secured (prepaid) "credit" cards would simply be more popular. It wouldn't really be that big a deal to use something different, even for people that don't want to see the full price for what they buy and rely on having companies hide the costs behind incremental fees and surcharges.
On linux the projector button already just brings up the OS display dialog.
You didn't like, install vendor software and drivers, did you?!
But I suspect even on low quality operating systems you can still remap keys. There is probably even a command line mute program you could launch from "print screen." I understand wanting the defaults to be your favorites, but you can have the actual capability you desire anyways.
I really can't imagine even walking into the room a meeting will be held in carrying technology that might auto play some sort of media. Truly shocking what people will subject themselves to. Then again, I also use headphones if I'm actually going to watch media outside of sound booth, and the thinkpad hardware mute keeps track of separate settings for headphones and speaker, so the speaker hasn't even been unmuted since the day I got the thing. If I plug something into the 3.5mm jack, sound comes out; if I unplug it, sound stops coming out. Easy and polite.
I guess it answers the age-old question; "Does That Guy know he's That Guy?"
The computer is an inanimate object. When the computer "reads" your code, it is actually the engineer who designed the computer that you're talking to. So no, the humans and the computer don't have a different understanding; the human on one side is simply more knowledgeable about the machine than the human on the other side, who is rightly more focused on the use case.
I remember a Larry Wall interview from 98 or 99 that was streamed on realmedia. I never found a transcript or archive but in it he said that if you want to do everything using Object Oriented Programming then Ruby is a better language than Perl. Of course, he also studies Japanese, and there weren't English language books or documentation yet. So a few years later when the books had come out I switched.
It turned out the best thing about the change for me wasn't the language differences, but the improvements in C integration. Then Ruby is just a C API. Totally seamless. Glue anything easily.
Perl 5 was Larry Wall's rewrite of Perl 4, and was widely seen as a huge improvement and a mature language.
Perl 6 was the community's rewrite of Perl 5.
That the horse committee didn't improve the design should be no surprise, and it certainly shouldn't reflect on Larry Wall. People really wanted a lot of those features, but more people don't want it to get that complicated and won't use it. Personally, I switched to Ruby.
a programming language is created to speak to a computer/compiler, not to a human.
Hogwash. The conversation is between the programmer and the programmers who wrote the next layer down, repeated a few times, until those programmers eventually have a conversation with the circuit designer or engineer, who speaks a few different languages used by engineers, eventually speaking to engineers who designed machines that build circuits. And it keeps going down, and it is all humans talking, all the way down, until you get to apes grunting.
That's where you're wrong, they sell access to you to criminal gangs, who steal your money.
Domestic criminals have a much harder time getting that data; it doesn't seem to be even on the market to buy access here. In Russia they openly sell access to p0wned systems from any country not a Russian ally; in the US there is no such mainstream market.
Yeah, if you're a criminal and you're in the US, then in that case you'd have a higher threat profile from the US government; but the vast majority of people worried about computer security are not criminals, but people trying to protect themselves against economic crime.
When foreign criminals steal your money, it is well and truly gone. When US criminals steal your money, it might be gone, or they might have had to do it in a way that the bank ends up taking the loss. When foreign hackers with national backing let their organized crime control your computer, instead of regular "identity theft" where you can prove it wasn't you and eventually get the debt cleared, they control your computer and take control of your banking and run off with your money in a way that you can't recover it.
People don't even understand what the threats are, and yet they're willing to argue about it anyways. Golly.
Uber is so evil, it didn't even occur to me to care about the affect on their users/accomplices.
The real story has to be Apple giving them permission, because Apple is not obviously evil. Normally the complaint of Apple haters is merely that it is overpriced, and walled gardens are for snobs, and not everybody likes snobs. Snobs are often looked down on, but also often looked up to; they are not obviously evil. So to have this sort of snake inside the garden might turn out to be a big deal. Especially if there are others.
Right, users of other brands have a much higher rate of switching to competing products when they report being very angry about the product.
I used to use a wide range of google services, but after being forced to switch a few times when things got shut down, I use less and less of their services all the time, and I can be consistently relied on to not even try anything new they offer. No interest. And yet, I still do use gmail and couple other services.
If you don't understand that there are differences in brand loyalty from one brand to the next, and that that often impacts the user experience, they do have books about that stuff. Spoiler: it doesn't end well for the consumer if the brand owner realizes they are excessively loyal.
Right, but that in no way implies that avoiding increased risks means you must be trusting something. You can be distrusting in general, and still be certain that some things can't be trusted.
No defense is impenetrable. Yet use of purported defenses with conflicts of interest is itself a red flag.
On linux when we run virus scanners for whatever reason, we run them in userspace.
That said, if you're on a system that needs active protection from virus scanners, then avoiding the vendors with an enhanced risk profile seems obvious. You have to trust somebody in that situation, but yeah, don't trust them very much; be ready to change later when somebody else appears to be the least risky, because it changes over time.
And avoid vendors outside your own country or allied countries. Obviously, because security products might all be tainted. The risk profile is not all equal. If you're in a place with no effective legal protections against your own government, then it doesn't matter what products you use you never had any computer security and never thought you did. If you live in a country with any significant level of citizen rights, then your domestic or allied security services are not threatening in the same ways that foreign ones are; and that remains true even when you have privacy or other civics complaints about the system.
I'm pretty happy with the function key stuff since the function lock allows all the setting combinations.
On linux the extra non-media keys for calculator, browser, mail, and the other one are just launchers. Even a backwards person like me using xfce gets easy access to those without having to muck with key mappings. You could just do use pactl to set the mute with one of those.
Yes, you would have to have comprehended the role that the tool plays in a particular context in order to understand what the fuck anybody is talking about. That is always true.
And no, you don't know if you understand some other technical detail better than somebody else, or not. That isn't knowable to you. Therefore you wrong about it, even without knowing how much anybody knows about the detail.
Random words notwithstanding, it is already well proven that the speed tests are being gamed and instead of looking it up somewhere you made up some fake "facts."
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I would expect neckbeards around here to have learned this lesson from watching the movie Porky's growing up! Never consent to biometric examination.
secured (prepaid) "credit" cards would simply be more popular. It wouldn't really be that big a deal to use something different, even for people that don't want to see the full price for what they buy and rely on having companies hide the costs behind incremental fees and surcharges.
Exactly what I was thinking; they just need better hamster wheels. Maybe they can license the technology from the Gravitron at a local carnival.
Haven't you seen the movie WALL-E?
On linux the projector button already just brings up the OS display dialog.
You didn't like, install vendor software and drivers, did you?!
But I suspect even on low quality operating systems you can still remap keys. There is probably even a command line mute program you could launch from "print screen." I understand wanting the defaults to be your favorites, but you can have the actual capability you desire anyways.
I really can't imagine even walking into the room a meeting will be held in carrying technology that might auto play some sort of media. Truly shocking what people will subject themselves to. Then again, I also use headphones if I'm actually going to watch media outside of sound booth, and the thinkpad hardware mute keeps track of separate settings for headphones and speaker, so the speaker hasn't even been unmuted since the day I got the thing. If I plug something into the 3.5mm jack, sound comes out; if I unplug it, sound stops coming out. Easy and polite.
I guess it answers the age-old question; "Does That Guy know he's That Guy?"
Sorry, you didn't quite catch it.
The computer is an inanimate object. When the computer "reads" your code, it is actually the engineer who designed the computer that you're talking to. So no, the humans and the computer don't have a different understanding; the human on one side is simply more knowledgeable about the machine than the human on the other side, who is rightly more focused on the use case.
Some professions take a large number of screenshots though, so it isn't really that surprising. A lot of people do it recreationally, too.
I remember a Larry Wall interview from 98 or 99 that was streamed on realmedia. I never found a transcript or archive but in it he said that if you want to do everything using Object Oriented Programming then Ruby is a better language than Perl. Of course, he also studies Japanese, and there weren't English language books or documentation yet. So a few years later when the books had come out I switched.
It turned out the best thing about the change for me wasn't the language differences, but the improvements in C integration. Then Ruby is just a C API. Totally seamless. Glue anything easily.
You don't understand what Perl 6 is.
Perl 4 was very popular.
Perl 5 was Larry Wall's rewrite of Perl 4, and was widely seen as a huge improvement and a mature language.
Perl 6 was the community's rewrite of Perl 5.
That the horse committee didn't improve the design should be no surprise, and it certainly shouldn't reflect on Larry Wall. People really wanted a lot of those features, but more people don't want it to get that complicated and won't use it. Personally, I switched to Ruby.
a programming language is created to speak to a computer/compiler, not to a human.
Hogwash. The conversation is between the programmer and the programmers who wrote the next layer down, repeated a few times, until those programmers eventually have a conversation with the circuit designer or engineer, who speaks a few different languages used by engineers, eventually speaking to engineers who designed machines that build circuits. And it keeps going down, and it is all humans talking, all the way down, until you get to apes grunting.
I'm still using ICQ, and so is my Bulgarian pen pal!
Actually it is quite popular in eastern Europe.
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That's where you're wrong, they sell access to you to criminal gangs, who steal your money.
Domestic criminals have a much harder time getting that data; it doesn't seem to be even on the market to buy access here. In Russia they openly sell access to p0wned systems from any country not a Russian ally; in the US there is no such mainstream market.
Yeah, if you're a criminal and you're in the US, then in that case you'd have a higher threat profile from the US government; but the vast majority of people worried about computer security are not criminals, but people trying to protect themselves against economic crime.
When foreign criminals steal your money, it is well and truly gone. When US criminals steal your money, it might be gone, or they might have had to do it in a way that the bank ends up taking the loss. When foreign hackers with national backing let their organized crime control your computer, instead of regular "identity theft" where you can prove it wasn't you and eventually get the debt cleared, they control your computer and take control of your banking and run off with your money in a way that you can't recover it.
People don't even understand what the threats are, and yet they're willing to argue about it anyways. Golly.
Uber is so evil, it didn't even occur to me to care about the affect on their users/accomplices.
The real story has to be Apple giving them permission, because Apple is not obviously evil. Normally the complaint of Apple haters is merely that it is overpriced, and walled gardens are for snobs, and not everybody likes snobs. Snobs are often looked down on, but also often looked up to; they are not obviously evil. So to have this sort of snake inside the garden might turn out to be a big deal. Especially if there are others.
I don't think "bringing the heat" is going to scare the competition very much in this market. ;)
Right, users of other brands have a much higher rate of switching to competing products when they report being very angry about the product.
I used to use a wide range of google services, but after being forced to switch a few times when things got shut down, I use less and less of their services all the time, and I can be consistently relied on to not even try anything new they offer. No interest. And yet, I still do use gmail and couple other services.
If you don't understand that there are differences in brand loyalty from one brand to the next, and that that often impacts the user experience, they do have books about that stuff. Spoiler: it doesn't end well for the consumer if the brand owner realizes they are excessively loyal.
Right, but that in no way implies that avoiding increased risks means you must be trusting something. You can be distrusting in general, and still be certain that some things can't be trusted.
No defense is impenetrable. Yet use of purported defenses with conflicts of interest is itself a red flag.
Absolutely! Trust no one!
On linux when we run virus scanners for whatever reason, we run them in userspace.
That said, if you're on a system that needs active protection from virus scanners, then avoiding the vendors with an enhanced risk profile seems obvious. You have to trust somebody in that situation, but yeah, don't trust them very much; be ready to change later when somebody else appears to be the least risky, because it changes over time.
And avoid vendors outside your own country or allied countries. Obviously, because security products might all be tainted. The risk profile is not all equal. If you're in a place with no effective legal protections against your own government, then it doesn't matter what products you use you never had any computer security and never thought you did. If you live in a country with any significant level of citizen rights, then your domestic or allied security services are not threatening in the same ways that foreign ones are; and that remains true even when you have privacy or other civics complaints about the system.
Calling me names won't change the situation in any meaningful way.
I'm pretty happy with the function key stuff since the function lock allows all the setting combinations.
On linux the extra non-media keys for calculator, browser, mail, and the other one are just launchers. Even a backwards person like me using xfce gets easy access to those without having to muck with key mappings. You could just do use pactl to set the mute with one of those.
Your response is literal FUD. You do understand that, right?
Right, but it was Lotus 1-2-3 that was first to do that with a GUI, not Excel.
Yes, you would have to have comprehended the role that the tool plays in a particular context in order to understand what the fuck anybody is talking about. That is always true.
And no, you don't know if you understand some other technical detail better than somebody else, or not. That isn't knowable to you. Therefore you wrong about it, even without knowing how much anybody knows about the detail.
Random words notwithstanding, it is already well proven that the speed tests are being gamed and instead of looking it up somewhere you made up some fake "facts."
LOL do you always puke up little bits of description when somebody mentions technology?
I mean, like, yeah, duh. If I was talking about pine treas or Pile Sol then I probably wouldn't have written PINE.
If you really have to puke up some bullshit whenever somebody makes a technical reference, at least manage "Pine Is Not Elm" or something.
Or as they say in my country, "SQUIRREL!"
I'm not really that interested in network squirrels, or even urban squirrels.