Block scripting and don't use Tor like a proxy? Stay on domain names that end with.onion. Don't use it on "clearnet" for anything. Do not let scripting run unless you're damned sure you can trust them or you really want that access. Tor's actually still really safe so long as the user reasonably smart about practicing safe hex. Just because it blocks some things does not mean it blocks everything. The user still needs to watch out for data spillage.
Alright. The last time (about a week ago) I mentioned it, I was told it was a 4c. I'm only poking at it 'cause I'd never tried to play with an iPhone before and the lady wanted to give me something for other reasons and probably not reasons you might expect. (She knows that I'll almost certainly donate it.)
Whichever that model is, 4 I guess, is what it is and it was new in the package a year ago, slightly less. "Around last May." It's a Verizon phone. That much I know. Anything else and I don't have a clue. I've owned a couple of iPads and a few iPods. It appears like it's a fairly nice phone. It's sturdy, fast enough, and the OS isn't horrible. I've not made a phone call with it and I probably never will.
It must be the 4 because I checked (again) and it's not letting me go past that update. That's too bad. I was curious about playing some more. I don't have iTunes but I guess I could get a copy of Windows and install it in a VM. If it's that old then maybe, just maybe, I can get an older 32 bit iTunes and run it in WINE.
Ah well... It's pretty snappy. I've a newer Windows phone (odd, I know) and it's pretty much as quick as that is. I've never been an Apple hater or anything - and have often stood up for them and, by weird circumstance, I've probably personally paid for more Apple products than anyone here (long story). I've never really spent much time with OS X or even iOS. iOS is not it's fault - that's because I hate tablets and keep trying new ones. OS X I don't mind but I find it unintuitive.
Which is a long roundabout way to say that I'm able to understand why people might prefer it as a phone. I've been curious but never bothered to verify. There are legitimate reasons to prefer it as a phone OS. I do not prefer it but it's a fine OS - assuming calls are good quality.
I'm also pretty sure that I'm not the best judge for mobile devices. I've gone through a couple of dozen of the slate tablets and not liked any of them and I use a Windows 8 phone. I don't just use a Windows phone, I like it. So, I might not be a good judge but so far it's not bad at all.
I have seen some of the most unusual claims about the law here on Slashdot. Everything from, "Beyond all doubt." to, "They didn't read me the 5th when they gave me that speeding ticket!"
One of my favorites is the "fiduciary duty." That one gets completely mangled. The 4th, 2nd, and 5th get mangled quite bit. Oh, the 1st gets mangled a lot. Right here on Slashdot, during the Reddit thing a while back, someone was claiming that Reddit's censorship was illegal.
I am not a lawyer but it's be awesome if we could find one and ask 'em to give us some lessons in law, procedural law, jargon, and things like that. Also, financial advice - or at least taking the time to explain how it works so that people can get a good idea about how to protect themselves, that should be done.
As for the legal aspects, people should know what protections they have and what protections they don't actually have that they think they do. Maybe we can find a judge that has done a bunch of work on cases involving tech and get them to do an Ask Slashdot. I think we'll need a whole lot more than 10 questions as the limit. Hmm... Maybe we can hire a lawyer and have them answer generic questions. I'd chip in for that.
Yes but he can say that because he's not in that position and it's not something we can ever verify.
To be fair, so can't I. It's hard to say what we'd really do. I'd like to think I'll have courage and be a true Patriot. (Capitalization intentional.) I'd like to think that I'd suffer the consequences stoically and with dignity. Hell, I spent eight years enlisted - I'd like to think I'd do the right thing, the right thing being deciding for myself if a request is moral or not and aiding or not depending on that judgment. In other words, given the types of scenarios that I'm envisioning - I'd like to think that I'd go to the media in a whole bunch of creative ways and provide as much documentation as I can.
At one point, I was willing to die for this country. I had a lot more to lose then than I do now. More importantly (to my mind) is that I was willing to kill for my country. Dieing is pretty easy, any fool can do it. Today? Today, I'm old and I've not actually got any real regrets. I don't have any major aspirations. I've done everything I've ever wanted to do, been everywhere I wanted to go, met everyone I want to meet, lived, laughed, loved, and cried. Death doesn't fear me but long and drawn out suffering scares the hell out of me.
I'd like to think that I'd do the right thing.
But will I?
Talk is cheap and neither him, you, nor I are there in that position. I don't really know what I'd do. I'd love to lie and say that I'm absolutely certain that I'll do the right thing, regardless of the costs. I can't say that. I won't say that. Should the time come, hopefully you'll know that I did the right thing. I'd like to think that my kids wouldn't mind, I'd like to think they'd be proud. They know where I stand on things like this or, more accurately, they know which side I'd like to think I'd stand on.
I don't drink anymore. At least not as a general rule. One of these days, we're going to have to sit down and have a beer or two so that I can pick your brain.
Or do you want to go back to the time of home-brew computers, and a slew of different architectures and operating systems with software only available on any one particular system in a hit or miss fashion?
Kind of... Sort of... Maybe? It had its charms, as you mentioned. I'd not want to drag everyone back there with me and I think that's the difference.
What's amusing is that was back when, RMS was really peeved about them putting passwords on the systems at MIT. (This is why he's against DRM.) He went on a crusade to get the users to leave the password field blank or to use the same passwords. Today, we've got all these people who rail against DRM and echo his sentiments - and none of them give me their passwords.
Don't get me wrong, RMS serves a very valuable function and I'm glad he exists. If there's one thing he is, it is pretty damned consistent. Well... Sort of... There are times and places where he has to cheat and have someone else do things that he himself will not do. You could say that's hypocritical of him and I'd be hard pressed to argue against it - but I'd say he's generally doing a pretty decent job at being his version of virtuous. Well, as you probably know, I'm a rather pragmatic person.;-)
I'm grateful for him. I have donated to the FSF but it's not that often that I do. I'm sure he's okay with it - I much prefer to donate to EFF and the ACLU. I'm not much for zealots even though I believe they help counter the zealots in the either direction.
It's easy to point out how the world might look if RMS had his way. However, can you imagine how the world would look had he not been on his crusade? I don't know what it would look like and I'm not about to pretend I do. I do suspect that it would be quite different than it is, had he not existed. Someone, however crazy, has to balance out the crazies on the other side. He's helped do that.
No, it was new in the box from her cell phone company. I didn't pay for it. And yeah, she still has the box. Well, no, now I have the box. She bought it last spring. It's the 4c it would appear. She got it from the cell phone company, new in the box, a little less than a year ago.
I've got ample compute devices, so it's not like I was going to pay for it. It was given to me as a gift because she thought I might like to play with it. She, and her two kids, are currently staying with my girlfriend and I. There's absolutely no motive for her to make this up. It looks like I can buy the same model on Amazon, maybe a few other places - also new in the box.
Yeah, I'm going to recompile it with HTTPS support. I'm not sure why I didn't do so the first time. I should probably ask 'em what kind of other switches are available. Who knows? Maybe there's something I can do to help. Probably not but it's an idea. I've got a ton of stuff on my plate at the moment so it's hard telling. Maybe I'll just send 'em a few bucks - they can get together and have pizza and beer on me.
It does look like an interesting project and like it has some good potential. I should ask about their tool chain and see if there's a way that I can take a look and maybe at least do a little something to help out. It'd almost certainly never be my main browser but there are many times when I'm just as happy with plain text and a few other features like having a mouse.
I do like elinks at times. I know... I'm not supposed to like it. I really do, it's great for sites with just plain text. I can pop it up in TTY and have a grand old time. I've even browsed/used/. with it - on more than one occasion. On the off-chance that you're unfamiliar with it, here's a link: http://elinks.cz/index.html
It's a lot like Lynx except you have a mouse. Well, there's no mouse if you're using it in TTY. Hmm... I wonder... You know... Lemme try something...:/ (This is how it always begins...)
Hmm... I think I can get GPM working and have a mouse in the virtual terminal. I am on a mission! *sighs* Yup, this is how it begins, every time.
> The TL;DR LEL millenial crowd can go fuck themselves.
Good.
As an aside: I'd have grown up to be a complete and total idiot (more so than I did) if I'd had those sorts of things as a kid. I'd have been nose to the phone, playing games, and generally inattentive and not bothering to learn anything because the information is already there - why learn how when I can just get the answer? I do wonder if there's going to be a long-term effect on society and if there might even be some physiological changes to the species because of this. I'm not much of a doom and gloom type of person and life always finds a way so I'm hoping that it is for the best.
> I think society implodes or explodes under repression long before that point is reached.
I'm very inclined to agree. I don't think we've achieved stability yet, I don't know if we ever will. I think we've got cycles and pendulum swings until humans exist no more. Not that long ago, I noticed you posting more frequently. I don't know if I noticed or if you started posting more frequently. So, take that for what you will. I'm one of those people that actually pays a bit of attention to who said what and sometimes names keep popping up. More on that in a minute, maybe...
> Not really a valid objection because if you have the power to delete, modify, or create law, then it's just a matter of convincing your fellow lawmakers that this is a good idea.
No, not so much meant as an objection, at least not by me. I'm thinking you mean not an objection that they can't overcome? If so, I quite agree. It's more a method of how open, rapid, and aggressive the changes might be. The fewer obstacles, the easier it will be. Much like the more we citizens are either content or fighting amongst ourselves, the easier it can be. There's really not a whole lot stopping people with enough power or wealth from doing anything they damned well please - assuming they're willing to really work at it.
Oddly, I don't believe criminal acts directly disqualify someone from being president of the United States. I know of no law that actually prevents that. We've been an oligarchy for a long time, the same can be said for the entire planet. I got lucky in life and sold my business for a rather healthy sum - as in, I retired at about the age of 50. I'm quite comfortable and grateful for it. However, not even I have enough money to buy a law or get away with murder - if caught. I might be able to scrounge up some assets that enable me to hide it better but I'd still end up in prison and be convicted, surely.
> You don't have to sell that to me. There's a reason I live in Panama, previously lived in Costa Rica, and in the Bahamas before that...:)
Ah, Panama. It's beautiful in parts. Since retiring, I've done a bunch of traveling. I'd already spent a bunch of time in Central/South America but I've spent more time since retiring. I'll actually be driving (probably) through your area in a month or so. I'll be going to Peru to give my son a hand. He's to borrow some money from me (I'd give it but then he's not earned it and I will not have inept children if I can help it) and he's to close on a small bar and hotel.
He's been living there for about a year now. I'd brought him down to Peru with me before and he got the chance to skip a semester and go there and collect plants for genome sequencing. He met a lovely native and he's not returned to school. I can't say that I blame him. Both she and he were up for the holidays - in fact, I had a few/.ers over to the house here for New Years Eve and we set off a bunch of fireworks and had a good celebration. It was kind of fun. It's not often that I get both him and my daughter at the same time as they're adults now and they've got things to do that are important to them.
I guess, I could just let 'em not work and support them but then what'd I be leaving behind? They both have small trusts so they won't starve. The kid's smart. In the US, he'd be doing "oka
Oh wow, no... LOL You probably didn't get that in history class. The Soviet Union was curb stomping Japan - and doing so on Japanese soil. Hell, they were still curb-stomping them after the war was official over. They took a half dozen of the smaller north-western islands as I recall? I'm not completely positive but I think they've still not given them back. They stomped down through Manchuria, on the other side, and the Japanese were strapping mines to themselves and charging tanks. There were untold skirmishes throughout the war. It goes back (at least) as far as Japan beating up Russia (pre-WWI) in the Russo-Japan war which was 1905 I think? I'd have to look it up, I'm not a historian. But yeah, the Russians were right pissed.
I presume they meant 'buffing' but that's because I'm in a friendly mood. I'm probably wrong and they're probably just friggin' idiots.
They're probably assuming rebuff means to buff again. Buff meaning to polish. I'm going to presume that it was just a typo that got auto-corrected or overlooked. But no, I'm probably wrong and they are just stupid.
Hmm... Now they've been rebuked! Their next article will tell about how they're going to buke someone or something. It could happen. I wonder if they rewaxed it before they rebuffed it?
I have, in my hand now, an iPhone 4. It's a model md200ll/a which I think is the 4c from Verizon. It's peaked at 7.1.2 and the lady I got it from assures me that it was purchased, new in box from the cell company, about a year ago.
How do I get the current version? I'm not using it as a phone or anything. I'm just playing with it before I donate it to Goodwill or something. I already have a phone.
> I'd be in support of a law in Canada prohibiting the sale of consumer devices with non-replaceable batteries.
Really? You'd disallow others to make the choice to buy one because you, yourself, don't like it? You'd impose your will on the rest of the Canadians and take away their liberty to purchase the product?
I am a Canadian citizen by grace of heritage. I spend quite a bit of time there and I'm normally within about 40 minutes from being on the Canadian side of the border. (My home is in NW, Maine and not far from the border.) Fortunately, I know zero Canadians who think like that.
I'm gonna give you a hand, however... I see you used "unique" in your username so I'm inclined to presume you believe yourself special. Seeing as you're so special, I've decided to help you out.
You can't just unilaterally take away people's liberties. They want the iPhone and that's got a sealed case. No, you have to convince them to change their mind. So, what you do is you point out all the evidence that shows (and this is easy enough to find) that a whole bunch of electronics don't end up being properly recycled, that they use rare Earth minerals in their construction, that they're bad for the environment so should be kept as long as possible, and things like that.
You convince them that they need to put a stop to the vendors who are perpetuating these abuses on Mother Nature.Nominally you've a liberal government right now, unless I missed something. I don't vote in Canadian elections even though I'm eligible to - I don't live there, it's not my call. You get a few pictures of the various disassembly processing plants (buildings in the slums) down in India, you get some stats about the concentrations of lithium, you point out the health-hazards as that can leech into the water supply, and you paint consumerism as bad and destroying the planet and that Canada needs to be first in the world to lead the way towards a cleaner, recycled, and reused future.
Now, normally I'd not help you out with this but my country's being really retarded on the whole liberties front. If you can just go ahead and get moving on that then it might take away some of the attention on my country and maybe we can get things settled down a bit down here. That way you can be the bad guys for once and take the heat off us.
So, there you go cupcake. Knock yourself out and take as many choices away from your fellow citizens as you can. You just gotta to it with a non-geeky way - it's very important to be environmentally aware. You can probably tie it in with GHG and climate change - the mining, shipping, and all that are increasing the levels of CO2. If people have batteries that are easy to replace then they'll be more inclined to keep their phone longer. Hell, for good measure, maybe you should limit them to buying a new phone only once every four years, just for that extra bit of authoritarianism. You'll do your country proud and maybe we can start having serious discussions about liberties down in the US.
How do you define, for this purpose, the term "flagship"? Is "flagship" limited to only certain vendors, OSes, or?
What, exactly, is "by 2017" supposed to mean? January 1, 2017 @ 00:00:01 or December 31, 2017 @ 23:59:59?
'Cause I *am* a betting man and there are a few acceptable escrow accounts online. Depending on how you define it, I might just be interested. I will need to vet the escrow service but any reputable service that you can think of is fine with me.
I'll be damned if I know what the future holds and you may well be right. It's not like I've any special insight into the industry. But, depending on how you're defining that - I'll be quite interested in taking that bet. I love a good bet.
Hmm... I'm trying to think of a politically correct way to say it... Hmm... Nope!
They were straight up evil bastards during WWII. That isolation and deprivation is something powerful, it really is. They were slowly gaining power, getting some hope, and being brainwashed from the top down - turned into not much more than animals. No, worse than most animals. Animals don't do that to each other, not on that level.
Shit, look at the Rape of Nanking... Look at what they did to all the residents/citizens on the islands... Look at how they treated POWs. A lot of people don't realize how much the US protected Japan after the war. Russia was REALLY mad but they had nothing on China - and then China was armed, well armed, and starting to get organized. Look at what they did to Korea... The Marshal Islands, etc... All the way through the atolls, they committed atrocities.
Yet, many are in denial. I don't think that's healthy. I'm not, by any means, suggesting we hold the sons accountable for the sins of their father. I am saying that being in denial and not being open about it is not a good sign. Then, it's not just the old folks who do the ancestor worship thing. There's a whole new generation. If you ever see the pictures of when they do their little ceremony, for a while it was just aging people but now I see more and more young faces at those pictures every few years when they show new ones. (I don't know the name of the ceremony or anything.)
I don't think it's a resurgence but I think it's unhealthy and a little depressing. Japan's starting to have some trouble financially but they're not doing too bad - yet. Add threats of military action against them and I really, really think it's time to pay a little more attention to them to ensure it can't happen again. Like you, and this is not politically correct, I'm not ready to assume that they're "over it." I'm not willing to accept that it can't or won't happen again. (At least that's what I took from your reply, pardon me if I am mistaken.)
It's a bit like Germany... No, not at all. No, we will not stop observing you. Not now, ask us again in another hundred and fifty years and we'll think about it. It's like the people who say the Marines need to get off Okinawa. Sorry, no. That's our's. We'll be keeping a good eye on Iwo too. We'll let you hold onto them both in name but one wrong move and we're taking them. We gave too much for them and were put in a position where we had to take them. They belong to us now.
I come from a long line of Marines and served for eight years (double dippin' the GI Bill, had to back then) and the ones who were not Marines were in the Navy - except for a few scattered in the Army. I still remember. My son still remembers. His son will still remember. When we forget, then you can have that land back both in name and control. Until then, they will not be given complete autonomy without oversight.
Right now, they're doing sort of good. I think they need to stick with just a defense force. We'll protect them, we're okay with that. They can help us protect them. When they stop worshiping war criminals, we'll talk. Germany, oddly, has a head start. They've done fairly well at keeping themselves in check. That's a far cry from STATE ACTORS placing fucking wreaths in memory of FUCKING WAR CRIMINALS!
Err... No, no I'm *not* going to edit that out. I lost family in two battles on the Pacific and one on Tarawa, I lost family in the POW camps on my mother's side. I'd probably be okay with it if they'd have actually really been apologetic (and I do not mean overly so - they were brainwashed most of them and the ones that weren't died after a trial or went to prison and served their time), changed their behaviors and, I don't know, quit worshiping of war-fucking-criminals.
Well, this is longer than I expected. Sorry but I don't speak about it often. It's not PC and my job isn't to piss people off or educate them. I'm here to learn and converse. I also like a good debate. I'm not sure that I'd be the best
Hmm... It's tempting... I've an affinity for writing long responses. I don't think I will but you have been duly warned. Let me see...
No, I think it can be short. Your post makes me think of this which is both directly related and tangentially related, all at the same time!
There is, I should think, a finite number of laws that need making. Yet, the job of legislatures is to craft and vote on new legislation. It's tempting to wax philosophically about where that line is best drawn but I think most rational people can conclude that there's a finite number of laws that should be needed in a free society. We could argue that we need more, we could argue that we need fewer, or we can wonder - what the hell are they supposed to do with themselves after they've run out of laws to write?
I'd like to think that the laws, perhaps not specific individual regulations concerning finer details like particular OSHA standards, could fit in a five subject, college-ruled, notebook. I mean, really... How many damned laws do we need?
But, rather than debate where that line should be - it's fairly self-evident that there's a line - somewhere... There's gotta be, I don't care how much of an authoritarian one is (that is *NOT* an accusation directed towards you or anyone else), eventually you've progressed or regressed enough to where you don't need any more regulations.
I don't think we're set up for that. Which gets to your point - which is a valid point, I think.
On any given day, the government (even in the US) could probably decide to adjust the value of the currency without much trouble at all. I'm not even sure if there's much that we can do about it until another election cycle has hit. The elected officials would have to work together. They might not be able to say that the current currency is no longer valid and give an exchange (like Germany after WWII when they moved to the Deutschmark [?]) but I don't think there are any Constitutional protections that stop them from just saying, "To hell with it. We're printing 10 trillion dollars."
Now, the idea is absurd - but is there anything *legal* preventing them from doing so?
As an aside: I know i don't know everything so I consulted, lots and lots of consulting, a financial advisor and investment manager when I sold my business. One of the things discussed and acted on was diversification of assets (as well as tax avoidance - which is not evasion and is legal) and it's actually rather important to protect your assets against stuff like that. At first, it can actually cost money but putting some in varied accounts in different banks is important. Then, you don't put all of it to work for you, you invest in hard assets or even leave currency in safe deposit boxes. You toss some into markets that are slow and stable but not in the US (or your home country). I did not realize it was that complicated and that important. One of the reasons is to ensure that you're protecting "wealth" instead of protecting "currency."
Alright, so it's kind of a novella. 'Snot too long.
I like your sig.;-) I write novellas on a very regular basis. (See comment history if curious.)
However, I'll spare you - this once.
My current position of a year hired me as a LAMP stack programmer, then revealed they effectively have 0 server access, and need all this junk developed in javascript
Umm... How the hell does that even happen? A bit more specifically, the "0 server" access part is also intriguing.
Oddly enough, that's what I thought the article linked to at first. Then I noticed the URL was not that. I actually find that site pretty handy at times.
There are often little gems that I've never heard about. (I do not, in fact, know everything.) That's a pretty good site for finding interesting alternatives or replacements. I'd think that it might make a good bookmark for people who are considering switching from Windows to Linux. There are countless little projects, with varied stages of success, and that's a good starting point to find options.
I'd kind of like to find one that has alternatives to scripts - like PHP scripts. I've not yet come across one that's all that compelling or complete. Being able to find alternative CMS, blog platforms, forums, mailing list, or others would be pretty handy. There are a few sites like that but none seem all that well done or complete.
Well, no... The goodwill is wearing thin. Them doing something like that to garner goodwill does not seem to be likely.
Gotta be frank, I really don't think Google gives a shit any more. They've got what they want and they're now huge. They're no longer nimble. They're no longer worried about a future. They went from having a six month plan to having a fifteen year plan. A few broken eggs along the way, when we humans are such shortsighted fools with attention deficit, means little to them in the grand scheme of things.
Oh, I have it installed. I've been using it, off and on, since an early beta. I'm not that fond of it. I just can't really like it, try as I might. It also has a show-stopper bug for me on a couple of different computers and I've described both the problem and given them the solution but they've failed to implement it and seem inclined to not acknowledge it.
So, no Vivaldi for me yet but I have hope. It works fine on several systems but fails in some VMs and fails on bare metal with two different (fairly modern but not bleeding edge) GPUs. I can start it from the terminal with the switch to disable GPU compositing. It works fine. They've failed to put the damned switch in the settings. I'm less than impressed. I've given up on bringing it to their attention. The same thing happens on those same boxes with Chromium and Opera. I just hit the switch, the problem goes away. I can start them all with the terminal and switch and the problem goes away. Just put the damned button there - it's based on Chromium, they had to physically alter the code to remove it. Put it back.
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http://sourcecode.opera.com/
Block scripting and don't use Tor like a proxy? Stay on domain names that end with .onion. Don't use it on "clearnet" for anything. Do not let scripting run unless you're damned sure you can trust them or you really want that access. Tor's actually still really safe so long as the user reasonably smart about practicing safe hex. Just because it blocks some things does not mean it blocks everything. The user still needs to watch out for data spillage.
Alright. The last time (about a week ago) I mentioned it, I was told it was a 4c. I'm only poking at it 'cause I'd never tried to play with an iPhone before and the lady wanted to give me something for other reasons and probably not reasons you might expect. (She knows that I'll almost certainly donate it.)
Whichever that model is, 4 I guess, is what it is and it was new in the package a year ago, slightly less. "Around last May." It's a Verizon phone. That much I know. Anything else and I don't have a clue. I've owned a couple of iPads and a few iPods. It appears like it's a fairly nice phone. It's sturdy, fast enough, and the OS isn't horrible. I've not made a phone call with it and I probably never will.
It must be the 4 because I checked (again) and it's not letting me go past that update. That's too bad. I was curious about playing some more. I don't have iTunes but I guess I could get a copy of Windows and install it in a VM. If it's that old then maybe, just maybe, I can get an older 32 bit iTunes and run it in WINE.
Ah well... It's pretty snappy. I've a newer Windows phone (odd, I know) and it's pretty much as quick as that is. I've never been an Apple hater or anything - and have often stood up for them and, by weird circumstance, I've probably personally paid for more Apple products than anyone here (long story). I've never really spent much time with OS X or even iOS. iOS is not it's fault - that's because I hate tablets and keep trying new ones. OS X I don't mind but I find it unintuitive.
Which is a long roundabout way to say that I'm able to understand why people might prefer it as a phone. I've been curious but never bothered to verify. There are legitimate reasons to prefer it as a phone OS. I do not prefer it but it's a fine OS - assuming calls are good quality.
I'm also pretty sure that I'm not the best judge for mobile devices. I've gone through a couple of dozen of the slate tablets and not liked any of them and I use a Windows 8 phone. I don't just use a Windows phone, I like it. So, I might not be a good judge but so far it's not bad at all.
I have seen some of the most unusual claims about the law here on Slashdot. Everything from, "Beyond all doubt." to, "They didn't read me the 5th when they gave me that speeding ticket!"
One of my favorites is the "fiduciary duty." That one gets completely mangled. The 4th, 2nd, and 5th get mangled quite bit. Oh, the 1st gets mangled a lot. Right here on Slashdot, during the Reddit thing a while back, someone was claiming that Reddit's censorship was illegal.
I am not a lawyer but it's be awesome if we could find one and ask 'em to give us some lessons in law, procedural law, jargon, and things like that. Also, financial advice - or at least taking the time to explain how it works so that people can get a good idea about how to protect themselves, that should be done.
As for the legal aspects, people should know what protections they have and what protections they don't actually have that they think they do. Maybe we can find a judge that has done a bunch of work on cases involving tech and get them to do an Ask Slashdot. I think we'll need a whole lot more than 10 questions as the limit. Hmm... Maybe we can hire a lawyer and have them answer generic questions. I'd chip in for that.
Yes but he can say that because he's not in that position and it's not something we can ever verify.
To be fair, so can't I. It's hard to say what we'd really do. I'd like to think I'll have courage and be a true Patriot. (Capitalization intentional.) I'd like to think that I'd suffer the consequences stoically and with dignity. Hell, I spent eight years enlisted - I'd like to think I'd do the right thing, the right thing being deciding for myself if a request is moral or not and aiding or not depending on that judgment. In other words, given the types of scenarios that I'm envisioning - I'd like to think that I'd go to the media in a whole bunch of creative ways and provide as much documentation as I can.
At one point, I was willing to die for this country. I had a lot more to lose then than I do now. More importantly (to my mind) is that I was willing to kill for my country. Dieing is pretty easy, any fool can do it. Today? Today, I'm old and I've not actually got any real regrets. I don't have any major aspirations. I've done everything I've ever wanted to do, been everywhere I wanted to go, met everyone I want to meet, lived, laughed, loved, and cried. Death doesn't fear me but long and drawn out suffering scares the hell out of me.
I'd like to think that I'd do the right thing.
But will I?
Talk is cheap and neither him, you, nor I are there in that position. I don't really know what I'd do. I'd love to lie and say that I'm absolutely certain that I'll do the right thing, regardless of the costs. I can't say that. I won't say that. Should the time come, hopefully you'll know that I did the right thing. I'd like to think that my kids wouldn't mind, I'd like to think they'd be proud. They know where I stand on things like this or, more accurately, they know which side I'd like to think I'd stand on.
I don't drink anymore. At least not as a general rule. One of these days, we're going to have to sit down and have a beer or two so that I can pick your brain.
I point out the problems with my country not because I hate it but because I love it.
Or do you want to go back to the time of home-brew computers, and a slew of different architectures and operating systems with software only available on any one particular system in a hit or miss fashion?
Kind of... Sort of... Maybe? It had its charms, as you mentioned. I'd not want to drag everyone back there with me and I think that's the difference.
What's amusing is that was back when, RMS was really peeved about them putting passwords on the systems at MIT. (This is why he's against DRM.) He went on a crusade to get the users to leave the password field blank or to use the same passwords. Today, we've got all these people who rail against DRM and echo his sentiments - and none of them give me their passwords.
Don't get me wrong, RMS serves a very valuable function and I'm glad he exists. If there's one thing he is, it is pretty damned consistent. Well... Sort of... There are times and places where he has to cheat and have someone else do things that he himself will not do. You could say that's hypocritical of him and I'd be hard pressed to argue against it - but I'd say he's generally doing a pretty decent job at being his version of virtuous. Well, as you probably know, I'm a rather pragmatic person. ;-)
I'm grateful for him. I have donated to the FSF but it's not that often that I do. I'm sure he's okay with it - I much prefer to donate to EFF and the ACLU. I'm not much for zealots even though I believe they help counter the zealots in the either direction.
It's easy to point out how the world might look if RMS had his way. However, can you imagine how the world would look had he not been on his crusade? I don't know what it would look like and I'm not about to pretend I do. I do suspect that it would be quite different than it is, had he not existed. Someone, however crazy, has to balance out the crazies on the other side. He's helped do that.
No, it was new in the box from her cell phone company. I didn't pay for it. And yeah, she still has the box. Well, no, now I have the box. She bought it last spring. It's the 4c it would appear. She got it from the cell phone company, new in the box, a little less than a year ago.
I've got ample compute devices, so it's not like I was going to pay for it. It was given to me as a gift because she thought I might like to play with it. She, and her two kids, are currently staying with my girlfriend and I. There's absolutely no motive for her to make this up. It looks like I can buy the same model on Amazon, maybe a few other places - also new in the box.
Yeah, I'm going to recompile it with HTTPS support. I'm not sure why I didn't do so the first time. I should probably ask 'em what kind of other switches are available. Who knows? Maybe there's something I can do to help. Probably not but it's an idea. I've got a ton of stuff on my plate at the moment so it's hard telling. Maybe I'll just send 'em a few bucks - they can get together and have pizza and beer on me.
It does look like an interesting project and like it has some good potential. I should ask about their tool chain and see if there's a way that I can take a look and maybe at least do a little something to help out. It'd almost certainly never be my main browser but there are many times when I'm just as happy with plain text and a few other features like having a mouse.
I do like elinks at times. I know... I'm not supposed to like it. I really do, it's great for sites with just plain text. I can pop it up in TTY and have a grand old time. I've even browsed/used /. with it - on more than one occasion. On the off-chance that you're unfamiliar with it, here's a link:
http://elinks.cz/index.html
It's a lot like Lynx except you have a mouse. Well, there's no mouse if you're using it in TTY. Hmm... I wonder... You know... Lemme try something... :/ (This is how it always begins...)
Hmm... I think I can get GPM working and have a mouse in the virtual terminal. I am on a mission! *sighs* Yup, this is how it begins, every time.
> The TL;DR LEL millenial crowd can go fuck themselves.
Good.
As an aside: I'd have grown up to be a complete and total idiot (more so than I did) if I'd had those sorts of things as a kid. I'd have been nose to the phone, playing games, and generally inattentive and not bothering to learn anything because the information is already there - why learn how when I can just get the answer? I do wonder if there's going to be a long-term effect on society and if there might even be some physiological changes to the species because of this. I'm not much of a doom and gloom type of person and life always finds a way so I'm hoping that it is for the best.
> I think society implodes or explodes under repression long before that point is reached.
I'm very inclined to agree. I don't think we've achieved stability yet, I don't know if we ever will. I think we've got cycles and pendulum swings until humans exist no more. Not that long ago, I noticed you posting more frequently. I don't know if I noticed or if you started posting more frequently. So, take that for what you will. I'm one of those people that actually pays a bit of attention to who said what and sometimes names keep popping up. More on that in a minute, maybe...
> Not really a valid objection because if you have the power to delete, modify, or create law, then it's just a matter of convincing your fellow lawmakers that this is a good idea.
No, not so much meant as an objection, at least not by me. I'm thinking you mean not an objection that they can't overcome? If so, I quite agree. It's more a method of how open, rapid, and aggressive the changes might be. The fewer obstacles, the easier it will be. Much like the more we citizens are either content or fighting amongst ourselves, the easier it can be. There's really not a whole lot stopping people with enough power or wealth from doing anything they damned well please - assuming they're willing to really work at it.
Oddly, I don't believe criminal acts directly disqualify someone from being president of the United States. I know of no law that actually prevents that. We've been an oligarchy for a long time, the same can be said for the entire planet. I got lucky in life and sold my business for a rather healthy sum - as in, I retired at about the age of 50. I'm quite comfortable and grateful for it. However, not even I have enough money to buy a law or get away with murder - if caught. I might be able to scrounge up some assets that enable me to hide it better but I'd still end up in prison and be convicted, surely.
> You don't have to sell that to me. There's a reason I live in Panama, previously lived in Costa Rica, and in the Bahamas before that... :)
Ah, Panama. It's beautiful in parts. Since retiring, I've done a bunch of traveling. I'd already spent a bunch of time in Central/South America but I've spent more time since retiring. I'll actually be driving (probably) through your area in a month or so. I'll be going to Peru to give my son a hand. He's to borrow some money from me (I'd give it but then he's not earned it and I will not have inept children if I can help it) and he's to close on a small bar and hotel.
He's been living there for about a year now. I'd brought him down to Peru with me before and he got the chance to skip a semester and go there and collect plants for genome sequencing. He met a lovely native and he's not returned to school. I can't say that I blame him. Both she and he were up for the holidays - in fact, I had a few /.ers over to the house here for New Years Eve and we set off a bunch of fireworks and had a good celebration. It was kind of fun. It's not often that I get both him and my daughter at the same time as they're adults now and they've got things to do that are important to them.
I guess, I could just let 'em not work and support them but then what'd I be leaving behind? They both have small trusts so they won't starve. The kid's smart. In the US, he'd be doing "oka
Oh wow, no... LOL You probably didn't get that in history class. The Soviet Union was curb stomping Japan - and doing so on Japanese soil. Hell, they were still curb-stomping them after the war was official over. They took a half dozen of the smaller north-western islands as I recall? I'm not completely positive but I think they've still not given them back. They stomped down through Manchuria, on the other side, and the Japanese were strapping mines to themselves and charging tanks. There were untold skirmishes throughout the war. It goes back (at least) as far as Japan beating up Russia (pre-WWI) in the Russo-Japan war which was 1905 I think? I'd have to look it up, I'm not a historian. But yeah, the Russians were right pissed.
I presume they meant 'buffing' but that's because I'm in a friendly mood. I'm probably wrong and they're probably just friggin' idiots.
They're probably assuming rebuff means to buff again. Buff meaning to polish. I'm going to presume that it was just a typo that got auto-corrected or overlooked. But no, I'm probably wrong and they are just stupid.
Hmm... Now they've been rebuked! Their next article will tell about how they're going to buke someone or something. It could happen. I wonder if they rewaxed it before they rebuffed it?
Alright, I'll get my coat and see myself out!
I have, in my hand now, an iPhone 4. It's a model md200ll/a which I think is the 4c from Verizon. It's peaked at 7.1.2 and the lady I got it from assures me that it was purchased, new in box from the cell company, about a year ago.
How do I get the current version? I'm not using it as a phone or anything. I'm just playing with it before I donate it to Goodwill or something. I already have a phone.
> I'd be in support of a law in Canada prohibiting the sale of consumer devices with non-replaceable batteries.
Really? You'd disallow others to make the choice to buy one because you, yourself, don't like it? You'd impose your will on the rest of the Canadians and take away their liberty to purchase the product?
I am a Canadian citizen by grace of heritage. I spend quite a bit of time there and I'm normally within about 40 minutes from being on the Canadian side of the border. (My home is in NW, Maine and not far from the border.) Fortunately, I know zero Canadians who think like that.
I'm gonna give you a hand, however... I see you used "unique" in your username so I'm inclined to presume you believe yourself special. Seeing as you're so special, I've decided to help you out.
You can't just unilaterally take away people's liberties. They want the iPhone and that's got a sealed case. No, you have to convince them to change their mind. So, what you do is you point out all the evidence that shows (and this is easy enough to find) that a whole bunch of electronics don't end up being properly recycled, that they use rare Earth minerals in their construction, that they're bad for the environment so should be kept as long as possible, and things like that.
You convince them that they need to put a stop to the vendors who are perpetuating these abuses on Mother Nature.Nominally you've a liberal government right now, unless I missed something. I don't vote in Canadian elections even though I'm eligible to - I don't live there, it's not my call. You get a few pictures of the various disassembly processing plants (buildings in the slums) down in India, you get some stats about the concentrations of lithium, you point out the health-hazards as that can leech into the water supply, and you paint consumerism as bad and destroying the planet and that Canada needs to be first in the world to lead the way towards a cleaner, recycled, and reused future.
Now, normally I'd not help you out with this but my country's being really retarded on the whole liberties front. If you can just go ahead and get moving on that then it might take away some of the attention on my country and maybe we can get things settled down a bit down here. That way you can be the bad guys for once and take the heat off us.
So, there you go cupcake. Knock yourself out and take as many choices away from your fellow citizens as you can. You just gotta to it with a non-geeky way - it's very important to be environmentally aware. You can probably tie it in with GHG and climate change - the mining, shipping, and all that are increasing the levels of CO2. If people have batteries that are easy to replace then they'll be more inclined to keep their phone longer. Hell, for good measure, maybe you should limit them to buying a new phone only once every four years, just for that extra bit of authoritarianism. You'll do your country proud and maybe we can start having serious discussions about liberties down in the US.
How do you define, for this purpose, the term "flagship"? Is "flagship" limited to only certain vendors, OSes, or?
What, exactly, is "by 2017" supposed to mean? January 1, 2017 @ 00:00:01 or December 31, 2017 @ 23:59:59?
'Cause I *am* a betting man and there are a few acceptable escrow accounts online. Depending on how you define it, I might just be interested. I will need to vet the escrow service but any reputable service that you can think of is fine with me.
I'll be damned if I know what the future holds and you may well be right. It's not like I've any special insight into the industry. But, depending on how you're defining that - I'll be quite interested in taking that bet. I love a good bet.
Hmm... I'm trying to think of a politically correct way to say it... Hmm... Nope!
They were straight up evil bastards during WWII. That isolation and deprivation is something powerful, it really is. They were slowly gaining power, getting some hope, and being brainwashed from the top down - turned into not much more than animals. No, worse than most animals. Animals don't do that to each other, not on that level.
Shit, look at the Rape of Nanking... Look at what they did to all the residents/citizens on the islands... Look at how they treated POWs. A lot of people don't realize how much the US protected Japan after the war. Russia was REALLY mad but they had nothing on China - and then China was armed, well armed, and starting to get organized. Look at what they did to Korea... The Marshal Islands, etc... All the way through the atolls, they committed atrocities.
Yet, many are in denial. I don't think that's healthy. I'm not, by any means, suggesting we hold the sons accountable for the sins of their father. I am saying that being in denial and not being open about it is not a good sign. Then, it's not just the old folks who do the ancestor worship thing. There's a whole new generation. If you ever see the pictures of when they do their little ceremony, for a while it was just aging people but now I see more and more young faces at those pictures every few years when they show new ones. (I don't know the name of the ceremony or anything.)
I don't think it's a resurgence but I think it's unhealthy and a little depressing. Japan's starting to have some trouble financially but they're not doing too bad - yet. Add threats of military action against them and I really, really think it's time to pay a little more attention to them to ensure it can't happen again. Like you, and this is not politically correct, I'm not ready to assume that they're "over it." I'm not willing to accept that it can't or won't happen again. (At least that's what I took from your reply, pardon me if I am mistaken.)
It's a bit like Germany... No, not at all. No, we will not stop observing you. Not now, ask us again in another hundred and fifty years and we'll think about it. It's like the people who say the Marines need to get off Okinawa. Sorry, no. That's our's. We'll be keeping a good eye on Iwo too. We'll let you hold onto them both in name but one wrong move and we're taking them. We gave too much for them and were put in a position where we had to take them. They belong to us now.
I come from a long line of Marines and served for eight years (double dippin' the GI Bill, had to back then) and the ones who were not Marines were in the Navy - except for a few scattered in the Army. I still remember. My son still remembers. His son will still remember. When we forget, then you can have that land back both in name and control. Until then, they will not be given complete autonomy without oversight.
Right now, they're doing sort of good. I think they need to stick with just a defense force. We'll protect them, we're okay with that. They can help us protect them. When they stop worshiping war criminals, we'll talk. Germany, oddly, has a head start. They've done fairly well at keeping themselves in check. That's a far cry from STATE ACTORS placing fucking wreaths in memory of FUCKING WAR CRIMINALS!
Err... No, no I'm *not* going to edit that out. I lost family in two battles on the Pacific and one on Tarawa, I lost family in the POW camps on my mother's side. I'd probably be okay with it if they'd have actually really been apologetic (and I do not mean overly so - they were brainwashed most of them and the ones that weren't died after a trial or went to prison and served their time), changed their behaviors and, I don't know, quit worshiping of war-fucking-criminals.
Well, this is longer than I expected. Sorry but I don't speak about it often. It's not PC and my job isn't to piss people off or educate them. I'm here to learn and converse. I also like a good debate. I'm not sure that I'd be the best
Hmm... It's tempting... I've an affinity for writing long responses. I don't think I will but you have been duly warned. Let me see...
No, I think it can be short. Your post makes me think of this which is both directly related and tangentially related, all at the same time!
There is, I should think, a finite number of laws that need making. Yet, the job of legislatures is to craft and vote on new legislation. It's tempting to wax philosophically about where that line is best drawn but I think most rational people can conclude that there's a finite number of laws that should be needed in a free society. We could argue that we need more, we could argue that we need fewer, or we can wonder - what the hell are they supposed to do with themselves after they've run out of laws to write?
I'd like to think that the laws, perhaps not specific individual regulations concerning finer details like particular OSHA standards, could fit in a five subject, college-ruled, notebook. I mean, really... How many damned laws do we need?
But, rather than debate where that line should be - it's fairly self-evident that there's a line - somewhere... There's gotta be, I don't care how much of an authoritarian one is (that is *NOT* an accusation directed towards you or anyone else), eventually you've progressed or regressed enough to where you don't need any more regulations.
I don't think we're set up for that. Which gets to your point - which is a valid point, I think.
On any given day, the government (even in the US) could probably decide to adjust the value of the currency without much trouble at all. I'm not even sure if there's much that we can do about it until another election cycle has hit. The elected officials would have to work together. They might not be able to say that the current currency is no longer valid and give an exchange (like Germany after WWII when they moved to the Deutschmark [?]) but I don't think there are any Constitutional protections that stop them from just saying, "To hell with it. We're printing 10 trillion dollars."
Now, the idea is absurd - but is there anything *legal* preventing them from doing so?
As an aside: I know i don't know everything so I consulted, lots and lots of consulting, a financial advisor and investment manager when I sold my business. One of the things discussed and acted on was diversification of assets (as well as tax avoidance - which is not evasion and is legal) and it's actually rather important to protect your assets against stuff like that. At first, it can actually cost money but putting some in varied accounts in different banks is important. Then, you don't put all of it to work for you, you invest in hard assets or even leave currency in safe deposit boxes. You toss some into markets that are slow and stable but not in the US (or your home country). I did not realize it was that complicated and that important. One of the reasons is to ensure that you're protecting "wealth" instead of protecting "currency."
Alright, so it's kind of a novella. 'Snot too long.
I love me some Moxie. Moxie, instead of root beer, floats are awesome. That is all.
I like your sig. ;-) I write novellas on a very regular basis. (See comment history if curious.)
However, I'll spare you - this once.
My current position of a year hired me as a LAMP stack programmer, then revealed they effectively have 0 server access, and need all this junk developed in javascript
Umm... How the hell does that even happen? A bit more specifically, the "0 server" access part is also intriguing.
You can't just say that and then not fill in the blanks...
I've used XNView on Windows in the past. Their Linux version is shit but their Windows version is kind of awesome.
Oddly enough, that's what I thought the article linked to at first. Then I noticed the URL was not that. I actually find that site pretty handy at times.
There are often little gems that I've never heard about. (I do not, in fact, know everything.) That's a pretty good site for finding interesting alternatives or replacements. I'd think that it might make a good bookmark for people who are considering switching from Windows to Linux. There are countless little projects, with varied stages of success, and that's a good starting point to find options.
I'd kind of like to find one that has alternatives to scripts - like PHP scripts. I've not yet come across one that's all that compelling or complete. Being able to find alternative CMS, blog platforms, forums, mailing list, or others would be pretty handy. There are a few sites like that but none seem all that well done or complete.
Apparently not.
Well, no... The goodwill is wearing thin. Them doing something like that to garner goodwill does not seem to be likely.
Gotta be frank, I really don't think Google gives a shit any more. They've got what they want and they're now huge. They're no longer nimble. They're no longer worried about a future. They went from having a six month plan to having a fifteen year plan. A few broken eggs along the way, when we humans are such shortsighted fools with attention deficit, means little to them in the grand scheme of things.
Hopefully, I'm completely wrong.
Oh, I have it installed. I've been using it, off and on, since an early beta. I'm not that fond of it. I just can't really like it, try as I might. It also has a show-stopper bug for me on a couple of different computers and I've described both the problem and given them the solution but they've failed to implement it and seem inclined to not acknowledge it.
So, no Vivaldi for me yet but I have hope. It works fine on several systems but fails in some VMs and fails on bare metal with two different (fairly modern but not bleeding edge) GPUs. I can start it from the terminal with the switch to disable GPU compositing. It works fine. They've failed to put the damned switch in the settings. I'm less than impressed. I've given up on bringing it to their attention. The same thing happens on those same boxes with Chromium and Opera. I just hit the switch, the problem goes away. I can start them all with the terminal and switch and the problem goes away. Just put the damned button there - it's based on Chromium, they had to physically alter the code to remove it. Put it back.