For education, simply being able to use any random kiosk or tablet on the network to pick-up where one left-off instead of being tied to a specific device is already a good reason.
I keep hearing this from people who have evidently never heard two words, which should be very familiar to anyone who's attended public school in the US, and blow this straight out the water: assigned seating.
I have never understood the obsession with hibernation, or why so many people regard it as a must-have to the point they're willing to use a crap excuse for an OS on account of that one thing.
Kate isn't bad, but one of the 3 things* I still miss about Windows is UltraEdit.
*Node.JS might take care of one of these, and a port of 3D Space Cadet Pinball would be nice as well. I can't believe in 2015 there are STILL no decent pinball games for Linux.
I still write letters from time to time, and postcards when I travel. In particular, I seldom send emails to my daughter, preferring to *write* to her.
It's not just about having the right glyphs reproduced in the right order. It's also about her having something that came from her father's hands, just for her.
On account of the horrid misconstruction "to be stood corrected", obviously. The OP meant to say something like, "I am prepared to stand corrected...," or, "I ask to be corrected."
You left out hackers employed and funded by multinational corporations and illegal criminal enterprises having greater resources than some nation states. And, yeah sure, even a few well-endowed terrorist groups in the mix.
But your point stands--as someone already pointed out, 300 million TSA-backdoored travel locks embodying the same sort of thinking have been now opened wide to anybody with an Internet connection, a 3D printer, and a ride to the airport.
Back in the '80s, a company distributing Russian or East German propaganda videos would be shut down and everyone involved arrested for providing aid and comfort to the enemy, to even treason by showing enemy propaganda.
That's complete and utter horseshit. I obtained my first copy of Thoughts from Chairman Mao from one of my high school teachers in 1977.
And no bleeding.heart liberal was he--he was a retired USMC colonel who'd picked up a Purple Heart in Korea and another one in 'Nam.
Perhaps an open-source fixed-function password keeper (as Mooltipass) in separate trustable hardware would work?
I have one of those. I call it a "brain".
I worked out a system about 20 years ago for generating passwords that would be fairly secure, yet easy for me to remember.
Apparently I must be special, because I'm the only person I know who doesn't use a password-keeper of any sort, not even a Post-It stuck to the bottom of my keyboard. (I do allow my browser to store a few passwords for things that don't matter, e.g. the stupid Flash games I occasionally indulge in as a momentary distraction.)
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Unfortunately, I've already posted in this discussion, so I can't give this the +1 it deserves.
For education, simply being able to use any random kiosk or tablet on the network to pick-up where one left-off instead of being tied to a specific device is already a good reason.
I keep hearing this from people who have evidently never heard two words, which should be very familiar to anyone who's attended public school in the US, and blow this straight out the water: assigned seating.
And you might do well to refrain from using words that you can't spell.
Mod here. Alas, there's no -1, Full of Intellectual Dishonesty.
Exercising *some* discretion and wanting to keep things *somewhat* on-topic is not being "Ned Flanders".
And I was very likely reading Cracked before you were born. You may now get off my lawn and go find some traffic to play in.
I have never understood the obsession with hibernation, or why so many people regard it as a must-have to the point they're willing to use a crap excuse for an OS on account of that one thing.
What are you lacking other than a tabbed terminal? Yakuake.
Kate isn't bad, but one of the 3 things* I still miss about Windows is UltraEdit.
*Node.JS might take care of one of these, and a port of 3D Space Cadet Pinball would be nice as well. I can't believe in 2015 there are STILL no decent pinball games for Linux.
Adobe did us all a favour, and you complain?
I read at -1. Surely I'm not the only one.
I still write letters from time to time, and postcards when I travel. In particular, I seldom send emails to my daughter, preferring to *write* to her.
It's not just about having the right glyphs reproduced in the right order. It's also about her having something that came from her father's hands, just for her.
It's quite old-skool, actually.
Looks like he put some real effort into it, too.
I'm actually kinda almost just about very nearly sort of borderline impressed.
On account of the horrid misconstruction "to be stood corrected", obviously. The OP meant to say something like, "I am prepared to stand corrected...," or, "I ask to be corrected."
He also doesn't close parentheses.
Where's the letter? All I see at the other end of that link is another Slashdot post.
Yet you're the only one who seems to care.
(To the point of being obsessed, even. Maybe you stop and should ask yourself why.)
It makes perfect sense if your objective is effortless monitoring of law-abiding and mostly law-abiding citizens.
As for why you'd want to do that... Gosh, I dunno. Beats me.
You left out hackers employed and funded by multinational corporations and illegal criminal enterprises having greater resources than some nation states. And, yeah sure, even a few well-endowed terrorist groups in the mix.
But your point stands--as someone already pointed out, 300 million TSA-backdoored travel locks embodying the same sort of thinking have been now opened wide to anybody with an Internet connection, a 3D printer, and a ride to the airport.
But THIS time it'll be DIFFERENT---you'll see!
Privet, Vladimir! Nice to see you reading Slashdot.
Back in the '80s, a company distributing Russian or East German propaganda videos would be shut down and everyone involved arrested for providing aid and comfort to the enemy, to even treason by showing enemy propaganda.
That's complete and utter horseshit. I obtained my first copy of Thoughts from Chairman Mao from one of my high school teachers in 1977.
And no bleeding.heart liberal was he--he was a retired USMC colonel who'd picked up a Purple Heart in Korea and another one in 'Nam.
I don't think so, either.
Here ya go...
"We have nothing new to offer this time round, so we're turning our existing offering into a... PLATFORM. w00t."
Perhaps an open-source fixed-function password keeper (as Mooltipass) in separate trustable hardware would work?
I have one of those. I call it a "brain".
I worked out a system about 20 years ago for generating passwords that would be fairly secure, yet easy for me to remember.
Apparently I must be special, because I'm the only person I know who doesn't use a password-keeper of any sort, not even a Post-It stuck to the bottom of my keyboard. (I do allow my browser to store a few passwords for things that don't matter, e.g. the stupid Flash games I occasionally indulge in as a momentary distraction.)
Best arguments I've seen yet for disabling 3rd-party logins.
Thanks, guys.
*says nothing, continues sipping coffee...*