>>>However, there is a clear cut difference between taxes which support necessary infrastructure and a "tax" which is specifically designed to prop up one segment of the population at the expense of others.
All taxes can be framed as "prop up one segment of the population at the expense of others". This misrepresentation is what make these libertarian arguments unsound. Even taxation to support infrastructure, if you don't happen to use it, can be framed that way.
Idea behind civil society is that individual members sacrifice something so collectively we all can be better off. In the absence of this, sure someone ends up a warlord and better off for that, but clear majority end up oppressed and impoverished.
The part where you frame argument in a way it becomes impossible to have a civil conversation about the issue.
Your "armed men confiscating property by force" (aka taxation) is the glue that makes civil society possible. If you don't like governments (or society) that much, you are welcome to move to somewhere else, like Somalia, where they don't have these things.
Malaria or not, there is no shortage of people on Earth. There is shortage of space exploration. Curing diseases is commendable, but unless Bill develops a vaccine from civilization-wiping meteorite strikes, he is focusing his formidable resources too narrowly.
I just don't understand how could you not see a problem with X integration in a web browser, where X is not directly related to displaying web content.
This social media integration is not unlike bukake integration, sure some users might enjoy convenient access to their vice of choice, but it is unreasonable to assume that everyone wants to partake.
Have you thought that perhaps feature creep has bigger downside in context of browsers other than bigger footprint and wasted development time? Security for example.
Decades of constant battles with Java security should be abject lesson to anyone eager to swell functionality past any reason.
Consider how much better our browsing would be if Java never existed? I am eagerly await near future when marketing gets a hold of video conferencing and start throwing sales pitches at you or hackers figure out how to access video feed on your laptop.
I especially dislike Google's 'light pink' sponsored links that not every screen would render in a different color. There is no way this isn't intentional.
I don't know all use cases, but I personally use Firefox to browse. Why do I want 3D gaming and video conferencing integrated into it? What next, preparing taxes?
First, you have to realize that people are not paid to do nothing. Your situation is unique and very likely temporary. You have to consider the very real possibility that at some point in the near future process that lead to your unique arrangement will get optimized and you will be out of job or back at the desk doing 40+/week.
Time is money, and you were given a sizable gift, so your choices conceptually can be categorized into two categories - a) spend it b) invest it. Spending would be anything that you find enjoyable - this will be from browsing cat videos 10h/day, to learning new personal skill (language, music, mechanics, crafts). Investing would be anything that would make you more employable. Polish your skills, take couple coursera online classes, take community college course, study for and pass certification...
My personal suggestion is to not worry about this and just spend days playing computer games and browse cat videos. After all, it is all those other something-wrong-with-them people get fired, and it won't ever happen to you because "PEOPLE SKILLS!". Right?
Most software in the world is designed by companies seeking to make profit from selling this software. Software, as with any information, does not naturally support scarcity. Without scarcity value of any resource goes down to zero. As such, offering new software will not be profitable.
Now companies are not going to engage in non-profitable activities, so they will shift focus from producing software to some other activity revolving around software. There are multiple monetization methods available to open source software - they are service, customization, and deployment for compensation and in-software advertising. Aside from advertising, these do no apply to consumer-grade off-the-shelf software as it exists today.
So by advocating "open source everywhere" you are advocating one of the following: a) ad-ware b) end of user-friendly installation and patching, so it can be sold as as service.
Open source software is a hammer, it has plenty of good uses, but not everything is a nail.
The chance of technological balance increases if you consider that technology advances might hit hard diminishing returns for various reasons. One example would be from Star Trek - if you can use replicators to instantly manufacture anything and holodeck to believably simulate any experience... then why would you fly to other stars (or continue innovating)?! I personally would spend all my time in the holodeck, and reality can go **** itself.
I can only imagine that proper response for blasting all these early 60s sitcoms into universe would be accelerating a very big rock our way. The more annoyed they get, the more energy they put into accelerating the rock.
These hacks show that traditional military is losing effectiveness. Just like during the Cold War with Soviets you couldn't fight Nukes with tanks and aircraft carriers, you now can't fight militarized hackers with tanks and aircraft carriers.
Sure, these tanks and carriers still have value, but they are not sufficient on their own. They can't protect us from our infrastructure, financial system, chunks of manufacturing and education all getting remotely wiped/disabled/overloaded from under us.
Only now we can't count on MAD - China has much greater governmental control over Internet and would have much easier time fighting off US cyber attack. The only way I see US getting ahead is if BG approach is implemented - absolutely no networking of mission-critical systems.
>>> Instead, car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity
This is fundamentally bad idea. Ability to remotely modify anything on a car is a disaster waiting to happen. Cars still last 15-20 years, what decade-old security or cryptography do you still trust in your everyday computing?
I can already see buffer overflow into root, then pushing custom firmware that interprets any accelerator input as maximum throttle and overrides braking by using traction control to redirect it to a single front wheel resulting in a spin-out.
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>>>However, there is a clear cut difference between taxes which support necessary infrastructure and a "tax" which is specifically designed to prop up one segment of the population at the expense of others.
All taxes can be framed as "prop up one segment of the population at the expense of others". This misrepresentation is what make these libertarian arguments unsound. Even taxation to support infrastructure, if you don't happen to use it, can be framed that way.
Idea behind civil society is that individual members sacrifice something so collectively we all can be better off. In the absence of this, sure someone ends up a warlord and better off for that, but clear majority end up oppressed and impoverished.
The part where you frame argument in a way it becomes impossible to have a civil conversation about the issue.
Your "armed men confiscating property by force" (aka taxation) is the glue that makes civil society possible. If you don't like governments (or society) that much, you are welcome to move to somewhere else, like Somalia, where they don't have these things.
Malaria or not, there is no shortage of people on Earth. There is shortage of space exploration. Curing diseases is commendable, but unless Bill develops a vaccine from civilization-wiping meteorite strikes, he is focusing his formidable resources too narrowly.
I just don't understand how could you not see a problem with X integration in a web browser, where X is not directly related to displaying web content.
This social media integration is not unlike bukake integration, sure some users might enjoy convenient access to their vice of choice, but it is unreasonable to assume that everyone wants to partake.
Won't work for long. I tried staying with 3.6 for a while and eventually everything broke.
Built-in Like (Share) button? What are they trying to become, a facebook browser?
Browser should focus on browsing, this feature bloat is highly regretful and is ultimately unwanted.
Relax, you are not vulnerable to automotive theft by virtue of driving rusted Grand Caravan.
Have you thought that perhaps feature creep has bigger downside in context of browsers other than bigger footprint and wasted development time? Security for example.
Decades of constant battles with Java security should be abject lesson to anyone eager to swell functionality past any reason.
Consider how much better our browsing would be if Java never existed? I am eagerly await near future when marketing gets a hold of video conferencing and start throwing sales pitches at you or hackers figure out how to access video feed on your laptop.
I especially dislike Google's 'light pink' sponsored links that not every screen would render in a different color. There is no way this isn't intentional.
I don't know all use cases, but I personally use Firefox to browse. Why do I want 3D gaming and video conferencing integrated into it? What next, preparing taxes?
Why would anyone prevent bigots from self-identifying with facebook groups?
First, you have to realize that people are not paid to do nothing. Your situation is unique and very likely temporary. You have to consider the very real possibility that at some point in the near future process that lead to your unique arrangement will get optimized and you will be out of job or back at the desk doing 40+/week.
Time is money, and you were given a sizable gift, so your choices conceptually can be categorized into two categories - a) spend it b) invest it. Spending would be anything that you find enjoyable - this will be from browsing cat videos 10h/day, to learning new personal skill (language, music, mechanics, crafts). Investing would be anything that would make you more employable. Polish your skills, take couple coursera online classes, take community college course, study for and pass certification...
My personal suggestion is to not worry about this and just spend days playing computer games and browse cat videos. After all, it is all those other something-wrong-with-them people get fired, and it won't ever happen to you because "PEOPLE SKILLS!". Right?
Not knowing anything about Bismuth Ferrite' polarization states I assume that this new memory would be non-volatile.
This isn't a better idea. Here is why:
Most software in the world is designed by companies seeking to make profit from selling this software. Software, as with any information, does not naturally support scarcity. Without scarcity value of any resource goes down to zero. As such, offering new software will not be profitable.
Now companies are not going to engage in non-profitable activities, so they will shift focus from producing software to some other activity revolving around software. There are multiple monetization methods available to open source software - they are service, customization, and deployment for compensation and in-software advertising. Aside from advertising, these do no apply to consumer-grade off-the-shelf software as it exists today.
So by advocating "open source everywhere" you are advocating one of the following: a) ad-ware b) end of user-friendly installation and patching, so it can be sold as as service.
Open source software is a hammer, it has plenty of good uses, but not everything is a nail.
Frying eggs with your CPU is now a feature.
New AMD CPU, comes bundled with George Foreman grill heatsink.
The chance of technological balance increases if you consider that technology advances might hit hard diminishing returns for various reasons. One example would be from Star Trek - if you can use replicators to instantly manufacture anything and holodeck to believably simulate any experience... then why would you fly to other stars (or continue innovating)?! I personally would spend all my time in the holodeck, and reality can go **** itself.
>>> the only reason we haven't been wiped out.
Yet.
I can only imagine that proper response for blasting all these early 60s sitcoms into universe would be accelerating a very big rock our way. The more annoyed they get, the more energy they put into accelerating the rock.
These hacks show that traditional military is losing effectiveness. Just like during the Cold War with Soviets you couldn't fight Nukes with tanks and aircraft carriers, you now can't fight militarized hackers with tanks and aircraft carriers.
Sure, these tanks and carriers still have value, but they are not sufficient on their own. They can't protect us from our infrastructure, financial system, chunks of manufacturing and education all getting remotely wiped/disabled/overloaded from under us.
Only now we can't count on MAD - China has much greater governmental control over Internet and would have much easier time fighting off US cyber attack. The only way I see US getting ahead is if BG approach is implemented - absolutely no networking of mission-critical systems.
New HDD in Isle 6, New HDD in Isle 6!
I don't understand why place data centers in urban mall environments where property value is supposedly higher?
I use and like Entrust Entelligence PKI solution. Signed and/or encrypted email, used by most US gov. agencies for easier interoperability.
Ha Ha, Facebook addicts, Punch The Monkey, Punch It!
You can quit any time you want, right?
Corporate suicide Microsoft style, only they are not nearly as entrenched.
>>> Instead, car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity
This is fundamentally bad idea. Ability to remotely modify anything on a car is a disaster waiting to happen. Cars still last 15-20 years, what decade-old security or cryptography do you still trust in your everyday computing?
I can already see buffer overflow into root, then pushing custom firmware that interprets any accelerator input as maximum throttle and overrides braking by using traction control to redirect it to a single front wheel resulting in a spin-out.
Or you could go for renewable energy source with a propeller hat.
It is variation of prisoner's dilemma.