bobcallme

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by bobcallme 9y ago
Has the definition of "passed" changed recently?
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> - Governments have far more power and resources to skew the narrative. s/Government have/Google has/g > Governments are less accountable than any private individual or organization. Organizations are at least account
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by bobcallme 9y ago
There is zero difference between "opinionated" reporting and state-sponsored propaganda since both are pushing an opinion from a point of view. When you start injecting opinions it is no longer reporting. I'd say that Google
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by bobcallme 9y ago
My main concern with this is the fact that if Secure Boot is forced (UEFI Class 3/+) users might not be able to change or manage trusted keys. It is quite sad that every few years we have to yet again have this conversation or defend t
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by bobcallme 9y ago
Yet another bloated distro based upon ubuntu with no tangible value brought to you by a company who (for the longest time) required a support package to be installed on top of stock ubuntu. I suspect them rolling this distro is due to the f
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by bobcallme 9y ago
How is Lineage OS a "fledgeling" project since it has original roots going back more than 8 years? While Lineage OS does not work on all "Android" devices, it does still support a wide range of them.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> As a central body it can still retain the ability to shutdown ID of non-acceptable content like ... The problem with that is who gets to choose what is acceptable and what is not? If I make criticisms about something or someone's
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Symantec CEO says source code reviews pose unacceptable risk(reuters.com)
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> User-settable keys also compromise the security of the device. Not if a physical modification to the hardware, a set of button presses, a hardware token or a fuse is needed to set said keys. > And in general it's risky to intr
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> According to that, if Apple accidentally ships any GPLv3 on iOS then they'll have to release their root signing keys to the world, which would be disastrous (it would destroy the security model of the OS). Stop spreading this FUD.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> There are ways to build anonymous but auditable voting schemes. I have yet to see one that involves a digital voting system. Many of these voting systems are insecure and F/OSS(free and open source) won't fix that. You are gi
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by bobcallme 9y ago
Can you trust that you won't be punished for voting the "wrong" way? Or maybe you won't get that raise that you were seeking out because you belong to the wrong party. Paper ballots keep things anonymous and make it diff
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> "Net Neutrality" in its final form did not solve or fix any problems with the Internet. I'm against it because it as an idea has failed in both its proposal and implementation. If people are going to whine and rally for
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by bobcallme 9y ago
"Net Neutrality" in its final form did not solve or fix any problems with the Internet. The definition of "Net Neutrality" is poorly defined, too vague and does not have any proposed legislation attached to "fix&quo
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by bobcallme 9y ago
Another garbage article brought to you by Ars Technica. People seem to have this habit of complaining about projects that are gratis, have few developers and little to no funding. People should be grateful that these projects exist or work
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> Not sure how hobby or volunteer work has anything to do with that. A bit strawman-y. It's not a hobby or volunteer work if the end goal is to start a successful business. Some of us are (again) not lucky to be born with a silver s
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by bobcallme 9y ago
So I guess I should just give up and stop working on anything since I don't get paid for what I do and it might be "..an unacceptable competitive edge".
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> he'd likely close the business and she (my family member) would end up being worse off. >>This is exactly the train of thought I think is incorrect: Businesses that can't pay workers a living wage should have to shut do
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by bobcallme 9y ago
I don't see why everyone here would be in favor of this bill. Not only does it expand civil forfeiture, it also turns almost everyone who works or runs a legitimate business into a criminal. Everyone here seems to want more government,
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by bobcallme 9y ago
They are not forcing you to listen to anything. You can a) delete the message or b) change voicemail systems so this does not work. These problems can be mitigated from a technical perspective.
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by bobcallme 9y ago
> The guy who did Silk Road was involved in the deaths of 6 users. He got life without parole. Kind of funny since that is not how things went down [1] and we don't know who really started Silk Road. [1] https://en.wikip
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by bobcallme 10y ago
You mean the ethernet port that will break off and the power button that is not recessed so it does not power on in your bag. Great. Who puts a power button on the side of a laptop?
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by bobcallme 10y ago
> I grew up in New Hampshire in a very rural town with a population of 4,000. Rural life sat well with some of my peers, but I loved tech and quickly left through college enabled by my parents ability to point me in the right direction,
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by bobcallme 10y ago
You missed the point. It is all about giving credit to those who do the work and make discoveries. It is in poor taste to exploit people in the case of taking their work and not giving any credit to those that made their business model poss
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by bobcallme 10y ago
What's with the free advertising? They were not the ones to do the original work with coreboot or removing the non important parts of the ME. If anything, Purism has lied, taken credit for other peoples work and given people a false se
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by bobcallme 10y ago
Yes, but it will not have PPC or Rosetta support. It is only able to provide facilities to run Universal or x86 mach-o binaries.
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by bobcallme 10y ago
QEMU [1] has had full emulation support for about a year now (three if you count it in a broken state). [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC