I am not logged in but, in a recent thread, I went to Google and poked around. You can include emoji in URLs now! It is awesome. Well, useless but neat. I found one that had a hot dog in it.
Note the bottom-most symbol (a pear). Note the URL. It's got the pear in it! No, no, I don't have anything salient to say but I had not been keeping up on such developments and was kind of surprised to see it and I amused myself with it for far longer than is probably healthy. But, I had fun.
(Screw it, I logged in. Now to unpack the rest of my stuff.)
Caveat: I don't own a Windows computer and haven't used Windows 10 for more than five minutes. However, I read that you could install the drivers in safe mode and change the settings from within safe mode and that they'd stick. The person that mentioned it, here on this site, is a fairly reputable person.
This logical fallacy is repeated so frequently that I think it needs its own name. I think "appello propter indispositionem" (appeal to ineptness) or "appellare multiplicitate" (appeal to complexity) are both appropriate. It's too complicated, we can't possibly be right! It's too hard, there's no way that's possible!
Do you actually understand what you're speaking about? Dark matter is not, absolutely, any one thing. Dark matter is a reference to something we're unable to view and can only speculate about. Dark matter exists, by default, because we can not see it and we can demonstrate and measure that we're not seeing something. What that something is, is open to speculation. However, dark matter absolutely does exist. We can't see it - that's WHY we call it dark matter. It's there. We can measure and tell it is there. We speculate as to what it is but only a few overeager journalists are making statements about this being definitive. Everyone else knows that it is speculation - except for you.
Do you even science? I'm not even a scientist (my degree is in mathematics) and even *I* know this. Well, I guess, for some definitions, I am a scientist but I don't think of myself as one. I've done very few lawful or not-sexually-related things while wearing a lab coat, for example. I'm certainly not an astrophysicist. But even *I* understand this. No, dark matter does - by very nature of what it means - exist. We know it exists. We have some working models that try to explain it but they're not completely working yet so I guess we could call them half-working models. These speculations are based on those models and we'll use those models until someone proposes something better to explain the unaccounted gravitational effects that we can not see but can measure the effects of.
Again, we call it DARK MATTER because it exists and we can measure it but we can not see it. Because we can not see it, it's called DARK MATTER. (I'm pretty sure of this, at any rate - the disclaimer about my not being an astrophysicist is completely and obviously true.)
I mean, yeah, there are competing models that include things like this all being a 2D model and we're living in a hologram and thus are holograms ourselves but we don't really take those guys very seriously because they're more akin to God-botherers than they are akin to scientists. If you've got a compelling theory to explain this and maybe some maths to back it up, I'm sure they'll be happy to read your paper. Given that you don't actually seem to know what dark matter is and why we call it that and how we know it's there then I'm not actually sure how well your paper will make it through the peer-review cycle.
Is it a full moon or something?:/ Meh... Maybe it is me who's missing something. That could be true but I'm pretty sure that Brian Cox explained this nicely. I think even Morgan Freeman's gabbed about it but he's just reading a script. The little Asian guy from the college in has spoken about it too.
This... It's being skipped because it's tied in with EUFI. Disable fast boot in system settings (it's somewhere in there, I don't know where but the question gets asked every single day on the various forums) and then, if it still isn't showing grub, boot to a live disk and run `sudo update-grub` and it will figure it out on its own. On the off-chance that it doesn't then get a copy of boot-repair and that should do it. If it *still* doesn't work then just edit the damned config file by hand, save it, and then run the update-grub command.
This question is asked so often that I, someone who doesn't even have Windows installed on anything other than a phone, know the answer to it - or at least where to find the answer. Google "dual boot Windows 10 and Linux" and you'll get step-by-step directions on the first page. Jump in at the correct place or use the search as a jump-off point and add the words repair, uefi, and swap out Linux for your distro of choice. I'm pretty sure you can have a Linux install that doesn't even *have* a live OS variant and still use a live disk from *any* vendor and `sudo update-grub` will still work.
LOL You're frothing at the mouth again Mac's. They did not claim that OS X was currently doing so specifically, only that they were headed there. And, really, I guess it was a question. Apple's a big company, you don't have to defend 'em. We know all about 'em. You don't have a decent free firewall for OS X? That kind of sucks. Even Windows has one and it's not too bad these days from my understanding. Well, assuming you don't want to block Microsoft's telemetry gathering.
Anyhow, spyware to me means that you didn't consent to it. The users consented to, clicked through at least, the EULA which I'm pretty sure informed them that Microsoft would be collecting data and that they would be trying to do so - even if you didn't want them to do so. That makes them assholes, not necessarily spyware. I believe you'll find Siri collects similar data if you want full functionality. (They kind of have to send your inputs to the 'net to find your content. Hell, I *also* seem to recall a post from the other day that mentioned that if you didn't pay for the music service that you couldn't search for music - I don't know how valid that is, some subscription thingy for the Apple Music Store or whatever they called it.)
Either way, yeah, you'll probably find your OS is in a similar situation soon enough. That will suck and hopefully Apple doesn't go that route but greater features often need more data to properly implement them. But, equally important, Apple's got plenty of ads out there - you don't really *need* to defend them against perceived slights. They'll be okay.;-) They make some good stuff, hopefully they keep it that way. Trends suggest otherwise but there's hope. I'm off in Linux-land so I'm not terribly concerned but it may come to my end as well - some applications already request telemetry data and there's some data being sent out in a default configuration of Ubuntu. At least you and I are more able to disable that stuff, for now, than the Windows users.
But, again, they did consent to being tracked. They might not like that they did. They might not have been smart enough to read the EULA and understand it. But, they certainly gave consent either explicit or implied. My understanding is that a decent software firewall (not from Microsoft) is enough to block any leaking data. Agnitum's Outpost Personal Firewall is one that I am, shall we say, intimately familiar with so Windows users can consider this a blatant plug for their software but I am not, directly, financially affiliated with the company or the software.
Post SP1 made Vista into a serviceable operating system. I used it, happily, for quite some time. Once SP1 was released and installed there were a few boxes, later on, that I never felt compelled to even bother upgrading to 7. I wasn't fond of 8 or 8.1. I have about five minutes of very casual button poking on Windows 10 and that's the extent of it.
I use Linux. I'd always kept it installed on a second partition, for the most part, since the late 1990s but I never gave it the attention it deserved. So, I just stopped using Windows as my OS, even in dual boot configuration, because if I kept doing so then I'd never take the time to learn more about Linux. I'll likely return to Windows in the distant future, probably years from now, but I've never really hated an OS from anyone except for the 8 and 8.1 versions. They were salvageable but it was never worth doing so as I had Vista and 7 available.
Infinity is a concept that has absolutely no relevance in the real world. People have actually gone insane trying to figure out the principles of infinity. I strongly suggest you not do so. If you insist then, well, what is one half of infinity? Infinity is impossible. Not even the all the atoms in the universe are infinite. Not even the love of your first born child is infinite. Nothing, ever, is infinite. It simply can not exist. It serves the purpose of being a mathematical concept and has no relevance to reality.
Each person is making a copy on their local computer, in cache at bare minimal. Why ya being obtuse? I know that you know how computers work. Hell, you probably know more about 'em than I do. Without a copy, they're not viewing the page. This is definitely a copy and almost certainly in violation of copyright laws in the US and, I'm pretty sure, Germany. Hell, I'm so certain that I'll bet on it.:D The company will either be found guilty (of property or copyright laws) or will settle out of court which may include shutting down, filing for bankruptcy, and dumping any assets they can before they make it to court.
Ya just can't do this. It's against the law. Sheesh. I know you know better.:P It's too early in the morning to go making me think. LOL I woke up to AmiMojo responding, having to dig out their old reply, and then reading their response saying they didn't say what they said they said (I'd quoted it, without editing it, in full), and claiming that I had reading comprehension issues.:/ I shoulda stayed in bed longer but the hotel's noisy.
I'm leaving on Friday so, I guess, you can know my current address. usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2015/11/20/76125050/
That's why it's so noisy around here. They've got a giant-ass gingerbread house in the lobby. People keep coming to check out the display. I guess they did this as a tradition but, recently, had stopped it and have just started doing it again. Thus there are reporters, tourists, locals, and general mayhem and noise. I don't know if it was the cause of the noise that woke me up but I'm resentful.
Anyhow, of course there's a copy - even if it's just a temporary copy in cache. There's a damned copy and you know it - hell, you probably know more about it than I do, how it was specifically written to memory, and how it is isolated from memory, if there was any cache stored on disk, etc... And no, no I'm not gonna play "what if they modified their phone so that it was live and there was no cache-state!" No! Have you no shame?!? Sheesh... Sheesh, indeed.
Depreciation seems to be something that anyone can use, I don't think it's specific to those industries but it is enumerated as specific items but, if I recall correctly, that was something they didn't want - I seem to recall reading that they were wanting to wait and write it all of. However, depreciation is something most businesses can write off or even defer and write off all at once. You can depreciate computer equipment, cars, and other resources as their value decreases. It's not really special, it's just enumerated. There's nothing magical there. I seem to recall they wanted to be able to write it all off at once which was why they ended up having to list it as depreciation instead of the tax games they were playing before that. But no, depreciation of assets is pretty normal. In fact, if you're not doing so then you're sorely missing out.
I have but it's not typical - I don't think. I just don't really notice or spend them. I don't moderate, as a general rule. The posts that I'd flag down are just spam and those are already covered. Other than that? I don't feel a need to curtail others speech or to impose my standards on the speech of others. If I disagree, I'm more inclined to say something or ignore them, not to delete them. I'd moderate spam, and have, but I don't usually bother - I just delete the notice. I'd rather comment in the threads and doing so as an AC, if I moderated, is against the rules so I don't do that either.
Mostly, I know that my moderation means that they get a lower score. With a lower score they're less visible. That means they're less likely to be heard. Which, I figure, means they're more likely to just repeat themselves or it hides their posts from people who don't read at -1 or the likes. Meh, let 'em read it. I read almost everything - if I have time. I keep a Slashdot tab open and return to it when I have a few minutes. It's a good time burner. I like to discuss, not to hide speech. With the exception of spam, well, who am I to judge? So, it's a few reasons but no - as a general rule I don't spend them.
But yeah, I've seen 15 a few times but I don't see them as often any more. I think that's because I don't moderate? I still get points but not as frequently. When I stopped using them, they stopped showing up as often. If I take a day or two off and return then I've generally got a few notifications. I'm not entirely sure how the system works. I don't think I've gotten a slot of 15 at one time for a while but I think I've had 15 waiting for me when I returned? I just delete them and the temptation goes away - I still see the settings but I can ignore those fairly well.;-) I'd rather comment. Maybe I'll learn something?
I have shared, via torrents, a very large number of distros. I already have a seed box that does nothing but run headless and seed torrents all year long. It consumes more power than it probably needs to and while I could, easily, set up a Pi to take care of this - I'm very unlikely to do so. I could see this being handy a a device that can do things like that. I'd be unlikely to get around to setting up a Pi but I'd probably do it in a browser and just share it to NAS like I already do.
Meh... I do keep my wiring fairly organized so I'm not entirely lazy. Then again, I keep it organized to prevent additional labor in the future.;-)
Anyhow, I don't see this as a good business level device. It'd be something fine for the home if, you know, I didn't already have countless alternatives.
You're bordering on insane! I like that. I'm gonna help you out. See, the same is true with an ARM CPU as well. What? You say!!! No way! They will let you view the source. True. That doesn't mean there's no other source that is purposefully kept hidden.
I think, if you want to be safe - safe enough to be this paranoid without being hypocritical, you should absolutely turn off your computer and stop using the internet. It's the only way to be sure! You're just asking to be hacked by using an ARM CPU that's providing an illusion of security by giving you a false sense of safety. The reality is that it'd be trivial to include code that you can neither access nor read on the chip. The same is true with every single chip out there. How do you know that FPGA is the size it says it is? That's the reported size. It may have hidden space and hidden code and the government would never tell you!
Seriously, I want to protect you from harm and you don't want them spying on your porn habits so you had better stop using your computer, entirely, and just plain forget about using the internet! You're just asking to get hacked!
Err... I just ran HTOP a minute ago to see what was spiking a CPU core. I snapped a screen shot with Shutter just to make a record of it. I stored it on an ext4 formatted disk drive. I used inxi -Fxz to check some specs a little while before that. Slurm is giving me a nice display of my network activity. Leafpad is open with my notes. Terminator stands idle awaiting my commend.
Nope, you're right, in practice that doesn't happen. None of that open source code is ever maintained and nobody ever puts any work into helping the community. Those old hacked wifi drivers that didn't initially work? Those were written by underpants gnomes or magic - I don't know which. They keep updating those realtek drivers to work with the newer versions and that hardware is still useful. Hell, I just clone git and use a little make magic and I'm good to go. But no, you're right! It never, ever, happens.
It's a matter of logic for me. I can't see why adding a step and the increased complexity is a rational step to make. If I were to pay someone to do so, I'd want them to be the best in the business. I'm not sure how they can be trusted, except by game theory, and I can only see trusting them so far. I think, if I were to desire to kill someone, I'd probably want to do it myself. Where's the satisfaction in paying someone else to do it? Why add the complexity and risks of including a second person? No, I'd keep it t myself and do it quietly without getting aid from anyone else. More accurately, I'd not kill anyone in an unlawful manner.
HEAP is the name as I recall. States may call it something different or have a separate program. HEAP is Heating Energy Assistance Program. If you are below the poverty line then you may be eligible for assistance where the government buys you some heating fuel so that you don't freeze to death. I believe they also will pay for firewood and electricity if those are your main or only sources of heat.
It's kind of tough to call that an oil subsidy but I've seen folks try to include it in the list of things so I've looked into it. Most oil money doesn't go to the oil companies but to the government by way of taxes. They don't get *any* special subsidies or tax breaks. They get the same tax breaks that you'd get if you ran a business or were a Chapter S LLC or some other incorporated body.
I've been trying, not too hard, over the years to figure out why this subsidy thing gets trotted out so frequently and is often blindly believed. The AC that I responded to seems to have someone who believes them or agrees with them judging by the moderation. I have no idea why. We have Google. I may be missing something but oil companies get zero (or near zero and only if you want to freeze poor people) subsidies.
I hear a couple of other odd ones concerning oil. A big one is that we are dependent on oil from the Middle East. No, we aren't. Our oil comes from much closer regions. It comes from our land, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela mostly. Another is that we attacked Iraq for the oil. No, we didn't. We didn't even take their oil to make up for the costs of deposing their dictator. It just seems to attract emotional people and the subject gets muddied because everyone's got a position to defend.
*shrugs* Anyhow, it's called HEAP as I recall. I've looked into this before. They also include the oil reserves as a part of the number when they call them subsidies, they ignore that such is a required product and that the government doesn't actually pay retail price for that oil. It's not really a subsidy and, as such, it's rather disingenuous to claim that oil companies get subsidies with the implication that it is abnormal in any way. Governments buy paper, we might just as well say that the paper companies are subsidized by the government. No, it's just a legitimate expense that happens to consume a resource.
I think I understand their motives but I'm not sure that I understand their reasoning.
A long time ago, I was an MS MVP (shell/explorer, IE/OE, and security - all three at the same time at one point) and I still have some contacts in the company and in the program. I am too lazy to Google but I imagine that one can find corroborating information online but I'm not entirely sure that it is 'for the public.'
I believe the ultimate goal is a more tailored OS with security and other updates being tailored specifically for your usage. If you have, for example, a combination of hardware that is less than ideal or a combination of hardware and software that causes system halts (or similar things, you get the idea) then you'll get patches specifically tailored to your use case and to your needs entirely. This will be done in a truly autonomous fashion, is the goal, and will result in a (theoretically) better experience and better performance and better security.
To do this, they need to start with collecting huge amounts of data - I mean huge. In the late 1990s, the data sets I was working with approached a full terabyte in size. I modeled human behavior and it is damned close to modeling chaos. I can't even begin to fathom the resources needed to do something like this. We were clustering Sun blade servers with disk arrays in a full blown data center (we called it a server room but it had connectivity as well in its own "closet"). We were at the cusp of a fairly immature science and a very immature process (we did traffic modeling on modern hardware, eventually including pedestrian traffic) and, again, I say that to quantify this: I have no idea how they're going to manage this much data or be able to pull meaningful data from it.
However, I'm damned impressed at the goal and effort. I'd have moved closer to the Computer as a Service over IP model (if that's not an official term then it is now) and worked in that direction. That they're going this way is actually saying more for privacy than the opposite. It's saying more for device ownership than it would be otherwise. It's sort of counter to the cloud model and would probably be simpler and cheaper to avoid. But they're going to need a lot of data to get there. It looks like they're aiming for a more tailored OS than ever before and, instead of taking the cheap shots and putting it on their hardware and maintaining control, they're actually trying to do this on hardware that you still own and have nominal, at least, control over it.
I find it fascinating and don't see this reaching fruition for quite some time but it does tie in nicely with the idea that Windows 10 is their last OS release. I am no longer covered by an NDA and can repeat what I was told as I was not told that any part of it was particularly secret. I think that I've read a few published articles that alluded to it or expanded on the details.
So, what do you get? Nothing, perhaps. A really nice, stable, and more secure operating system - if all goes well. Do you want it to go well? Enable telemetry and data collection. They've done exceptionally well at maintaining that data in a secure fashion. Look at how huge a target they are and think about the many attacks they must face on a constant basis - yet no known breeches have occurred. I'm operating under the assumption that a breech would result in publicity for a whole host of reasons. I think that's a a reasonable conclusion. If you don't give a shit then, by all means, disable it.
I think we're pretty much in agreement. I did want to take the time to share the little that I've been made aware of. I'm no longer using any Microsoft products on my general compute devices (I do have a Windows phone but I don't actually do any real computing on it - I've never even sent a text message with it) and I'm not inclined to change that, currently. My motivations are really quite different than the typical motivations that we read about. I don't use Linux for altruistic reasons and given the totality of what I donate and have donated over the years, I'm not inclined to say that it's really free as in beer. at least n
*chuckles* The only tuition that I'm getting is that you're willing to try to weasel out of your prior statements. That's why I quoted them in their entirety.
There is a *slim* chance that you worded it poorly or there's some colloquialisms that I'm unfamiliar with. But it being a goldmine *and* a possible aid to those who want to get someone defunded is quite a bit different from being a goldmine *to* the people who want to get someone defunded. I'd also add that you're not a journalist. I'd also assume a journalist would not have stated it was a goldmine *and* a benefit to a group of people. They'd have said that it was a goldmine *to* a group of people or *for* a group of people - which your example did, but you did not. That's a pretty key distinction.
If I say "it's a good thing and it will help group B" then it's wildly different then "it's a good thing for group B" (to use your journalistic example). The two are not synonymous and have quite different meanings in the English that I'm familiar with.
But, if you prefer, I'll take your revision as factual and believe that's what you meant. It means you don't get the star to hang on the fridge - but it means you didn't need it. If such was *really* your intent (and you weren't pissing in your knickers in excitement at the news and salivating at the idea that these people might be silenced) then, well, I'd be shocked but I've been wrong before. If I was indeed wrong then I do apologize. That's up to you to determine. You don't even need to admit it in public.
Given your pretty careful use of the language and ability to articulate, it's kind of difficult to believe that you'd make that distinction (it being a goldmine *and* a benefit for those who'd wish to silence others) when you were able to give a fine example of a journalist who did exactly not that same thing while citing it as an example. But, it could be a turn of phrase that I'm unfamiliar with or a usage pattern that was unintentional and I could be mistaken. I've been mistaken loads of times. This could be another of those times. We can pretend I was, if it will help.
But... You're pretty damned good at saying exactly what you mean... You're damned articulate whilst I'm mostly verbose. I tend to think my reading comprehension is doing well but, as said, if you want we can pretend I'm mistaken in my understanding of grammar or, if you prefer, that you simply didn't mean what you said or worded it poorly.
What subsidies do oil companies get that no other business is privy to? Unless you mean the US buying and stockpiling some oil (at less than market value) or them buying oil to heat poor people (at less than market value)? They get the same tax breaks every other company gets and no subsidies that I'm aware of. Oil companies aren't even really all that profitable, the vast majority of money spent on oil is in the form of taxes.
I don't know about coal but that's probably much the same. Government paying for the products isn't really a subsidy when, you know, we kind of need those products for the government to function. I guess you could argue that they government shouldn't pay for oil for poor people and should let them freeze to death instead but that's really a pretty trivial amount of money, comparatively speaking.
I'm assuming you typed poorly because that would not be a very wise time to take the law into your hands. I'm hoping that, for your family's sake, you mean "after the first police visit." 'Cause, unless you're a real badass, doing it *when* they first visit is going to go poorly for you. Hell, it's going to go poorly for you even if you're a badass.
Instigating isn't a crime. Inciting is. Inciting has a legal burden of proof. This almost certainly doesn't meet that burden. They could, on the other hand, be considered a co-defendant in some cases if they knowingly gave aid to those who committed the criminal offenses.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. In fact, I should be sleeping. If you plan on committing criminal acts, consult an attorney before doing so. (You may want to have a second lawyer on retainer.)
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I am not logged in but, in a recent thread, I went to Google and poked around. You can include emoji in URLs now! It is awesome. Well, useless but neat. I found one that had a hot dog in it.
Go to:
http://graphemica.com/search?q...
Note the bottom-most symbol (a pear). Note the URL. It's got the pear in it! No, no, I don't have anything salient to say but I had not been keeping up on such developments and was kind of surprised to see it and I amused myself with it for far longer than is probably healthy. But, I had fun.
(Screw it, I logged in. Now to unpack the rest of my stuff.)
Caveat: I don't own a Windows computer and haven't used Windows 10 for more than five minutes. However, I read that you could install the drivers in safe mode and change the settings from within safe mode and that they'd stick. The person that mentioned it, here on this site, is a fairly reputable person.
This logical fallacy is repeated so frequently that I think it needs its own name. I think "appello propter indispositionem" (appeal to ineptness) or "appellare multiplicitate" (appeal to complexity) are both appropriate. It's too complicated, we can't possibly be right! It's too hard, there's no way that's possible!
Do you actually understand what you're speaking about? Dark matter is not, absolutely, any one thing. Dark matter is a reference to something we're unable to view and can only speculate about. Dark matter exists, by default, because we can not see it and we can demonstrate and measure that we're not seeing something. What that something is, is open to speculation. However, dark matter absolutely does exist. We can't see it - that's WHY we call it dark matter. It's there. We can measure and tell it is there. We speculate as to what it is but only a few overeager journalists are making statements about this being definitive. Everyone else knows that it is speculation - except for you.
Do you even science? I'm not even a scientist (my degree is in mathematics) and even *I* know this. Well, I guess, for some definitions, I am a scientist but I don't think of myself as one. I've done very few lawful or not-sexually-related things while wearing a lab coat, for example. I'm certainly not an astrophysicist. But even *I* understand this. No, dark matter does - by very nature of what it means - exist. We know it exists. We have some working models that try to explain it but they're not completely working yet so I guess we could call them half-working models. These speculations are based on those models and we'll use those models until someone proposes something better to explain the unaccounted gravitational effects that we can not see but can measure the effects of.
Again, we call it DARK MATTER because it exists and we can measure it but we can not see it. Because we can not see it, it's called DARK MATTER. (I'm pretty sure of this, at any rate - the disclaimer about my not being an astrophysicist is completely and obviously true.)
I mean, yeah, there are competing models that include things like this all being a 2D model and we're living in a hologram and thus are holograms ourselves but we don't really take those guys very seriously because they're more akin to God-botherers than they are akin to scientists. If you've got a compelling theory to explain this and maybe some maths to back it up, I'm sure they'll be happy to read your paper. Given that you don't actually seem to know what dark matter is and why we call it that and how we know it's there then I'm not actually sure how well your paper will make it through the peer-review cycle.
Is it a full moon or something? :/ Meh... Maybe it is me who's missing something. That could be true but I'm pretty sure that Brian Cox explained this nicely. I think even Morgan Freeman's gabbed about it but he's just reading a script. The little Asian guy from the college in has spoken about it too.
It's just a glitch in the program. It's a holographic universe, after all. Really, it's a holographic multiverse. We're just one of many!
Obviously, I'm not serious.
Or am I?
This... It's being skipped because it's tied in with EUFI. Disable fast boot in system settings (it's somewhere in there, I don't know where but the question gets asked every single day on the various forums) and then, if it still isn't showing grub, boot to a live disk and run `sudo update-grub` and it will figure it out on its own. On the off-chance that it doesn't then get a copy of boot-repair and that should do it. If it *still* doesn't work then just edit the damned config file by hand, save it, and then run the update-grub command.
This question is asked so often that I, someone who doesn't even have Windows installed on anything other than a phone, know the answer to it - or at least where to find the answer. Google "dual boot Windows 10 and Linux" and you'll get step-by-step directions on the first page. Jump in at the correct place or use the search as a jump-off point and add the words repair, uefi, and swap out Linux for your distro of choice. I'm pretty sure you can have a Linux install that doesn't even *have* a live OS variant and still use a live disk from *any* vendor and `sudo update-grub` will still work.
LOL You're frothing at the mouth again Mac's. They did not claim that OS X was currently doing so specifically, only that they were headed there. And, really, I guess it was a question. Apple's a big company, you don't have to defend 'em. We know all about 'em. You don't have a decent free firewall for OS X? That kind of sucks. Even Windows has one and it's not too bad these days from my understanding. Well, assuming you don't want to block Microsoft's telemetry gathering.
Anyhow, spyware to me means that you didn't consent to it. The users consented to, clicked through at least, the EULA which I'm pretty sure informed them that Microsoft would be collecting data and that they would be trying to do so - even if you didn't want them to do so. That makes them assholes, not necessarily spyware. I believe you'll find Siri collects similar data if you want full functionality. (They kind of have to send your inputs to the 'net to find your content. Hell, I *also* seem to recall a post from the other day that mentioned that if you didn't pay for the music service that you couldn't search for music - I don't know how valid that is, some subscription thingy for the Apple Music Store or whatever they called it.)
Either way, yeah, you'll probably find your OS is in a similar situation soon enough. That will suck and hopefully Apple doesn't go that route but greater features often need more data to properly implement them. But, equally important, Apple's got plenty of ads out there - you don't really *need* to defend them against perceived slights. They'll be okay. ;-) They make some good stuff, hopefully they keep it that way. Trends suggest otherwise but there's hope. I'm off in Linux-land so I'm not terribly concerned but it may come to my end as well - some applications already request telemetry data and there's some data being sent out in a default configuration of Ubuntu. At least you and I are more able to disable that stuff, for now, than the Windows users.
But, again, they did consent to being tracked. They might not like that they did. They might not have been smart enough to read the EULA and understand it. But, they certainly gave consent either explicit or implied. My understanding is that a decent software firewall (not from Microsoft) is enough to block any leaking data. Agnitum's Outpost Personal Firewall is one that I am, shall we say, intimately familiar with so Windows users can consider this a blatant plug for their software but I am not, directly, financially affiliated with the company or the software.
Post SP1 made Vista into a serviceable operating system. I used it, happily, for quite some time. Once SP1 was released and installed there were a few boxes, later on, that I never felt compelled to even bother upgrading to 7. I wasn't fond of 8 or 8.1. I have about five minutes of very casual button poking on Windows 10 and that's the extent of it.
I use Linux. I'd always kept it installed on a second partition, for the most part, since the late 1990s but I never gave it the attention it deserved. So, I just stopped using Windows as my OS, even in dual boot configuration, because if I kept doing so then I'd never take the time to learn more about Linux. I'll likely return to Windows in the distant future, probably years from now, but I've never really hated an OS from anyone except for the 8 and 8.1 versions. They were salvageable but it was never worth doing so as I had Vista and 7 available.
Infinity is a concept that has absolutely no relevance in the real world. People have actually gone insane trying to figure out the principles of infinity. I strongly suggest you not do so. If you insist then, well, what is one half of infinity? Infinity is impossible. Not even the all the atoms in the universe are infinite. Not even the love of your first born child is infinite. Nothing, ever, is infinite. It simply can not exist. It serves the purpose of being a mathematical concept and has no relevance to reality.
Output of sudo apt-get moo maybe was the inspiration? See:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/135042...
Unless it's fortune | cowsay or something. See:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/135042...
Given the relevance, often oblique, I'm inclined to believe this is manually done. I've not seen it mentioned on Slashdot's hidden thread.
Each person is making a copy on their local computer, in cache at bare minimal. Why ya being obtuse? I know that you know how computers work. Hell, you probably know more about 'em than I do. Without a copy, they're not viewing the page. This is definitely a copy and almost certainly in violation of copyright laws in the US and, I'm pretty sure, Germany. Hell, I'm so certain that I'll bet on it. :D The company will either be found guilty (of property or copyright laws) or will settle out of court which may include shutting down, filing for bankruptcy, and dumping any assets they can before they make it to court.
Ya just can't do this. It's against the law. Sheesh. I know you know better. :P It's too early in the morning to go making me think. LOL I woke up to AmiMojo responding, having to dig out their old reply, and then reading their response saying they didn't say what they said they said (I'd quoted it, without editing it, in full), and claiming that I had reading comprehension issues. :/ I shoulda stayed in bed longer but the hotel's noisy.
I'm leaving on Friday so, I guess, you can know my current address.
usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2015/11/20/76125050/
That's why it's so noisy around here. They've got a giant-ass gingerbread house in the lobby. People keep coming to check out the display. I guess they did this as a tradition but, recently, had stopped it and have just started doing it again. Thus there are reporters, tourists, locals, and general mayhem and noise. I don't know if it was the cause of the noise that woke me up but I'm resentful.
Anyhow, of course there's a copy - even if it's just a temporary copy in cache. There's a damned copy and you know it - hell, you probably know more about it than I do, how it was specifically written to memory, and how it is isolated from memory, if there was any cache stored on disk, etc... And no, no I'm not gonna play "what if they modified their phone so that it was live and there was no cache-state!" No! Have you no shame?!? Sheesh... Sheesh, indeed.
Depreciation seems to be something that anyone can use, I don't think it's specific to those industries but it is enumerated as specific items but, if I recall correctly, that was something they didn't want - I seem to recall reading that they were wanting to wait and write it all of. However, depreciation is something most businesses can write off or even defer and write off all at once. You can depreciate computer equipment, cars, and other resources as their value decreases. It's not really special, it's just enumerated. There's nothing magical there. I seem to recall they wanted to be able to write it all off at once which was why they ended up having to list it as depreciation instead of the tax games they were playing before that. But no, depreciation of assets is pretty normal. In fact, if you're not doing so then you're sorely missing out.
I have but it's not typical - I don't think. I just don't really notice or spend them. I don't moderate, as a general rule. The posts that I'd flag down are just spam and those are already covered. Other than that? I don't feel a need to curtail others speech or to impose my standards on the speech of others. If I disagree, I'm more inclined to say something or ignore them, not to delete them. I'd moderate spam, and have, but I don't usually bother - I just delete the notice. I'd rather comment in the threads and doing so as an AC, if I moderated, is against the rules so I don't do that either.
Mostly, I know that my moderation means that they get a lower score. With a lower score they're less visible. That means they're less likely to be heard. Which, I figure, means they're more likely to just repeat themselves or it hides their posts from people who don't read at -1 or the likes. Meh, let 'em read it. I read almost everything - if I have time. I keep a Slashdot tab open and return to it when I have a few minutes. It's a good time burner. I like to discuss, not to hide speech. With the exception of spam, well, who am I to judge? So, it's a few reasons but no - as a general rule I don't spend them.
But yeah, I've seen 15 a few times but I don't see them as often any more. I think that's because I don't moderate? I still get points but not as frequently. When I stopped using them, they stopped showing up as often. If I take a day or two off and return then I've generally got a few notifications. I'm not entirely sure how the system works. I don't think I've gotten a slot of 15 at one time for a while but I think I've had 15 waiting for me when I returned? I just delete them and the temptation goes away - I still see the settings but I can ignore those fairly well. ;-) I'd rather comment. Maybe I'll learn something?
If I would, I'd sure as hell deny it vehemently in the internet at large! In fact, I'd make such protestations as I'd already made!
I have shared, via torrents, a very large number of distros. I already have a seed box that does nothing but run headless and seed torrents all year long. It consumes more power than it probably needs to and while I could, easily, set up a Pi to take care of this - I'm very unlikely to do so. I could see this being handy a a device that can do things like that. I'd be unlikely to get around to setting up a Pi but I'd probably do it in a browser and just share it to NAS like I already do.
Meh... I do keep my wiring fairly organized so I'm not entirely lazy. Then again, I keep it organized to prevent additional labor in the future. ;-)
Anyhow, I don't see this as a good business level device. It'd be something fine for the home if, you know, I didn't already have countless alternatives.
You're bordering on insane! I like that. I'm gonna help you out. See, the same is true with an ARM CPU as well. What? You say!!! No way! They will let you view the source. True. That doesn't mean there's no other source that is purposefully kept hidden.
I think, if you want to be safe - safe enough to be this paranoid without being hypocritical, you should absolutely turn off your computer and stop using the internet. It's the only way to be sure! You're just asking to be hacked by using an ARM CPU that's providing an illusion of security by giving you a false sense of safety. The reality is that it'd be trivial to include code that you can neither access nor read on the chip. The same is true with every single chip out there. How do you know that FPGA is the size it says it is? That's the reported size. It may have hidden space and hidden code and the government would never tell you!
Seriously, I want to protect you from harm and you don't want them spying on your porn habits so you had better stop using your computer, entirely, and just plain forget about using the internet! You're just asking to get hacked!
Err... I just ran HTOP a minute ago to see what was spiking a CPU core. I snapped a screen shot with Shutter just to make a record of it. I stored it on an ext4 formatted disk drive. I used inxi -Fxz to check some specs a little while before that. Slurm is giving me a nice display of my network activity. Leafpad is open with my notes. Terminator stands idle awaiting my commend.
Nope, you're right, in practice that doesn't happen. None of that open source code is ever maintained and nobody ever puts any work into helping the community. Those old hacked wifi drivers that didn't initially work? Those were written by underpants gnomes or magic - I don't know which. They keep updating those realtek drivers to work with the newer versions and that hardware is still useful. Hell, I just clone git and use a little make magic and I'm good to go. But no, you're right! It never, ever, happens.
It's a matter of logic for me. I can't see why adding a step and the increased complexity is a rational step to make. If I were to pay someone to do so, I'd want them to be the best in the business. I'm not sure how they can be trusted, except by game theory, and I can only see trusting them so far. I think, if I were to desire to kill someone, I'd probably want to do it myself. Where's the satisfaction in paying someone else to do it? Why add the complexity and risks of including a second person? No, I'd keep it t myself and do it quietly without getting aid from anyone else. More accurately, I'd not kill anyone in an unlawful manner.
HEAP is the name as I recall. States may call it something different or have a separate program. HEAP is Heating Energy Assistance Program. If you are below the poverty line then you may be eligible for assistance where the government buys you some heating fuel so that you don't freeze to death. I believe they also will pay for firewood and electricity if those are your main or only sources of heat.
It's kind of tough to call that an oil subsidy but I've seen folks try to include it in the list of things so I've looked into it. Most oil money doesn't go to the oil companies but to the government by way of taxes. They don't get *any* special subsidies or tax breaks. They get the same tax breaks that you'd get if you ran a business or were a Chapter S LLC or some other incorporated body.
I've been trying, not too hard, over the years to figure out why this subsidy thing gets trotted out so frequently and is often blindly believed. The AC that I responded to seems to have someone who believes them or agrees with them judging by the moderation. I have no idea why. We have Google. I may be missing something but oil companies get zero (or near zero and only if you want to freeze poor people) subsidies.
I hear a couple of other odd ones concerning oil. A big one is that we are dependent on oil from the Middle East. No, we aren't. Our oil comes from much closer regions. It comes from our land, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela mostly. Another is that we attacked Iraq for the oil. No, we didn't. We didn't even take their oil to make up for the costs of deposing their dictator. It just seems to attract emotional people and the subject gets muddied because everyone's got a position to defend.
*shrugs* Anyhow, it's called HEAP as I recall. I've looked into this before. They also include the oil reserves as a part of the number when they call them subsidies, they ignore that such is a required product and that the government doesn't actually pay retail price for that oil. It's not really a subsidy and, as such, it's rather disingenuous to claim that oil companies get subsidies with the implication that it is abnormal in any way. Governments buy paper, we might just as well say that the paper companies are subsidized by the government. No, it's just a legitimate expense that happens to consume a resource.
I think I understand their motives but I'm not sure that I understand their reasoning.
A long time ago, I was an MS MVP (shell/explorer, IE/OE, and security - all three at the same time at one point) and I still have some contacts in the company and in the program. I am too lazy to Google but I imagine that one can find corroborating information online but I'm not entirely sure that it is 'for the public.'
I believe the ultimate goal is a more tailored OS with security and other updates being tailored specifically for your usage. If you have, for example, a combination of hardware that is less than ideal or a combination of hardware and software that causes system halts (or similar things, you get the idea) then you'll get patches specifically tailored to your use case and to your needs entirely. This will be done in a truly autonomous fashion, is the goal, and will result in a (theoretically) better experience and better performance and better security.
To do this, they need to start with collecting huge amounts of data - I mean huge. In the late 1990s, the data sets I was working with approached a full terabyte in size. I modeled human behavior and it is damned close to modeling chaos. I can't even begin to fathom the resources needed to do something like this. We were clustering Sun blade servers with disk arrays in a full blown data center (we called it a server room but it had connectivity as well in its own "closet"). We were at the cusp of a fairly immature science and a very immature process (we did traffic modeling on modern hardware, eventually including pedestrian traffic) and, again, I say that to quantify this: I have no idea how they're going to manage this much data or be able to pull meaningful data from it.
However, I'm damned impressed at the goal and effort. I'd have moved closer to the Computer as a Service over IP model (if that's not an official term then it is now) and worked in that direction. That they're going this way is actually saying more for privacy than the opposite. It's saying more for device ownership than it would be otherwise. It's sort of counter to the cloud model and would probably be simpler and cheaper to avoid. But they're going to need a lot of data to get there. It looks like they're aiming for a more tailored OS than ever before and, instead of taking the cheap shots and putting it on their hardware and maintaining control, they're actually trying to do this on hardware that you still own and have nominal, at least, control over it.
I find it fascinating and don't see this reaching fruition for quite some time but it does tie in nicely with the idea that Windows 10 is their last OS release. I am no longer covered by an NDA and can repeat what I was told as I was not told that any part of it was particularly secret. I think that I've read a few published articles that alluded to it or expanded on the details.
So, what do you get? Nothing, perhaps. A really nice, stable, and more secure operating system - if all goes well. Do you want it to go well? Enable telemetry and data collection. They've done exceptionally well at maintaining that data in a secure fashion. Look at how huge a target they are and think about the many attacks they must face on a constant basis - yet no known breeches have occurred. I'm operating under the assumption that a breech would result in publicity for a whole host of reasons. I think that's a a reasonable conclusion. If you don't give a shit then, by all means, disable it.
I think we're pretty much in agreement. I did want to take the time to share the little that I've been made aware of. I'm no longer using any Microsoft products on my general compute devices (I do have a Windows phone but I don't actually do any real computing on it - I've never even sent a text message with it) and I'm not inclined to change that, currently. My motivations are really quite different than the typical motivations that we read about. I don't use Linux for altruistic reasons and given the totality of what I donate and have donated over the years, I'm not inclined to say that it's really free as in beer. at least n
*chuckles* The only tuition that I'm getting is that you're willing to try to weasel out of your prior statements. That's why I quoted them in their entirety.
There is a *slim* chance that you worded it poorly or there's some colloquialisms that I'm unfamiliar with. But it being a goldmine *and* a possible aid to those who want to get someone defunded is quite a bit different from being a goldmine *to* the people who want to get someone defunded. I'd also add that you're not a journalist. I'd also assume a journalist would not have stated it was a goldmine *and* a benefit to a group of people. They'd have said that it was a goldmine *to* a group of people or *for* a group of people - which your example did, but you did not. That's a pretty key distinction.
If I say "it's a good thing and it will help group B" then it's wildly different then "it's a good thing for group B" (to use your journalistic example). The two are not synonymous and have quite different meanings in the English that I'm familiar with.
But, if you prefer, I'll take your revision as factual and believe that's what you meant. It means you don't get the star to hang on the fridge - but it means you didn't need it. If such was *really* your intent (and you weren't pissing in your knickers in excitement at the news and salivating at the idea that these people might be silenced) then, well, I'd be shocked but I've been wrong before. If I was indeed wrong then I do apologize. That's up to you to determine. You don't even need to admit it in public.
Given your pretty careful use of the language and ability to articulate, it's kind of difficult to believe that you'd make that distinction (it being a goldmine *and* a benefit for those who'd wish to silence others) when you were able to give a fine example of a journalist who did exactly not that same thing while citing it as an example. But, it could be a turn of phrase that I'm unfamiliar with or a usage pattern that was unintentional and I could be mistaken. I've been mistaken loads of times. This could be another of those times. We can pretend I was, if it will help.
But... You're pretty damned good at saying exactly what you mean... You're damned articulate whilst I'm mostly verbose. I tend to think my reading comprehension is doing well but, as said, if you want we can pretend I'm mistaken in my understanding of grammar or, if you prefer, that you simply didn't mean what you said or worded it poorly.
What subsidies do oil companies get that no other business is privy to? Unless you mean the US buying and stockpiling some oil (at less than market value) or them buying oil to heat poor people (at less than market value)? They get the same tax breaks every other company gets and no subsidies that I'm aware of. Oil companies aren't even really all that profitable, the vast majority of money spent on oil is in the form of taxes.
I don't know about coal but that's probably much the same. Government paying for the products isn't really a subsidy when, you know, we kind of need those products for the government to function. I guess you could argue that they government shouldn't pay for oil for poor people and should let them freeze to death instead but that's really a pretty trivial amount of money, comparatively speaking.
Init is being depreciated. We all use systemd now.
I'm assuming you typed poorly because that would not be a very wise time to take the law into your hands. I'm hoping that, for your family's sake, you mean "after the first police visit." 'Cause, unless you're a real badass, doing it *when* they first visit is going to go poorly for you. Hell, it's going to go poorly for you even if you're a badass.
Instigating isn't a crime. Inciting is. Inciting has a legal burden of proof. This almost certainly doesn't meet that burden. They could, on the other hand, be considered a co-defendant in some cases if they knowingly gave aid to those who committed the criminal offenses.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. In fact, I should be sleeping. If you plan on committing criminal acts, consult an attorney before doing so. (You may want to have a second lawyer on retainer.)