Looks like the Redmondites are out in force with their mod points.
I just have to ask all you clever little MS types. As Microsoft moves Windows Server closer to a CLI-based operating system, what exactly is the point of Windows now, other than, I suppose Exchange?
I can only hope you can run a native version of Bash with a set of GNU or Posix versions of the toolset, and I can send Powershell to the shithole that horrible scripting language belongs.
So let me get this straight. Windows is getting the kind of terminal support *nix has had for nearly 50 years? Wow, I mean, how fucking innovative of MS.
I think being open about what is being transmitted would help. I concede that in modern operating environments, there's a lot of checking for updates and patches, and while we do run a Windows Update Server at the main office (mainly to save some bandwidth and give us more granular control over updates), many of our road warriors and people at the branch offices still have their computers being updated directly by Windows own update services. That means data on software installed is going to Microsoft's servers, but the trade off is we keep our systems up to date.
However, we have a number of government contracts that require safe storage of data, including assuring that no confidential data is transmitted to unauthorized third parties or out of the country. At that point it gets iffy, and I'm trying to put my head around whether "telemetry" data puts us at risk in the breach of contract department. Particularly now as we just got a three year extension on contract which will take us through 2019, we are preparing for large scale upgrades. We've already updated our Windows servers to 2012 R2, and are now in the process of deciding whether to go through the irritation of Windows 7 licenses, or just jump to Windows 10, which has been working fairly well in our test environment.
Microsoft needs to come clean here, and explain what exactly is being sent to their servers.
But then how do you trust the hardware? Even if I had the skill and patience to develop my own OS, I'm still putting faith in the hardware manufacturers that there aren't back doors.
There would be a few angry phone calls, some threats and Microsoft would give the corporations a huge break on license costs. Once you've invested vast amounts of cash in an infrastructure, even scandal won't shake you loose from it.
You simply need to pick a different route. Epubee and FBReader do the job for me. Even better, I actually have an unencrypted copy of the epub, just in case there is some sort of "licensing" issue.
Translation; You bought an Apple. You're going to pay and pay and pay, and then pay again. Welcome to our Hotel California ecosystem, you stupid hipster! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I can download the source of Android right now, and I can run commercial software on a "spiritual" Linux distro. So you're just talking rubbish, the kind of rubbish kooks who irritate their families at dinner.
"Do we have to invite him over, all he ever talks about is the righteous purity of open source..."
It strikes me that "in spirit" is just a sort of goalposting shifting term, very convenient to trot out when you feel like you might be losing an argument, but having absolutely zero utility for describing anything at all.
Whatever Putin's goals, or the Russian peoples' desires, the fact that the United States seems to view China as a greater long-term strategic challenge says it all about Russia's diminishing place in the upper rungs of geopolitical influence. Yes it has nukes, and when energy prices are high, it has money, though it suffers such extremes of corruption that a goodly amount of that money ends up in Western Europe and North America in the form of property being bought up by the oligarchs to protect themselves from the inevitable collapse of Putin's regime and the Russian economy. Not even they have any confidence in Russia in the long term.
Your bank balance is not genetically predisposed to be a particular size. You're ridiculous post demonstrates why eugenics is bad. It ends up being used by fools and racists like you to punish people for attributes which have nothing to do with genetics.
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Exactly. The record in the rest of the world was of forced sterilizations of people who, in many cases, had conditions for which there is no genetic component, or only a partial genetic component. There were a lot of victims of eugenics programs in the US and Canada, and it is indeed a shameful episode in North American history.
There's no "doing it right". It's one thing to repair genes that lead to conditions like autosomal disorders. It's quite another to sterilize people because they have mood disorders.
If a device is accessing your home WiFi, then at least some of this can be mitigated by having a decently intelligent and configurable router. That will have to do until APK can develop a hosts file we can upload to our TVs, microwaves and HVAC system.
One of the reasons I abandoned iOS for my smart devices is because I was forced to use iTunes for so many things. If I wanted to play videos, I had to convert them to the Apple approved formats, and access to files was a pain in the ass. When I bought my Nexus devices, I could install VLC, play just about any video format, I could copy files on and off the device, build any directory structure I wanted, and in general just have an easier time using my device within my whole computing ecosystem.
Using external storage like MicroSD would be nice, but in general I just move material on and off the devices with a USB cable to my notebook, and for smaller files I have Google Drive or Dropbox.
I'm looking to upgrade my Nexus 7, and it will be with another Android device, hopefully a Nexus, because then I'm not stuck with all the shitware guys like Samsung throw on their devices.
The problem with the field is that while for some genetic diseases, it's obvious that the elimination of those genes would in general be good, there are a good many traits that are either not really that bad, or where questionable methodologies have been used to declare them bad, or even worse where there is no genetic component whatsoever (ie. some if not many forms of mental disorder have little or genetic causation).
Forced sterlization, or even the nearly as insidious notion of "encouraging" sterilization (either through financial or other inducement) are just plain wrong. If there is any notion of human dignity, of basic liberty and freedoms, the idea that someone can be declared sufficiently atypical that you're going to disable their ovaries or testes has to be seen as wrong at the most basic level.
The other issue, of course, is what evolutionary sciences ACTUALLY teach us is that "purity" is the worst thing you can have. Variation in sexually producing species is absolutely tantamount to a species surviving in anything but the most closed environments. Accepting that essential notion of biology, that diversity is the engine of evolution, means accepting that sometimes evolutionary forces, at the individual level, are going to produce variants that will have some degree of lesser fitness than the norm.
I'm not arguing that we can't edit embryos, or even applying gene therapies to people after birth, and indeed there are genetic afflictions that I don't think anyone could argue we shouldn't try to eliminate. But eugenics is inevitably going to drift into areas where, even if there is a genetic "fix", the case that we are even looking at some trait generally agreed upon as sub-optimal should be insufficient to simple excise those genes from the gene pool.
And really, there was no "good" eugenics. There were certainly more strident applications of eugenics, of which the Nazis were the most egregious examples, but North America's flirtation with eugenics, which lasted well past the middle of the last century, were completely unethical and violated the most basic liberties anyone can ever have.
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Looks like the Redmondites are out in force with their mod points.
I just have to ask all you clever little MS types. As Microsoft moves Windows Server closer to a CLI-based operating system, what exactly is the point of Windows now, other than, I suppose Exchange?
I can only hope you can run a native version of Bash with a set of GNU or Posix versions of the toolset, and I can send Powershell to the shithole that horrible scripting language belongs.
So let me get this straight. Windows is getting the kind of terminal support *nix has had for nearly 50 years? Wow, I mean, how fucking innovative of MS.
Fuck fuck fuck.
I think being open about what is being transmitted would help. I concede that in modern operating environments, there's a lot of checking for updates and patches, and while we do run a Windows Update Server at the main office (mainly to save some bandwidth and give us more granular control over updates), many of our road warriors and people at the branch offices still have their computers being updated directly by Windows own update services. That means data on software installed is going to Microsoft's servers, but the trade off is we keep our systems up to date.
However, we have a number of government contracts that require safe storage of data, including assuring that no confidential data is transmitted to unauthorized third parties or out of the country. At that point it gets iffy, and I'm trying to put my head around whether "telemetry" data puts us at risk in the breach of contract department. Particularly now as we just got a three year extension on contract which will take us through 2019, we are preparing for large scale upgrades. We've already updated our Windows servers to 2012 R2, and are now in the process of deciding whether to go through the irritation of Windows 7 licenses, or just jump to Windows 10, which has been working fairly well in our test environment.
Microsoft needs to come clean here, and explain what exactly is being sent to their servers.
But then how do you trust the hardware? Even if I had the skill and patience to develop my own OS, I'm still putting faith in the hardware manufacturers that there aren't back doors.
There would be a few angry phone calls, some threats and Microsoft would give the corporations a huge break on license costs. Once you've invested vast amounts of cash in an infrastructure, even scandal won't shake you loose from it.
You simply need to pick a different route. Epubee and FBReader do the job for me. Even better, I actually have an unencrypted copy of the epub, just in case there is some sort of "licensing" issue.
Translation; You bought an Apple. You're going to pay and pay and pay, and then pay again. Welcome to our Hotel California ecosystem, you stupid hipster! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
All Androids? Really? Care to cite evidence? Or are you just making shit up
Yeah, you're being a dick.
How is this behavior any different than Microsoft's "it's not done 'til Lotus won't run" back in the day?
I can download the source of Android right now, and I can run commercial software on a "spiritual" Linux distro. So you're just talking rubbish, the kind of rubbish kooks who irritate their families at dinner.
"Do we have to invite him over, all he ever talks about is the righteous purity of open source..."
It strikes me that "in spirit" is just a sort of goalposting shifting term, very convenient to trot out when you feel like you might be losing an argument, but having absolutely zero utility for describing anything at all.
Which is another attempt at incentivizing sterilization. It is unethical. Period.
Whatever Putin's goals, or the Russian peoples' desires, the fact that the United States seems to view China as a greater long-term strategic challenge says it all about Russia's diminishing place in the upper rungs of geopolitical influence. Yes it has nukes, and when energy prices are high, it has money, though it suffers such extremes of corruption that a goodly amount of that money ends up in Western Europe and North America in the form of property being bought up by the oligarchs to protect themselves from the inevitable collapse of Putin's regime and the Russian economy. Not even they have any confidence in Russia in the long term.
Your bank balance is not genetically predisposed to be a particular size. You're ridiculous post demonstrates why eugenics is bad. It ends up being used by fools and racists like you to punish people for attributes which have nothing to do with genetics.
Shut up, APK
No way. I want APK spam and trolling quickly downmodded. Want to have posts start above 0, use an axxount?.
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Why rocket shoes, of course! Curling could seriously improve if it was played at Mach 1! It would be like quiddich, only with more swearing.
Exactly. The record in the rest of the world was of forced sterilizations of people who, in many cases, had conditions for which there is no genetic component, or only a partial genetic component. There were a lot of victims of eugenics programs in the US and Canada, and it is indeed a shameful episode in North American history.
There's no "doing it right". It's one thing to repair genes that lead to conditions like autosomal disorders. It's quite another to sterilize people because they have mood disorders.
If a device is accessing your home WiFi, then at least some of this can be mitigated by having a decently intelligent and configurable router. That will have to do until APK can develop a hosts file we can upload to our TVs, microwaves and HVAC system.
I build toasters that watch you for a living, you insensitive clod!
One of the reasons I abandoned iOS for my smart devices is because I was forced to use iTunes for so many things. If I wanted to play videos, I had to convert them to the Apple approved formats, and access to files was a pain in the ass. When I bought my Nexus devices, I could install VLC, play just about any video format, I could copy files on and off the device, build any directory structure I wanted, and in general just have an easier time using my device within my whole computing ecosystem.
Using external storage like MicroSD would be nice, but in general I just move material on and off the devices with a USB cable to my notebook, and for smaller files I have Google Drive or Dropbox.
I'm looking to upgrade my Nexus 7, and it will be with another Android device, hopefully a Nexus, because then I'm not stuck with all the shitware guys like Samsung throw on their devices.
The problem with the field is that while for some genetic diseases, it's obvious that the elimination of those genes would in general be good, there are a good many traits that are either not really that bad, or where questionable methodologies have been used to declare them bad, or even worse where there is no genetic component whatsoever (ie. some if not many forms of mental disorder have little or genetic causation).
Forced sterlization, or even the nearly as insidious notion of "encouraging" sterilization (either through financial or other inducement) are just plain wrong. If there is any notion of human dignity, of basic liberty and freedoms, the idea that someone can be declared sufficiently atypical that you're going to disable their ovaries or testes has to be seen as wrong at the most basic level.
The other issue, of course, is what evolutionary sciences ACTUALLY teach us is that "purity" is the worst thing you can have. Variation in sexually producing species is absolutely tantamount to a species surviving in anything but the most closed environments. Accepting that essential notion of biology, that diversity is the engine of evolution, means accepting that sometimes evolutionary forces, at the individual level, are going to produce variants that will have some degree of lesser fitness than the norm.
I'm not arguing that we can't edit embryos, or even applying gene therapies to people after birth, and indeed there are genetic afflictions that I don't think anyone could argue we shouldn't try to eliminate. But eugenics is inevitably going to drift into areas where, even if there is a genetic "fix", the case that we are even looking at some trait generally agreed upon as sub-optimal should be insufficient to simple excise those genes from the gene pool.
And really, there was no "good" eugenics. There were certainly more strident applications of eugenics, of which the Nazis were the most egregious examples, but North America's flirtation with eugenics, which lasted well past the middle of the last century, were completely unethical and violated the most basic liberties anyone can ever have.
I'm the product of excessive capitalization, you insensitive clod!