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The results are skewed because the population of e-book vs paper-book readers is different. I hope the books I read won't be altered to match the apparent short attention span of e-book consumers.
The results are skewed because the population of e-book vs paper-book readers is different. I hope the books I read won't be altered to match the apparent short attention span of e-book consumers.
Eroticas go faster because people are skipping over the pages of badly written sex trying to find more plot.
If you want plot over sex don't buy erotica. Probably the plot of erotica is skipped to find more hot carnal sex
But you just compile with 32bits losing all the advantages of x86-64?
Yes. Our data-structures are very pointer-heavy and thus not cache-friendly. The most critical hardware part of our servers is the cache.
The company I work for compiles almost all programms with 32 bits on x86-64 CPUs. It's not only cheap RAM usage, it's also expensive cache which is wasted with 64 pointer and 64 bit int. Since 3 GB is much more than our programms are using, x86-64 would be foolish. I'm eager waiting for a x32 SuSE version.
They said they didn't do it intentionaly. Why being specific about intention? This smells.
We should develop a secret handshake
What's not to love: some pages don't work. E.g. I can't save slashdot accounts slashboxes, the save-button isn't visible. Mostly it's non-functional video. For this I have firefox as stopgap.
And you have NO visual perception where you are in the comment-section. Scrollbars are a concept of the past, WEB 2.0 can do without. This new "design" is retarded.
If I like small columns I can make the browser-window small. If a site patronizes me about column-size I feel disregarded in my preferences. This is patronizing attitude is found more often in the last years.
Why would suicide be illegal? Where I live it isn't. How could be someone prohibited from suicide save livelong incarceration in a padded cell?
Btrfs send/receive should possible be doing the trick. After first cloning the disk and before every subsequent transfer create a reference-snapshot on the laptop and delete the previous one after the transfer.
$ btrfs subvolume snapshot
$ btrfs send -p
$ btrfs subvolume delete
I havn't tried this for myself, so the necessary disclaimer: this may eat your disk or kill a kitten
You confuse me only by misleading comments. The notion of "by law enforcement" was missing in your initial wording and given that the whole topic was about secret services this is a major change of meaning.
Nevertheless I stand by my first remark about spying on own citizens. If a case involves foreign citizens and local ones, no secret service would gather only half of the information because own citizens are sacrosanct.
Once you allow any domestic spying, it inevitably deteriorates into that. The only way to avoid that is to subject domestic surveillance to judicial review and hold abusers legally responsible.
So you say: there is absolutely no way domestic spying can be allowed, unless you do in a special way. Doesn't this seem to be contradictory?
What isn't normal or acceptable is that a nation spies on its own citizens
A little bit spying on own citizens is acceptable if there is a current cause. Not acceptable is the dragnet type of surveillance with all-encompassing records of every citizen. This is a major characteristic trait of totalitarianism.
The former communist countries have mostly overcome dictatorship, some with more remaining autocratic elements some with less. Even Chinese have now more personal freedom and demand accountability from persons in high positions. To counter this trend the USA swings to the other side.
you don't know that the chinese knew
This spying into everything of everyone by NSA was a secret to the same degree as the existence of an Israeli atom-bomb is. Known to every person on earth (with possible exception of a few US Americans) but not officially admitted. Given that China resides on earth they knew.
From time to time, if you are into using ebooks, you will find that there are titles you want that are not available in non-DRM versions.
It's a matter of principle for me. Buying any DRM-contaminated book is a sign to the publisher that this abomination is acceptable.
There are e-books with DRM from authors I have all published paper-books from. It sucks there are stories from my favorite authors I can't read but DRM is a red line I don't cross.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
