Haha, I threatened to call the cops / child protection services on my Dad once. He simply said "Go ahead. I'll beat the shit out of you until they get here."
Say the FBI suddenly raided you, and brought you up on say, pedophilia charges. They confiscate your computer hardware, as is standard procedure.
Now, I'm going to take a leap of faith here and presume you have no child porn on your PC. And for the sake of my point, no encryption. But they are sure you have it somewhere, so they naturally assume that you must have encrypted ghost partitions or whatever on your hard drive(s). Maybe they even have a log provided by your ISP that says at one point, you navigated to a website that provided such encryption software in the last decade. They demand that you hand over your passwords for your encrypted drives.
Or, to use your example with the safe, say that safe was in the house that you bought, and didn't get the combination for it from the previous owners. Maybe it was hidden, and you didn't even know of its existence before the feds demanded you hand over the combination.
Being brought up on charges for forgetting or even "forgetting" your password to incriminating evidence is already bad enough. But the scenario above is what I'm truly afraid of. The problem is, in some cases they could be treated the exact same if the judge sides with the authorities after hearing your "excuses".
It seems you don't live in the USA. A place where, by modifying the source in your browser, you can be brought up on hacking charges, wire fraud, violating the DMCA, etc.
You ever actually read any of those TOS that you supposedly agree to the moment you navigate to a webpage?
But still a small fraction of their wired LAN bandwidth. If you often transfer large files or stream HD video within your home network like I do, you can't afford to be generations behind or wired or wireless speed.
I call BS. A quick google search says Hollywood blueray is usually encoded around 25-35 Mb/s. So even an uncompressed video would stream just fine with an old 10/100 router and cat 5 cabling. And that's with no/minimal compression.
Big files, sure, I'll give you that. But I'd also argue the average person isn't moving files that large to and fro on their network too often.
OK, this is the last reply because this is already offtopic enough, but I'd argue my subject was perfectly fine in that it was a reply to the previous post. Hence the "Re:".
Why not? If you think that "this time is different", can you explain why? We are already a mostly service economy, so improvements in manufacturing should have less of an impact than in the past.
Well, one difference I see is automation of service jobs. You already see those robotic carousel soft drink machines in fast food joints. It's not hard at all to imagine a machine that takes your order via terminal, cooks your "meat" patty, places it on the bun with the various toppings you've selected and wraps it up in paper before ejecting it out of some chute. I would be extremely surprised if I didn't see this scenario in my lifetime. In fact, I'm kinda surprised it's not happening already. When the low-level service jobs start drying up, I'm not sure what will be the new foundation of that pyramid.
Granted, that's only an example concerning the fast food labor market, but I can see other places going the same way. Janitors, stocking crews, etc.
No, please carry on. It comes in handy for people who browse at +1. I don't, but then again I'm a -1 masochist.
No, it doesn't.
Personally, if I was browsing at +1, I'd rather see a summary of a post, rather than the first sentence with zero context. One can give me a general idea if I would find the content interesting, the other is just a waste of pipe.
What I was saying was that there is a world of difference between a wishy-washy statement of "I guess" and an explicit "I believe".
Firstly, when it comes to kernel testing, no news is usually good news. But it's never a sure thing, and it's hard for one person to test it all.
Second, the newest kernel release is usually considered "bleeding edge", at least as far as enterprise goes. It's never a sure thing. Implying it's a sure thing and will for sure not catch your datacenter on fire is probably a Bad Idea.
Thirdly, who cares if Linus says "guess" or "believe". Both translate to exactly the same thing to me, given the context: "I'm pretty sure this is ok, but don't use this until you've backed up your important cat pictures." It's well known he's a bit bunt. Shit man, just be happy he didn't insult your mother in the header.
> Honestly, why do people hate on products that obviously don't meet there needs?
That usually has to do with the product in question being shoved down everyone's throats.
I fail to see how Wayland, or any open source software can be "shoved down" your throat. If you don't like it, don't use it. Or modify it to suit your needs (and hopefully) release that. That's the OSS way. I'd like to add "And don't bitch about it" but we all know that's untrue. We love bitching; that will never go away. I often think these holy wars are created on purpose just for the drama they cause on Usenet, forums, and mailing lists. But I digress.
If the amount of bile being spewed about Wayland is any indication at all of its future real-world acceptance on the desktop or server, than I think X will be around for a long time. But I'm kinda doubting that. More likely, one of two things will happen: Either Wayland will not be as bad as people like you are claiming, or X will continue to be supported by people that care.
Until they remove what you were watching halfway through the series. Saving to disk is much-needed.
You don't seem to understand how this whole DRM thing works, do you?
The entire point of DRM is prevent exactly what you just asked for. When the contract or whatever expires between Netflix and whoever owns the content, nobody can watch that content any more. Likewise, when your subscription with Netflix ends, you can't watch the content either.
Crafting an article that is believable yet false is easy.
Creating one that is hilarious is far harder, and in my opinion, more welcome. I get enough lies in the regular news on the other 364 days of the year.
That's an unfair example, considering I often listen to music while using GPS navigation and browse webpages all at the same time, and that's on 1 GB of ram.
You sure you're not doing something else, say loading up some kind of game?
I disagree. The browser is doing exactly what it should be- saving its state so it can be recreated upon relaunch.
Most people's phones do not have more than 16GB of storage. A few people on the cutting edge or that have too much money might have 64GB. Either way, you also have to account for pictures, music, vidoes, ebooks, apps, the OS itself, and all the other data that gets stored on these things. Sure, you could potentially create your own browser (and I encourage you to do this if you feel so strongly) that would go through the process of saving all your graphics, scripts, and HTML to disk when the OS demands you free up memory and load it all up again later when needed. You'd probably have to explain why the browser is "eating up all my phone memory" constantly. You could probably reduce the page-recreation time upon reopening that tab by a second or two compared to 4G or wifi if you're good.
Personally, I'm more than happy conserving what little space I have on my phone and waiting a whole five seconds for my pocket super computer to receive data through the goddamned ether at speeds that would have made our heads spin ten years ago.
Now, would I mind having a slider in my options to control this behavior? Not at all, I love options. I just think it would be mostly unused, which is apparently what all the browser coders thought too by not putting that in there.
That was back when that was the only source of money for the people inventing the standards. Now, the internet is more commercialized and there is plenty of money to be had.
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I think it has more to do with the fact there's little point in spamming what most people use as their spam email account.
I only check mine when some forum or whatever refuses to allow me to login until I confirm an email address.
Oh? So threats of violence no longer work on the weak? I'm sure many people will be thrilled by that news.
You may think it a joke, but it wasn't to me at the time.
Haha, I threatened to call the cops / child protection services on my Dad once. He simply said "Go ahead. I'll beat the shit out of you until they get here."
Guess who won that standoff.
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Same comment. What a difference a minute can make.
What about looking at it from another direction?
Say the FBI suddenly raided you, and brought you up on say, pedophilia charges. They confiscate your computer hardware, as is standard procedure.
Now, I'm going to take a leap of faith here and presume you have no child porn on your PC. And for the sake of my point, no encryption. But they are sure you have it somewhere, so they naturally assume that you must have encrypted ghost partitions or whatever on your hard drive(s). Maybe they even have a log provided by your ISP that says at one point, you navigated to a website that provided such encryption software in the last decade. They demand that you hand over your passwords for your encrypted drives.
Or, to use your example with the safe, say that safe was in the house that you bought, and didn't get the combination for it from the previous owners. Maybe it was hidden, and you didn't even know of its existence before the feds demanded you hand over the combination.
Being brought up on charges for forgetting or even "forgetting" your password to incriminating evidence is already bad enough. But the scenario above is what I'm truly afraid of. The problem is, in some cases they could be treated the exact same if the judge sides with the authorities after hearing your "excuses".
It seems you don't live in the USA. A place where, by modifying the source in your browser, you can be brought up on hacking charges, wire fraud, violating the DMCA, etc.
You ever actually read any of those TOS that you supposedly agree to the moment you navigate to a webpage?
Welcome to Slashdot Summaries, where the grammar is bad and the content mostly random.
And then they all hoped into their Mini Coopers and drove off into the sunset, leaving a stream of bills fluttering in the wind.
Sadly, self-disqualification is exercising rational thought; something I think you'd want lots of in a mission like this.
Oh wait, this is a reality show now? Carry on....
Maybe I'll start a pool on how long until the first murder occurs.
I wasn't aware the Earth had a Constitution.
But still a small fraction of their wired LAN bandwidth. If you often transfer large files or stream HD video within your home network like I do, you can't afford to be generations behind or wired or wireless speed.
I call BS. A quick google search says Hollywood blueray is usually encoded around 25-35 Mb/s. So even an uncompressed video would stream just fine with an old 10/100 router and cat 5 cabling. And that's with no/minimal compression.
Big files, sure, I'll give you that. But I'd also argue the average person isn't moving files that large to and fro on their network too often.
OK, this is the last reply because this is already offtopic enough, but I'd argue my subject was perfectly fine in that it was a reply to the previous post. Hence the "Re:".
Why not? If you think that "this time is different", can you explain why? We are already a mostly service economy, so improvements in manufacturing should have less of an impact than in the past.
Well, one difference I see is automation of service jobs. You already see those robotic carousel soft drink machines in fast food joints. It's not hard at all to imagine a machine that takes your order via terminal, cooks your "meat" patty, places it on the bun with the various toppings you've selected and wraps it up in paper before ejecting it out of some chute. I would be extremely surprised if I didn't see this scenario in my lifetime. In fact, I'm kinda surprised it's not happening already. When the low-level service jobs start drying up, I'm not sure what will be the new foundation of that pyramid.
Granted, that's only an example concerning the fast food labor market, but I can see other places going the same way. Janitors, stocking crews, etc.
No, please carry on. It comes in handy for people who browse at +1. I don't, but then again I'm a -1 masochist.
No, it doesn't.
Personally, if I was browsing at +1, I'd rather see a summary of a post, rather than the first sentence with zero context. One can give me a general idea if I would find the content interesting, the other is just a waste of pipe.
What I was saying was that there is a world of difference between a wishy-washy statement of "I guess" and an explicit "I believe".
Firstly, when it comes to kernel testing, no news is usually good news. But it's never a sure thing, and it's hard for one person to test it all.
Second, the newest kernel release is usually considered "bleeding edge", at least as far as enterprise goes. It's never a sure thing. Implying it's a sure thing and will for sure not catch your datacenter on fire is probably a Bad Idea.
Thirdly, who cares if Linus says "guess" or "believe". Both translate to exactly the same thing to me, given the context: "I'm pretty sure this is ok, but don't use this until you've backed up your important cat pictures." It's well known he's a bit bunt. Shit man, just be happy he didn't insult your mother in the header.
OMG that's so racist! I'm going to pick a random word in your post and become offended by it.
I didn't RTFA because I'm pretty sure the "summary" was actually written by a spam bot that made it through Tim and the links just point to porn.
> Honestly, why do people hate on products that obviously don't meet there needs?
That usually has to do with the product in question being shoved down everyone's throats.
I fail to see how Wayland, or any open source software can be "shoved down" your throat. If you don't like it, don't use it. Or modify it to suit your needs (and hopefully) release that. That's the OSS way. I'd like to add "And don't bitch about it" but we all know that's untrue. We love bitching; that will never go away. I often think these holy wars are created on purpose just for the drama they cause on Usenet, forums, and mailing lists. But I digress.
If the amount of bile being spewed about Wayland is any indication at all of its future real-world acceptance on the desktop or server, than I think X will be around for a long time. But I'm kinda doubting that. More likely, one of two things will happen: Either Wayland will not be as bad as people like you are claiming, or X will continue to be supported by people that care.
True hackers will find a way.
Until they remove what you were watching halfway through the series. Saving to disk is much-needed.
You don't seem to understand how this whole DRM thing works, do you?
The entire point of DRM is prevent exactly what you just asked for. When the contract or whatever expires between Netflix and whoever owns the content, nobody can watch that content any more. Likewise, when your subscription with Netflix ends, you can't watch the content either.
What crazy client are you using that lets you stream video over the torrent protocol?
Crafting an article that is believable yet false is easy.
Creating one that is hilarious is far harder, and in my opinion, more welcome. I get enough lies in the regular news on the other 364 days of the year.
That's an unfair example, considering I often listen to music while using GPS navigation and browse webpages all at the same time, and that's on 1 GB of ram.
You sure you're not doing something else, say loading up some kind of game?
I disagree. The browser is doing exactly what it should be- saving its state so it can be recreated upon relaunch.
Most people's phones do not have more than 16GB of storage. A few people on the cutting edge or that have too much money might have 64GB. Either way, you also have to account for pictures, music, vidoes, ebooks, apps, the OS itself, and all the other data that gets stored on these things. Sure, you could potentially create your own browser (and I encourage you to do this if you feel so strongly) that would go through the process of saving all your graphics, scripts, and HTML to disk when the OS demands you free up memory and load it all up again later when needed. You'd probably have to explain why the browser is "eating up all my phone memory" constantly. You could probably reduce the page-recreation time upon reopening that tab by a second or two compared to 4G or wifi if you're good.
Personally, I'm more than happy conserving what little space I have on my phone and waiting a whole five seconds for my pocket super computer to receive data through the goddamned ether at speeds that would have made our heads spin ten years ago.
Now, would I mind having a slider in my options to control this behavior? Not at all, I love options. I just think it would be mostly unused, which is apparently what all the browser coders thought too by not putting that in there.
That was back when that was the only source of money for the people inventing the standards. Now, the internet is more commercialized and there is plenty of money to be had.