errr...a VM is a Virtual Machine, you don't have to buy a Windows or Apple computer, you can run Windows in a VM on a linux system if you like
Sigh. Virtual Machine don't come with an operating system preinstalled. So to run Windows in your VM you will have to buy a Windows license. Even if your computer came with Windows preinstalled, it's likely that it will refuse to run in your VM due to the different hardware, or because it's tied to your specific computer brand through some string in the BIOS. As for Mac OS X, AFAIK Apple forbids you from running it in a VM if that VM is not running on an Apple computer, hence why I said that you needed to buy either Windows, or an Apple computer. Or you could pirate the OS but then why not cut the middleman and pirate the music directly...
or thanks to the lack of DRM you can use any Windows or OSX system to download the songs and then copy them to wherever you want.
If you're allowed to install iTunes on your work computer, and access to these non-work sites is not blocked; or if you have friends who let you use their computers to download stuff. Otherwise that "any Windows or OSX system" will be one you bought which brings us back to the above.
if you want "cloud storage" you can't guarantee that data will always be private no matter who you host it with and if need further protections you will obviously encrypt it anyway.
Wrong the solution is client-side encryption. the FSF did mention it on their page: "Client side encryption to prevent snooping".
The idea that most people will value software freedom above all else is idiocy so instead they need to focus on making good products, products that appeal to most people and compete with non-free products.
Given that most people value brand above all else, competing on features is far from sufficient.
That is really lame, if you're ultra-paranoid just run it in a VM and delete it once the tracks are downloaded. The upshot is you can get DRM-free music and not be beholden to Apple at all.
iTunes does not run on open-source operating systems (even with Wine) so VMs don't help one bit. Running iTunes requires buying Windows or an Apple computer
The biggest risk is in raw vegetables; they do not come wrapped in plastic
The bags you buy your vegetables in are not part of the ban. Or at least they are not in sane countries like France.
they will come in contact with all manner of dirtiness: packing crates, sweaty shoppers' hands, your grimy kitchen counter, etc. Regardless of what bag you transport them in, you'll want to wash and clean them thoroughly if you're going to eat them raw.
Precisely. So the case of vegetables is quite irrelevant to the current discussion. Your point is moot.
Well, I tend to choose plastic bags at the supermarket because later I use them for garbage disposal.
The bags you buy your fresh vegetables / fruits in are good enough for that. It does work better if they have handles though and that's store-dependent.
I keep buying one to keep in the car.... take it into the house full of groceries and there it stays.
Instead of adding the latest bag to the pile tucked away out of mind, put the pile right against the front door. So the next time you go out and pass by the car you'll be forced to remember that you intended to put the bags in the car and since you're going out anyway you might as well do it then. Note that this assumes you live in an appartment and your car is "far away" in the parking lot. If the car is just in your house's garage then you have no excuse.
Deregulation to allow competition causes monopolies? No, does not compute. Regulation creates barriers to entry that leans to monopolies or few providers, those who can get the government to protect their territory with police power.
You say that like regulation can only raise barriers to entry and prevent competition. But regulations are just tools. As such they can be used for good or bad. They can be used for bad like when they prevent Tesla from selling cars in Texas or in this case grant monopolies. But they can be used for good when they lower barrier to entry by forcing last mile owners to let their competitors install their hardware at the telephone exchange (aka local-loop unbundling).
There is no oversight in clothing market and yet you can buy a shirt at Wallmart or Ross for $5 or shoes for $10. Why don't they charge $100 for a shirt and keep the difference?
Low barrier to entry is why. And I'm not talking about regulation. You can start a clothing business with $10.000 and sell world-wide. But if you have to lay down your own last mile network, then starting an ISP will easily cost you 1 billion just in civil engineering and equipement, and that's just for one large city like Chicago.
It is not government oversight that drives prices down but competition.
You say that as if competition always exists and the government and regulations can only prevent it. But, in the ISP case, the barriers to entry are much lower in countries where the government enacted regulations that force the owners of the last mile cables to let their competitors install their equipement in their telephone exchange. Then instead of having to spend billions duplicating the existing last mile copper network, new entrants can focus on their backhaul network, peering agreement, and providing new services like unlimited phone calls, TV over ADSL, WiFi hotspots, etc.
My understanding is that in the US the military police only polices the military. So your translation, while literally correct, is wrong. As has been pointed out elsewhere the 'Gendarmerie' is a military force that reports to the interior minister and polices civilians, mostly in the countryside. They do have other missions but they are much less visible, mostly crowd control but also policing the military, though that's pretty much invisible to the general public.
I don't think one can equate it to the FBI either as the FBI certainly is not concerned with fining people for going over the speed limit or driving while drunk. There is none of the 'investigations across state borders' thing that makes the FBI so special, simply due to the lack of state borders in France.
It is 100% the responsibility of the driver who collided with the obstruction for colliding with a non-moving obstruction.
Agreed.
Or are you the type that also blames gun manufacturers for murders?
I wouldn't blame the manufacturer for making the gun. But if it lobbied for bad laws letting anyone buy guns without control, then yes, for that it deserves a share of the blame.
The text was written by and for people who lived in a time when most people had lots of kids, both sons and daughters. The author probably assumed that his readers would assume that Adam and Eve had daughters as well as sons.
are the consumers who end up paying for both sides.
So your position is that it's better to not fight such extortion schemes? Because then the only victims are still going to be the consumers who are going to pay the patent trolls through increased prices. And since nobody fights back (your policy), more trolls will come to the easy money feast. And that is better how?
Thought I'd look at my own data, but when they started asking for the last 4 digits of my SSN I decided I didn't care so much about what they knew about me...
So why not give them bad data? For instance give them four random digits for the SSN. If they prevent you from 'logging in' then it means they have that data already so giving it to them won't change anything. And if they let you through it means they did not have that data and still don't and you still get to see your data, except possibly those fields they would have collated from the SSN.
I keep hearing these drives are doing compression.
Only the SSDs using a SandForce controller use compression so it's not the case here.
from your kind link, it looks to be doing lazy writes.
The OS's cache should already be doing something like that. However the benchmarks normally force it to flush to disk at key points to ensure they test the performance of the disk and not the cache. So maybe the RAPID driver ignores the flush commands in some circumstances?
I wonder if RAPID could bring such huge performance improvements on Linux too, or if this just means the Windows cache sucks. Because from the article I still don't see eactly what RAPID does that the OS's cache shouldn't do already.
I do disagree that GPS (a navigation tool) should be lumped in with leather seats, fancy rims etc. Its seems like its a pretty obvious addon that every car should have a cheap option for.
I pretty much agree with you. However a lot of people are of the opinion that built-in GPS is a rip off because of the price (when it's an option), because of the price of map updates, because the maps never seem to cover foreign countries (or are extra), and because the system gets obsolete and cannot be upgraded. And I can't really say they are wrong. Even more so since my car manufacturer stopped providing any map updates for the built-in 1999 GPS in my car in 2006! And all these people logically decide they want a car without the GPS and to buy a standalone one (or just use their phone).
So people who still want a built-in GPS tend to be those for whom the integration is valuable, either because of the looks or the convenience. And presumably the car manufacturers did their homework and concluded that these were the same demographics who also care about other 'upscale' features like leather seats, lighting, etc. So now we're stuck with these packages and to hell with the few outliers.
Major inconvenience to use, you have to create a second partition just for Windows. Meaning you lose a lot of disk space. Then you need a full Windows install (and thus you pay for a full Windows license, not just an "upgrade"). Whereas Wine is confusing to install. So it's a tradeoff.
Also BootCamp requires you to reboot to start Windows. This means it's impossible to use Windows and Mac applications side-by-side. Like reading your email on Mac OS X and opening attachments in Microsoft Office, or collecting data using one's familiar Safari browser and entering it in a Windows-only genealogy application, etc.
Windows also brings with it all its extra bagage: the need for an anti-virus, system updates, extra software to make it usable (Firefox or Google Chrome, VLC,...), the mainteance thereof, etc.
However, the last point is: "The addition of DirectWrite causes Steam to be unable to display text. This can be fixed either by setting dwrite.dll to disabled for steam.exe using Winecfg, or by running Steam with the -no-dwrite option."
Why the heck does that happen? Will this be fixed soon?
Before Wine had no DirectWrite dll at all, causing applications to detect that and fall back to other code paths like they do on older Windows versions. Now Wine has a DirectWrite dll so applications try to make use of it. However it's still pretty incomplete, thus causing new bugs. But then theres' also some applications that will only run on Vista or greater that had no fallback work and that have no fallback code path which have now started working, at least to some extent, because this dll is now present. So it's a case of lose, some win some; as every time Wine adds a new dll.
For phones it's ridiculous (though possibly harmless) but what about ATM's and other touch screens that can be used by hundreds, possibly thousands, of people each day?
Come on. ATMs, really? Wouldn't door knobs, faucet and toilet knobs, stair railings and cart handles be a much higher priority? These are all things you puts your hands on that have been touched by thousands other people. So where do you stop then?
But in response to your post, there is some logic behind the "Love it or Leave it" argument. For example, there are many in America who want to make America like Europe, and work hard to transform it to that. It makes sense to ask these people, "Why don't you just move to Europe?"
This would work if there where only a thousand Americans wanting to change America. But if there were so few of them you would not have heard of them in the first place. What you're proposing as a 'simple' solution is for something like 30+ million americans to move to Europe. Besides the already mentioned impracticalities of selling your house, quitting your job and more, such a massive move is impossible simply because of Europe of immigration laws. What? You thought you could just move to Europe without needing a Visa or work permit?
You're also conveniently forgetting that most of Europe does not speak English. Sure they could move to other countries but learning another language just adds another barrier to their ability to get a visa, a job, a life. So you're more or less suggesting that Americans should invade England (yes, a sudden 30 million strong immigration wave in a 68 million people country is nothing short of an invasion).
Finally ask yourself if you really want to live in a country where anyone who wants to change anything is shushed / forced out. Ask yourself what will happen to that country while the rest of the world moves on.
I'm taking you to the polling station. You're gonna get one ballot and an ink pen. When you are done marking your selections, you take a picture of it with your smartphone OR ELSE.
Yeah, you're right. Nobody could possibly be coerced now. They have a curtain after all.
Mark the ballot as expected and take a picture. Then add another mark that makes it invalid. As I said, votes against your camp: 0.
Transparent urns and local counting do not prevent tampering at all, although they may help to increase security a bit.
Merely stating so does not mean it's true. You'll have to tell us what reasoning lead you to that conclusion if you want to convince reasonable people.
Anonymity and security are like speed and position in Heisenberg Principle, the more you get from one of them the less you will have from the other.
A bad analogy does not a proof make.
Local counting gives away anonymity for security.
That might be true if there was one polling station for every dozen voters. But there's normally a thousand voters per polling station. Also, unlike in the US where each ballot could be unique due to the millions of combinations of voting just for 20 resolutions, in France there are only 2 to 20 different possible ballots. So there no lifting anonymity that way either.
there is no untraceable electronic hacking.
If that were true we'd know who wrote Duqu, or who stole the account and password information from Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Twitter, Living Social, etc. The problem is that if the attacker plays his hand right we'll never even have any reason to suspect that something is wrong.
because recruiting accomplishes in a small town in the middle of nowhere is much easier and cheaper than getting them in high places, which are usually a lot more in evidence.
You don't need to recruit senators or top brass like that. Just bribe the guy guarding the voting computers in between elections. Use that time to plant a virus on one of them. Done.
Or bribe any one of the programmers at the voting company. Or a low-level election employee pissed at having his salary reduced due to budget restrictions. There are just so many people you can bribe and all you need is one to have a global impact!
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errr...a VM is a Virtual Machine, you don't have to buy a Windows or Apple computer, you can run Windows in a VM on a linux system if you like
Sigh. Virtual Machine don't come with an operating system preinstalled. So to run Windows in your VM you will have to buy a Windows license. Even if your computer came with Windows preinstalled, it's likely that it will refuse to run in your VM due to the different hardware, or because it's tied to your specific computer brand through some string in the BIOS. As for Mac OS X, AFAIK Apple forbids you from running it in a VM if that VM is not running on an Apple computer, hence why I said that you needed to buy either Windows, or an Apple computer. Or you could pirate the OS but then why not cut the middleman and pirate the music directly...
or thanks to the lack of DRM you can use any Windows or OSX system to download the songs and then copy them to wherever you want.
If you're allowed to install iTunes on your work computer, and access to these non-work sites is not blocked; or if you have friends who let you use their computers to download stuff. Otherwise that "any Windows or OSX system" will be one you bought which brings us back to the above.
if you want "cloud storage" you can't guarantee that data will always be private no matter who you host it with and if need further protections you will obviously encrypt it anyway.
Wrong the solution is client-side encryption. the FSF did mention it on their page: "Client side encryption to prevent snooping".
The idea that most people will value software freedom above all else is idiocy so instead they need to focus on making good products, products that appeal to most people and compete with non-free products.
Given that most people value brand above all else, competing on features is far from sufficient.
That is really lame, if you're ultra-paranoid just run it in a VM and delete it once the tracks are downloaded. The upshot is you can get DRM-free music and not be beholden to Apple at all.
iTunes does not run on open-source operating systems (even with Wine) so VMs don't help one bit. Running iTunes requires buying Windows or an Apple computer
I could get a proper cloth grocery bag to reuse, or buy paper bags instead, but I choose not to. Why? I use those plastic bags for my trash!
[...] I'm going to keep buying those plastic bags until I come up with a better way to get rid of my trash.
Use the plastic bags you buy your fresh vegetables / fruits in instead. They work just fine if you're set up right.
The biggest risk is in raw vegetables; they do not come wrapped in plastic
The bags you buy your vegetables in are not part of the ban. Or at least they are not in sane countries like France.
they will come in contact with all manner of dirtiness: packing crates, sweaty shoppers' hands, your grimy kitchen counter, etc. Regardless of what bag you transport them in, you'll want to wash and clean them thoroughly if you're going to eat them raw.
Precisely. So the case of vegetables is quite irrelevant to the current discussion. Your point is moot.
Well, I tend to choose plastic bags at the supermarket because later I use them for garbage disposal.
The bags you buy your fresh vegetables / fruits in are good enough for that. It does work better if they have handles though and that's store-dependent.
I keep buying one to keep in the car .... take it into the house full of groceries and there it stays.
Instead of adding the latest bag to the pile tucked away out of mind, put the pile right against the front door. So the next time you go out and pass by the car you'll be forced to remember that you intended to put the bags in the car and since you're going out anyway you might as well do it then. Note that this assumes you live in an appartment and your car is "far away" in the parking lot. If the car is just in your house's garage then you have no excuse.
Deregulation to allow competition causes monopolies? No, does not compute. Regulation creates barriers to entry that leans to monopolies or few providers, those who can get the government to protect their territory with police power.
You say that like regulation can only raise barriers to entry and prevent competition. But regulations are just tools. As such they can be used for good or bad. They can be used for bad like when they prevent Tesla from selling cars in Texas or in this case grant monopolies. But they can be used for good when they lower barrier to entry by forcing last mile owners to let their competitors install their hardware at the telephone exchange (aka local-loop unbundling).
There is no oversight in clothing market and yet you can buy a shirt at Wallmart or Ross for $5 or shoes for $10. Why don't they charge $100 for a shirt and keep the difference?
Low barrier to entry is why. And I'm not talking about regulation. You can start a clothing business with $10.000 and sell world-wide. But if you have to lay down your own last mile network, then starting an ISP will easily cost you 1 billion just in civil engineering and equipement, and that's just for one large city like Chicago.
It is not government oversight that drives prices down but competition.
You say that as if competition always exists and the government and regulations can only prevent it. But, in the ISP case, the barriers to entry are much lower in countries where the government enacted regulations that force the owners of the last mile cables to let their competitors install their equipement in their telephone exchange. Then instead of having to spend billions duplicating the existing last mile copper network, new entrants can focus on their backhaul network, peering agreement, and providing new services like unlimited phone calls, TV over ADSL, WiFi hotspots, etc.
Gendarmerie is the military policy.
My understanding is that in the US the military police only polices the military. So your translation, while literally correct, is wrong. As has been pointed out elsewhere the 'Gendarmerie' is a military force that reports to the interior minister and polices civilians, mostly in the countryside. They do have other missions but they are much less visible, mostly crowd control but also policing the military, though that's pretty much invisible to the general public.
I don't think one can equate it to the FBI either as the FBI certainly is not concerned with fining people for going over the speed limit or driving while drunk. There is none of the 'investigations across state borders' thing that makes the FBI so special, simply due to the lack of state borders in France.
It is 100% the responsibility of the driver who collided with the obstruction for colliding with a non-moving obstruction.
Agreed.
Or are you the type that also blames gun manufacturers for murders?
I wouldn't blame the manufacturer for making the gun. But if it lobbied for bad laws letting anyone buy guns without control, then yes, for that it deserves a share of the blame.
You can have LinkedIn import your email contacts for 'contact suggestions'
This is a case of confusing UI defaults
I think there is a case for calling this Social Engineering.
The text was written by and for people who lived in a time when most people had lots of kids, both sons and daughters. The author probably assumed that his readers would assume that Adam and Eve had daughters as well as sons.
So Cain's wife was his sister? Incest still?
are the consumers who end up paying for both sides.
So your position is that it's better to not fight such extortion schemes? Because then the only victims are still going to be the consumers who are going to pay the patent trolls through increased prices. And since nobody fights back (your policy), more trolls will come to the easy money feast. And that is better how?
Thought I'd look at my own data, but when they started asking for the last 4 digits of my SSN I decided I didn't care so much about what they knew about me...
So why not give them bad data? For instance give them four random digits for the SSN. If they prevent you from 'logging in' then it means they have that data already so giving it to them won't change anything. And if they let you through it means they did not have that data and still don't and you still get to see your data, except possibly those fields they would have collated from the SSN.
I keep hearing these drives are doing compression.
Only the SSDs using a SandForce controller use compression so it's not the case here.
from your kind link, it looks to be doing lazy writes.
The OS's cache should already be doing something like that. However the benchmarks normally force it to flush to disk at key points to ensure they test the performance of the disk and not the cache. So maybe the RAPID driver ignores the flush commands in some circumstances?
I would want to see its performance without drivers installed and used as a plain SATA drive. And I would like to see with and without RAPID numbers.
Is RAPID a sophisticated buffer cache that is doing lazy writes to the SSD?
There you go: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/samsung-ssd-840-evo-review-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/5
I wonder if RAPID could bring such huge performance improvements on Linux too, or if this just means the Windows cache sucks. Because from the article I still don't see eactly what RAPID does that the OS's cache shouldn't do already.
I do disagree that GPS (a navigation tool) should be lumped in with leather seats, fancy rims etc. Its seems like its a pretty obvious addon that every car should have a cheap option for.
I pretty much agree with you. However a lot of people are of the opinion that built-in GPS is a rip off because of the price (when it's an option), because of the price of map updates, because the maps never seem to cover foreign countries (or are extra), and because the system gets obsolete and cannot be upgraded. And I can't really say they are wrong. Even more so since my car manufacturer stopped providing any map updates for the built-in 1999 GPS in my car in 2006! And all these people logically decide they want a car without the GPS and to buy a standalone one (or just use their phone).
So people who still want a built-in GPS tend to be those for whom the integration is valuable, either because of the looks or the convenience. And presumably the car manufacturers did their homework and concluded that these were the same demographics who also care about other 'upscale' features like leather seats, lighting, etc. So now we're stuck with these packages and to hell with the few outliers.
Major inconvenience to use, you have to create a second partition just for Windows. Meaning you lose a lot of disk space. Then you need a full Windows install (and thus you pay for a full Windows license, not just an "upgrade"). Whereas Wine is confusing to install. So it's a tradeoff.
Also BootCamp requires you to reboot to start Windows. This means it's impossible to use Windows and Mac applications side-by-side. Like reading your email on Mac OS X and opening attachments in Microsoft Office, or collecting data using one's familiar Safari browser and entering it in a Windows-only genealogy application, etc.
Windows also brings with it all its extra bagage: the need for an anti-virus, system updates, extra software to make it usable (Firefox or Google Chrome, VLC, ...), the mainteance thereof, etc.
However, the last point is: "The addition of DirectWrite causes Steam to be unable to display text. This can be fixed either by setting dwrite.dll to disabled for steam.exe using Winecfg, or by running Steam with the -no-dwrite option."
Why the heck does that happen? Will this be fixed soon?
Before Wine had no DirectWrite dll at all, causing applications to detect that and fall back to other code paths like they do on older Windows versions. Now Wine has a DirectWrite dll so applications try to make use of it. However it's still pretty incomplete, thus causing new bugs. But then theres' also some applications that will only run on Vista or greater that had no fallback work and that have no fallback code path which have now started working, at least to some extent, because this dll is now present. So it's a case of lose, some win some; as every time Wine adds a new dll.
Will this be fixed soon?
Depends. We're waiting for your patches!
For phones it's ridiculous (though possibly harmless) but what about ATM's and other touch screens that can be used by hundreds, possibly thousands, of people each day?
Come on. ATMs, really? Wouldn't door knobs, faucet and toilet knobs, stair railings and cart handles be a much higher priority? These are all things you puts your hands on that have been touched by thousands other people. So where do you stop then?
But in response to your post, there is some logic behind the "Love it or Leave it" argument. For example, there are many in America who want to make America like Europe, and work hard to transform it to that. It makes sense to ask these people, "Why don't you just move to Europe?"
This would work if there where only a thousand Americans wanting to change America. But if there were so few of them you would not have heard of them in the first place. What you're proposing as a 'simple' solution is for something like 30+ million americans to move to Europe. Besides the already mentioned impracticalities of selling your house, quitting your job and more, such a massive move is impossible simply because of Europe of immigration laws. What? You thought you could just move to Europe without needing a Visa or work permit?
You're also conveniently forgetting that most of Europe does not speak English. Sure they could move to other countries but learning another language just adds another barrier to their ability to get a visa, a job, a life. So you're more or less suggesting that Americans should invade England (yes, a sudden 30 million strong immigration wave in a 68 million people country is nothing short of an invasion).
Finally ask yourself if you really want to live in a country where anyone who wants to change anything is shushed / forced out. Ask yourself what will happen to that country while the rest of the world moves on.
I'm taking you to the polling station. You're gonna get one ballot and an ink pen. When you are done marking your selections, you take a picture of it with your smartphone OR ELSE.
Yeah, you're right. Nobody could possibly be coerced now. They have a curtain after all.
Mark the ballot as expected and take a picture. Then add another mark that makes it invalid. As I said, votes against your camp: 0.
You live in fantasy land, but that is the place most of your country likes to reside in anyway, so at least you shouldn't be lonely there.
Oh, ok then. I thought you were reasonable but now I see I've been wasting my time discussing with you.
Transparent urns and local counting do not prevent tampering at all, although they may help to increase security a bit.
Merely stating so does not mean it's true. You'll have to tell us what reasoning lead you to that conclusion if you want to convince reasonable people.
Anonymity and security are like speed and position in Heisenberg Principle, the more you get from one of them the less you will have from the other.
A bad analogy does not a proof make.
Local counting gives away anonymity for security.
That might be true if there was one polling station for every dozen voters. But there's normally a thousand voters per polling station. Also, unlike in the US where each ballot could be unique due to the millions of combinations of voting just for 20 resolutions, in France there are only 2 to 20 different possible ballots. So there no lifting anonymity that way either.
there is no untraceable electronic hacking.
If that were true we'd know who wrote Duqu, or who stole the account and password information from Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Twitter, Living Social, etc. The problem is that if the attacker plays his hand right we'll never even have any reason to suspect that something is wrong.
because recruiting accomplishes in a small town in the middle of nowhere is much easier and cheaper than getting them in high places, which are usually a lot more in evidence.
You don't need to recruit senators or top brass like that. Just bribe the guy guarding the voting computers in between elections. Use that time to plant a virus on one of them. Done.
Or bribe any one of the programmers at the voting company. Or a low-level election employee pissed at having his salary reduced due to budget restrictions. There are just so many people you can bribe and all you need is one to have a global impact!