I thought it was an operating system (and maybe a bunch of apps, too). This long list of infractions makes it sound like it is some sort of dating website.
So why not ban from its "spaces" everything that isn't specifically about FreeBSD and all the technical stuff that goes with it? If you want to know what is "inappropriate" in a discussion about FreeBSD, it would be anything that isn't about FreeBSD. Is that so difficult.
Apple engineers would have to pay an average of 33% of their monthly income for a mortgage
Most workers in most cities would consider that an absolute bargain - some of the most affordable rates there are.
For a short time during the early 1990's when mortgage rates doubled over 2-3 years, to nearly 15%, I was paying nearly 75% of my monthly take-home pay.
Some 74% of respondents said that they would use extra security
I'll believe this when that actually start doing it.
People in surveys say all sorts of things. What they actually do is often entirely different. And what they will do in the long term is entirely different again.
76 percent of websites now contain hidden Google trackers, and 24 percent have hidden Facebook trackers
So what we need are plug-ins for the major browsers that independently visit a mass of other websites while we are busy doing whatever we do online.
So while you are getting your fix of politics, hard-core, cat videos or teen angst there is another "user" with the same browser footprint that is visiting recipe sites, finding out how to fix the brakes on a Mustang, searching gift ideas for octogenarians and checking the symptoms of gonorrhea in sheep
Once the advertisers realise that most of the "tracks" they are following are worthless, there will be little incentive for them to advertise online. Then the whole "free" (gratis) internet will collapse and we'll only have paywalled sites and government propaganda machines to visit.
Your test is badly designed, It contains an odd number of possible responses. That means it is easy for individuals to choose the middle (non-committal) option. You should have an even number since that requires participants to choose, one way of the other - even just a little.
What do you need to colonise a planet? The same as you need to colonise a (newly discovered) continent.
That would require a source of funds, a cohesive group and a willingness to die for "the cause". Many religious groups would fit that description - or could raise the capital. As far as the very real risk of death, it's an easy spin. Add in the prospect of escape from persecution on Earth and you'd probably have them queuing at the spaceport gates.
But why only 1 religion? Why not all of the ones with a sense of persecution, a shit-ton of money (or rich believers) and a willingness to risk their lives for something they believe in.. Maybe Mars would be the place they would all want to claim for themselves. The only problem would be in a few hundred years, when their expansion and competition for resources means they would bang up against each other.
But that has always been the path on Earth, too. Plus ca change!
What is an abacus?
What is a slide rule?
What is a log table?
The tech changes and the terminology changes with it. The ad is (apparently) a prediction and it is pretty certain that at some point in the future the word "computer" will be just as obsolete as the other terms. Who in the real world actually "computes" anything, anyway?
However, it is questionable if, in the world where the word "computer" has slid into obscurity, whether Apple will still be around to say "We told you so!"
By contrast, adolescents who spent more time on non-screen activities had higher psychological well-being
Perhaps those were the adolescents who had more options, a wider choice of activities and a richer variety of alternatives.
The children who only were able to sit in their bedrooms and goof around with a mobile phone, or PC, or were doomed to waste away their free time watching the crap that is TV - of course they would be bored, depressed, dissatisfied and angry.
Though I suppose if they were all of those things, they wouldn't be invited to spend time with the other kids who were doing more interesting and fulfilling things.
Chicken and egg?
Unless of course we are actually fighting a war now - but nobody recognises it?
What is the point of conquering an adversary and having to go to the trouble and expense of occupying it, suppressing it and only then being able to exploit it. When you can simply buy it, or its assets without causing damage. It seems to have the same beneficial results but without the hassle.
Maybe the "war" we have been fighting for the past 20, 30... 40 years is one of economic conquest rather than military conquest. The only questions that remain are who are we fighting and who is winning? Maybe the "enemy" now is actually our own corporations and all the assets they keep offshore, tax-free.
And then there's the bomb. Until one is detonated, you never really know if it'll work as designed. And one hasn't been detonated....
Not really. A common-or-garden H-bomb has a yield of a few MT. To achieve more BANG! the thermonuclear core is surrounded by more fissile material. Essentially it is an atomic bomb to initiate the fusion weapon and then more fission. I do not know if there is an upper limit, apart from a practical limit on the device's weight, to how much this scales.
I would expect that an "urgent public safety" issue would be one that has led to the deaths of some hundreds of people. If not in the last fiscal year, then over a period of a few years. I would further expect that there would be a demonstrable upwards trend in that number.
So where are we? Is there any data on how many people have died as a direct result of the government not being able to gain data that was / is only available on some perp's phone?
Or is this really about the government wishing to have to power to reinforce its dominance and simply brag about how powerful it is?
The point of those operations was not to heal people. It was to avoid a lawsuit. It is much better for a hospital or a doctor to put a patient forward for some treatment than to do nothing. That leaves them open to malpractice or negligence claims. And since they aren't the people paying, it makes no difference to them if the procedure works or does nothing.
Avoiding a cost is just as good as making a profit, if someone else is paying.
If we're seeking to have an informed electorate, then this poses a bit of a problem
Most adults are not ignorant due to a lack of ability - the amount of intelligence needed to read a birth certificate is minimal - even less than the amount needed to send a tweet.
The reason most adults are ignorant is because they want to be. They prefer it. Being uninformed makes life a lot easier. There are no weighty considerations to make - just vote for the candidate with the nicest hair, or the tallest, or the best..... body.
And the same applies to most other choices. Grab the pizza with the brightest coloured package. Buy the shampoo with the most attractive model on the bottle. Choose the clothes that some celebrity wears, or the beer they drink, or the cigarettes they smoke. And while you're at it - why not vote for the candidate they suggest, too?
Visa recently offered select merchants a $10,000 reward for depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice
I could have sworn I read somethere words to the effect: THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
And restaurants are one of the few types of establishment that are pay-after-consume. So there isn't even the possibility of returning the "goods". At least, not in their original state.
This isn't cause and effect thing. It is not because tech companies are at the top of their game when a newcomer comes along. It is because there is a cycle to these things. One that means that users wants, needs and even just fashions change regularly - and that this often coincides with when the previous "generation" of tech solutions have reached maturity.
Google didn't displace AOL, they produced a search engine that was better than anything around. That gradually blew past the competition over a period of years. Facebook is only cited as an example because (coincidentally) it was successful. There were thousands of failures during the same time period. Any of them could have been used as an "example" here, but they failed, so they didn't make it into the article.
If there is something in this, it is not one of cause and effect. It is down to timing and cherry-picking examples that support the author's thesis.
And that is the fragmentation. There are simply too many different "flavours" of Linux. And too many incompatibilities to make supporting them all, viable for software developers.
Many years ago I worked for a computer manufacturer. We wanted an industry-leading product ported to our range(s) of machines. We worked hard with the software company and they required that for maintenance purposes, we had to supply 1 model of each computer that their software products would be sold for. They had a large room full of systems from various manufacturers.
This is the state of Linux - but multiplied several times over. Not only does each "flavour" vary from each other (otherwise they wouldn't be different), but the too-frequent releases and updates of vital components: kernels, libraries, sub-systems, make it too expensive for software suppliers to keep the whole spectrum up to date with changes, debugged, and to test their own software products thoroughly on each variant.
That puts a tremendous cost on the suppliers. And in a Linux market which expects software to be zero-cost or cheap ("I'm not spending $$$$-thousands on software for an operating system I downloaded for free"), it simply isn't worth anyone's while.
Wisdom -- the ability to take the perspectives of others into account
What the author describes could be many things: diplomacy, empathy, humility even. But it is not wisdom.
Though I can understand that people with less money (though that has little to do with "class" or entitlement - excpet possibly in the USA) will be forced to become more skilled in the art of compromise.
Wisdom, as we all know, is not putting tomatoes in a fruit salad.
Unless your company is paying, I would have to say that spending that amount simply to have a few hours of internet looks more like a personality problem than a "must have".
If you can't go that length of time without an internet fix, there is something seriously wrong.
Personally I would give up ALL in-flight internet for an extra inch of leg room.
Installing the official app was not an easy affair, however. Today this changes, as installation gets much simpler.
So I tried this. I followed the link which took me to some place that explained what "snaps" are. That contained a link that told me to click on it to grab the snap.
But that only took me to another page (form Canonical) which, again, explained what a "snap" was and told me to click another link to download the snap.
But no! That just took me to another link on snapcraft with (yet another) link to install it. When I clicked on that link Firefox croaked up an error message to say it didn't understand and that I might have to install some other software.
So I went back to a terminal and typed apt install spotify-client, created an account (disposable, of course) logged in and now I have music playing.
Can someone please explain how snaps make the installation process "simpler"?
Now you can donate directly to them with crypto currency, and bypass the censorship.
You could donate directly by mailing the "charity" a wad of $100 bills.
Cryptocurrencies offer nothing that cash cannot provide. With the exception of an opportunity to make (or lose) a spectacular amount in a very short time. That is the only attraction of BTC: greed. Any other suggested use is mere rationalisation.
Can anyone remind me what is the latest estimate for the number of BTC lost by their users?
Holding a BTC is much more like having a bearer bond. It is easily lost, destroyed or stolen. And when it is, there is no one to go crying to or who can help you. There is no buyer protection. If ever there was something vulnerable to human error it would be a BTC stash.
Slashdot Mirror
The russian embassy has a postal address.
So why not ban from its "spaces" everything that isn't specifically about FreeBSD and all the technical stuff that goes with it? If you want to know what is "inappropriate" in a discussion about FreeBSD, it would be anything that isn't about FreeBSD. Is that so difficult.
Apple engineers would have to pay an average of 33% of their monthly income for a mortgage
Most workers in most cities would consider that an absolute bargain - some of the most affordable rates there are.
For a short time during the early 1990's when mortgage rates doubled over 2-3 years, to nearly 15%, I was paying nearly 75% of my monthly take-home pay.
Some 74% of respondents said that they would use extra security
I'll believe this when that actually start doing it.
People in surveys say all sorts of things. What they actually do is often entirely different. And what they will do in the long term is entirely different again.
76 percent of websites now contain hidden Google trackers, and 24 percent have hidden Facebook trackers
So what we need are plug-ins for the major browsers that independently visit a mass of other websites while we are busy doing whatever we do online.
So while you are getting your fix of politics, hard-core, cat videos or teen angst there is another "user" with the same browser footprint that is visiting recipe sites, finding out how to fix the brakes on a Mustang, searching gift ideas for octogenarians and checking the symptoms of gonorrhea in sheep
Once the advertisers realise that most of the "tracks" they are following are worthless, there will be little incentive for them to advertise online. Then the whole "free" (gratis) internet will collapse and we'll only have paywalled sites and government propaganda machines to visit.
Your test is badly designed, It contains an odd number of possible responses. That means it is easy for individuals to choose the middle (non-committal) option. You should have an even number since that requires participants to choose, one way of the other - even just a little.
What do you need to colonise a planet? The same as you need to colonise a (newly discovered) continent.
That would require a source of funds, a cohesive group and a willingness to die for "the cause". Many religious groups would fit that description - or could raise the capital. As far as the very real risk of death, it's an easy spin. Add in the prospect of escape from persecution on Earth and you'd probably have them queuing at the spaceport gates.
But why only 1 religion? Why not all of the ones with a sense of persecution, a shit-ton of money (or rich believers) and a willingness to risk their lives for something they believe in.. Maybe Mars would be the place they would all want to claim for themselves. The only problem would be in a few hundred years, when their expansion and competition for resources means they would bang up against each other.
But that has always been the path on Earth, too. Plus ca change!
What is a slide rule?
What is a log table?
The tech changes and the terminology changes with it. The ad is (apparently) a prediction and it is pretty certain that at some point in the future the word "computer" will be just as obsolete as the other terms. Who in the real world actually "computes" anything, anyway?
However, it is questionable if, in the world where the word "computer" has slid into obscurity, whether Apple will still be around to say "We told you so!"
By contrast, adolescents who spent more time on non-screen activities had higher psychological well-being
Perhaps those were the adolescents who had more options, a wider choice of activities and a richer variety of alternatives.
The children who only were able to sit in their bedrooms and goof around with a mobile phone, or PC, or were doomed to waste away their free time watching the crap that is TV - of course they would be bored, depressed, dissatisfied and angry.
Though I suppose if they were all of those things, they wouldn't be invited to spend time with the other kids who were doing more interesting and fulfilling things.
Chicken and egg?
globalism
Unless of course we are actually fighting a war now - but nobody recognises it?
What is the point of conquering an adversary and having to go to the trouble and expense of occupying it, suppressing it and only then being able to exploit it. When you can simply buy it, or its assets without causing damage. It seems to have the same beneficial results but without the hassle.
Maybe the "war" we have been fighting for the past 20, 30 ... 40 years is one of economic conquest rather than military conquest. The only questions that remain are who are we fighting and who is winning? Maybe the "enemy" now is actually our own corporations and all the assets they keep offshore, tax-free.
And then there's the bomb. Until one is detonated, you never really know if it'll work as designed. And one hasn't been detonated....
Not really. A common-or-garden H-bomb has a yield of a few MT. To achieve more BANG! the thermonuclear core is surrounded by more fissile material. Essentially it is an atomic bomb to initiate the fusion weapon and then more fission. I do not know if there is an upper limit, apart from a practical limit on the device's weight, to how much this scales.
I would expect that an "urgent public safety" issue would be one that has led to the deaths of some hundreds of people. If not in the last fiscal year, then over a period of a few years. I would further expect that there would be a demonstrable upwards trend in that number.
So where are we? Is there any data on how many people have died as a direct result of the government not being able to gain data that was / is only available on some perp's phone?
Or is this really about the government wishing to have to power to reinforce its dominance and simply brag about how powerful it is?
Avoiding a cost is just as good as making a profit, if someone else is paying.
If we're seeking to have an informed electorate, then this poses a bit of a problem
Most adults are not ignorant due to a lack of ability - the amount of intelligence needed to read a birth certificate is minimal - even less than the amount needed to send a tweet.
The reason most adults are ignorant is because they want to be. They prefer it. Being uninformed makes life a lot easier. There are no weighty considerations to make - just vote for the candidate with the nicest hair, or the tallest, or the best ..... body.
And the same applies to most other choices. Grab the pizza with the brightest coloured package. Buy the shampoo with the most attractive model on the bottle. Choose the clothes that some celebrity wears, or the beer they drink, or the cigarettes they smoke. And while you're at it - why not vote for the candidate they suggest, too?
Visa recently offered select merchants a $10,000 reward for depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice
I could have sworn I read somethere words to the effect: THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.
And restaurants are one of the few types of establishment that are pay-after-consume. So there isn't even the possibility of returning the "goods". At least, not in their original state.
Google didn't displace AOL, they produced a search engine that was better than anything around. That gradually blew past the competition over a period of years. Facebook is only cited as an example because (coincidentally) it was successful. There were thousands of failures during the same time period. Any of them could have been used as an "example" here, but they failed, so they didn't make it into the article.
If there is something in this, it is not one of cause and effect. It is down to timing and cherry-picking examples that support the author's thesis.
Many years ago I worked for a computer manufacturer. We wanted an industry-leading product ported to our range(s) of machines. We worked hard with the software company and they required that for maintenance purposes, we had to supply 1 model of each computer that their software products would be sold for. They had a large room full of systems from various manufacturers.
This is the state of Linux - but multiplied several times over. Not only does each "flavour" vary from each other (otherwise they wouldn't be different), but the too-frequent releases and updates of vital components: kernels, libraries, sub-systems, make it too expensive for software suppliers to keep the whole spectrum up to date with changes, debugged, and to test their own software products thoroughly on each variant.
That puts a tremendous cost on the suppliers. And in a Linux market which expects software to be zero-cost or cheap ("I'm not spending $$$$-thousands on software for an operating system I downloaded for free"), it simply isn't worth anyone's while.
Wisdom -- the ability to take the perspectives of others into account
What the author describes could be many things: diplomacy, empathy, humility even. But it is not wisdom. Though I can understand that people with less money (though that has little to do with "class" or entitlement - excpet possibly in the USA) will be forced to become more skilled in the art of compromise.
Wisdom, as we all know, is not putting tomatoes in a fruit salad.
Or maybe the whole thing is just someone else's propaganda?
for a price of up to $25
Unless your company is paying, I would have to say that spending that amount simply to have a few hours of internet looks more like a personality problem than a "must have".
If you can't go that length of time without an internet fix, there is something seriously wrong.
Personally I would give up ALL in-flight internet for an extra inch of leg room.
Trading opened Thursday morning more than 200 percent higher
Unfortunately all the trades were done in BTC!
Installing the official app was not an easy affair, however. Today this changes, as installation gets much simpler.
So I tried this. I followed the link which took me to some place that explained what "snaps" are. That contained a link that told me to click on it to grab the snap.
But that only took me to another page (form Canonical) which, again, explained what a "snap" was and told me to click another link to download the snap.
But no! That just took me to another link on snapcraft with (yet another) link to install it. When I clicked on that link Firefox croaked up an error message to say it didn't understand and that I might have to install some other software.
So I went back to a terminal and typed apt install spotify-client, created an account (disposable, of course) logged in and now I have music playing.
Can someone please explain how snaps make the installation process "simpler"?
Now you can donate directly to them with crypto currency, and bypass the censorship.
You could donate directly by mailing the "charity" a wad of $100 bills.
Cryptocurrencies offer nothing that cash cannot provide. With the exception of an opportunity to make (or lose) a spectacular amount in a very short time. That is the only attraction of BTC: greed. Any other suggested use is mere rationalisation.
In our fear of human error
Can anyone remind me what is the latest estimate for the number of BTC lost by their users?
Holding a BTC is much more like having a bearer bond. It is easily lost, destroyed or stolen. And when it is, there is no one to go crying to or who can help you. There is no buyer protection. If ever there was something vulnerable to human error it would be a BTC stash.
Some believe that its strange, long shape suggests that it is a spaceship
Is there any reason that an interstellar vehicle would or should be "rocket" shaped?
It seems to me that a streamlined profile is quite unnecessary for anything other than a launch from within an atmosphere.