of course you have to authenticate, but you run all of the software to administer it on a client, not sitting at the console. The console had only the most barebones capability, usually user management. The tools to administer ran on the client.
...it makes sense to have a headless server operating system when you're mostly running commodity spin-up/spin-down headless servers. Microsoft's server operating system was still largely based on the idea of running on a baremetal self-contained box, even though Microsoft servers had long, long since been used in the virtual machine space. If anything they're quite far behind the curve on this.
The Novell Netware model adapted to the VM era is what makes sense, where the tools don't require logging in to the server at all in order to administer the environment.
IBM is and has always been a services/consultant business, even when they made products.
I'm not so sure about the UI. The history of Microsoft and UI for the past 40 years is that they're happy to abandon their incumbent UI for different. We saw that with Windows 3.x to '95 and NT4, with Windows 98 and the integration of Spyglass Mosaic Internet Explorer, with the transition from Windows ME and Windows 2000 to Windows XP, the subsequent further transition from XP to Windows 7, and the rework from Windows 8.x to Windows 10. We even saw it with Windows 10 to Windows 11.
They change their UI because their customers don't see the OS being new/different unless they change their UI. If the UI looks the same then the average untrained end user doesn't know the difference and doesn't see a value in spending the money to upgrade.
Counterpoint: Is is plausible that he'd be that successful at insider trading when he has failed at every other endeavor he has turned his hand to?
Depends on your definitions, I suppose. You could argue that engaging in blatant market manipulation and insider trading from the Oval Office for 16 months and only netting $750M in profits represents a failure. Someone more competent could have made a lot more.
I stayed in school for a couple of years to get my MSEE after getting my bachelor's. It was like being in Montessori school again and I loved it. It was the first time I had really manage my time over the long stretch - not just to get through this week's test, but to make my overall project successful. My advisor was more or less hands off, but available if I got stuck. Otherwise, it was up to me. That was 25 years ago. About 5 years ago I made the transition to leadership roles to be that advisor to the new guard, but I still value an MS if it was done with the right intent. A lot of colleges today will throw you an MS if you just take a few extra classes, but when I see a well-planned thesis that the candidate can demonstrate true understanding in an interview, it tells me (along with many other things) that they can manage goals, timelines, requirements, and do the validation work to tie it all up. It's nice when I don't have to spend their first 2 years at the company developing those skills in them.
To me the whole point of the MS is to give you something to figure out on your own and make you learn how to manage it. Taking a bunch of classes only makes you better at getting through this week and temporarily memorizing enough formulas to get through a final. There's little true understanding in that.
Should it matter? The founders weren't gods, they did their best for their time. They made mistakes, and times have changed.
It really should matter. If we can just decide the text means whatever we want it to mean, what's the point in writing it down?
Amend the constitution, make it illegal.
Yes! This is the way. Unfortunately, our system is so dysfunctional we can't even pass normal laws now, much less enact and ratify constitutional amendments.
What will the SEC do? It will settle the cases out of court and set up a $1.776 billion fund to pay to friends who have been accused.
Surely not that. That would be dumb. And awful. And utterly corrupt.
Sigh.
Will it catch the president, who has been on a rampant insider trading and market manipulation spree for his whole second term?
What about congress?
What will the SEC do when it flags top politicians? I think all of us know the answer to that question.
In the United States, simply keeping their cars running after the manufacturer died is a fairly substantial set of crimes. Since they have admitted to conspiracy by forming an interstate group to do it, major Federal organized crime laws have been broken.
Is it? What crimes, exactly? They might be defeating some copy protection, but the entity that owned the software is defunct, so no one has standing to sue.
Doesn't the use of social media involve reading?
Or am I misunderstanding what social media is in this context?
I'm not saying this isn't a problem, but it's not really a "pitchforks and guillotines" problem, it's an Econ 101 supply and demand problem.
In this specific case, yes. But TFA describes just one instance a society-wide problem in which both politics and the economy are predicated on turning the general population into victims and servants. That can't be solved by Econ 101 platitudes.
Really? Got any examples that actually hold up to scrutiny?
I don't think Google has any intention or desire to kill F-droid
I think it's very likely to get caught in the crossfire. I don't think f-droid is big enough that anyone except engineers at google even know about its existence let alone care.
At Google, it's what the engineers care about that really matters. Google is still very much a bottom-up company. And, in any case, even if no special allowances are made for F-droid, it's very easy for F-droid to stay in operation under the proposed terms. As I said, it just means someone is going to have to pony up $25 and provide their ID. That doesn't even have to happen for each app; F-droid as an organization could become the official "developer" who signs all of the apps.
I really don't see a risk here.
This is what happens when the rights of average citizens are slowly eroded to the point where those in power lose sight of just how dangerous the disenfranchised can be. Propaganda and gaslighting only go so far. At some point the great unwashed get desperate and/or angry enough to band together and attempt to overthrow their oppressors.
Either that or, you know, Liberty Utilities (the residential power company who currently buys power from NV Energy and sells it to the homeowners) will contract with another supplier. Probably the price will be higher, which will be painful in the near term. In the longer term it will motivate regional suppliers (probably including NV Energy) to expand their production, and the higher prices will fund that expansion.
I'm not saying this isn't a problem, but it's not really a "pitchforks and guillotines" problem, it's an Econ 101 supply and demand problem.
Thought I recognized one name, Cavill, but never saw anything they listed for him. Musta been somebody else. Hollywood continues its streak of not being part of my life.
This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks.
