Comment Re:Uh... Yeah? (Score 1) 242
Laugh all you want. But can you provide a proof?
Remember that Everything you say will be used to burn you. Cops can lie and get away with it, and if you lie to a cop, you're fried. Do not believe anything they say, and don't try to talk your way out of it because you'll lose.
Out of interest - what makes a lawyer so special that he can talk to the cops? Are lawyers vaccinated against cop-tricks or something?
data on the phone can endanger no one.
If phone display shows a countdown app that sets of a bomb remotely?
That's over a hundred guys, and not a one of them is married.
You think that there is a _positive_ correlation between "being married" and "having sex"?
62% of the more than 18,000 U.S. consumers it polled said social media had no influence on their buying decisions.
Are the customers able to recognize whether they got influenced? I thought that current advertising methods are predominantly trying to influence subconsciousness rather then consciousness decisions.
I mean seriously, $(app vendor), your app does not need access to my location and/or phone calls in order for me to do $(menial computation X).
You mistakenly assume that "for you to do $(menial computation X)" is a reason why $(app vendor) wrote the app. It's not. He wrote it to make money. From advertising. Which can be done better if he can "access your location and/or has access to your phone calls".
As I understand it, Metro removes abilities from the end user, while systemd actually enhances the end user by providing many more powerful features in an easy to use manner.
As an example: systemd removes the ability to run a grep on the plain text log file. And replaces it with something else. Metro also takes away the ability to do some stuff and replaces it with something that the marketing department claims to be just as capable or even more. And perhaps it's all fine when you are within the boundaries that the marketing department envisions. But Linux was never about keeping yourself within some borders. We want tweak and poke, replace X with Y and customize to no end. You can't beat flexibility of a shell script combined with textutils/binutils/fileutils.
But the main thing isn't so much that old style script init systems are inherently bad, but that they don't work well with modern day computing.
Strangely it reminds me of Metro UI on Windows that may be nice/useful on tablet/phone but was pushed by MS also to places where it does not belong: desktop or even server.
Similarly systemd may have it's uses for some specific systems and for all I care go ahead. But if systemd is going to take over my workstation and turn the boot process into something that is difficult to read/modify/log/... then I'm not going to be happy.
Therefore, it seems that alcoholism is largely caused by the lack of an important enzyme, rather than a difference in brain function.
Does it mean that we can supply the enzyme to the body and cure alcoholism?
No, just no. The quality of OSS is too bad.
In some cases yes. But imagine how much it would improve if it got only 1/10th of what the state pours into proprietary solutions. And then everyone else would benefit too!
Present nothing. Say nothing. Do not open your mouth. Stare into space. Daydream.
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And get convicted for obstructing justice. You are screwed either way.
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