Yeah he does but before giving him too much credit I'd point out that he lacks the common sense to stay out of Iran. Especially given his background of studying physics in the US!
It makes sense. Cannonical has been working for years to make Linux just as bad as Windows. By now Ubuntu should be pretty good as a drop in replacement for Microsoft products.
No doubt it has made a lot of politically well connected contractors a lot of money. Even if it ended today (fat chance) the money is never going back.
Meanwhile, having access to everybody's personal lives has made a lot of penile size challenged people at the NSA feel much bigger and more powerful.
The only failure is in the other government organizations that don't get to control their own (obviously compensating for something) domestic peeping tom programs and have to kiss up to the NSA to get their fix.
Oh.. you thought this BS was ever actually about security... ha ha
I don't believe that one bad school district can entirely explain why you homeschooled your children. I'm not arguing with your assesment of your local school, nor am I putting down your abilities to teach your kids yourself. If what you say is true you did an excelent job! However, educating your children must have been years of hard work. Surely it would be easier to move to a different district! Even if you or your spouse had the perfect job and wouldn't leave it, lot's of people commute to work.
I suspect you must have also enjoyed it and/or the time with them and/or wanted more control over what your children are taught and/or some other combination of reasons.
Yes, someone just did remind people owns Facebook. It's not the users, it never was. Why would it be? The users didn't create it, don't pay for it, don't run the servers, don't hold the domain etc...
If you want to own your own content then go out and buy whateveryoulike.name. If you post your crap on somebody else's site and don't like what that site does with it then STFU.
"If they really wanted to do the right thing then instead of this "humanitarian usage" clause for farmers making less than $10K they would have just given the patents over into the public domain."
Why?
I'm sure the 'under $10k limit should cover poor people in third world countries just fine. Where else do you find blindness from vitamin A deficiency?
How many probably think that the problem is fixed just by doing that? No wonder there isn't more protest!
First, just monitoring which cell tower your phone is communicating with (and it is always communicating) shows at least what neighborhood you are in. Checking your signal levels at a few adjacent towers can narrow it down even better.
Second... prove to me that your GPS is actually off. So.. your non-government apps don't see it anymore and the icon went away. Can you see the actual charges on those little transistor switches inside your phone's chips? How can you KNOW your GPS is off?
But... hey.. Joe Sixpack signed off of Four Square for a while. Yay! The Constitution is saved! We can all go home now.
What happens when Dropbox changes how everything works. How long before it is reverse engineered again. That's why I wouldn't want to depend on this kind of hack for anything.
Nope. He wouldn't even look exactly like John Lennon, just really close to it. Have you never met identical twins? Any that I have known I could easily tell apart after about a day of being around them.
Exactly! If GNU wasn't ESSENTIALLY Unix then RMS wouldn't have bothered to name it that! I mean, come on, Unix is right there in the name. Why name it that as opposed to giving it a whole new name of it's own that speaks to what it IS rather than what it ISN'T unless he knew that Unix was so much a part of it's identity that he had to try to define it as not Unix in it's name?
If he were staring directly at the stream of ones and zeros coming in through his modem like a bad scene out of a Matrix movie you might have a point. Instead the actions and reactions he observes in his game would each have been the product of many pieces of data coming through his connection. The cumulative effect could be many times greater than the 20-30 ms that any one packet is slowed by. If for example it takes 50 pieces of information to update his display and each is taking an extra 20ms he is going to see a 1 second delay. That's probably a bit of an exageration from how his games actually worked but it makes the math easy. The point is a 20-30ms delay could easily result in much more than that of an actual in-game lag.
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More likey you would just get dead officers. Their training and experience would be all wrong for the job.
Yeah he does but before giving him too much credit I'd point out that he lacks the common sense to stay out of Iran. Especially given his background of studying physics in the US!
Obviously AC never watched Home Improvement.
Come on, Ballmer, you can create an account
It makes sense. Cannonical has been working for years to make Linux just as bad as Windows. By now Ubuntu should be pretty good as a drop in replacement for Microsoft products.
What, if my friend takes out a bigger loan then I do get to complain about it? Actually, I think that either way it is none of my F#$%ing business!
Feel free to insert a uck or an app in there as your own culture prefers. See, Americans aren't all ignorant of the rest of the world!
Whose the bigger fool, the fool or the fool that follows?
Are you kidding, what failure?
No doubt it has made a lot of politically well connected contractors a lot of money. Even if it ended today (fat chance) the money is never going back.
Meanwhile, having access to everybody's personal lives has made a lot of penile size challenged people at the NSA feel much bigger and more powerful.
The only failure is in the other government organizations that don't get to control their own (obviously compensating for something) domestic peeping tom programs and have to kiss up to the NSA to get their fix.
Oh.. you thought this BS was ever actually about security... ha ha
I don't believe that one bad school district can entirely explain why you homeschooled your children. I'm not arguing with your assesment of your local school, nor am I putting down your abilities to teach your kids yourself. If what you say is true you did an excelent job! However, educating your children must have been years of hard work. Surely it would be easier to move to a different district! Even if you or your spouse had the perfect job and wouldn't leave it, lot's of people commute to work.
I suspect you must have also enjoyed it and/or the time with them and/or wanted more control over what your children are taught and/or some other combination of reasons.
Good for you!
So? Most of the time you could say the same thing about a Desktop Linux distro.
Nah, then they will just pay someone to write a paper stating that HIV vaccine causes autism.
That would be completely different! Michael Dell is still alive. Imagine... an auto company ran by the un-dead!
Yes, someone just did remind people owns Facebook. It's not the users, it never was. Why would it be? The users didn't create it, don't pay for it, don't run the servers, don't hold the domain etc...
If you want to own your own content then go out and buy whateveryoulike.name. If you post your crap on somebody else's site and don't like what that site does with it then STFU.
Because different crops grow well in different parts of the world. Rice for example grows where it is far too wet for most other food crops.
"If they really wanted to do the right thing then instead of this "humanitarian usage" clause for farmers making less than $10K they would have just given the patents over into the public domain."
Why?
I'm sure the 'under $10k limit should cover poor people in third world countries just fine. Where else do you find blindness from vitamin A deficiency?
Why, so Monsanto can patent it? That's not helpful.
Ughh.
How many probably think that the problem is fixed just by doing that? No wonder there isn't more protest!
First, just monitoring which cell tower your phone is communicating with (and it is always communicating) shows at least what neighborhood you are in. Checking your signal levels at a few adjacent towers can narrow it down even better.
Second... prove to me that your GPS is actually off. So.. your non-government apps don't see it anymore and the icon went away. Can you see the actual charges on those little transistor switches inside your phone's chips? How can you KNOW your GPS is off?
But... hey.. Joe Sixpack signed off of Four Square for a while. Yay! The Constitution is saved! We can all go home now.
Yeah, no doubt everyone moved off the cloud as soon as the leaks began...
Maybe he swallowed a steel ballbearing with it
What happens when Dropbox changes how everything works. How long before it is reverse engineered again. That's why I wouldn't want to depend on this kind of hack for anything.
"To begin with, GNU will be a kernel plus..."
Ha Ha!
Get one! This is not April 1st!
Nope. He wouldn't even look exactly like John Lennon, just really close to it. Have you never met identical twins? Any that I have known I could easily tell apart after about a day of being around them.
Exactly! If GNU wasn't ESSENTIALLY Unix then RMS wouldn't have bothered to name it that! I mean, come on, Unix is right there in the name. Why name it that as opposed to giving it a whole new name of it's own that speaks to what it IS rather than what it ISN'T unless he knew that Unix was so much a part of it's identity that he had to try to define it as not Unix in it's name?
If he were staring directly at the stream of ones and zeros coming in through his modem like a bad scene out of a Matrix movie you might have a point. Instead the actions and reactions he observes in his game would each have been the product of many pieces of data coming through his connection. The cumulative effect could be many times greater than the 20-30 ms that any one packet is slowed by. If for example it takes 50 pieces of information to update his display and each is taking an extra 20ms he is going to see a 1 second delay. That's probably a bit of an exageration from how his games actually worked but it makes the math easy. The point is a 20-30ms delay could easily result in much more than that of an actual in-game lag.