Posts by Charles 9 16605 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
That's not a real solution, then, as there's the boot nag AND the problem of increasing numbers of root- and boot-aware apps (thanks to SafetyNet and the like). You may not have encountered them, but I see them all the time: mostly to do with banking, secure communications, app stores, and so on.
Thing is, computers became both more powerful and more connected as time passes. For many, especially at home, Internet access has become a necessity, yet most home users are not versed enough to know about the necessary safeguards. You might as well be talking shop to them (like auto shop--who repairs their own cars, for example). Thing is, once a product becomes unsupported, there's the increased risk of a "game over" exploit going wild that gets a WONTFIX, and as Mirai showed us, there are far too many machines that'll never get protected to let something like that slide. Pretty soon, your only option for those who can't afford it is to throw up their hands and cry, "Stop the Internet! I wanna get off!"
For me, if I have to go to 10, I do have a plan B. Back when it was public, I did migrate 10 on my machine (when I originally got it, it had 8--I'm using 7 now for compatibility reasons), THEN did a Clonezilla on it. It's still in my box of USB sticks. If push came to shove, I could probably use it to go back to a perfectly-legal state of 10.
I disagree. Absence of evidence does not imply evidence of absence. At least Alan Turing proved one cannot solve the Halting Problem through classical computing by producing a paradox.
If you want to disprove the existence of God, I expect something just as gas-tight.
PS. No, I didn't see the Troll icon. Besides which, I get into more serious arguments about God all the time. I once went through an entire semester in a religion course in a Christian college (Presbyterian to be specific) as an agnostic, stayed an agnostic, and got an A in the course for acknowledging their case but providing my own case for maintaining my stand.
"Working from home? My experience is that employers start off enthusiastic, but after a while they start to get twitchy and demand bums on seats unless there's a cast-iron reason for WFH."
Because people still (instinctively) value a face-to-face interaction: the INefficiency of going the extra mile and so on. And since things like this can determine lucrative contracts and so on...
Privacy was never a right as long as we had communities privacy died with the village gossip. It's not like we have the ability to make people UNSEE what they saw with their own two eyes or UNHEAR what they heard with their own two ears.
Or to put it more succinctly, who owns the image of someone burning oneself on one's own front lawn?
Tried. Too many newer sites break under it. And before you say, "Don't go there, then," that includes government websites for which no alternatives exist (and no, I don't have the time anymore to camp outside the Social Security office all night--I have bills to pay).
Because print ads and web ads are two different kettles of fish that don't necessarily work well together. For example, why are more and more ads animated? Because static ads tended to get overlooked and ignored more and more often. Readers' eyes start to habitually gloss over them and they start losing effectiveness.
"Treating the lives of everything as being equally important would be absurd. You'd dare not even move for fear of treading on an innocent ant."
Isn't that a fundamental part of Hinduism: that to kill even the tiniest insect is wrong, given you may be killing a reincarnated ancestor?
Theoretically, you can also create a shareholder revolt to get a corporation's attention.
Realistically, you can't do either for the same basic reason: all the real voting power's already locked up, so you're basically screwed either way.
They say the worst words one can hear is, "We're from the government and we're here to help you." I replied what about, "We're from the corporation and we're here to help you."?
"Only when it still works. When getting lost in the middle of a mountain, with no data, at low battery, on foot and getting dark, Having a backup options in case the map app isn't working is great. If a printed map is all you got, it is still better than speculating the stars for the right direction on a cloudy night."
That actually happened to me...out of the country. And it was a HARD fail (Note 4 internal flash fault, phone bricked two days later, but not before I made sufficient backup). But, like the old Boy Scouts, I WAS prepared for such an exigency: a spare PHONE, which kept me going for the remaining month of my stay. And forget about paper maps. They simply didn't exist. Where I was, most people went by landmarks and muscle memory.
And the shopping research depends on where you shop and the circumstances. Some sales are distress sales, for example, meant to dump last season's inventory, and most frugal shoppers will tell you there's little wrong with last season's inventory. Plus there are the secondhand stores whose inventory is by definition nigh unpredictable.
"For all the useful things a smartphone can do other than being a telephone, we don't really need them."
Really?
"I can get directions, etc., but HORRORS, I would have to print those out! But what I'm saying is that it's rarely very urgent to use my phone away from home as a phone let alone to check for a competitive price when I'm shopping, etc. In fact, I can do THAT before I leave home"
Directions can get lost or become unreliable. One time those vaunted PRINTED directions led me to the middle of nowhere, in unfamiliar territory, and me unable to ask directions due to not being fluent in grass. A map app allowed me to get a bearing even in the middle of nowhere and get new directions (which didn't know at the time one of the roads stated had been torn up).
Shopping research only works in advance if you know in advance what you intend to buy. If a flash sale hits, or you chance upon the last of something interesting and it's currently in your cart, a little on-the-spot research would be handy. It let me snap up a bargain or two and walk away from some potential bad deals.
I guess you can plan all you wsnt, but Murphy can always throw a googly.
If you read the original request, it mentions a shift-click: meaning being able to hold down a key while clicking a mouse which is usually too far away physically to reach while pressing the key at the same time. Though I must ask: if physical disability is an issue, why is Sticky Keys not a viable solution in your case? It sounds like asking why one cannot physically be in two places at once.
2. Because Linus likes convenience of having Greg as maintainer too much.
Do we all not remember the old Linus, the profanity-laden Linus who stuck to his guns? If he is conceding to Greg at this point, then he's probably already been pushed aside as the root user of this project, all the more reason to fork the kernel (and yes, it needs to be the kernel, before it becomes too thoroughly tied into systemd to be able to make a systemd-free distro--if MySQL and OpenOffice can be forked, why not the Linux kernel into Trunix or something?).
A few honest questions here. Serious answers please.
1. Exactly what serious, genuine problem does systems claim to solve? Is it such a grave problem as to require an approach that violates the UNIX compartmentalization principle?
2. If systemd is so bad, why haven other key personnel of the kernel team spoken up or raised motions against it, particularly Mr. Torvalds himself?
3. If so many people disagree with the direction Linux is taking, why hasn't someone forked Linux itself to remove anything like systemd from the tree and enforced the compartmentalization principle (call it trunix or something)?
For the duration of your stay, quite possibly. It's especially noticeable transiting to and from the US, where certain bands in common use abroad are verboten (like LTE Band III): due to the military calling dibs on them years before. And the WiFi frequencies around 2.4 and 5GHz can be even murkier.
Maybe it's simply a case of "not worth their time...YET." OR they probably have dirty laundry to use as blackmail against the plods. I mean, you say they're on the news almost daily without New Zealand batting an eye, yet ONE hate crime in Cristchurch...
"As to Wheely-Bin Over-Laden, you may wish to re-think how he was captured."
He wasn't captured. He was found and gunned down. And it was pretty clear how it was done: they kept at it until they managed to find and tail one of his inner circle. How else could they have managed to locate his hideout which the savvy guy would otherwise have never revealed (recall, he was Internet-savvy-enough to insist on couriers)?
What about the product placement? It's IN the content, so skipping it skips the show, too.
Plus, what happens when (not if) they disable fast-forward during the commercials (they already do that on my cable boxes at home, and ALL the providers do that, so jumping just means another burning ship).
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