Why can't we call these things what they are?
"Podcasts" are audio files of people talking about shit they don't know much about
Like how Slashdot posts are text files by people talking about shit they don't know much about?
I'm not sure what the solution is.
I suspect some sort of central software repository would help alleviate the unintentional installation of malware.
Last time I had to install something on a Windows box, I had to go looking for whatever it was and was appalled at the shadiness of the sites that offered downloads.
Of course, any implementation in the Windows world would end up being an "app store" model which would be expected to generate revenue. i.e. Mostly Useless.
And, my Desktop Effects are b0rked - no dodging of windows, no cube,
This kind of shit is why I'm not liking v5 - v4 worked nearly flawlessly on same hardware.
Also, v5 gets so damned slow after running for a few weeks.
You can still use Oxygen theme, or I don't know, download any other theme.
As another comment said, why are the defaults so poor?
Anyway, clicking on "Get New Themes..." on Desktop Theme in System Settings (which seems like it should / could be under "Look And Feel":
System Settings Add-On Installer
Loading of providers from file: http://download.kde.org/ocs/pr... failed
Fucking wonderful.
Okay, on 2nd or 3rd try it shows some options.
And that's not immediately satisfying:
The downloaded file is a html file. This indicates a link to a website instead of the actual download. Would you like to open the site with a browser instead?
Just feels unpolished.
I resisted the upgrade to plasma 5 as long as possible because I didn't like the changes I saw (particularly the flat design, and the lack of discoverability: I want tabs clearly defined, I don't like a thin blue line under a menu item to show me it's selected, etc ad nauseam).
I just hope this newer version gets to a spot where I love it as much as I loved QT4 version - it was so close to perfect.
And honest question: does anyone, anywhere run KDE on a tablet or a kiosk? Great if so, but honestly, is it used anywhere?
It's cheaper to support ONE version of the operating system than it is three.
Of course that explanation doesn't involve the amount of tin foil that many like to introduce into the situation, but it makes the most sense to me.
It's true that supporting one version is easier than > 1 version, but unless they think there's a possibility of a 100% conversion, then they're still going to have to support > 1 version of Windows for quite a while still.
The best explanation I've seen for the feverish push to convert users to Windows 10 is that some bonus(es) are tied to conversion rates.
where they [horseshoe crabs] now hold the record as the animal that has directly saved more human lives than any other.
Can you expand on that?
I had a look on Wikipedia for horseshoe crabs and saw they're a food source but can't reconcile that with your statement.
Thanks.
That and "LOL" are both give-aways for stupidity.
But how else will they demonstrate that they're not mad, really, they're actually laughing?
(yeah, they're mad)
That's another problem - it's now become punctuation, used when no humour was created, nor even intended.
I saw a YouTube comment yesterday (yeah, I know) that had 3 sentences, all of which started with "lol", none of which contained even a single molecule of humour.
(Maybe it was homeopathic in its humour?)
"LOL is the internet mating call of those too stupid to find their own arse with both hands and a mirror." -- Abraham Lincoln.
Another Leftist failure.
If you mean the EU when you talk about leftist, you don't have the slightest clue about what's going in dude
I agree. It always amuses me when right wingers randomly throw the word 'socialist' at things they do not like.
They're idiots. "I don't like X and I don't like socialism, so X is socialism!"
Overuse of the word 'socialist' in some form is the perfect litmus test to tell the stupid right wingers ones from the smart ones.
That and "LOL" are both give-aways for stupidity.
Those numbers look wrong somehow.
To compare, I have 8 days uptime and pulled these numbers:
# ps auxw | grep systemd
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 383 0.0 0.1 64132 29144 ? Ss Jun17 0:26
root 443 0.0 0.0 45820 5128 ? Ss Jun17 0:01
message+ 1143 0.0 0.0 44596 5648 ? Ss Jun17 7:33
root 1221 0.0 0.0 28596 3032 ? Ss Jun17 0:01
root 1256 0.0 0.0 29880 1596 ? Ss Jun17 0:00
maow 2435 0.0 0.0 45500 4952 ? Ss Jun17 0:00
I've shown my uptime and same command you ran (I did manually put column headers on there for clarity) and they're not even in the same ballpark.
I'm reminded of the old joke, "Windows is a bloated resource hog - look, System Idle Process is using up all my resources!"
Anyway, would be interesting to see what others post.
And now I add filler due to Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. message I get from Slashdot while trying to post this.
Oh Slashdot, I keep upping the regular text to copied / pasted text ratio and you keep giving me Filter error.
I removed the output line from "ps" so the grep command itself didn't show. Now can I preview this?
Now I've removed the uptime output, can I please preview this?
FOR FUCK SAKE. After removing & adding back lines of ps output, I had to drop one line.
And, after several previews & edits, I can now put the line back and
there are women out there who choose to not have a child and still want to fuck
I can think of one group of women like that. Whores. Prostitutes. What other ones can you think of?
A) Everyone else.
And a question for you: what is wrong with you that you think women enjoying sex fall into the category of "Whores"? And you even needed to repeat the point: "Prostitutes".
They're a far better class of person than you are, sir.
Published at London Review of Books, it's a very interesting read (not finished it myself yet).
I'm not personally involved in Bitcoin in any way what-so-ever, but I stayed up way, way too late last night reading the LRB article.
O'Hagan also has one about Julian Assange, who I also have not one bit of interest it, that I couldn't stop reading.
Also I don't want to have to fucking charge my headphones every few hours. Or press a sequence of buttons to re-pair them when I switch to a new device. Or waste phone battery powering a Bluetooth radio.
The first two complaints I sympathize with, but question -- is it actually more power consuming to power a few milliwatts of BT radio vs sending an amplified signal down a set of headphone wires?
I'm guessing it might be more efficient to send the BT signal to the headset but really don't know.
Of course, if BT radio is on all the time, even when not in a phone call, it's going to change the equation but I'm mostly curious about usage during phone calls.
...figure out the ping command. Sending packets? Only a mastermind.
There's a lot more to modern DDoS attacks via amplification / reflection than a bunch of ping packets (from 2013):
Recently, DDoS attacks have spiked up well past 100 Gbps several times. A common move used by adversaries is the DNS reflection attack, a category of Distributed, Reflected Denial of Service (DRDos) attack. To understand how to defend against it, it helps to understand how it works.
100 Gbps is staggeringly large and nearly impossible to defend against. "Well past 100 Gbps" is mind boggling. Didn't RTFA to see the scale of this DDoS, but the scale of them today is significant to say the least.
There would just be something like cyanogenmod that hits less than a year later. in fact, CM would probably issue a statement that they wont include the back doors.
CM is based on AOSP, and is wholly open source. If your device supports it, then you can use real crypto, while everyone else in the US gets to enjoy fake crypto.
In the binary blobs is where it'll be found.
Which you address:
The issue of course, is that you would need to encrypt so much, (because GSM and other hardware assisted crypto would be backdoored, so you have to put real crypto on top) that your battery goes flat very fast.
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Too bad there isn't much left of the European telecomm manufacturors (Nokia, Erikson(sp?), and Blackberry for that matter (widening the net)).
IMHO, the solution to that is for eurozone countries to mandate denying US variant GSM devices from working in their countries as an issue of national security. The corporate backlash would be intense.
I agree with everything you've said, but on the last point, expect the US to respond with
"Nice Airbus, shame if something happened to exports to USA.
Care for some Freedumb Fries?"
Then the Europeans fold like a house of cards (sadly).
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
