Please do not mix up companies with revenue even if they are scammy with a faked up HODLER pseudo currency like Bitcoin which provides no service or product of any sort to anyone. Uber may never turn a profit and cheat their drivers. Tesla may crash and burn and kill us all with Elon's Christine Enhanced Full Self Drive Tech and Beyond Meat may poison us all but at least those are all real products/services my mom can use. Bitcoin provides nothing. It's a tulip bulb. Owning bitcoin is just a giant game of hot potato.

Why exactly do we need 5G? So we can hit our data caps sooner? Most people won't get appreciably faster connections anyway, even if they didn't have pathetic caps. Might as well say fuck it, we're going for 6G... later. Much later.

Strange how all the people got to use the usenet everyday world wide for years and got to see the new images, video clips and text day after day...
The applications then showed the lists of new content with a nice GUI ready to read, save, comment on..

As President Obama famously said:

"Elections have consequences"

You should have worked harder to ensure your candidate won.

The welfare system in Australia was put in place long ago, and the current conservative government hates it. They look lovingly to the USA for social welfare and health solutions.

But they cannot just kill the system off because the average punter does not like the idea of seeing people starve in Australia. Some punters also have a vague awareness that if things go badly they could also end up at the bottom of the heap.

So instead the government white ants it bit by bit. Let inflation eat into benefits. And impose more and more rules. Make arbitrary computer decisions. And make it very difficult for people to contact the department, let alone get a resolution to issues.

The latest was the "robo debt", where they would use dubious heuristics to decide that some people might have been over paid. The unemployed then had to go back as many as seven years to prove that all the very complex rules were satisfied. And without any backup from the department, and no clear statement of what the department thought that the issue actually was.

Could you prove which weeks you were working seven years ago? And remember that the unemployed are generally not the brightest in the land, and often have no permanent place of abode.

So a very nasty system put in place by a very nasty government.

I doubt it is as you say in Canada.

In America, when on unemployment and you get a low-paying or part-time job, you don't automatically lose your benefits...

Made up numbers to make the math easy:

Qualify for unemployment inAmerica, you get an 'account' with26 weeks of benefits.

Let's say benefit is $500/week.

You get a part-time job working a couple shifts at a local store, so you earn $250/week.

You report your earnings - $250 - And unemployment does a calculation that exempts the first $150 you earn, it looks like this:

(Benefit + $150) - Earnings = new benefit

($500 + $150) - $250 = $400 benefit check

The $100 withheld from your benefit check remains in your account and serves to extend your unemployment benefit period (until the money runs out).

60 years of "war on poverty" and we have more 'poverty' than ever before.

We've had 40 years of "trickle down economics" and have a wider economic gap than ever before. Only it's not real economics, it's fake economics where those at the top get the money. It's obviously not working, but according to dipshits like you, doing the same thing over and over will make it work. You fascists keep blaming the working people who get tired of having half their paycheck stolen to fund those who the government chooses, and the politicians who cynically attain power by promising even more free money to the one percenters.

When a nations gov has everything "communist" its a hint to the world of full Communist control.

Troubleshooter, please report to the foot vats, immediately. Thank you. The Computer.

1. Every Desktop environment is standalone. KDE, Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXDE, LXQt

2. Just because something looks cool doesn't mean it should be done - a slide out control panel with a whole slew of buttons is poor user experience when the control panel has a zillion choices. This is as bad as the charm bar in Windows or the new scattergories in the Windows 7 update, or the hiding of everything in Windows 10. You want a clean interface - look at ClassicShell. The best of Windows 95 paired with the menu of Windows 8 and the cascading submenus in the control panel. Unobtrusive and just lets you work.

3. Just because something seems cool, doesn't mean it should be done - a built-in sync just means lock-in for the desktop. There are many out of the box sync solutions that are available. Just having one built-in doesn't make it great. It makes it dangerous for privacy. Think OneDrive built into Windows 10. When you first get it, you don't realize it's synchronizing everything to the cloud. On your busines desktop. Then you get an email on how to remove things from being synced that violate international law and privacy.

4. As for beautiful desktops - I think the Forbes writer has not been exposed to much. Englightenment and a few others do a great job.

5. Now, I WILL agree that Deepin is better than macOs if it doesn't require you to be trained as an Apple-Monkey. And I'm sure it's better than Windows if it's like a lot of the other Linux desktops out there.

6. Remember - this is a Chinese desktop. It is designed for and by the Chinese state. For all the bells and whistles, you can bet it has baked into it compliance with all Chinese regulations including oversight. Welcome to your new overlords. All your base are belong to us.

Having said all that, I think this article is only running on the power of the Forbes name and has not had much validation done.

Now returning you to your normal day. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Re 'Something's wrong with the news"
In the past we would have to wait 40 years to read about Soviet and Russian methods to protect CIA, NSA and GCHQ methods of detection.
Some author would seek and get permission to hint at some project 30-40 years later in a book.
Now we are reading about how some security services detect Russian methods in real time?
The amazing cyber story about "Russia bad" is all so good for NATO, the EU, the US until the part about who found the "MiniDuke implant" ... in 2013...

It's an uncomfortable truth, but the stock market is very much a ponzi scheme. Aside from dividends (no, the vast portion of stock owners and transactions chase valuations and not income), there is no value from owning stocks other than the hope for capital gains when withdrawing from the market. Paper stock assets only have value when someone buys into the market, just like a ponzi scheme. The embarrassing truth of this faux ownership is well-known and forms the butt of several jokes. In fact, several companies don't even go through the charade of corporate ownership via stocks by issuing "non-ownership" stock, e.g., Google C shares.

The value of stocks is putatively tied to some measures of corporate health or future health. However, there is no mechanism for ensuring this, which means that the actual value often vary based on factors that are unrelated or tenuously related to corporate health such as rumors, loosely related world events, political/ideological identification, etc. A large majority (80%?) of transactions are machine-programmed trades. Many of these trades are motivated by short-term strategies that have little or nothing to do with corporate health.

There shouldn't be any shock whatsoever when stock bubbles form and pop. The real shock should be that the stock market benefits as many investors as it does.

Cash is monitored to an ever higher degree these days, through radio responsive strips in the money, something pretty much anyone who drives with more than 20k in cash learns when they are pulled over.

What the distributed ledger is about is transaction awareness, watched money. It is the integration of this concept with all they have done to watch money that is inevitable. I doubt the Fed will need their own distributed ledger, theyâ(TM)ve had the ability to print money for a long time, and without that it is not crypto currency, just electronic funds.

Insofar as they are talking about nationalized zero fee electronic funds transfer, I am all for it.

When the free market (spelled Z-u-c-k-e-r-b-u-r-g) comes knocking at your door you best listen carefully. There are billions of people that don't want to ever deal with another U.S. sanction again on this planet.

This idea is really not that outlandish. When necessity presents itself, people adapt. Facebook is knocking on the Federal Reserves more.

--
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's funny following up on your posts and that I'm not the only person to question your intellect. Have you ever stopped to consider that if it's you against the world maybe it's the world that's sane?

Or, the single mom with children that depend on her could have simply taken the five minutes required to meet the requirements to get her assistance.

Essentially the system is set up to require them to repeatedly ask for their assistance, by simply re-confirming they meet the requirements and need the assistance.

I just subscribe to one at a time, but I don't like to talk to people about stuff that happened on television. Like, how fucking boring, let's talk about life. For those who want to talk about TV with their coworkers, this might not be an option, but letting TV dictate to you is bananas. Grow a pair (of whatever) and tell the TV what you want, not the other way around.

Tinfoil hats make monitoring easier, it works like a satellite dish. Better to get a full body tinfoil suit to walk around so no one will try to know what you're thinking. Hope this helps. Cheers.

That's because all you read it right wing blogs.

So far there are exactly three kinds of crypto currency:
1. Proof of something expensive
2. A secret key
3. A central authority

The first provably fails because the expense of forging a transaction blockchain neccessaruly must scale with the capitalization of the currency or it's not secure. Ergo it becomes too expensive to hash unless you can steal free electricity or performs some task whose value equals the cost of the hash. The latter is rare but not impossible such as heating your house.

The other two fail because if the secret key is discovered or the central system is hacked all the wealth is at risk.

I don't know of any other paradigms.

I happen to think crypto currency is a great intellectual excersize. But it would be nuts to have a federal currenccy

They should have checked in, they should have made it to their appointments, they should have registered that they were still working.

It's very simple, 75% of the people that had assistance suspended failed to do what everyone else collecting assistance did.

The stay is not that 75% of people on, say, unemployment were suspended, it was that 75% of those suspended could have avoided suspension if they simply did what was required.

If you are unemployed and collecting unemployment, ensuring you meet your requirements to keep collecting unemployment IS YOUR JOB until you actually find a job.

Simply finding applications that claim to be a video editor is very different from being a professional video editing application.

There are Free as in Beer Linux video editing applications that pros do use: Davinci Resolve. But Blender is not a suitable professional video editing application. Load up some Alexa footage, oh what's that you can't? How about Red? Nope? Uhh... Sony? No not that either? So it's a video editor that can't load videos? Ha!

Software branding has always been bollocks.
It is, and always has been simply, âoeDoes it do [insert list of requirements here]?â
If a piece of software hits enough of those, itâ(TM)s fit for purpose, otherwise not.

I for one welcome our new buggy automated system overlords.

That is a staggeringly stupid statement - MILLIONS of Americans collect one or more unemployment check each year.

At any point in time there are about 2 million people collecting unemployment - somehow, they all figured out the system. The only impediment is if you are fired 'for cause'.

Yeah, it looks like a random hodgepodge of Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Vista and OSX with a healthy dash of Android.

It's got Windows 8's giant wall of icons launcher... except without the really cool and useful bits that LiveTiles have/had like inbox summaries, calendar events, music controls, groups or alphabetical groupings.

Its start menu is essentially Windows Vista's quick launch... but no All-Programs slide out.

The launcher is clearly OSX.

The right panel\Notifications pane is clearly Windows 10.

The taskbar is Windows 95+.

+1 for no mic and cam assistant.
No on-line banking.
No wifi.

"First of all if anyone can win against Trump it is someone promising to give away money to everyone. Some have even wondered if such campaign promises are legal. It's like bribery. And that is how powerful a candidate he would be because of that. No one can compete with promises of free money. No one."

You're ridiculous.

Things like socialized medicine isn't "giving away money". It's switching to a more cost effective means of health care that serves everyone equally and at a high level.

And honestly, at the end of the day what are the Right's tax breaks for the affluent? With the decades long decline of the middle class and the massive increase in wealth inequality in this country no rational person actually believes in trickle down economics anymore. They aren't even being done in the name the fiscal conservatism as there are no matching cuts in government spending. All the Right is doing is rewarding the big money backing them. At least when the Left spends money it's often in favor of everyone else.

"Taking a page from China's book I guess but turning communism on its head by saying "He who does not work shall eat." Haha. Yes it is stolen money but so what? If the fat cats can afford it and don't go all Atlas Shrugged on us it could be a utopian society of sorts."

Oh, the charming fallacy that taxation is theft. If taxation is theft how do you justify the taxation needed to support the government programs you do support? I ask because unless you're an anarchist you do support some sort of government that needs to be funded,

After that (and really more importantly), since when does theft result in you getting something for your money? Police and fire departments, roads, mass public education etc, etc. Your type are just sore because you don't agree with how the money is being spent so you make absurd claims in regards to the democratic policies of our country. Fact is, you've been massively outvoted by your fellow citizens. People generally like the services government provides them for what they pay.

I most certainly respect your right to your own political opinions but don't lie and miss-characterize things. No one who robs your house leaves behind a voucher to use our roads or educate your child for free.

"Bernie can't win because he's Jewish and there are still way too many Americans who hate Jews. He would probably lose against Trump and he's another so old that he's just about to die candidate which I would imagine America is getting tired of at this point."

WOW. So Obama couldn't win because he was black? This isn't Europe, antisemitism isn't anywhere nearly as strong here as skin color racism is.

You also remind me here of JFK's election. "There's no way a Catholic can win the office"

"Warren is ok, but she's not as interesting or radical as Yang. I want to live in Interesting Times. So fuck it. Yang would have my vote if I did vote, but I don't vote because it's dumb."

Oh, cool. So if you refuse the participate in elections then you'll stop making bullshit arguments in regards to politics, right? I mean, you have a built in voice in regards to the system and if you refuse to use it then you really just come off as a douche for complaining about it.