, and it will probably be done again. The only losers in the event of a fork like this are possibly the independent developers who contribute to Webkit, but it is doubtful that they were contributing code that is Google specific.