That isn't meant to be offensive by the way, I just literally gave up trying all the different registry tweaks and obscure utilities meant to bend Windows 10 back into the shape of something usable and found that I don't miss much of anything. You might have a Windows app you need to run, in which case you need to keep searching through that morass and hope there's a way to turn it off (hint: usually the answer is either "no" or "it'll take quite a lot of work and be reversed on the next update anyway").
I recently tried the latest fedora and was far from impressed. They actually managed to take away even more basic configuration options and dumb the interface to the point of non-usability vs previous time I tried it. I was now being denied the ability simply to change basic attributes such as fonts and sizes.
Unless of course you are willing to search for obscure CLI commands to install different window managers or configurators outside the reach of normal people.
Then there is the issue of the update model. Fedora is way too much of a moving target to be relevant for production use. Either you go along with forced major updates every 6 months with associated risk of failure or you are totally screwed as they pull update feeds even for security.
Fedora seems to be nothing more than a playground for red hat's commercial products and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
They know full well, you don't. The "free" version of the OS is for people to be exploited for ad revenue. The "pro" version of the OS is to exploit businesses who are worried about the information that might be leaking out to Microsoft on a constant basis.
Incidentally they also don't care what you want. You might not find it acceptable but Microsoft has enough money and government favor that they simply don't HAVE to care what you want. They could plaster Windows 10 with ads from top to bottom and there wouldn't be a precious thing that you could do about it.
It is irrelevant what Microsoft thinks, how much they "care" or what they believe they can get away with.
All Microsoft needs to do is continue to create sufficient market incentive for credible alternatives to Windows. The rest will sort itself out.
From AMP description forbidding this and that including writing your own javascript this reads like nothing more than a doomed power play by Google to leverage it's position.
I'm not even sure what the point is. Creating a website that loads seemingly instantly is currently not a big deal. Sites are slow intentionally because owners wittingly or not elect to load all manner of redundant cross site stalking and advertising bugs since these activities benefit them in some way. Or they insist upon using "framework" monstrosities like bootstrap because CSS is "too hard".
No Chrome. No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Amazon.com, Ebay, Spotify, Pandora, Dropbox, Google, Google Maps, GMail, Hotmail. No Steam, Minecraft, Call of Duty, Starcraft, Rocket League, Madden NFL, Super Mario Bros, Halo. How many sales do you really think you'll get?
Does Windows 10 come with any of these things?
I'm afraid all available evidence is that when we the free software advocates stick to our guns, we hold a morally pure 0.00001% of the consumer computing market. No matter how righteous our cause, to the rest of the world we're the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe. As best as I can tell, the only practical path forward is to meet people where they stand and then gently pull them towards our side.
So does Windows come with any of these things? It isn't that these things should not be available or that I believe they universally must be viewed as bad by everyone. It is simply a matter of contrasting what the computer comes preloaded vs. claims made by vendor.
I've been advocating for Linux to be a lot more friendly to allowing third party closed binary commercial software to be installed and run across a wide range of distros.
As it stands if software isn't available from your favorite distros or you can't compile it yourself good luck getting something that works without insanely brittle dependencies or resorting to statically linking absolutely everything up to and including the kitchen sink.
The whole model of software distribution relying on source code availability and solvers resolving complex dependencies before shit will even run is hopelessly broken in my view.
Asymmetric crypto using Diffie-Hellman. It's a problem a quantum computer can solve easily (compared to a classical one at least.) It's a big thing on the horizon in cryptography, and I wouldn't be surprised if state actors already possess the tech, or will soon. Definitely important enough to land a spot on the weapons ban list, at least.
I wouldn't be surprised if state actors are pushing quantum crypto nonsense to scare people into abandoning actually secure systems.
Thus far nobody knows if scalable quantum computers are even practically possible let alone any clue how to go about creating one.
Google Chrome calls home. There are many alternatives easily available without Google's stalkware baked in.
Skype is insecure spyware owned and operated by Microsoft with well known intercept capabilities. It runs and consumes bandwidth continuously whether your using skype or not.
Spotify is spyware that automatically collects data about you and your friends just by logging on.
Why is it that everyone selling to consumers offering privacy and no-bloat demonstrates the exact opposite? We won't preload heaps of shit except for the heaps of shit we preload.
It's like all these companies selling "eco friendly" products that are anything but.
There needs to be third party qualification program for security and privacy that actually meet specific articulable requirements. This wild west of everyone claiming they give a shit when in fact their actions demonstrate otherwise is worthless.
Extracted from the sailfish developer documentation: "we recommend using C++" to develop apps which do anything non-trivial, to paraphrase.
This is universally valid advice. It doesn't just apply to Sailfish it applies to all mobile platforms including Android and iOS and across PC operating systems.
Ok that's all I need to know about sailfish.
Wake me up when you have a mobile OS where the main app development language was invented in the 21st century, and is, for example, safe, simple, and well-designed.
Wake me up when a AAA title, general purpose operating system, web browser, RDBMS, net stack or codec is written in a language other than C/C++.
Would you prefer that applications that actually need those features instead be native applications that are specific to an operating system other than the one you use?
Absolutely I prefer it. Native applications provide a much better experience vs. attempting to turn document viewers into general purpose operating systems.
There are a million different solutions to software portability. Our choices are far from shove everything into the browser or going without.
Putting everyone at unnecessary risk in pursuit of the goal of transforming document viewers into operating systems is as foolish as it is counterproductive.
If you believe you have been harassed then first go find a judge and pursuit your case in civil/criminal court.
When there is an actual finding feel free to report that in a news article. Don't go to the public with an unsubstantiated one sided story not one member of the public is in any position to properly evaluate in order to push emotional buttons and exert PR pressure.
God knows most of us have dealt with people who just make shit up for personal gain or who expend more mental energy screwing over coworkers than they do actually working.
The media's standards for publishing stories has to be higher than one half's account of their divorce.
Here we have a situation where people protest that the truth will be known. Do people want the right to lie in divorce court or to lie to insurance companies or to lie about who caused a wreck? It seems as if the American public fears its own stink.
What you seem to be saying privacy = hiding evidence of truth. Hiding truth is bad therefore privacy is bad.
What's your Slashdot password?
Have we reached the point at which America can not survive without lies being a standard norm of behavior? Also keep it in mind that truth works in all directions. If you own stock in an insurance company people that lie are stealing your money. It may be your wife that can't explain why she parks at Tom's house when she is supposed to be at work. You may well get child custody if you offer strong evidence of her adultery. The problem with wanting to live a covert life is that you give the same privilege to everyone else and at some point your kids figure out that you are full of lies and they get all messed up and turn to drugs. Maybe it is time to insist upon truth from all people.
Your living in a fantasy world. You can insist upon truth from all people as much as you want. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Neither is it feasible to assume available evidence will be used for righteous causes or causes unjustly aimed against you. The world is not populated by enlightened saints neither are the "benefits" of surveillance distributed evenly.
In the corporate context I oppose surveillance because it provides an uneven advantage to sellers of products and services unavailable to buyers and is very likely to be leveraged to maximize profits meaning as a consumer it nets me less value for my money.
In the government context I oppose surveillance because knowledge is power and power always corrupts. ALWAYS. The police now use civil asset forfeiture to take more shit from people in this country with little to no effective legal showing than the sum total of everything reported stolen. They do it because they can and because the haul often directly enriches themselves. They don't do it because it is right or benefits society.
Red light cameras have not been used to enhance public safety. They have been marketed and sold explicitly as money making devices sometimes at the expense of safety (Deliberate lowering of yellow light timer) and mostly ticketing technical infractions where no data exists to support enhancement to public safety.
In the criminal context I oppose surveillance because it can be used to reason about my whereabouts and collect information that can be used to rob and or impersonate me. Gangs/employees at telecoms and LEAs have been arrested for stealing customer information.
The only way to keep society from reverting to it's primitive self is to structurally and persistently reinforce good behavior. This means guarding and limiting power not opening new floodgates and hoping against every page of human history that power won't be abused.
Publicly traded company will always whatever is in their stockholders best interest (as they are required to do so by law) which forces businesses to behave like sociopathic entities.
Since there are no repercussions for losing sensitive data related to your customers, it's only a benefit to collect and sell the information. Any publicly traded company will harvest as much data as they can to sell as long as the extent of their actions remains hidden (exposure is bad for business and thus they must be avoid it by law).
The law does not mandate directly or indirectly behaving like a "dumb fuck".
This is the dystopian present we live in. There is no need to deny it but there is a need to reform the system because this behavior has led to many harmful and extremely shortsighted decisions.
Before you can reform anything you must understand the problem.
Physical wipes are worthless because they take way too long and expose users to liability WRT destruction of evidence.
What I would like to see are mobile computers sporting encrypted file systems designed for deniability. Availability of data depends on key(s) entered by users.
You could elect to enter a "duress" key that only reveals bullshit.
Or you could enter your normal key yet elect not to enter additional keys to reveal additional data. For example a work key that unlocks proprietary data related to a current project.
Everything would be designed for deniability. Without access to encryption key number and extent of encrypted volumes let alone data they contain would be totally indistinguishable from background.
The ideal system would be a computer that always boots from protected read-only volume without any field upgradable persistently stored firmware.
Upgrading core OS requires throwing an actual switch to make overwrite physically possible. A mode that concurrently restarts system if still running and physically disconnects all user storage.
Coupled with an encrypted filesystem you could safely reboot and reuse the same device for multiple purposes without having to ever worry about candy crush selling out your business secrets to the highest bidder even after candy crush has successfully completely rooted your device.
Structures like this would provide real security with real freedom not compromise both by relying on indefensible houses of cards like secureboot.
Right, which is why I won't buy anything from Oculus given Palmer Luckey (their illustrious founder) bankrolling a pro-Trump shitposting group during the election cycle. https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech...
Palmer is a libertarian who didn't even vote for Trump.
"The stream of racist, sexist, and economically illiterate memes appearing in support of Donald Trump during this years' interminable American presidential election is being bankrolled in part by the 24-year-old inventor of Oculus Rift."
Exactly I couldn't have said it better myself. Talking shit about Obummer makes you racist. Talking Shit about Shillary makes you sexist. Talking shit about Netinyahooooo makes you anti-Semitic and voting for Donald Drumpf means you heart Hitler.
The only one I'm confused about is Billy boy C... when people bring up his murders and rapes and shit. What are they? Billy is white, male and not Jewish. Totally stumped.
Oculus and Luckey can go fuck themselves.
Absolutely. Fuck Palmer for selling out and Fuck Oculus for being owned by Facebook.
#3 Smaller ISP's are unlikely to have peering points at places like MAE East, etc and far more likely to have to purchase their bandwidth from a larger backbone provider. This means that the "cost" for bandwidth is far, far more for a local ISP. It also means they have to oversubscribe more than a larger provider to pay the bills. EVERYONE oversubscribes bandwidth sold vs. what they have, it is just different levels.The economics don't work for smaller internet providers in reselling bandwidth if the oversubscribing rate isn't above a certain percentage.
Many small ISPs have access to local exchanges/hotels. Core bandwidth is not likely to be a limiting factor these days.. lack of small ISP investment in bandwidth management in core speaks for itself.
When you get shitty performance from your local WISP it isn't core network that is oversubscribed. It's typically last mile RF link. Ditto for cable plant of small Cable based providers.
Advancements in queue for Wireless technology are nothing short of amazing.. ditto on next gen PON. Personally I see a bright future for small ISPs. Keeping regulations down to common sense be nice/fair/transparent and getting rid of ridiculous reporting requirements is something I fully support on the low end at least.
Exactly, which is why even Snowden didn't actually change a fucking thing when it comes to consumer behavior and privacy. Unjustified Control mechanisms will continue to be put in place, Rights will continue to deteriorate, and no one will fight it, because no one cares.
Caring is not the same as doing. One does not necessarily flow from the other.
So you think managers threatening to kill someone or calling them a homosexual slur is just fine?
Could be. Depends on context. Lots of people have told me they were going to kill me.. slurs are rarely invoked in a literal sense. Language isn't an exact science and like it or not language belongs to everyone. Not just you or a minority of perpetually offended loudmouths who demand language be (re)interpreted in ways that draw maximal offense.
Coupled with an agenda or specific worldview common understandings of messy imprecise language can be wildly distorted with ease.
Just because a person from one tribe swears profusely or lacks manners doesn't make them any more or less decent than individuals from another tribe with different customs.
If I was in charge, there would be a whole lot of people being marched out the door. I certainly would never tolerate anything like that (I'm management now). Manager or regular employee, if you cannot behave with a modicum of decency and manners, then you won't long have a job anywhere I manage.
You know nothing about this situation other than hearsay from a media article naturally biased towards hyperbole.
For the other 99% of society who doesn't give a shit about privacy anymore, they don't care about the abuse, including the cost of implementing or maintaining this for little or no real value.
I used to believe this right up until Snowden and associated public polling proved me wrong.
It doesn't matter how smart people are, what they believe or how much they assert they care. It only matters what they actually do.
How can anyone compare VR with the failure of 3D TV? 3D TV failed because who wants to wear cumbersome glasses that prevent you from being social with others? 3D TV is expensive, and causes headaches and eye-strain for some people. There wasn't any killer content to push people to 3D TV that was overwhelmingly good enough to overcome the disadvantages; a lot of 3D content was perfectly watchable in 2D. 3D TV was just an expensive novelty.
But with VR... well admittedly it has the cumbersome glasses that prevent you from being social with others, and is expensive, and causes eye-strain and nausea, and has no killer app. But can you say that it's just a novelty?.... Hmmm. OK, maybe they are the same after all.
The problem with 3DTV is 3D no matter how well implemented just isn't that big a deal. Stereo perception is such a small piece of overall way people perceive scale and depth even if you turned the effect completely off in VR it would hardly be missed.
The difference with VR is as quality approaches holodeck, matrix or Tomorrowland advertisement ring the value proposition grows to become essentially unbounded where 3DTV even when implemented perfectly to it's full potential (e.g. perfect multi-user glasses free displays) will never end up making much of a difference.
By far the most fun I've ever had playing any electronic game was screwing around in my rover (SRV) on a planet in VR in Elite with a few dozen other players. I was giggling the whole time in disbelief of what I was experiencing.
From personal experience todays crappy VR technology as full of crappy limitations, bugs and crummy software is still amazing. 3DTV was never amazing...ever.
Some people honestly believe throwing shit and features in the trash because it aligns with their narrow opinions and agendas is a constructive activity. They are incapable or unwilling to accept the possibility of a reality beyond their narrow worldview.
From mass deletion of useful articles from Wikipedia to the bands of trolls constantly closing questions they don't understand on SO. From land of "developers" creating "API"s they constantly and willfully break and defecate (deprecate).. because why shouldn't everyone else be expected to constantly play semantic musical chairs to make *your* unorganized life marginally easier?
All of those who think taking settings away and denying user choice constitutes a better user experience or who truly believe everyone appreciates your nonsensical unproductive abstract notions of art that make software painful and unusable...There is a cure. You can be saved.
Avoid use of ALL computer INPUT device until end of days n ye shall be cured. ~ from Book of Krusteaz 12:10.
I hate to say never but I feel like VR will fail for the same reason "3D TV" has essentially failed. People "like" immersive things but that is not the real reason why people play games or watch content. The idea that it is "better" doesn't necessarily matter.
This explains why industry stopped producing better hardware after N64.
The market for this is very very small: Nerds who don't interact with other people, novelty and kids (who want it for the novelty). The idea that even teens will continue to use this over "regular" consumption of games and content seems crazy. People want to all see the same thing at the same time if in a group so this is inherently anti-social.
This explains why split screen / LAN play has not become an endangered species.
I own 3D TV&Projector and never use them for 3D. It turns out that the added benefit from 3D doesn't beat the drawback of needing to wear glasses, the
What does 3D have to do with VR? Stereo depth perception completely falls off after a few dozen feet IRL. The point of VR isn't 3D. If stereo effect were turned off it would hardly matter at all. At least try a Rift or Vive for yourself before passing judgment. VR is about being inside the game not "3D". These are two completely different things.
fatigue of feeling tied down, etc. That is without any $ issues. VR is like 1000x worse in this regard and that will kill people who but VR content, even if they own the hardware.
People who have thrown down thousands on fancy projectors to play games like Elite in style discover VR is like 1000x better and never go back to flat games and put their projectors up on eBay.
Crappy software sales will kill the reason to develop for the hardware.
Adding VR support to software means increased sales from those who demand VR content and may not purchase otherwise. It's extra revenue in exchange for extra work. How much and whether it's worth it is title specific yet the value proposition both in terms of effort required to support VR and customer base improves with time.
All major engines support VR out of the box. Starting new development with a VR friendly workflow means if you want to spend extra to add VR support to your title later puts you in a position to do so at minimal added cost.
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He won't last a year until he ends up behind bars from the fruits of further digging into his many shady business dealings over his lifetime.
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~Lil Trump circa 2008.
https://getfedora.org/
That isn't meant to be offensive by the way, I just literally gave up trying all the different registry tweaks and obscure utilities meant to bend Windows 10 back into the shape of something usable and found that I don't miss much of anything. You might have a Windows app you need to run, in which case you need to keep searching through that morass and hope there's a way to turn it off (hint: usually the answer is either "no" or "it'll take quite a lot of work and be reversed on the next update anyway").
I recently tried the latest fedora and was far from impressed. They actually managed to take away even more basic configuration options and dumb the interface to the point of non-usability vs previous time I tried it. I was now being denied the ability simply to change basic attributes such as fonts and sizes.
Unless of course you are willing to search for obscure CLI commands to install different window managers or configurators outside the reach of normal people.
Then there is the issue of the update model. Fedora is way too much of a moving target to be relevant for production use. Either you go along with forced major updates every 6 months with associated risk of failure or you are totally screwed as they pull update feeds even for security.
Fedora seems to be nothing more than a playground for red hat's commercial products and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
They know full well, you don't. The "free" version of the OS is for people to be exploited for ad revenue. The "pro" version of the OS is to exploit businesses who are worried about the information that might be leaking out to Microsoft on a constant basis.
Incidentally they also don't care what you want. You might not find it acceptable but Microsoft has enough money and government favor that they simply don't HAVE to care what you want. They could plaster Windows 10 with ads from top to bottom and there wouldn't be a precious thing that you could do about it.
It is irrelevant what Microsoft thinks, how much they "care" or what they believe they can get away with.
All Microsoft needs to do is continue to create sufficient market incentive for credible alternatives to Windows. The rest will sort itself out.
From AMP description forbidding this and that including writing your own javascript this reads like nothing more than a doomed power play by Google to leverage it's position.
AMP = faster page load = page rank bias in 3...2..1...
I'm not even sure what the point is. Creating a website that loads seemingly instantly is currently not a big deal. Sites are slow intentionally because owners wittingly or not elect to load all manner of redundant cross site stalking and advertising bugs since these activities benefit them in some way. Or they insist upon using "framework" monstrosities like bootstrap because CSS is "too hard".
No Chrome. No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Amazon.com, Ebay, Spotify, Pandora, Dropbox, Google, Google Maps, GMail, Hotmail. No Steam, Minecraft, Call of Duty, Starcraft, Rocket League, Madden NFL, Super Mario Bros, Halo. How many sales do you really think you'll get?
Does Windows 10 come with any of these things?
I'm afraid all available evidence is that when we the free software advocates stick to our guns, we hold a morally pure 0.00001% of the consumer computing market. No matter how righteous our cause, to the rest of the world we're the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe. As best as I can tell, the only practical path forward is to meet people where they stand and then gently pull them towards our side.
So does Windows come with any of these things? It isn't that these things should not be available or that I believe they universally must be viewed as bad by everyone. It is simply a matter of contrasting what the computer comes preloaded vs. claims made by vendor.
I've been advocating for Linux to be a lot more friendly to allowing third party closed binary commercial software to be installed and run across a wide range of distros.
As it stands if software isn't available from your favorite distros or you can't compile it yourself good luck getting something that works without insanely brittle dependencies or resorting to statically linking absolutely everything up to and including the kitchen sink.
The whole model of software distribution relying on source code availability and solvers resolving complex dependencies before shit will even run is hopelessly broken in my view.
Hey Nintendo? You know what else is normal? Lost sales from well deserved bad press.
Asymmetric crypto using Diffie-Hellman. It's a problem a quantum computer can solve easily (compared to a classical one at least.) It's a big thing on the horizon in cryptography, and I wouldn't be surprised if state actors already possess the tech, or will soon. Definitely important enough to land a spot on the weapons ban list, at least.
I wouldn't be surprised if state actors are pushing quantum crypto nonsense to scare people into abandoning actually secure systems.
Thus far nobody knows if scalable quantum computers are even practically possible let alone any clue how to go about creating one.
Yea right and 2017 is the year of a working 100 MW compact fusion reactor prototype from Lockheed Martin.
IBM will not have a 50 qubit quantum computer in the next few years using a definition of the word "few" anyone recognizes.
Google Chrome calls home. There are many alternatives easily available without Google's stalkware baked in.
Skype is insecure spyware owned and operated by Microsoft with well known intercept capabilities. It runs and consumes bandwidth continuously whether your using skype or not.
Spotify is spyware that automatically collects data about you and your friends just by logging on.
Why is it that everyone selling to consumers offering privacy and no-bloat demonstrates the exact opposite? We won't preload heaps of shit except for the heaps of shit we preload.
It's like all these companies selling "eco friendly" products that are anything but.
There needs to be third party qualification program for security and privacy that actually meet specific articulable requirements. This wild west of everyone claiming they give a shit when in fact their actions demonstrate otherwise is worthless.
Extracted from the sailfish developer documentation: "we recommend using C++" to develop apps which do anything non-trivial, to paraphrase.
This is universally valid advice. It doesn't just apply to Sailfish it applies to all mobile platforms including Android and iOS and across PC operating systems.
Ok that's all I need to know about sailfish.
Wake me up when you have a mobile OS where the main app development language was invented in the 21st century, and is, for example, safe, simple, and well-designed.
Wake me up when a AAA title, general purpose operating system, web browser, RDBMS, net stack or codec is written in a language other than C/C++.
Would you prefer that applications that actually need those features instead be native applications that are specific to an operating system other than the one you use?
Absolutely I prefer it. Native applications provide a much better experience vs. attempting to turn document viewers into general purpose operating systems.
There are a million different solutions to software portability. Our choices are far from shove everything into the browser or going without.
Putting everyone at unnecessary risk in pursuit of the goal of transforming document viewers into operating systems is as foolish as it is counterproductive.
If you believe you have been harassed then first go find a judge and pursuit your case in civil/criminal court.
When there is an actual finding feel free to report that in a news article. Don't go to the public with an unsubstantiated one sided story not one member of the public is in any position to properly evaluate in order to push emotional buttons and exert PR pressure.
God knows most of us have dealt with people who just make shit up for personal gain or who expend more mental energy screwing over coworkers than they do actually working.
The media's standards for publishing stories has to be higher than one half's account of their divorce.
Here we have a situation where people protest that the truth will be known. Do people want the right to lie in divorce court or to lie to insurance companies or to lie about who caused a wreck? It seems as if the American public fears its own stink.
What you seem to be saying privacy = hiding evidence of truth.
Hiding truth is bad therefore privacy is bad.
What's your Slashdot password?
Have we reached the point at which America can not survive without lies being a standard norm of behavior? Also keep it in mind that truth works in all directions. If you own stock in an insurance company people that lie are stealing your money. It may be your wife that can't explain why she parks at Tom's house when she is supposed to be at work. You may well get child custody if you offer strong evidence of her adultery. The problem with wanting to live a covert life is that you give the same privilege to everyone else and at some point your kids figure out that you are full of lies and they get all messed up and turn to drugs. Maybe it is time to insist upon truth from all people.
Your living in a fantasy world. You can insist upon truth from all people as much as you want. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Neither is it feasible to assume available evidence will be used for righteous causes or causes unjustly aimed against you. The world is not populated by enlightened saints neither are the "benefits" of surveillance distributed evenly.
In the corporate context I oppose surveillance because it provides an uneven advantage to sellers of products and services unavailable to buyers and is very likely to be leveraged to maximize profits meaning as a consumer it nets me less value for my money.
In the government context I oppose surveillance because knowledge is power and power always corrupts. ALWAYS. The police now use civil asset forfeiture to take more shit from people in this country with little to no effective legal showing than the sum total of everything reported stolen. They do it because they can and because the haul often directly enriches themselves. They don't do it because it is right or benefits society.
Red light cameras have not been used to enhance public safety. They have been marketed and sold explicitly as money making devices sometimes at the expense of safety (Deliberate lowering of yellow light timer) and mostly ticketing technical infractions where no data exists to support enhancement to public safety.
In the criminal context I oppose surveillance because it can be used to reason about my whereabouts and collect information that can be used to rob and or impersonate me. Gangs/employees at telecoms and LEAs have been arrested for stealing customer information.
The only way to keep society from reverting to it's primitive self is to structurally and persistently reinforce good behavior. This means guarding and limiting power not opening new floodgates and hoping against every page of human history that power won't be abused.
Publicly traded company will always whatever is in their stockholders best interest (as they are required to do so by law) which forces businesses to behave like sociopathic entities.
It's not the law. It's the jungle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Since there are no repercussions for losing sensitive data related to your customers, it's only a benefit to collect and sell the information. Any publicly traded company will harvest as much data as they can to sell as long as the extent of their actions remains hidden (exposure is bad for business and thus they must be avoid it by law).
The law does not mandate directly or indirectly behaving like a "dumb fuck".
This is the dystopian present we live in. There is no need to deny it but there is a need to reform the system because this behavior has led to many harmful and extremely shortsighted decisions.
Before you can reform anything you must understand the problem.
Physical wipes are worthless because they take way too long and expose users to liability WRT destruction of evidence.
What I would like to see are mobile computers sporting encrypted file systems designed for deniability. Availability of data depends on key(s) entered by users.
You could elect to enter a "duress" key that only reveals bullshit.
Or you could enter your normal key yet elect not to enter additional keys to reveal additional data. For example a work key that unlocks proprietary data related to a current project.
Everything would be designed for deniability. Without access to encryption key number and extent of encrypted volumes let alone data they contain would be totally indistinguishable from background.
The ideal system would be a computer that always boots from protected read-only volume without any field upgradable persistently stored firmware.
Upgrading core OS requires throwing an actual switch to make overwrite physically possible. A mode that concurrently restarts system if still running and physically disconnects all user storage.
Coupled with an encrypted filesystem you could safely reboot and reuse the same device for multiple purposes without having to ever worry about candy crush selling out your business secrets to the highest bidder even after candy crush has successfully completely rooted your device.
Structures like this would provide real security with real freedom not compromise both by relying on indefensible houses of cards like secureboot.
Right, which is why I won't buy anything from Oculus given Palmer Luckey (their illustrious founder) bankrolling a pro-Trump shitposting group during the election cycle. https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech...
Palmer is a libertarian who didn't even vote for Trump.
"The stream of racist, sexist, and economically illiterate memes appearing in support of Donald Trump during this years' interminable American presidential election is being bankrolled in part by the 24-year-old inventor of Oculus Rift."
Exactly I couldn't have said it better myself. Talking shit about Obummer makes you racist. Talking Shit about Shillary makes you sexist. Talking shit about Netinyahooooo makes you anti-Semitic and voting for Donald Drumpf means you heart Hitler.
The only one I'm confused about is Billy boy C... when people bring up his murders and rapes and shit. What are they? Billy is white, male and not Jewish. Totally stumped.
Oculus and Luckey can go fuck themselves.
Absolutely. Fuck Palmer for selling out and Fuck Oculus for being owned by Facebook.
#3 Smaller ISP's are unlikely to have peering points at places like MAE East, etc and far more likely to have to purchase their bandwidth from a larger backbone provider. This means that the "cost" for bandwidth is far, far more for a local ISP. It also means they have to oversubscribe more than a larger provider to pay the bills. EVERYONE oversubscribes bandwidth sold vs. what they have, it is just different levels.The economics don't work for smaller internet providers in reselling bandwidth if the oversubscribing rate isn't above a certain percentage.
Many small ISPs have access to local exchanges/hotels. Core bandwidth is not likely to be a limiting factor these days.. lack of small ISP investment in bandwidth management in core speaks for itself.
When you get shitty performance from your local WISP it isn't core network that is oversubscribed. It's typically last mile RF link. Ditto for cable plant of small Cable based providers.
Advancements in queue for Wireless technology are nothing short of amazing.. ditto on next gen PON. Personally I see a bright future for small ISPs. Keeping regulations down to common sense be nice/fair/transparent and getting rid of ridiculous reporting requirements is something I fully support on the low end at least.
Exactly, which is why even Snowden didn't actually change a fucking thing when it comes to consumer behavior and privacy. Unjustified Control mechanisms will continue to be put in place, Rights will continue to deteriorate, and no one will fight it, because no one cares.
Caring is not the same as doing. One does not necessarily flow from the other.
So you think managers threatening to kill someone or calling them a homosexual slur is just fine?
Could be. Depends on context. Lots of people have told me they were going to kill me.. slurs are rarely invoked in a literal sense. Language isn't an exact science and like it or not language belongs to everyone. Not just you or a minority of perpetually offended loudmouths who demand language be (re)interpreted in ways that draw maximal offense.
Coupled with an agenda or specific worldview common understandings of messy imprecise language can be wildly distorted with ease.
Just because a person from one tribe swears profusely or lacks manners doesn't make them any more or less decent than individuals from another tribe with different customs.
If I was in charge, there would be a whole lot of people being marched out the door. I certainly would never tolerate anything like that (I'm management now). Manager or regular employee, if you cannot behave with a modicum of decency and manners, then you won't long have a job anywhere I manage.
You know nothing about this situation other than hearsay from a media article naturally biased towards hyperbole.
For the other 99% of society who doesn't give a shit about privacy anymore, they don't care about the abuse, including the cost of implementing or maintaining this for little or no real value.
I used to believe this right up until Snowden and associated public polling proved me wrong.
It doesn't matter how smart people are, what they believe or how much they assert they care. It only matters what they actually do.
How can anyone compare VR with the failure of 3D TV? 3D TV failed because who wants to wear cumbersome glasses that prevent you from being social with others? 3D TV is expensive, and causes headaches and eye-strain for some people. There wasn't any killer content to push people to 3D TV that was overwhelmingly good enough to overcome the disadvantages; a lot of 3D content was perfectly watchable in 2D. 3D TV was just an expensive novelty.
But with VR... well admittedly it has the cumbersome glasses that prevent you from being social with others, and is expensive, and causes eye-strain and nausea, and has no killer app. But can you say that it's just a novelty? .... Hmmm. OK, maybe they are the same after all.
The problem with 3DTV is 3D no matter how well implemented just isn't that big a deal. Stereo perception is such a small piece of overall way people perceive scale and depth even if you turned the effect completely off in VR it would hardly be missed.
The difference with VR is as quality approaches holodeck, matrix or Tomorrowland advertisement ring the value proposition grows to become essentially unbounded where 3DTV even when implemented perfectly to it's full potential (e.g. perfect multi-user glasses free displays) will never end up making much of a difference.
By far the most fun I've ever had playing any electronic game was screwing around in my rover (SRV) on a planet in VR in Elite with a few dozen other players. I was giggling the whole time in disbelief of what I was experiencing.
From personal experience todays crappy VR technology as full of crappy limitations, bugs and crummy software is still amazing. 3DTV was never amazing...ever.
GPS is accurate to 6 inches on most phones
No it isn't.
Some people honestly believe throwing shit and features in the trash because it aligns with their narrow opinions and agendas is a constructive activity. They are incapable or unwilling to accept the possibility of a reality beyond their narrow worldview.
From mass deletion of useful articles from Wikipedia to the bands of trolls constantly closing questions they don't understand on SO. From land of "developers" creating "API"s they constantly and willfully break and defecate (deprecate).. because why shouldn't everyone else be expected to constantly play semantic musical chairs to make *your* unorganized life marginally easier?
All of those who think taking settings away and denying user choice constitutes a better user experience or who truly believe everyone appreciates your nonsensical unproductive abstract notions of art that make software painful and unusable...There is a cure. You can be saved.
Avoid use of ALL computer INPUT device until end of days n ye shall be cured. ~ from Book of Krusteaz 12:10.
I hate to say never but I feel like VR will fail for the same reason "3D TV" has essentially failed. People "like" immersive things but that is not the real reason why people play games or watch content. The idea that it is "better" doesn't necessarily matter.
This explains why industry stopped producing better hardware after N64.
The market for this is very very small: Nerds who don't interact with other people, novelty and kids (who want it for the novelty). The idea that even teens will continue to use this over "regular" consumption of games and content seems crazy. People want to all see the same thing at the same time if in a group so this is inherently anti-social.
This explains why split screen / LAN play has not become an endangered species.
I own 3D TV&Projector and never use them for 3D. It turns out that the added benefit from 3D doesn't beat the drawback of needing to wear glasses, the
What does 3D have to do with VR? Stereo depth perception completely falls off after a few dozen feet IRL. The point of VR isn't 3D. If stereo effect were turned off it would hardly matter at all. At least try a Rift or Vive for yourself before passing judgment. VR is about being inside the game not "3D". These are two completely different things.
fatigue of feeling tied down, etc. That is without any $ issues. VR is like 1000x worse in this regard and that will kill people who but VR content, even if they own the hardware.
People who have thrown down thousands on fancy projectors to play games like Elite in style discover VR is like 1000x better and never go back to flat games and put their projectors up on eBay.
Crappy software sales will kill the reason to develop for the hardware.
Adding VR support to software means increased sales from those who demand VR content and may not purchase otherwise. It's extra revenue in exchange for extra work. How much and whether it's worth it is title specific yet the value proposition both in terms of effort required to support VR and customer base improves with time.
All major engines support VR out of the box. Starting new development with a VR friendly workflow means if you want to spend extra to add VR support to your title later puts you in a position to do so at minimal added cost.
It also aims to combat high-tech stalking by creating criminal penalties for secretly using an electronic device to track someone's movements.
I look forward to app store vendors being carted off to jail en masse.