It's about controlling the flow of Fake News and Hate Speech. Eventually Google wants to make it difficult to not connect to websites that are 'disapproved.' It migh be dangerous to go to that site Google doesn't like. Are you sure you want to connect to it?
What do you do for ten days on an old smartphone with no simcard or wifi?
I have a favorite Solitaire app. I suppose I could play Angry Birds. Otherwise, if I had a smartphone with no connection to the outside world, I'd rather just use my old Palm III instead.
Abandoned tunnels are a good place to grow mushrooms. I imagine the chefs in higher-end resturants in the DC area will be enthusiastic about this news in a decade or so.
* In our 20's we used to love to tinker with Linux. * In our 40's we just want to get shit done -- instead of spending time recompiling our kernels.
With a MBP we have 99% what we want in a *nix box. While pricey it is "good enough."
That 99% figure is contrived rhetoric. You should just admit that it is 'good enough' because you stopped caring.
I presently use a Windows box, even bought Windows 10 retail earlier this year so I would have better control (retail means I can yank it off this box and move to another, and reinstall the software that I paid for and own where I wish)
I switched from Slackware to Windows 2000 when W2K came out, and spent year-spanning periods since then on NetBSD desktops for part of the time.
I've never felt like spending the big bucks to buy a fucking Mac. Though I have three SE/30s in my collection and run NetBSD on one of them. I've ended up regretting every purchase of Apple hardware at new prices (two iPod Touches) that I have ever made.
Everybody's experience is different. If you want an appliance, buy Apples stuff. If you want bling, buy one of their gadgets.
If you want to get things done without spending so much, there are alternatives.
People in general have always complained about 'hard' layouts that don't conform well to the topology of the browsers people use on their chosen platform to read from.
Slashdot, as with many other websites, still flows like shit on most browsers. Pretty much the only one good for mobile is Opera, where you can set the browser to force text zooming with reformatting flow and make the text actually readable.
'violation of trust' just translates to: 'whatever hysteria has been whipped up'. Trust is a tricky thing, it's based in nebulous things like 'reputation.'
You have to 'trust' your dog won't maul your 4 year old daughter. You can't know that it won't. But it's reputation is such that it's very unlikely the child will be mauled.
But if your weird aunt comes around and starts incessantly ranting to your wife about case histories of dogs mauling children, your 'trust' might erode.
The same thing as the hysteria about 'teh russia' that has become a trendy meme in the US since one pile of shit got elected instead of the other pile of shit,
Oh my god. Then, isn't it obvious? Computer software and hardware used for Elections should be open-source and subject to vigorous peer review. The systems used to conduct elections should not NEED anti-virus protection that is infested with spookware from ANY entity.
We have found the enemy, and it is us for allowing opaque un-auditable systems to be used in our elections.
So if Ubuntu or Linux Mint release software with a 'bug', those are the costs that will be imposed on them? Or is it just websites? So any person or organization that has a public presence on a website that obtains any information whatsoever from the public needs an expensive liability insurance policy.
Slashdot would be a significantly more expensive site to operate. It and most of the web would shut down. There would be a few big conglomerates like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo that could afford to still have public-facing web pages.
There was even a period of time when Apple was putting shitty sub-standard versions of the 68040 processor in some of their hardware. One of the first things you had to do when installing NetBSD on those boxes was put a real processor in the socket.
Are they IT Pros or are they developers? The only IT people in the room during the developer's conference are probably the people setting up the projector and making sure the red light doesn't go out again on the Wifi hub.
IT is a separate class of people from developers: The data janitors.
It's so sad that even on Slashdot people can't get this right. It's like a bunch of Human Resources drones have taken over the site.
We had an engineer, decades ago now, who insisted on using a Mac SE as his main computer at work. When the company wouldn't buy him one, he brought one in from home. It really wasn't useful for much engineering-wise, but said engineer was sort of a crank, so it kept him out of the way.
Society doesn't continue to distance itself from religion.. It drifts this way and that way, embracing all sorts of reasons for phenomena that seem unexplained.
It's a mistake for younger people to always think we are on the cusp of a breakthrough. Your dumb parents were WRONG and THIS IS IT NOW.
But if it helps you cope with the complexity, believe what you wish.
The people in the city are wearing spiked heels and tasselated loafers. The heaviest outer clothing they own is a windbreaker. The roughest terrain they are used to traveling on is a small patch of bushes near the playground in the park.
When the electricity goes out they won't know which buttons to push to fix it.
And who says the people who live out in the countryside are 'rugged individualists'? We aren't alone. We probably have just as many friends.
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It's about controlling the flow of Fake News and Hate Speech. Eventually Google wants to make it difficult to not connect to websites that are 'disapproved.' It migh be dangerous to go to that site Google doesn't like. Are you sure you want to connect to it?
What do you do for ten days on an old smartphone with no simcard or wifi?
I have a favorite Solitaire app. I suppose I could play Angry Birds. Otherwise, if I had a smartphone with no connection to the outside world, I'd rather just use my old Palm III instead.
Abandoned tunnels are a good place to grow mushrooms. I imagine the chefs in higher-end resturants in the DC area will be enthusiastic about this news in a decade or so.
My Ford Ranger was $15000 brand new off the lot with 0% interest. How much was your Ridgeline?
Whew! Did your three minute hate session do you any good?
* In our 20's we used to love to tinker with Linux.
* In our 40's we just want to get shit done -- instead of spending time recompiling our kernels.
With a MBP we have 99% what we want in a *nix box. While pricey it is "good enough."
That 99% figure is contrived rhetoric. You should just admit that it is 'good enough' because you stopped caring.
I presently use a Windows box, even bought Windows 10 retail earlier this year so I would have better control (retail means I can yank it off this box and move to another, and reinstall the software that I paid for and own where I wish)
I switched from Slackware to Windows 2000 when W2K came out, and spent year-spanning periods since then on NetBSD desktops for part of the time.
I've never felt like spending the big bucks to buy a fucking Mac. Though I have three SE/30s in my collection and run NetBSD on one of them. I've ended up regretting every purchase of Apple hardware at new prices (two iPod Touches) that I have ever made.
Everybody's experience is different. If you want an appliance, buy Apples stuff. If you want bling, buy one of their gadgets.
If you want to get things done without spending so much, there are alternatives.
People in general have always complained about 'hard' layouts that don't conform well to the topology of the browsers people use on their chosen platform to read from.
Slashdot, as with many other websites, still flows like shit on most browsers. Pretty much the only one good for mobile is Opera, where you can set the browser to force text zooming with reformatting flow and make the text actually readable.
'violation of trust' just translates to: 'whatever hysteria has been whipped up'. Trust is a tricky thing, it's based in nebulous things like 'reputation.'
You have to 'trust' your dog won't maul your 4 year old daughter. You can't know that it won't. But it's reputation is such that it's very unlikely the child will be mauled.
But if your weird aunt comes around and starts incessantly ranting to your wife about case histories of dogs mauling children, your 'trust' might erode.
The same thing as the hysteria about 'teh russia' that has become a trendy meme in the US since one pile of shit got elected instead of the other pile of shit,
It's just weird to have to do this in 2017, but:
'You're welcome, J Edgar Hoover.'
I mean FUCK it. Can you lick the boots of the G-men any more vigorously than parroting their redbaiting poison?
Oh my god. Then, isn't it obvious? Computer software and hardware used for Elections should be open-source and subject to vigorous peer review. The systems used to conduct elections should not NEED anti-virus protection that is infested with spookware from ANY entity.
We have found the enemy, and it is us for allowing opaque un-auditable systems to be used in our elections.
It's just people on crap iDevices that have those punctuation problems on Slashdot. It's been bad since the iOS 11 release for some reason.
So if Ubuntu or Linux Mint release software with a 'bug', those are the costs that will be imposed on them? Or is it just websites? So any person or organization that has a public presence on a website that obtains any information whatsoever from the public needs an expensive liability insurance policy.
Slashdot would be a significantly more expensive site to operate. It and most of the web would shut down. There would be a few big conglomerates like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo that could afford to still have public-facing web pages.
Regulations and large fines would be leveraged against 'Free Software' and 'Open Source.'
Do you want a regulatory agency to be required to rubberstamp all software that is released to the public?
A new version of Linux could probably come out every five years under such a system.
There was even a period of time when Apple was putting shitty sub-standard versions of the 68040 processor in some of their hardware. One of the first things you had to do when installing NetBSD on those boxes was put a real processor in the socket.
Everything *is* a logic board problem on the newer Applebooks, because it's all soldered together.
Your hard drive is corrupt? It's part of the logic board.
An area of the memory seems corrupt? It's soldered onto the logic board.
Are they IT Pros or are they developers? The only IT people in the room during the developer's conference are probably the people setting up the projector and making sure the red light doesn't go out again on the Wifi hub.
IT is a separate class of people from developers: The data janitors.
It's so sad that even on Slashdot people can't get this right. It's like a bunch of Human Resources drones have taken over the site.
Their editor makes use of the Esc button extensively. It's up there on that smudgeglass zone on the new Applebooks.
We had an engineer, decades ago now, who insisted on using a Mac SE as his main computer at work. When the company wouldn't buy him one, he brought one in from home. It really wasn't useful for much engineering-wise, but said engineer was sort of a crank, so it kept him out of the way.
A whole lot of Zen bullshit powers the RDF.
Jobs spent a lot of time seriously studying that bullshit in order to adapt it into a psuedo-religion that his marketing people could use.
Society doesn't continue to distance itself from religion.. It drifts this way and that way, embracing all sorts of reasons for phenomena that seem unexplained.
It's a mistake for younger people to always think we are on the cusp of a breakthrough. Your dumb parents were WRONG and THIS IS IT NOW.
But if it helps you cope with the complexity, believe what you wish.
Aren't you jealous of their tenure track, though?
Yes, but what is the reimbursement model for that!?! It doesn't involve microtransactions, nor push notification.
I suppose it could.... hmmm....
It's all just money from Musk's "get lucky" fortune he collected with PayPal.
He's the Paul Allen of the Internet Generation.
You could also liken him to Howard Hughes in some regards.
The people in the city are wearing spiked heels and tasselated loafers. The heaviest outer clothing they own is a windbreaker. The roughest terrain they are used to traveling on is a small patch of bushes near the playground in the park.
When the electricity goes out they won't know which buttons to push to fix it.
And who says the people who live out in the countryside are 'rugged individualists'? We aren't alone. We probably have just as many friends.
A certain percentage of the ISIS fighters are just being left out for the desert dogs to eat.
That's such a righteous situation: Rabid Islamists being eaten by stray dogs.