"This and that" is tick one box, that is present in the settings.
That is why I say "in spirit"
And you are wrong. If they were the same "in spirit" they wouldn't GIVE you the option to load apps from anywhere else on a silver platter.
Android is about as open as iOS.
No, android is a LOT more open than iOS.
Can I opt to use an alternative app store like fdroid or the humblebundle store on android? Yes, I can. Its officially supported. Can I do that on ios? No way, not without literally breaking ios.
Can I buy a game for android directly from the developer, on his website, download it and install it? Yup, I can do that if i want to. Can I do that on ios? Nope.
Can I download the source for android modify it and flash it to my device with the full support for doing so provided by the manufacturer (although obviously they'll no longer support the operating system I install). On some devices from some manufacturers: yes, you can. With Apple, on any device -- no. The software cannot be downloaded and modified, and no they do not support allowing you load any customizations you might make at all, period, ever.
To say they are the same even "in spirit" is simply... lying.
But it is still a problem for people who have internally developed extensions
They have release channels that don't require the signed code.
In my opinion, their default model is correct for the general masses.
They DO HAVE a release channel suitable for advanced users who require internally developed unsigned stuff. One is not forced to stay on an old version.
But letting you simply turn off the signing as an option in the main release channel would be pointless, because then any malware would simply *do that* as its first action.
Having the version that doesn't require signed extensions as something you actually have to opt into and proactively download separately... is the right decision.
For example, it sounds like your definition of unelectable is someone who *shouldn't* be elected, while the OPs I think is more along the lines on someone who *couldn't* win an election.
Hillary on the latter criteria is electable. Period.
Sanders... i wouldn't have thought electable, but given the turd-salad the Republicans are fielding... might very well be in this particular race against the right opposition.
I can't see Cruz winning an election against Hillary or Sanders. I couldn't see Trump winning an election against Hillary or Sanders at one point, but now I think voters might just do it.
Rubio, I don't know, I think he too is electable.
As for desirable... none of them in the republican field. Sanders maybe for the democrats. But lets be honest here, the problem is really not the president and never has been. A Sanders win would be much like a Ron Paul win (back when he ran) even if they win they don't have broad support in congress or the senate to really do anything.
And THAT is where the real rot is, congress and the senate. And it doesn't matter who gets put in the whitehouse, that rot isn't going anywhere.
Yeah Mozilla probably is making the right decision here.
The feature *would* have been irritating as hell to use, and removing it to streamline the code and letting those users who wanted that sort of cookie control use an extension is the *right* move.
The 3rd party example you gave would actually be a functionally better solution for most people to use then what Mozilla had built-in. (What addon is it by the way that you use?)
The only real criticism i really have of Mozilla on this issue was the lack of clear communication to those users who were using the setting.
So you definitely experience it. You have to put on a kludge to block an unwanted feature.
Semantics at best, a one time install step during the initial install is irrelevant to the regular daily user experience.
Furthermore, I ALSO have do that kludge with windows 7 and 8. So its nothing specifically to do with the windows 10 experience. Its certainly not a reason to stay on Windows 7.
At best it's a reason to switch to Linux; but that's a far larger investment of time and a much more significant adjustment, and one that comes with significant other sacrifices.
This burns your time
Yeah, 15 seconds plus or minus. I can deal with it. Installing and tweaking an OS takes some time. Linux and OSX each have a bunch of post install steps I have to take to correct defaults that I dislike. Switching off windows isn't going make an iota of difference there.
and you are not even sure the kludge fully works.
Of course. Certainty is for fools.
But I am pretty confident it works, and my own investigations and packet traces have been reassuring. If windows is updated to open a new hole I have confidence it will be caught and plugged in short order by the community around this tool. And its not the only tool I use to secure my network.
Its a balancing act. I use several things that run on windows. Some I might find a suitable replacement for, but not all of them. Some of those I might be able to get working adequately on WINE, but that is no less a kludge and some things still won't run. Perhaps the rest I could run in a Virtual Machine... accomplishing what exactly? Now I get to maintain Linux AND Windows on this system? That seems like a real time saver.
getting spied on, and forced upgrades is what you call "user experience "
I don't actually "experience" those.
First, I've installed a telemetry blocker (Spybot anti beacon is the one I went with, and I started using it BEFORE upgrading to 10 since the telemetry was backported to 7/8) to block and disable those elements. So to the best of my knowledge its not spying on me.
Second, even when they were running efore I blocked them, they didn't contribute anything to the "user experience". They were silent, and invisible. That's pretty much the definition of something one does not "experience".
You (and I) may object strongly to the telemetry, but its still not part of the "user experience" as in a thing that the user actually experiences.
Plus... as noted... it can be blocked.
As for forced upgrades it didn't force me to upgrade. I explicitly opted in. And again, how is that part of the experience of using it, at best that's the experience of getting it from a previous version, that some small number of users have experienced. (although from what I can tell, most if not all of them did actually opt in... and then after opting in couldn't figure out how to back out. The final page of the upgrade wizard in particular is "schedule it for sometime in the next 3 days" and "do it now" without a "oops i fucked up and now I want to back out completely" option, at least not that i noticed. And I'm willing to concede that that final window SHOULD have a "Cancel entirely" button, but you still had to opt to upgrade before you get to that window.
I tried Windows 10 for a couple of weeks on a spare system, and all I could think of, was HOW THE FUCK ANYBODY can use this crapfest.
Ok.. I'll bite... what was the problem? I mean, it boots to the desktop, i have my usual apps pinned to the desktop (remote desktop, thunderbird, outlook, excel, firefox, visual studio, teamviewer, etc...)
I launch less common stuff via the 'search' box on the desktop. (from powershell, to cmd, gimp, to notepad++, etc...)
Its quick and efficient at launching programs. The desktop environment is perfectly adequate. (I prefer it to OSX; and think its on par with Cinnamon and other popular Linux window managers)
I've also got a macbook pro laptop, and its perfectly serviceable as well. I like it because its sturdy and light, and the battery lasts forever with how I use it. I just use it for remote desktop, email, and web.
I ~also~ use linux, but it hasn't become my primary desktop mostly due to: windows isn't expensive relative to the hardware so its not an expense i'm looking to avoid. Plus I use steam (games), excel/outlook (work), and visual studio (work); which linux doesn't support well.
I can understand the objection to Win10 on some the principled grounds -- Microsoft's general business practices, its not free software, and especially the telemetry issues, etc. But I simply can't understand the objections on pure usability "HOW THE FUCK CAN ANYBODY USE THIS CRAPFEST". Windows 8 had its irritating issues, windows 10 has some dumb defaults out of the box, but otherwise the user experience is fine.
Anyone coming from Linux, or comparing to linux should have no difficulty whatsoever tweaking windows into submission.
When I see a post like yours I presume your simply pre-disposed to hate it for reasons unrelated to the actual experience of using, then install it so you can really hate it properly, and then uninstall it so you can boast how much you hated it. But I'm open to hearing your actual criticisms.
If you using 7 or 8 the telemetry stuff is being backported and applied to your OS.
If you aren't sure how to prevent 10 from leaking info, then you aren't sure how to prevent 7 or 8 from leaking info either, and not upgrading isn't really a win for you.
If any one has any criticism of it, I'm definitely listening.
For what its worth, I've upgraded my main PC to 10 now, and after a few customizations to basically shut off cortana, web search from the start menu, live tiles, and other crap, I'm pretty happy with it.
There are quite a few real improvements.
Staying on 7 over the privacy didn't make sense given they were rotting the privacy in 7 as well. And if I'm going to run something like spybot on 7... then I figured I might as well run it on 10.
It's not completely out of whack with what commercial enterprises pay for non-free fonts
Except it is totally out of what. Normal fonts are created speculatively and then licensed to interested parties.
This font was practically a work for hire in everything but name, I wouldn't be surprised to hear they were actually paid to create it up front, and then now we still have to license it back, for a font that's standardized accross a nationwide highway network... the purpose for which it was originally commissioned.
WORST case it should be licensed once for the nations highways. Period. If the designer wants to go out and try and license it to Mexico too.. that's fine, but the USA should only have to pay once to use it on any signage anywhere it wants. Forever.
Every so often, it would be nice to build special-purpose adapter pieces
Lots of models for these adapters exist, including to adapt them to other building systems.
As you noted the tolerances can't currently be met, but if you plan ahead it can work. (e.g. don't plan on having your 3d printed part just connect to lego, instead plan around having real lego sandwich the interface above and below (better still have multiple interface points each sandwiched) . Or do it technics style with multiple axles and bushes to lock it into place.
No, the GMail app is an unmitigated piece of crap. Last time I used it, I still couldn't even turn off "conversation" threading.
My wife's got a lumia, and she like it. Her biggest complaint is that all the fun cases she wants aren't made for it.
I don't care for the Apple style store lock in, but in terms of UI and built in features its pretty good. Apps not being made for it an issue as well, again due to marketshare.
If MS wants the platform to succeed at this point, I think they'll need to pull a blackberry and support android apps. But the overhead of supporting them while trying to remain a windows platform may lead to performance and battery life issues, not to mention UI consistency and other greif that will reflect poorly on the phone.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't, really.
There is no good platform to root for here. Apple could be great, but they're control freaks to a fault. While Android is ultimately supported by an advertising and data vacuuming company. (And everybody here already knows this... so I don't know why I even mention it.)
So does the human brain's activity: a bunch of basic cells hooked up to each other like a huge blob of gray pasta.
So your arguing individual neurons are "a little bit conscious" or and that the brain is a distributed conscious?
Or are you arguing that ants collectively have a consciousness? (The former doesn't really make sense, and the latter is conceivable, but there's no reason to believe it.)
Unless they recover enough to communicate experiences to compare, we'd have no way knowing.
Enough to hit every box on your checklist without breaking a sweat.
They seem to adapt fairly well at colony level. They've learned to make their trails around areas we've sprayed with insecticide around our house, for example. At first they fell for it, but somehow learned to go around.
The mechanics of ant scent trails haven't been completely unravelled but they act more like automata than anything else. And the collectively complex colony behaviour arises from pretty simple stuff.
Perhaps it's a "distributed consciousness". Just because individual ants seem dull and drone-like, doesn't mean that as a group they don't "perceive" at a higher abstraction.
Distributed consciousness certainly is plausible to exist somewhere, but there's no evidence it exists in ants.
And as I suggested, "consciousness" could a matter of degree. Humans can adapt to changes in environment better than ants, and thus could be considered "more conscious".
A paralyzed human who can't move, or adapt, or do anything but blink is still fully conscious to human standards.
And as I suggested, "consciousness" could a matter of degree. Humans can adapt to changes in environment better than ants, and thus could be considered "more conscious".
Can it? Is a single cell fertilzed egg just "less conscious"? As it divides and multiplies through the zygote stage, is it a little more conscious? As the cells differentiate and specialize... as it becomes a fetus does it become still more conscious?
Or does a light switch on sometime along its fetal development when some part or parts of its brain reaches "critical mass".
If the child is born alive but brain dead, did the lights just not switch on properly? All the infrastructure to support consciousness got built; but something just wasn't right enough to boot up the neural networks or to sustain them?
There's a lot we don't understand about other creatures.
We barely know what's going on with our own species.:)
(My interactions with domestic telecoms would probably fill the checklist.)
But I could trivially mimic your interactions and feel nothing. Hate is inferred from action but (so far) cannot be directly observed.
From a practical side, conscientious can be, and sometimes is, described as an awareness of one's immediate surroundings. Thus, a robot that responds and reacts to objects around it in predictable way(s) could be said to be "conscious" to some extent
I don't know that I think an ant has coinsciousness. I'm not even slightly convinced that a roomba does.
Sounds to me like he's "whining" about an LTS that has added overly restrictive features that he doesn't want.
Not really. If it really was a distinction between rolling and LTS then I'd see a problem. But its really two different rolling releases, once aimed to be safe as possible for neophytes and one with fewer restrictions and more options to hang yourself. He's on the safety release now, but wants to do more advanced stuff... which is fine. He can switch to one of the more advanced releases... but he apparent doesn't want to for no reason given.
Further, he wants the rolling release software that he's currently using to stay the same, and not do exactly what it announced it would do nearly a year ago.
Yeah, that sounds like whining.
Do you call it "whining" when you do it, or is it only for other people?
Don't worry, you people call me out on it when I whine too.
"Installation of unsigned extensions will still be possible on Nightly and Developer Edition, as well as special, unbranded builds of Release and Beta that will be available mainly for developers testing their extensions."
Is this not the case?
Here, the only option you have is to switch to an unbranded fork of Firefox.
Oh... it IS the case; but you made it sound like a FORK; when its really a proper release channel for developers.
At this point you sound like someone whining that the LTS release doesn't have the cutting edge features you want.
That said, the problem with your options 1, 2, & 4 (especially on a platform like Windows) is that if you can do those things, then so can malware so they don't offer much protection in the end.
Having you pro-actively select to install a separate build that enables it, really probably is the best solution that works for the least literate users and the most literate.
I agree that I'd like to be able to manage the certs in the mainstream build... but I'm not sure doing so would solve the problem they are trying to solve, especially with how Firefox uses its own certificate store.
One does not need to be a security expert to know how to use strong encryption today,
In a world where all else is the same, but Apple is required to backdoor its devices. One would presume that downloading a strongly secure app from the apple app store would be similarly blocked.
So... our non expert needs to root his device, locate from secure sources a secure solution (and correctly evaluate it as actually secure and legitimate and appropriate to his needs). Given how difficult this is even using legitimate software (given to how shitty "encrypted flash drives" and certain "password managers" are... now just speculate how hard it would be for a non-subject expert to find the correct solution when the porn and malware peddlers are all pushing repackaged and riddled with crap versions.
Plus I'm betting the majority would fail to realize why using Facebook messenger with a dummy account over TOR has huge security flaws.
If it suddenly became law right now that phone manufacturers had to be able to decrypt customer content on demand by law enforcement, all a person would have to do to bypass this is use a phone that was made before today
Take a longer view. While that might be true tomorrow, 5 years from now they're still going to be using 2016 phones. 10 years... still 2016 phones... or maybe 10 years out the phone networks just changes tech again... and nothing from 2016 works at all. Like your old analog motorola flip no longer works today.
wikipedia is already failing big time due to bias of entrenched editors from west.
So start a project to cover the history of the world from an eastern perspective, ideally in the english language, so I can read it, for another perspective. Or if its simply a better run more neutral wiki overall it'll pick up all the disgruntled editors over at wikipedia too past and present, and quickly send wikipedia to a footnotes of history.
Fixing the organization from the inside seems neither requisite nor even particularly desirable. The internet is a big place, if you don't like the 'governing body of an internet site' go and carve another site out and build it anew.
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What the fuck is Scrapy?
Pretty sure it's that irritating dog they added to scooby doo to try to inject new life into it but which only made it worse.
Oh yeah, all you have to do is this and that.
"This and that" is tick one box, that is present in the settings.
That is why I say "in spirit"
And you are wrong. If they were the same "in spirit" they wouldn't GIVE you the option to load apps from anywhere else on a silver platter.
Android is about as open as iOS.
No, android is a LOT more open than iOS.
Can I opt to use an alternative app store like fdroid or the humblebundle store on android? Yes, I can. Its officially supported. Can I do that on ios? No way, not without literally breaking ios.
Can I buy a game for android directly from the developer, on his website, download it and install it? Yup, I can do that if i want to. Can I do that on ios? Nope.
Can I download the source for android modify it and flash it to my device with the full support for doing so provided by the manufacturer (although obviously they'll no longer support the operating system I install). On some devices from some manufacturers: yes, you can. With Apple, on any device -- no. The software cannot be downloaded and modified, and no they do not support allowing you load any customizations you might make at all, period, ever.
To say they are the same even "in spirit" is simply... lying.
But it is still a problem for people who have internally developed extensions
They have release channels that don't require the signed code.
In my opinion, their default model is correct for the general masses.
They DO HAVE a release channel suitable for advanced users who require internally developed unsigned stuff. One is not forced to stay on an old version.
But letting you simply turn off the signing as an option in the main release channel would be pointless, because then any malware would simply *do that* as its first action.
Having the version that doesn't require signed extensions as something you actually have to opt into and proactively download separately ... is the right decision.
Sounds like different meanings for "unelectable".
For example, it sounds like your definition of unelectable is someone who *shouldn't* be elected, while the OPs I think is more along the lines on someone who *couldn't* win an election.
Hillary on the latter criteria is electable. Period.
Sanders... i wouldn't have thought electable, but given the turd-salad the Republicans are fielding... might very well be in this particular race against the right opposition.
I can't see Cruz winning an election against Hillary or Sanders.
I couldn't see Trump winning an election against Hillary or Sanders at one point, but now I think voters might just do it.
Rubio, I don't know, I think he too is electable.
As for desirable... none of them in the republican field. Sanders maybe for the democrats. But lets be honest here, the problem is really not the president and never has been. A Sanders win would be much like a Ron Paul win (back when he ran) even if they win they don't have broad support in congress or the senate to really do anything.
And THAT is where the real rot is, congress and the senate. And it doesn't matter who gets put in the whitehouse, that rot isn't going anywhere.
Yeah Mozilla probably is making the right decision here.
The feature *would* have been irritating as hell to use, and removing it to streamline the code and letting those users who wanted that sort of cookie control use an extension is the *right* move.
The 3rd party example you gave would actually be a functionally better solution for most people to use then what Mozilla had built-in. (What addon is it by the way that you use?)
The only real criticism i really have of Mozilla on this issue was the lack of clear communication to those users who were using the setting.
So you definitely experience it.
You have to put on a kludge to block an unwanted feature.
Semantics at best, a one time install step during the initial install is irrelevant to the regular daily user experience.
Furthermore, I ALSO have do that kludge with windows 7 and 8. So its nothing specifically to do with the windows 10 experience. Its certainly not a reason to stay on Windows 7.
At best it's a reason to switch to Linux; but that's a far larger investment of time and a much more significant adjustment, and one that comes with significant other sacrifices.
This burns your time
Yeah, 15 seconds plus or minus. I can deal with it. Installing and tweaking an OS takes some time. Linux and OSX each have a bunch of post install steps I have to take to correct defaults that I dislike. Switching off windows isn't going make an iota of difference there.
and you are not even sure the kludge fully works.
Of course. Certainty is for fools.
But I am pretty confident it works, and my own investigations and packet traces have been reassuring. If windows is updated to open a new hole I have confidence it will be caught and plugged in short order by the community around this tool. And its not the only tool I use to secure my network.
Its a balancing act. I use several things that run on windows. Some I might find a suitable replacement for, but not all of them. Some of those I might be able to get working adequately on WINE, but that is no less a kludge and some things still won't run. Perhaps the rest I could run in a Virtual Machine... accomplishing what exactly? Now I get to maintain Linux AND Windows on this system? That seems like a real time saver.
getting spied on, and forced upgrades is what you call "user experience "
I don't actually "experience" those.
First, I've installed a telemetry blocker (Spybot anti beacon is the one I went with, and I started using it BEFORE upgrading to 10 since the telemetry was backported to 7/8) to block and disable those elements. So to the best of my knowledge its not spying on me.
Second, even when they were running efore I blocked them, they didn't contribute anything to the "user experience". They were silent, and invisible. That's pretty much the definition of something one does not "experience".
You (and I) may object strongly to the telemetry, but its still not part of the "user experience" as in a thing that the user actually experiences.
Plus... as noted... it can be blocked.
As for forced upgrades it didn't force me to upgrade. I explicitly opted in. And again, how is that part of the experience of using it, at best that's the experience of getting it from a previous version, that some small number of users have experienced. (although from what I can tell, most if not all of them did actually opt in... and then after opting in couldn't figure out how to back out. The final page of the upgrade wizard in particular is "schedule it for sometime in the next 3 days" and "do it now" without a "oops i fucked up and now I want to back out completely" option, at least not that i noticed. And I'm willing to concede that that final window SHOULD have a "Cancel entirely" button, but you still had to opt to upgrade before you get to that window.
Well, we can presume that at BEST its 512. (As two 512 bit numbers multiplied together is 1024 bits.)
I tried Windows 10 for a couple of weeks on a spare system, and all I could think of, was HOW THE FUCK ANYBODY can use this crapfest.
Ok.. I'll bite... what was the problem? I mean, it boots to the desktop, i have my usual apps pinned to the desktop (remote desktop, thunderbird, outlook, excel, firefox, visual studio, teamviewer, etc...)
I launch less common stuff via the 'search' box on the desktop. (from powershell, to cmd, gimp, to notepad++, etc...)
Its quick and efficient at launching programs. The desktop environment is perfectly adequate. (I prefer it to OSX; and think its on par with Cinnamon and other popular Linux window managers)
I've also got a macbook pro laptop, and its perfectly serviceable as well. I like it because its sturdy and light, and the battery lasts forever with how I use it. I just use it for remote desktop, email, and web.
I ~also~ use linux, but it hasn't become my primary desktop mostly due to:
windows isn't expensive relative to the hardware so its not an expense i'm looking to avoid.
Plus I use steam (games), excel/outlook (work), and visual studio (work); which linux doesn't support well.
I can understand the objection to Win10 on some the principled grounds -- Microsoft's general business practices, its not free software, and especially the telemetry issues, etc. But I simply can't understand the objections on pure usability "HOW THE FUCK CAN ANYBODY USE THIS CRAPFEST". Windows 8 had its irritating issues, windows 10 has some dumb defaults out of the box, but otherwise the user experience is fine.
Anyone coming from Linux, or comparing to linux should have no difficulty whatsoever tweaking windows into submission.
When I see a post like yours I presume your simply pre-disposed to hate it for reasons unrelated to the actual experience of using, then install it so you can really hate it properly, and then uninstall it so you can boast how much you hated it. But I'm open to hearing your actual criticisms.
If you using 7 or 8 the telemetry stuff is being backported and applied to your OS.
If you aren't sure how to prevent 10 from leaking info, then you aren't sure how to prevent 7 or 8 from leaking info either, and not upgrading isn't really a win for you.
This is my current go to:
https://www.safer-networking.o...
If any one has any criticism of it, I'm definitely listening.
For what its worth, I've upgraded my main PC to 10 now, and after a few customizations to basically shut off cortana, web search from the start menu, live tiles, and other crap, I'm pretty happy with it.
There are quite a few real improvements.
Staying on 7 over the privacy didn't make sense given they were rotting the privacy in 7 as well. And if I'm going to run something like spybot on 7 ... then I figured I might as well run it on 10.
It's not completely out of whack with what commercial enterprises pay for non-free fonts
Except it is totally out of what. Normal fonts are created speculatively and then licensed to interested parties.
This font was practically a work for hire in everything but name, I wouldn't be surprised to hear they were actually paid to create it up front, and then now we still have to license it back, for a font that's standardized accross a nationwide highway network... the purpose for which it was originally commissioned.
WORST case it should be licensed once for the nations highways. Period. If the designer wants to go out and try and license it to Mexico too.. that's fine, but the USA should only have to pay once to use it on any signage anywhere it wants. Forever.
Even so, if you put the safety on on your gun, that doesn't make the weapon truly and completely safe and nobody is suggesting it does.
But can you imagine if putting the safety on merely lowered the muzzle velocity by 5%?
Or a door lock that simply turned a red LED on some dashboard somewhere labelled locked, and nothing else.
There is not, and never will be, a truly "private" browsing experience, regardless of browser.
But some browsers actually do a little more than next to NOTHING to remove the session history from the local PC.
Changing his name to 'Jason Trudeau' would be gaming the ballot.
Znoneofthe, Above really is just making a political point.
this change is done for the purpose of gaming the ballot and gaining an unfair advantage
Gaming the ballot and gaining an unfair advantage?
Or making a political point, and exercising freedom of speech, and in particular making political speech?
Every so often, it would be nice to build special-purpose adapter pieces
Lots of models for these adapters exist, including to adapt them to other building systems.
As you noted the tolerances can't currently be met, but if you plan ahead it can work. (e.g. don't plan on having your 3d printed part just connect to lego, instead plan around having real lego sandwich the interface above and below (better still have multiple interface points each sandwiched) . Or do it technics style with multiple axles and bushes to lock it into place.
GMail is most often preinstalled and it's superb.
No, the GMail app is an unmitigated piece of crap. Last time I used it, I still couldn't even turn off "conversation" threading.
My wife's got a lumia, and she like it. Her biggest complaint is that all the fun cases she wants aren't made for it.
I don't care for the Apple style store lock in, but in terms of UI and built in features its pretty good. Apps not being made for it an issue as well, again due to marketshare.
If MS wants the platform to succeed at this point, I think they'll need to pull a blackberry and support android apps. But the overhead of supporting them while trying to remain a windows platform may lead to performance and battery life issues, not to mention UI consistency and other greif that will reflect poorly on the phone.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't, really.
There is no good platform to root for here. Apple could be great, but they're control freaks to a fault. While Android is ultimately supported by an advertising and data vacuuming company. (And everybody here already knows this... so I don't know why I even mention it.)
So does the human brain's activity: a bunch of basic cells hooked up to each other like a huge blob of gray pasta.
So your arguing individual neurons are "a little bit conscious" or and that the brain is a distributed conscious?
Or are you arguing that ants collectively have a consciousness? (The former doesn't really make sense, and the latter is conceivable, but there's no reason to believe it.)
Unless they recover enough to communicate experiences to compare, we'd have no way knowing.
See: The Diving Bell and Butterfly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What "standards"?
Well.. he wrote a book. So I'm going to posit that he's conscious.
Trivially? I don't think so, at least not well.
Enough to hit every box on your checklist without breaking a sweat.
They seem to adapt fairly well at colony level. They've learned to make their trails around areas we've sprayed with insecticide around our house, for example. At first they fell for it, but somehow learned to go around.
The mechanics of ant scent trails haven't been completely unravelled but they act more like automata than anything else. And the collectively complex colony behaviour arises from pretty simple stuff.
Perhaps it's a "distributed consciousness". Just because individual ants seem dull and drone-like, doesn't mean that as a group they don't "perceive" at a higher abstraction.
Distributed consciousness certainly is plausible to exist somewhere, but there's no evidence it exists in ants.
And as I suggested, "consciousness" could a matter of degree. Humans can adapt to changes in environment better than ants, and thus could be considered "more conscious".
A paralyzed human who can't move, or adapt, or do anything but blink is still fully conscious to human standards.
And as I suggested, "consciousness" could a matter of degree. Humans can adapt to changes in environment better than ants, and thus could be considered "more conscious".
Can it? Is a single cell fertilzed egg just "less conscious"? As it divides and multiplies through the zygote stage, is it a little more conscious? As the cells differentiate and specialize... as it becomes a fetus does it become still more conscious?
Or does a light switch on sometime along its fetal development when some part or parts of its brain reaches "critical mass".
If the child is born alive but brain dead, did the lights just not switch on properly? All the infrastructure to support consciousness got built; but something just wasn't right enough to boot up the neural networks or to sustain them?
There's a lot we don't understand about other creatures.
We barely know what's going on with our own species. :)
(My interactions with domestic telecoms would probably fill the checklist.)
But I could trivially mimic your interactions and feel nothing.
Hate is inferred from action but (so far) cannot be directly observed.
From a practical side, conscientious can be, and sometimes is, described as an awareness of one's immediate surroundings. Thus, a robot that responds and reacts to objects around it in predictable way(s) could be said to be "conscious" to some extent
I don't know that I think an ant has coinsciousness. I'm not even slightly convinced that a roomba does.
I think so, since "build from source" is what Linux distros do.
Then what is the problem? Have the distro modify the source going into the repo to remove any non-OSS friendly stuff... isn't that what iceweasel is?
Sounds to me like he's "whining" about an LTS that has added overly restrictive features that he doesn't want.
Not really. If it really was a distinction between rolling and LTS then I'd see a problem. But its really two different rolling releases, once aimed to be safe as possible for neophytes and one with fewer restrictions and more options to hang yourself. He's on the safety release now, but wants to do more advanced stuff... which is fine. He can switch to one of the more advanced releases... but he apparent doesn't want to for no reason given.
Further, he wants the rolling release software that he's currently using to stay the same, and not do exactly what it announced it would do nearly a year ago.
Yeah, that sounds like whining.
Do you call it "whining" when you do it, or is it only for other people?
Don't worry, you people call me out on it when I whine too.
Is that what Ubuntu users are called now?
Only if they want to get their Mozilla Firefox extensions from a source *other* than Mozilla; or did I miss something?
"Installation of unsigned extensions will still be possible on Nightly and Developer Edition, as well as special, unbranded builds of Release and Beta that will be available mainly for developers testing their extensions."
Is this not the case?
Here, the only option you have is to switch to an unbranded fork of Firefox.
Oh... it IS the case; but you made it sound like a FORK; when its really a proper release channel for developers.
At this point you sound like someone whining that the LTS release doesn't have the cutting edge features you want.
That said, the problem with your options 1, 2, & 4 (especially on a platform like Windows) is that if you can do those things, then so can malware so they don't offer much protection in the end.
Having you pro-actively select to install a separate build that enables it, really probably is the best solution that works for the least literate users and the most literate.
I agree that I'd like to be able to manage the certs in the mainstream build... but I'm not sure doing so would solve the problem they are trying to solve, especially with how Firefox uses its own certificate store.
One does not need to be a security expert to know how to use strong encryption today,
In a world where all else is the same, but Apple is required to backdoor its devices. One would presume that downloading a strongly secure app from the apple app store would be similarly blocked.
So... our non expert needs to root his device, locate from secure sources a secure solution (and correctly evaluate it as actually secure and legitimate and appropriate to his needs). Given how difficult this is even using legitimate software (given to how shitty "encrypted flash drives" and certain "password managers" are... now just speculate how hard it would be for a non-subject expert to find the correct solution when the porn and malware peddlers are all pushing repackaged and riddled with crap versions.
Plus I'm betting the majority would fail to realize why using Facebook messenger with a dummy account over TOR has huge security flaws.
If it suddenly became law right now that phone manufacturers had to be able to decrypt customer content on demand by law enforcement, all a person would have to do to bypass this is use a phone that was made before today
Take a longer view. While that might be true tomorrow, 5 years from now they're still going to be using 2016 phones. 10 years... still 2016 phones... or maybe 10 years out the phone networks just changes tech again... and nothing from 2016 works at all. Like your old analog motorola flip no longer works today.
wikipedia is already failing big time due to bias of entrenched editors from west.
So start a project to cover the history of the world from an eastern perspective, ideally in the english language, so I can read it, for another perspective. Or if its simply a better run more neutral wiki overall it'll pick up all the disgruntled editors over at wikipedia too past and present, and quickly send wikipedia to a footnotes of history.
Fixing the organization from the inside seems neither requisite nor even particularly desirable. The internet is a big place, if you don't like the 'governing body of an internet site' go and carve another site out and build it anew.