Of course they don't. They're Black African - San tribe, probably. Sheesh. They've been there since we humans crawled down from the trees! Immigration? No, not them. They're not tainted with that stain - they're black people, still residing in sub-Saharan western Africa. (I bet that pisses their parents off.)
Oh, it's not terribly important. It's just the hyperbole that's silly. We get enough rhetoric as it is, we can at least tell it like it is and still be making the same points. The whole, "Microsoft spies on you - open calculator and see the 100+ domains it contacts!" That's just silly. I don't even believe that. These are the same people who ran around claiming that Windows Activation meant registration was mandatory. They claim you can't use Windows 10 without a Microsoft Live account. They claim that you have to pay for Solitaire or that it has ads. (I have it on good authority that there were, shortly after release, some dozen free versions that did not contain any ads at all.) They claim you'll have to pay a yearly fee.
The insinuation here is that Microsoft's going to do some evil with this data. I don't see it. I suspect that I'd leave it enabled if I had a Windows system. I am getting a Windows phone - I imagine that I'll never bother turning it off.
Don't get me wrong - I think you SHOULD be able to turn it off, easily. I just don't need the hyperbole to be aware of this and to make this decision. I think we should be honest, factual, and articulate. I know, that's a lot to ask. However, if the goal of communicating is to make people aware then it would help to not be telling lies and to not be speckled with your own spittle.
Ah, but I don't have a Windows VM and I am relying on them for a citation. That is how it works, yes? They made the claim, they can do the footwork to prove it. I'd bet it isn't more than a dozen, at best.
How many MPs do you think will be ousted specifically over this added fee? Are you willing to bet on it? Are the average people even paying attention?
Beer and circuses seems to be pretty damned effective.:/ You, or I, might be up in arms about this but I suspect we'll look like tinfoil-hat-wearing-crazies to Joe Six Pint. I wish this would wake people up but they don't appear to really give a shit. I don't think they even care about the pedos or terrorists. They just don't give a shit.
The ISPs could post a advert that says, "You're being charged eleven extra quid so that we can spy on you as is mandated by Parliament." I bet 90% of the people don't notice, 9% grumble and say something about the rising costs of living, and 1% notices, is outraged, and forgets because they've something new to be outraged about come election time. The people who actually give a shit and will take notice and vote accordingly are a rounding error, a statistical anomaly, a percent of a percent.
Maybe I'm cynical. That could be the case. I hope like hell you guys are right and that something does happen but, I suspect, we've a long ways to go. I do advocate the ballot box and using violence pretty much never but I'd not judge too harshly those who opt for it, at this point - or soon, at least. It's probably a bit early for that - they should try educational programs and ballots first. Not now though, football's on the telly.
(Any misrepresentations of stereotypical Britons is unintentional. I could not fit the word tyres in there. The same behavior appears true in my country, as well. We just drink less tea.)
Err... If you ran an exit node, on your own hardware and using your own bandwidth, and then decrypted the content or monitored the traffic then you'd not only be legally in the clear but you'd be getting accolades from academia or, at least, the FBI. It's not like they went out and hacked anything that didn't belong to them or that they didn't have rights to act on. They were well within their legal rights according to what has been disclosed. Immoral? That's subject to debate (and I'd agree). Illegal? Unlikely.
If I write it down then it sticks with me for a longer period. Maths have to be conceptualized for me to grasp them. If I can do something related then that helps, even if it's tangentially related. For instance, I plan on going to Antwerp - not because any great thing happened there but because that's where the Germans were going during the Battle of the Bulge. That will be enough, coupled with some research and documentaries, for me to cement it more firmly into my head. Just going to Gettysburg helped me to put it all together, sort of about the time that I went past the graves on my way up to Little Round Top. Little things make the whole thing piece together and then, sometimes, it sticks.
I think that's how the article described it. I seem to recall it was interesting enough for me to even read the article. They were showing letters and numbers and then able to accurately guess them based on brainwaves or electrical readouts - I don't recall if it was MRI or electroencephalograph? (I also have no idea if I spelled that right.)
They are - they're agreeing to accept death as a potential consequence of their actions. That affects only themselves. You can try to interpret it differently but I'd strongly disagree. Their decision impacts nobody, by default, except themselves. The other may act on it - and would, presumably, if they were to take the same risks. There's some shared responsibility but the decision is their own and impacts only them. The other isn't deciding that they've a right to kill you - you're giving them the right to do so and they're electing to act on it by their own free will.
That is true. That is definitely true. I did learn how to start a server in Python with a single command. I probably should not have learned about that - I left it running in the background for a while before I realized that I was sharing my entire/home directory with the internet at large. Then, not too long ago, I figured I'd give a VPN a try and so I went about learning how to write my own configs and how to use OpenVPN. This process was probably three times longer than it needed to be. I eventually changed my user permissions and recompiled OpenVPN. It was close but not close enough. I finally decided to think about someone having mentioned that I'd had to have permissions as a different user group (the network group as I recall, one of those, at any rate) and so I finally tried it with sudo... *sighs*
I picture you as having the cutest little button nose. I hope I'm right. I'm glad you're okay though, I was a bit worried. I'd not seen you for a few days. I hope you're heart is doing well. Those elevated stress levels can't be healthy. You're literally taking years off your life!
I should probably stick with grep. I'm getting better with it - it's handier if you know what you're looking for and want to pipe it to a text file or something like that. I'm going to "master" awk next. Whilst I've made use of both commands there is still much I do not know and more for me to learn. You wanna know what I had for lunch? 'Cause I'll tell ya.
Metrics like what hardware you have, what applications are installed, etc... It was some "User Experience" thing before. Now, they're more mobile and collecting GPS data. I don't know what else they collect but I'd not be terribly worried if I used the products. There's a lot of FUD being spread around. I've watched and read it, I've been really skeptical of the FUD slinging crowd since the XP days - I kind of believed them until then.
For instance, one needn't pay for the solitaire game - you can get it free from the app store without paying. I guess there are many versions that don't even have ads. You can disable pretty much everything except some built in stuff. There's no keylogger sending stuff out (that we know of) but they do track usage habits somehow so there might be. Yet it's touted as factual - which is odd 'cause it's sending out encrypted data. These people must be reading encrypted data somehow. Rather than bitching about Microsoft, they should be world famous.
That Cortana thing? I think that's what it is called. That's not going to work without sending and retrieving data. They kind of have to know what it is that you're asking for and that processing is not done locally or someone would complain that their computer is slow. Siri and Google Voice do it too, as I understand.
I'd wholeheartedly agree that it should be able to be shut off but they've done surprisingly good at keeping their data safe. They must be. Look at how big of a target they are. Can you imagine how much power you'd have if you got control of an update server? How much info they're keeping stored away somewhere? You know that shit's online somewhere - but they have managed to keep it locked down for years.
Oh, I'm sure they'll have a breech and screw something up but, so far so good. I'm actually kind of impressed, considering that they pretty much run Microsoft products exclusively now. (Hotmail used to run on Unix or Linux - I forget which and Azure has the ability to natively spin up a Linux client and has some Linux code in there but it's not code that's being released so that they don't have to share it back with the community. However, they are doing more and more with the open source community.)
I've kept Linux on a partition for a lot of years but now I use it exclusively. I mostly use Lubuntu and Mint Cinnamon but I've played with about every major distro. I do have a bunch, too many really, VMs that can be spun up and utilized but I don't usually boot to them. I mention this because I'm not a huge fan of Microsoft but I'm not a hater either. (I just used the word hater. Ugh...) I'm grateful that there is a Microsoft. I am glad for what they've done for the industry. We tend to concentrate on the negative. I prefer to be positive.
Anyhow, if I were still using Windows then I'd probably shut some of the stuff off and leave other stuff on. Unless I'm using a tablet (which is unlikely) or a laptop then I don't have a microphone hooked up. I'd not want Cortana running. I don't know if that can be entirely disabled. I'd let them "spy" on me (I'm not sure it's spying if they tell you what they're doing) because that means they can give me a better user experience. They're also using that information to give a more customized update system so that you'll be getting more specific patches and whatnot. I sure as hell wouldn't have the WiFi password sharing shit enabled nor will anyone that comes to my house - I've got a password free guest account that's isolated, of course.;-)
Well, look at how far the Ugandans (I think) went before they finally got rid of the Brits? Shit, they felt Amin Dada was better. At least, for a while.
Heh... Dada was kind of awesome in a sick way. He was tough and didn't afraid of anything. He declared himself King of Scotland. He was also king of all the fishes in the sea and all the land animals. He made the white people carry around his fat ass in a chair. He really embarrassed the Brits and they couldn't do a damned thing about it. He basically went 4chan on them.
Anyhow, they tolerated the abuses of the Britons for quite a while before they were like GTFO oldfag! Lulz! Even my own country, America, put up with a hell of a lot before we kicked them out. Oddly enough, few people ask why the Brits were stomping to Concord. They were coming to steal the guns - specifically the cannons and all weapons (powder and shot) in the armory.
Concord's like, "LOL WUT?" The King's Men are like, "I can haz gunz pl0x" Concord, "NO U!"
Then the King's Men get out their giant muskets (while wearing targets across their chest) and go PEW PEW PEW!
Concord ducks 'cause they can only pew pew pew a little bit and then they go pew pew pew back.
The King's Men go, "Oh shit!"
Concord says, "IMMA CHARGIN' MY LAZRS!"
The King's Men go, "Run away!!!"
Then the little villages between Concord in the coast sang "TROLOLOLOLO" while making a few pew noises of their own.
Point being, you never know what's going to finally be the straw that breaks the camel's back but we'll put up with a bunch of shit before we are angry enough to actually do anything. I'd wager 100 quid, or Queen Moniez, that not one single MP doesn't get reelected specifically because of this. I'm sure there will be some that lose their seats but I doubt this will be the cause. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying there's quite a bit of historical precedence.
Err... And that's exactly how they should teach history in school. *nods*
It might have had something to do with his being a mad druggie that put tens of thousands to death, many innocent people to death, and siphoning off the wealth of the nation with an estimated self-worth of nearly 1,000,000,000 USD at his death. But no, it was surely the imperialist's infringement that doomed him. It wasn't his systematic rape of women, the abortion clinic under the college, the nearly daily attempts to propagandize the nation via television, the personal screening of allowed television, or anything like that - but, boy, they had free health care.
He was like a mad Keith Richards gone Tin Pot Dictator. He started off well enough. I'm sure he had great intentions and he did do some nice things but I'm not sure why one would want to concentrate on those and fabricate the reasons for the riots when those rioters have clearly articulated their reasons for rioting. Hell, they wrote it on their signs! Something akin to, "Let's not forget the massacre of *insert prison name here that I've forgotten*" That was the very first major riot that sparked off the rest of them, the police shot into the crowd and fecal matter hit the fan. Err... It went steadily downhill after that, so to speak.
It would appear that if you're going to rape the women, kill the men, and then kill the women too - you should probably give them better beer and circuses than you can provide with bad television and piss poor health care as a very limited resource. But you knew that... You're not fooling me.;-)
Meh, the MPs won't care. They've got money. The people will still vote for them.
Look at how much had to happen to piss off people for Khadaffi (or however we're spelling it today) to be ousted. The riot that sparked it all was actually from sisters and mothers from a prison right that happened way back in 1994 (I think?). It took 20 years and severe oppression before people got pissed enough to do something. No, so long as they've got beer and circuses they'll put up with a whole bunch of shit - including paying more for internet access. They won't even lose a single member of Parliament over this.
Citation needed. I'll accept anything similar to a wireshark printout side-screened with a video of the OS in action, preferably with the task manager open.
Why? 'Cause I don't use Windows and not even *I* expect they've jumped the shark this bad and I'm pretty sure you're full of shit given the many, many articles on the subject.
It's only a half dozen or so, not 100.;-) It's something like 60 of 'em total but they're not all going to be invoked by opening the calculator.
Every time there's a new Windows OS (even back in 95, it seems) there's an uptick in interest in Linux. It dies down in 6 months, generally. I've noticed no greater increase in interest or questions on the various Linux forums from any other release. People just don't care. If I used Windows, I'd probably not care either. Privacy is not why I use Linux. So far, and Microsoft has been collecting information for years, they've been pretty good stewards of that information. Considering the vast amounts of data that they have (and the huge target they have with their upgrade servers) they must be doing something right.
I've used MS products extensively. Hell, I used to be a member of the MVP program. I exclusively use Linux these days (with some alternatives in VMs) but my doing so is not because of anything Microsoft did directly, so to speak. I can, and have, run Windows just fine and kept is secure easily enough. If anything, it's ease is one of the reasons I stopped using it entirely. I like to poke, to play, to break, and to learn. That's why I use Linux. You play video games. I play grep.
You can neuter the Amazon tracking from search and any data collection with Ubuntu. It should be easier and a bit more clearly labeled, but it can be done with fairly easy steps.
Heh... You might be surprised at the number of people who ask how to set up root with a password and use it - even by default, as their login on the AU SE site or even the Ubuntu forums. I giggle to myself and tell them how to do so. I aim to please, after all.
Well, you're obviously trolling, at least a little, but still deserve a reply. Any deterministic algorithm can be bested simply by determining what the algorithm does and then doing something different. So, yes, this isn't actually going to work as a permanent solution. It may work on past reviews, it may work for some time in the future, and it may work against those unwilling to put an effort into their work. However, someone will, almost certainly, and find the flaws. There is a technical term for this but, suffice to say, it boils down to there being no such thing as a free lunch.
Maths, explained conceptually, are a good thing. *nods* I'm not good at analogies but think of it like a law. No law can be without loopholes or it would be draconian and not have a desirable outcome. Yet, each loophole have potential abuses. There is no such thing as a perfect law which will give you ideal results in all situations.
Or, if you'd prefer, an automobile that is optimized for efficiency will not be good for hauling around extra weight - it will even be less efficient than an automobile designed to carry such a load. One can not create an automobile that will function ideally in all situations. Even if you could create such a thing, someone would just come along with a different use-case where such failed. It may take someone a moment to find that use-case but it will happen.
I am intelligent enough to know how intelligent I am not. What I do have is the wisdom to know when to admit that I do not know and to seek an answer from those who do. The answer to your question is somewhere in there. I do hold my Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, but I've had the chance to work with some truly brilliant people and have learned much from them - including humility.
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Of course they don't. They're Black African - San tribe, probably. Sheesh. They've been there since we humans crawled down from the trees! Immigration? No, not them. They're not tainted with that stain - they're black people, still residing in sub-Saharan western Africa. (I bet that pisses their parents off.)
Oh, it's not terribly important. It's just the hyperbole that's silly. We get enough rhetoric as it is, we can at least tell it like it is and still be making the same points. The whole, "Microsoft spies on you - open calculator and see the 100+ domains it contacts!" That's just silly. I don't even believe that. These are the same people who ran around claiming that Windows Activation meant registration was mandatory. They claim you can't use Windows 10 without a Microsoft Live account. They claim that you have to pay for Solitaire or that it has ads. (I have it on good authority that there were, shortly after release, some dozen free versions that did not contain any ads at all.) They claim you'll have to pay a yearly fee.
The insinuation here is that Microsoft's going to do some evil with this data. I don't see it. I suspect that I'd leave it enabled if I had a Windows system. I am getting a Windows phone - I imagine that I'll never bother turning it off.
Don't get me wrong - I think you SHOULD be able to turn it off, easily. I just don't need the hyperbole to be aware of this and to make this decision. I think we should be honest, factual, and articulate. I know, that's a lot to ask. However, if the goal of communicating is to make people aware then it would help to not be telling lies and to not be speckled with your own spittle.
Ah, but I don't have a Windows VM and I am relying on them for a citation. That is how it works, yes? They made the claim, they can do the footwork to prove it. I'd bet it isn't more than a dozen, at best.
How many MPs do you think will be ousted specifically over this added fee? Are you willing to bet on it? Are the average people even paying attention?
Beer and circuses seems to be pretty damned effective. :/ You, or I, might be up in arms about this but I suspect we'll look like tinfoil-hat-wearing-crazies to Joe Six Pint. I wish this would wake people up but they don't appear to really give a shit. I don't think they even care about the pedos or terrorists. They just don't give a shit.
The ISPs could post a advert that says, "You're being charged eleven extra quid so that we can spy on you as is mandated by Parliament." I bet 90% of the people don't notice, 9% grumble and say something about the rising costs of living, and 1% notices, is outraged, and forgets because they've something new to be outraged about come election time. The people who actually give a shit and will take notice and vote accordingly are a rounding error, a statistical anomaly, a percent of a percent.
Maybe I'm cynical. That could be the case. I hope like hell you guys are right and that something does happen but, I suspect, we've a long ways to go. I do advocate the ballot box and using violence pretty much never but I'd not judge too harshly those who opt for it, at this point - or soon, at least. It's probably a bit early for that - they should try educational programs and ballots first. Not now though, football's on the telly.
(Any misrepresentations of stereotypical Britons is unintentional. I could not fit the word tyres in there. The same behavior appears true in my country, as well. We just drink less tea.)
Err... If you ran an exit node, on your own hardware and using your own bandwidth, and then decrypted the content or monitored the traffic then you'd not only be legally in the clear but you'd be getting accolades from academia or, at least, the FBI. It's not like they went out and hacked anything that didn't belong to them or that they didn't have rights to act on. They were well within their legal rights according to what has been disclosed. Immoral? That's subject to debate (and I'd agree). Illegal? Unlikely.
kgiii@kgiii-desktop-8:~$ sudo make girl
[sudo] password for kgiii:
make: *** No rule to make target 'girl'. Stop.
If I write it down then it sticks with me for a longer period. Maths have to be conceptualized for me to grasp them. If I can do something related then that helps, even if it's tangentially related. For instance, I plan on going to Antwerp - not because any great thing happened there but because that's where the Germans were going during the Battle of the Bulge. That will be enough, coupled with some research and documentaries, for me to cement it more firmly into my head. Just going to Gettysburg helped me to put it all together, sort of about the time that I went past the graves on my way up to Little Round Top. Little things make the whole thing piece together and then, sometimes, it sticks.
I don't really have a better way to describe it.
I think that's how the article described it. I seem to recall it was interesting enough for me to even read the article. They were showing letters and numbers and then able to accurately guess them based on brainwaves or electrical readouts - I don't recall if it was MRI or electroencephalograph? (I also have no idea if I spelled that right.)
They are - they're agreeing to accept death as a potential consequence of their actions. That affects only themselves. You can try to interpret it differently but I'd strongly disagree. Their decision impacts nobody, by default, except themselves. The other may act on it - and would, presumably, if they were to take the same risks. There's some shared responsibility but the decision is their own and impacts only them. The other isn't deciding that they've a right to kill you - you're giving them the right to do so and they're electing to act on it by their own free will.
No? Then why'd you use the word "almost?" Did you block APK's ad yet? Does your spam filtering never get a false positive, never let spam through?
And no, it's not my theory. You could see it as an off-shot of things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's a pretty basic idea and doesn't really require that you agree with it. If you can prove them wrong then, well, you'd be famous.
That is true. That is definitely true. I did learn how to start a server in Python with a single command. I probably should not have learned about that - I left it running in the background for a while before I realized that I was sharing my entire /home directory with the internet at large. Then, not too long ago, I figured I'd give a VPN a try and so I went about learning how to write my own configs and how to use OpenVPN. This process was probably three times longer than it needed to be. I eventually changed my user permissions and recompiled OpenVPN. It was close but not close enough. I finally decided to think about someone having mentioned that I'd had to have permissions as a different user group (the network group as I recall, one of those, at any rate) and so I finally tried it with sudo... *sighs*
I picture you as having the cutest little button nose. I hope I'm right. I'm glad you're okay though, I was a bit worried. I'd not seen you for a few days. I hope you're heart is doing well. Those elevated stress levels can't be healthy. You're literally taking years off your life!
I should probably stick with grep. I'm getting better with it - it's handier if you know what you're looking for and want to pipe it to a text file or something like that. I'm going to "master" awk next. Whilst I've made use of both commands there is still much I do not know and more for me to learn. You wanna know what I had for lunch? 'Cause I'll tell ya.
Metrics like what hardware you have, what applications are installed, etc... It was some "User Experience" thing before. Now, they're more mobile and collecting GPS data. I don't know what else they collect but I'd not be terribly worried if I used the products. There's a lot of FUD being spread around. I've watched and read it, I've been really skeptical of the FUD slinging crowd since the XP days - I kind of believed them until then.
For instance, one needn't pay for the solitaire game - you can get it free from the app store without paying. I guess there are many versions that don't even have ads. You can disable pretty much everything except some built in stuff. There's no keylogger sending stuff out (that we know of) but they do track usage habits somehow so there might be. Yet it's touted as factual - which is odd 'cause it's sending out encrypted data. These people must be reading encrypted data somehow. Rather than bitching about Microsoft, they should be world famous.
That Cortana thing? I think that's what it is called. That's not going to work without sending and retrieving data. They kind of have to know what it is that you're asking for and that processing is not done locally or someone would complain that their computer is slow. Siri and Google Voice do it too, as I understand.
I'd wholeheartedly agree that it should be able to be shut off but they've done surprisingly good at keeping their data safe. They must be. Look at how big of a target they are. Can you imagine how much power you'd have if you got control of an update server? How much info they're keeping stored away somewhere? You know that shit's online somewhere - but they have managed to keep it locked down for years.
Oh, I'm sure they'll have a breech and screw something up but, so far so good. I'm actually kind of impressed, considering that they pretty much run Microsoft products exclusively now. (Hotmail used to run on Unix or Linux - I forget which and Azure has the ability to natively spin up a Linux client and has some Linux code in there but it's not code that's being released so that they don't have to share it back with the community. However, they are doing more and more with the open source community.)
I've kept Linux on a partition for a lot of years but now I use it exclusively. I mostly use Lubuntu and Mint Cinnamon but I've played with about every major distro. I do have a bunch, too many really, VMs that can be spun up and utilized but I don't usually boot to them. I mention this because I'm not a huge fan of Microsoft but I'm not a hater either. (I just used the word hater. Ugh...) I'm grateful that there is a Microsoft. I am glad for what they've done for the industry. We tend to concentrate on the negative. I prefer to be positive.
Anyhow, if I were still using Windows then I'd probably shut some of the stuff off and leave other stuff on. Unless I'm using a tablet (which is unlikely) or a laptop then I don't have a microphone hooked up. I'd not want Cortana running. I don't know if that can be entirely disabled. I'd let them "spy" on me (I'm not sure it's spying if they tell you what they're doing) because that means they can give me a better user experience. They're also using that information to give a more customized update system so that you'll be getting more specific patches and whatnot. I sure as hell wouldn't have the WiFi password sharing shit enabled nor will anyone that comes to my house - I've got a password free guest account that's isolated, of course. ;-)
Well, look at how far the Ugandans (I think) went before they finally got rid of the Brits? Shit, they felt Amin Dada was better. At least, for a while.
Heh... Dada was kind of awesome in a sick way. He was tough and didn't afraid of anything. He declared himself King of Scotland. He was also king of all the fishes in the sea and all the land animals. He made the white people carry around his fat ass in a chair. He really embarrassed the Brits and they couldn't do a damned thing about it. He basically went 4chan on them.
Anyhow, they tolerated the abuses of the Britons for quite a while before they were like GTFO oldfag! Lulz! Even my own country, America, put up with a hell of a lot before we kicked them out. Oddly enough, few people ask why the Brits were stomping to Concord. They were coming to steal the guns - specifically the cannons and all weapons (powder and shot) in the armory.
Concord's like, "LOL WUT?"
The King's Men are like, "I can haz gunz pl0x"
Concord, "NO U!"
Then the King's Men get out their giant muskets (while wearing targets across their chest) and go PEW PEW PEW!
Concord ducks 'cause they can only pew pew pew a little bit and then they go pew pew pew back.
The King's Men go, "Oh shit!"
Concord says, "IMMA CHARGIN' MY LAZRS!"
The King's Men go, "Run away!!!"
Then the little villages between Concord in the coast sang "TROLOLOLOLO" while making a few pew noises of their own.
Point being, you never know what's going to finally be the straw that breaks the camel's back but we'll put up with a bunch of shit before we are angry enough to actually do anything. I'd wager 100 quid, or Queen Moniez, that not one single MP doesn't get reelected specifically because of this. I'm sure there will be some that lose their seats but I doubt this will be the cause. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying there's quite a bit of historical precedence.
Err... And that's exactly how they should teach history in school. *nods*
It might have had something to do with his being a mad druggie that put tens of thousands to death, many innocent people to death, and siphoning off the wealth of the nation with an estimated self-worth of nearly 1,000,000,000 USD at his death. But no, it was surely the imperialist's infringement that doomed him. It wasn't his systematic rape of women, the abortion clinic under the college, the nearly daily attempts to propagandize the nation via television, the personal screening of allowed television, or anything like that - but, boy, they had free health care.
He was like a mad Keith Richards gone Tin Pot Dictator. He started off well enough. I'm sure he had great intentions and he did do some nice things but I'm not sure why one would want to concentrate on those and fabricate the reasons for the riots when those rioters have clearly articulated their reasons for rioting. Hell, they wrote it on their signs! Something akin to, "Let's not forget the massacre of *insert prison name here that I've forgotten*" That was the very first major riot that sparked off the rest of them, the police shot into the crowd and fecal matter hit the fan. Err... It went steadily downhill after that, so to speak.
It would appear that if you're going to rape the women, kill the men, and then kill the women too - you should probably give them better beer and circuses than you can provide with bad television and piss poor health care as a very limited resource. But you knew that... You're not fooling me. ;-)
Just wait until the temperature goes below 70 deg f and the crocs crawl into the mud and will let you be.
Meh, the MPs won't care. They've got money. The people will still vote for them.
Look at how much had to happen to piss off people for Khadaffi (or however we're spelling it today) to be ousted. The riot that sparked it all was actually from sisters and mothers from a prison right that happened way back in 1994 (I think?). It took 20 years and severe oppression before people got pissed enough to do something. No, so long as they've got beer and circuses they'll put up with a whole bunch of shit - including paying more for internet access. They won't even lose a single member of Parliament over this.
Citation needed. I'll accept anything similar to a wireshark printout side-screened with a video of the OS in action, preferably with the task manager open.
Why? 'Cause I don't use Windows and not even *I* expect they've jumped the shark this bad and I'm pretty sure you're full of shit given the many, many articles on the subject.
It's only a half dozen or so, not 100. ;-) It's something like 60 of 'em total but they're not all going to be invoked by opening the calculator.
Every time there's a new Windows OS (even back in 95, it seems) there's an uptick in interest in Linux. It dies down in 6 months, generally. I've noticed no greater increase in interest or questions on the various Linux forums from any other release. People just don't care. If I used Windows, I'd probably not care either. Privacy is not why I use Linux. So far, and Microsoft has been collecting information for years, they've been pretty good stewards of that information. Considering the vast amounts of data that they have (and the huge target they have with their upgrade servers) they must be doing something right.
I've used MS products extensively. Hell, I used to be a member of the MVP program. I exclusively use Linux these days (with some alternatives in VMs) but my doing so is not because of anything Microsoft did directly, so to speak. I can, and have, run Windows just fine and kept is secure easily enough. If anything, it's ease is one of the reasons I stopped using it entirely. I like to poke, to play, to break, and to learn. That's why I use Linux. You play video games. I play grep.
You can neuter the Amazon tracking from search and any data collection with Ubuntu. It should be easier and a bit more clearly labeled, but it can be done with fairly easy steps.
I had a different song in mind...
"...Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr. Customs Man."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Heh... You might be surprised at the number of people who ask how to set up root with a password and use it - even by default, as their login on the AU SE site or even the Ubuntu forums. I giggle to myself and tell them how to do so. I aim to please, after all.
It's okay. The only thing I know about ModSecurity is that I should enable it when I bang out bad PHP.
Well, you're obviously trolling, at least a little, but still deserve a reply. Any deterministic algorithm can be bested simply by determining what the algorithm does and then doing something different. So, yes, this isn't actually going to work as a permanent solution. It may work on past reviews, it may work for some time in the future, and it may work against those unwilling to put an effort into their work. However, someone will, almost certainly, and find the flaws. There is a technical term for this but, suffice to say, it boils down to there being no such thing as a free lunch.
Maths, explained conceptually, are a good thing. *nods* I'm not good at analogies but think of it like a law. No law can be without loopholes or it would be draconian and not have a desirable outcome. Yet, each loophole have potential abuses. There is no such thing as a perfect law which will give you ideal results in all situations.
Or, if you'd prefer, an automobile that is optimized for efficiency will not be good for hauling around extra weight - it will even be less efficient than an automobile designed to carry such a load. One can not create an automobile that will function ideally in all situations. Even if you could create such a thing, someone would just come along with a different use-case where such failed. It may take someone a moment to find that use-case but it will happen.
I am intelligent enough to know how intelligent I am not. What I do have is the wisdom to know when to admit that I do not know and to seek an answer from those who do. The answer to your question is somewhere in there. I do hold my Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, but I've had the chance to work with some truly brilliant people and have learned much from them - including humility.