The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I better not work there or they'll end up blocking all the sites for guitars and shop tools.

Self reported behavioral data.... Probability of junk science is 0.999. Reminds me of a joke. A group of researchers used self reported data to discover the leading cause of spousal abuse in the United State. They found the leading cause: "They never fucking LISTEN!"

I used one or another Linux distro as my desktop from 2000 until 2013 when a team I was on insisted on using some Mac collaboration software. So I got a Macbook Air. I just gave the Air to my daughter and an back using a Linux distro for my laptop.

In that time it has never had significant market share. Yet, somehow, all the apps I needed and all the interfaces with which I needed to interact were friendly enough to my distro that I could work without any problems.

So, if I've got everything I need and the developers are sufficiently motivated to keep it that way, why should I give a shit how much market share my OS has?

I kinda figured it was like that.... I wonder what it would cost to have Level3 piped straight to my house. ;)

I have a sincere question. Could WiMAX or some other radio solution carry the final mile of traffic? the reason I ask is because Level3 and other backbone carriers aren't the problem. The cable and phone companies are the problem and getting easements to use the existing terrestrial infrastructure to compete with them isn't really feasible.

Some DOES have to be done. There shouldn't be ANY discussion of competitive throttling and other nastiness at this stage in history and there is.

Thanks!

I'm not being snaky here. I'd love to see some cites on this! Will google now but I sense you've got some terms that will narrow my search.

The first thing I ever touched that could store a program was a TI-59 programmable calculator a friend of mine let me play with in 1977. The first computer I ever played with was in 1982. It looked like a Commodore SX-64 but it had a black monitor with green text. The first computer I owned was an IBM 8086.

When someone tells you they want safety checks on your computerized platform there are few on the planet less qualified to complain than Toyota or, as I like to call them 10,000 Global Variables Incorporated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643551

Precisely!!! There's no tank of human batteries to escape from. If this is a simulation we're simulacra.

If this is a simulation and it has this much complexity I'm not sure I'd want to (or be able to) live in the world that created it. I wouldn't mind having the power to enhance our experience of the simulation. I'm all for cheating the gods. But, I'd like to keep living and I doubt I exist in a tank somewhere - I exist in whatever data this simulation uses.

The company is quoted as saying, "It's not you. It's me."

If the case isn't near a desk you will find your case cover slid betwee the two pieces of furniture that are closest together. If it is close to a desk, it will be slid under the desk standing on edge like a book. If a giant stack of junk had to be moved to get at the case the probability of finding it under the stack is dirctly proportional to the size of a stack. If it's a university science lab, someone else already found it and it's the base of that thing across the room covered in bolts next to an empty bottle of Locktite. I hope this helps... ;)

I look at this weird octopus systematically eating every small, unix-like thing about Linux a few bites at a time and I want to scream. But it's just like the Trump/Hillary thing. It's an inevitable march toward the illusion of progress presented by someone who never bothered to pay attention to the structure that underlies real value.

When I get the chance I'll use FreeBSD.... Otherwise, I'll be using my experience of Microsoft in the 90s to navigate the new paradigm of SystemD Linux. Shame on me for thinking there was an escape from hubris.

Here's an idea consistent with the new Linux - how about integrating Facebook's login API into the OS! That way when people load it on their machine they don't have to worry about a new username and password. It will be convenient and people will love that. It seems like a kind of complicated thing though so let's tie it in so deep that taking it out for a server install is a constant battle with each new version. When people complain we'll tell them that they have a choice and can install or uninstall whatever parts of SystemD they want... Because their time is infinite.