The government passes the law, so yes it is about government-sanctioned truth. The law states that if you deny that what happened is exactly as they said it happened, you go to jail. And for what? Who did you injure? A memory? Some personification of history? Some vague concept about the ideologies of future generations? I can argue that we should cut off welfare benefits -- that would harm people, far more directly, but I can still argue for it. I can run around saying we should drop nukes on Moscow. I can even argue in favor of eugenics programs, as long as I don't connect them to Hitler's. Besides, you can ban the speech but you can't ban the ideas -- people will just find a new way to express them.
Letting every crackpot voice their crackpot theories is far less dangerous than the alternative -- giving the government absolute power over what may or may not be discussed and debated. Words harm nobody.
Interesting. I can't recall ever encountering a single bug in any Google app. Hell I've noticed more bugs from my freakin Nintendo than from Google software...
Of course, I don't use Google Drive, or Earth or anything like that...just search, gmail, youtube, voice, android, plus....
I pirate a lot of stuff -- movies, TV shows, video games...
But in the past couple years I've completely stopped pirating music. Why? Well, if I can get a guaranteed high-quality, DRM-free copy of the album in ten seconds for $5, why would I bother spending more time to pirate a copy of unknown quality? Particularly considering how hard to find much of the music I listen to is -- you can find it on Amazon, but it's not on TPB, not on GNUtella, not on slsk, often not even on iTunes...
I'd use Netflix if I could use it the way I wanted -- i.e., integrate it into my custom home theater system. But until Netflix will run on a Raspberry Pi, I'm going to be pirating my movies and TV shows. Of course, the ones that offer a paid download option (or even a donations appreciated download option) get my money. As for video games -- those I usually pirate just because I can't find them anymore. Pirated a bunch of N64 games because I don't have an N64, you can't find the game cartridges anywhere, and they don't offer those games for sale on the Wii store (the ones they do offer I've already purchased)...so I hacked the Wii and pirated the roms. Trying to do the same for Gamecube games now, for the same reason -- I just can't find the game discs even if I wanted to buy them. Give me a $5/game download option and I'd GLADLY skip the freakin' *weeks* I've spent trying to get the damn pirated copies to work...
Even trained federal agents can't seem to tell the difference, and you expect an automated algorithm can? How exactly do you tell the difference between an advance copy posted to a blog by the artist themselves and an advance copy illegally leaked to a blog by someone else? The difference between kiddy porn and pirated content is that kiddy porn is always illegal. The exact same.mp3 file on the exact same server could be illegal today and legal tomorrow if the guy hosting it goes and asks for permission.
That's basically how content filtering is currently done by major corporations. They give a bunch of third world "consultants" a big list of what's OK and what isn't and just feed them images to select if they're violations or not.
A photo of a bloodied child is not illegal no matter what the cause. Sexualized imagery is clearly what's being discussed, as that's all that's illegal. And it's made even easier by laws in many jurisdiction stating that anything that looks like a child is illegal, even if they're actually 30 years old and just underdeveloped; even if it's a cartoon or digital rendering.
I still don't think these are usually machine-recognized yet (I believe the usual system is a bunch of third-worlders sitting in front of monitors with images flashing by and a button to click if it's "illegal" or "offensive"), but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had algorithms also feeding in potentially illegal images. But yeah I doubt they're totally blocking much of anything without some human somewhere looking at it briefly.
How is that better than just using Wine? Or even using an Android emulator to run the Netflix app? None of which are actual solutions to running Netflix on the Steambox itself.
Hell if you're resorting to Chromecast you'd probably be better off using one of those dongles I see advertised for ~$20 all over the place; it'd probably give better performance, and it'd certainly be easier.
And if the courts decide an official government document counts as proof (as they usually would) then passing a law against lying in general is no different from passing a law against disagreeing with anything the government says. The question is where you draw the line. You say it's acceptable for denying the Holocaust to be illegal. What about denying the official report on the 9/11 attacks? What about the anti-vaccine crowd? What about *religion*? What if what is "proven" to be true today is proven to be false tomorrow? What about Copernicus, back when it was "proven" that the sun revolved around the earth?
This is exactly why freedom of speech exists, because having one central authority decide what ideas can be expressed and which cannot is far more dangerous that letting them all be freely debated. Most of the world recognizes Holocaust deniers as being idiots or bigots even without it being illegal in most nations.
That happens in the US too, particularly from the wealthy (if you don't have the money to pay for 'em, you won't be fishing for meds -- at least not antibiotics!) I used to know someone who would call their doctor every time they got a cold, and the doctor would phone in a prescription for Azithromicyn [sp?] to the pharmacy without ever even seeing them...
I'd prefer a way to unerase the stuff I did as a minor. There's some info I once had on MySpace that I'd kinda like back, but apparently they wiped all of that...:(
Not everyone has cable, and not every cell service provider sends emergency alerts. I have a number of apps I installed on my phone to do just that, after realizing that I would have no other way of getting any such alerts. Mostly I just want the severe weather alerts so I can be reminded to check my laptop before driving all the way in to work only to discover nobody is there because they've given permission to work from home due to the impending blizzard (or, in one case, hurricane) that I knew nothing about. Had that happen more than once last winter....
Pretty sure there's no way to determine if the particle has "settled" into a particular state either, as trying to measure that would itself collapse the wave.
Netflix's browser streaming doesn't work on Linux because it requires Silverlight DRM. So no, you can't just add a browser to Steam OS; you would need to actually port Netflix's streaming code to something else (or Silverlight's DRM code into Moonlight)
What drives me to consoles is the ability to have multiplayer without multiple consoles connected over the internet. Seriously, they just port the same code over anyway, why the hell can't you plug two USB game controllers into a PC and play a local multiplayer match? Never seen a single game support that...hopefully steambox will drive some more of that for PCs, since it will presumably be running PC versions of the games...
If you ask me, Gnome is the one that's aesthetically-challenged. I neither need nor want big puffy pastel colored icons. I don't want an inch tall taskbar or "dock", nor do I need an applications menu to try to tell me what apps I want to launch. Gimme a taskbar as thin as possible and a Windows 9x style launcher with some decent looking minimalist themes pre-installed and I'm happy. Takes less than five minutes to get a vanilla KDE install to exactly what I want (swap out the launcher and maybe change the theme)...last time I tried Gnome I gave up before I got it looking bearable.
I feel the same way about Gnome. Best description I've ever heard of the way I feel towards Gnome is that it's a "Fischer-Price UI". KDE just feels clean and simple, gives me *exactly* what I want with minimal configuration needed, that configuration is simple and obvious, and the apps are largely designed to display *information*, not big pastel icons. They did get away from this a bit with the early KDE 4 releases (and I stuck with 3.x for a long time because of this) but the past couple years KDE has really improved dramatically.
And as others have already noted, there are certainly options to sort ignoring inode type...but I'd actually prefer they remove that one, as it seems rather pointless. When would you actually use this? How often are you looking for something where you know the name, but not if it's a file or a directory? Or do you just personally prefer having things sorted that way?
These are benefits of using a plastic card, not benefits of using credit. I get all of these with my debit card too, and I've never had a dime of debt, not even for a week.
I'm a former Mandriva user as well, and I never found a distro I liked better until I found Arch. Installation is far more painful, but once it's installed you're done until you buy a new system. Upgrades sometimes break stuff but usually it's not too bad.
Note that this ONLY applies if you have manually changed the config files. How do you expect the package manager know all the manual changes you've made, what you intended them to do, which may or may not still be needed, etc? If you know enough to make those changes, you know enough to migrate them.
I've been running the same Arch install on my laptop since before they started systemd, and I have nothing in that file. This is only an issue if you've made modifications yourself, outside of the package manager, in which case it's nice to get a heads-up that those are going to break. If you've only installed from the package manager you can just run a standard update and it'll work fine.
Arch certainly has it's difficulties, but I've been using it for about two years now and actually spend FAR less time maintaining it than I ever have with any other distro -- it's just a bit less predictable. With the other distros I'd know once a year I'd have to find a time when I wouldn't need my computer for a week so I could upgrade -- and it might be a month or more until I had *everything* working again. Now I upgrade once a month or so, but one or two per year will break my system for a day or two. And FWIW, I *never* read the release notes;)
Certainly I think that their interest in targeting apps that interface with medial devices is a little disconcerting because it would make, say, a free/cheap pulse monitor simply impossible.
Every treadmill I've ever seen includes a heart rate monitor. Usually when I try to use them I get readings of 0...or 500...or some other equally absurd number. Clearly things like heart rate monitors are not very strictly regulated.
I run Arch on my desktop and laptops and it requires *orders of magnitude* less maintenance than the Mandriva system it replaced...not that that's saying much. Of course Mandriva still beat Ubuntu -- I could never manage to get an Ubuntu system fully working in the first place! (granted, the last time I tried was probably six years ago when it was a fairly new distro...)
Want some more unwanted knowledge? Turns out, the State Department really was full of Communist sympathizers. McCarthy was right. Historical fact, look it up.
So? He violated the US Constitution by having government agents harassing people for exercising their right to free speech. Doesn't matter if he was right or wrong or right about what but not who.
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The government passes the law, so yes it is about government-sanctioned truth. The law states that if you deny that what happened is exactly as they said it happened, you go to jail. And for what? Who did you injure? A memory? Some personification of history? Some vague concept about the ideologies of future generations? I can argue that we should cut off welfare benefits -- that would harm people, far more directly, but I can still argue for it. I can run around saying we should drop nukes on Moscow. I can even argue in favor of eugenics programs, as long as I don't connect them to Hitler's. Besides, you can ban the speech but you can't ban the ideas -- people will just find a new way to express them.
Letting every crackpot voice their crackpot theories is far less dangerous than the alternative -- giving the government absolute power over what may or may not be discussed and debated. Words harm nobody.
Interesting. I can't recall ever encountering a single bug in any Google app. Hell I've noticed more bugs from my freakin Nintendo than from Google software...
Of course, I don't use Google Drive, or Earth or anything like that...just search, gmail, youtube, voice, android, plus....
I pirate a lot of stuff -- movies, TV shows, video games...
But in the past couple years I've completely stopped pirating music. Why? Well, if I can get a guaranteed high-quality, DRM-free copy of the album in ten seconds for $5, why would I bother spending more time to pirate a copy of unknown quality? Particularly considering how hard to find much of the music I listen to is -- you can find it on Amazon, but it's not on TPB, not on GNUtella, not on slsk, often not even on iTunes...
I'd use Netflix if I could use it the way I wanted -- i.e., integrate it into my custom home theater system. But until Netflix will run on a Raspberry Pi, I'm going to be pirating my movies and TV shows. Of course, the ones that offer a paid download option (or even a donations appreciated download option) get my money. As for video games -- those I usually pirate just because I can't find them anymore. Pirated a bunch of N64 games because I don't have an N64, you can't find the game cartridges anywhere, and they don't offer those games for sale on the Wii store (the ones they do offer I've already purchased)...so I hacked the Wii and pirated the roms. Trying to do the same for Gamecube games now, for the same reason -- I just can't find the game discs even if I wanted to buy them. Give me a $5/game download option and I'd GLADLY skip the freakin' *weeks* I've spent trying to get the damn pirated copies to work...
Even trained federal agents can't seem to tell the difference, and you expect an automated algorithm can? How exactly do you tell the difference between an advance copy posted to a blog by the artist themselves and an advance copy illegally leaked to a blog by someone else? The difference between kiddy porn and pirated content is that kiddy porn is always illegal. The exact same .mp3 file on the exact same server could be illegal today and legal tomorrow if the guy hosting it goes and asks for permission.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml
That's basically how content filtering is currently done by major corporations. They give a bunch of third world "consultants" a big list of what's OK and what isn't and just feed them images to select if they're violations or not.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/22/low-wage-facebook-contractor-leaks-secret-censorship-list/
A photo of a bloodied child is not illegal no matter what the cause. Sexualized imagery is clearly what's being discussed, as that's all that's illegal. And it's made even easier by laws in many jurisdiction stating that anything that looks like a child is illegal, even if they're actually 30 years old and just underdeveloped; even if it's a cartoon or digital rendering.
I still don't think these are usually machine-recognized yet (I believe the usual system is a bunch of third-worlders sitting in front of monitors with images flashing by and a button to click if it's "illegal" or "offensive"), but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had algorithms also feeding in potentially illegal images. But yeah I doubt they're totally blocking much of anything without some human somewhere looking at it briefly.
How is that better than just using Wine? Or even using an Android emulator to run the Netflix app? None of which are actual solutions to running Netflix on the Steambox itself.
Hell if you're resorting to Chromecast you'd probably be better off using one of those dongles I see advertised for ~$20 all over the place; it'd probably give better performance, and it'd certainly be easier.
And if the courts decide an official government document counts as proof (as they usually would) then passing a law against lying in general is no different from passing a law against disagreeing with anything the government says. The question is where you draw the line. You say it's acceptable for denying the Holocaust to be illegal. What about denying the official report on the 9/11 attacks? What about the anti-vaccine crowd? What about *religion*? What if what is "proven" to be true today is proven to be false tomorrow? What about Copernicus, back when it was "proven" that the sun revolved around the earth?
This is exactly why freedom of speech exists, because having one central authority decide what ideas can be expressed and which cannot is far more dangerous that letting them all be freely debated. Most of the world recognizes Holocaust deniers as being idiots or bigots even without it being illegal in most nations.
Hmm. Not a bad option for some of it, but that obviously won't capture private messages and such.
That happens in the US too, particularly from the wealthy (if you don't have the money to pay for 'em, you won't be fishing for meds -- at least not antibiotics!) I used to know someone who would call their doctor every time they got a cold, and the doctor would phone in a prescription for Azithromicyn [sp?] to the pharmacy without ever even seeing them...
Who decides what is a lie and what is the truth?
I'd prefer a way to unerase the stuff I did as a minor. There's some info I once had on MySpace that I'd kinda like back, but apparently they wiped all of that... :(
Not everyone has cable, and not every cell service provider sends emergency alerts. I have a number of apps I installed on my phone to do just that, after realizing that I would have no other way of getting any such alerts. Mostly I just want the severe weather alerts so I can be reminded to check my laptop before driving all the way in to work only to discover nobody is there because they've given permission to work from home due to the impending blizzard (or, in one case, hurricane) that I knew nothing about. Had that happen more than once last winter....
Pretty sure there's no way to determine if the particle has "settled" into a particular state either, as trying to measure that would itself collapse the wave.
Netflix's browser streaming doesn't work on Linux because it requires Silverlight DRM. So no, you can't just add a browser to Steam OS; you would need to actually port Netflix's streaming code to something else (or Silverlight's DRM code into Moonlight)
What drives me to consoles is the ability to have multiplayer without multiple consoles connected over the internet. Seriously, they just port the same code over anyway, why the hell can't you plug two USB game controllers into a PC and play a local multiplayer match? Never seen a single game support that...hopefully steambox will drive some more of that for PCs, since it will presumably be running PC versions of the games...
If you ask me, Gnome is the one that's aesthetically-challenged. I neither need nor want big puffy pastel colored icons. I don't want an inch tall taskbar or "dock", nor do I need an applications menu to try to tell me what apps I want to launch. Gimme a taskbar as thin as possible and a Windows 9x style launcher with some decent looking minimalist themes pre-installed and I'm happy. Takes less than five minutes to get a vanilla KDE install to exactly what I want (swap out the launcher and maybe change the theme)...last time I tried Gnome I gave up before I got it looking bearable.
I feel the same way about Gnome. Best description I've ever heard of the way I feel towards Gnome is that it's a "Fischer-Price UI". KDE just feels clean and simple, gives me *exactly* what I want with minimal configuration needed, that configuration is simple and obvious, and the apps are largely designed to display *information*, not big pastel icons. They did get away from this a bit with the early KDE 4 releases (and I stuck with 3.x for a long time because of this) but the past couple years KDE has really improved dramatically.
And as others have already noted, there are certainly options to sort ignoring inode type...but I'd actually prefer they remove that one, as it seems rather pointless. When would you actually use this? How often are you looking for something where you know the name, but not if it's a file or a directory? Or do you just personally prefer having things sorted that way?
These are benefits of using a plastic card, not benefits of using credit. I get all of these with my debit card too, and I've never had a dime of debt, not even for a week.
I'm a former Mandriva user as well, and I never found a distro I liked better until I found Arch. Installation is far more painful, but once it's installed you're done until you buy a new system. Upgrades sometimes break stuff but usually it's not too bad.
Note that this ONLY applies if you have manually changed the config files. How do you expect the package manager know all the manual changes you've made, what you intended them to do, which may or may not still be needed, etc? If you know enough to make those changes, you know enough to migrate them.
I've been running the same Arch install on my laptop since before they started systemd, and I have nothing in that file. This is only an issue if you've made modifications yourself, outside of the package manager, in which case it's nice to get a heads-up that those are going to break. If you've only installed from the package manager you can just run a standard update and it'll work fine.
Arch certainly has it's difficulties, but I've been using it for about two years now and actually spend FAR less time maintaining it than I ever have with any other distro -- it's just a bit less predictable. With the other distros I'd know once a year I'd have to find a time when I wouldn't need my computer for a week so I could upgrade -- and it might be a month or more until I had *everything* working again. Now I upgrade once a month or so, but one or two per year will break my system for a day or two. And FWIW, I *never* read the release notes ;)
Certainly I think that their interest in targeting apps that interface with medial devices is a little disconcerting because it would make, say, a free/cheap pulse monitor simply impossible.
Every treadmill I've ever seen includes a heart rate monitor. Usually when I try to use them I get readings of 0...or 500...or some other equally absurd number. Clearly things like heart rate monitors are not very strictly regulated.
I run Arch on my desktop and laptops and it requires *orders of magnitude* less maintenance than the Mandriva system it replaced...not that that's saying much. Of course Mandriva still beat Ubuntu -- I could never manage to get an Ubuntu system fully working in the first place! (granted, the last time I tried was probably six years ago when it was a fairly new distro...)
Want some more unwanted knowledge? Turns out, the State Department really was full of Communist sympathizers. McCarthy was right. Historical fact, look it up.
So? He violated the US Constitution by having government agents harassing people for exercising their right to free speech. Doesn't matter if he was right or wrong or right about what but not who.