Posts by Zolko 1011 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2010
the freedom we all love so much in the West
the current times are not very good to brag about freedom in the west: from Julian Assange to Edward Snowden, Guantanamo and Abu Graib, through the covid lockdowns/curfews/Ausweis ... this doesn't look like "freedom" to me.
documented history of kidnapping and renditioning people out of Australia for over 20 years
I call this an own-goal: there is a documented case of an Australian citizen arbitrarily held in detention by the UK for years, with suspicion for torture and in danger of extradition to the US, where he faces death penalty, all for having disclosed war atrocities by the 5-eyes governments.
Don't mention the Australians.
@veti: re-act-of-war
yes, exactly. You can commit factual acts-of-war – like bombing your neighbor country – and call it "preventive self-defense " and then it's not officially an act of war. On the other side, a government can also formally call out a war against an invisible enemy – like a virus – and then the country is effectively in a situation of war, including all the curfew and mass-surveillance and restrictions of liberties, even if there is no opponent and not a single fired bullet.
They were negligent towards the health of civilians
negligent is it what you call when an army drops megatons of chemicals onto civilians ? And you dare to call this lame excuse as compared with the – questionable and still unproven – attempted (Skripals and Navalny all got away unharmed) murder on a couple of individuals ?
negligent ? Like in "we dropped an atomic bomb to see what happens, but unfortunately we forgot that it might actually cause harm to the health of some people".
negligent, is that the new excuse for "collateral damage" ?
is it also "negligent" to use depleted uranium ammunition, that will cause harm for years to come even after the war is over ? Is it also "negligent" to use cluster-bombs that leaves small explosives behind that mutilate people years after the war is over ?
How fascist someone must be to call-off as "negligence" such large-scale atrocities !!! Words fail me.
they would need to slow down before being able to find or receive the final targeting
I think you're lacking imagination here: what if it didn't need any final targeting ? A 1 ton pointy object hitting an aircraft carrier at Mach 5 would certainly cause some damage. And they aren't very mobile to do some last-minute out-maneuvering of said pointy object.
What the pointy object still would need is an optical imaging device to confirm the final location of the sitting-duck target. Whether that is possible at Mach 5, I don't know.
systemd, for all the criticism it receives, is just too damn useful.
what for ? I've been using Linux for 24 years, and I still don't understand what systemd does better – or at all – that was not done before. udev was the game-changer, it was done way before systemd, even though it is in systemd now.
it takes over functionality that SHOULD be centralized into a monolith.
well, pretty much the exact opposite of what Unix ever was
The EU isn't the world. They should have no more right to interfere with global markets...
they don't: all they're saying is that if they don't agree with that merger, then the products of that merger will be excluded from the EU market. Or at least threaten with that. Which would be enough to cancel the merger.
if the U.S.'s architectures are evil
are you really that clueless ? Are you still living in a Bond-type villains era ? How could, even from a purely theoretical perspective, any "CPU architecture" be evil as a such ?
1) it's not about US architectures but about US politics
2) it's not about evil, it's about practical: if the US politics use some means for extortion – or political pressure – then the practical approach is to get rid of that means and replace it with some other means.
Refusing to get vaccinated is taking the risk to injure or kill somebody else.
like driving a car: you pollute the air and you take the risk of accidentally killing my children. If you refuse to walk or take a bus or ride your bicycle, you should be deported to some remote island where you can exert your dangerous lifestyle. I shouldn't have to put up with irresponsible and dangerous people like you.
See ?
if they choose not to get vaccinated...
That is pretty much forcing
the problem is not only that, but the insidious inversion of proof, which is the very definition of non-science. People choose to get vaccinated, the default behavior is not to let anyone inject into your body any new product just because it's there. It's as ridiculous as saying that people choose not to buy an Apple product.
personally i would not wish to visit any establishment where people are NOT vaccinated.
ha, double vaccinated, how foolish ! I'm 4-times vaccinated and I don't want to meet people who are less than 3-times vaccinated. How irresponsible for people to only take 2 doses, these anti-tripple-vaxxers are a danger for humanity and should be deported to some remote place.
</sarcasm> although I'm afraid you might really mean it. Which would be stupid of course, because either your vaccine is effective and then you don't have anything to fear, or it's not and then on what ground would you want other people to take an ineffective product.
systemd
Systemd opens up so many possibilities in terms of effective service management
but that's the point, isn't it ? I DO NOT WANT all those services to be managed. Effectively, I don't want all those services AT ALL. I've been running Linux as main workstation on all my computers for 24 years, what problem does SystemD solve for me ?
If YOU have some special use-case then install YOUR tools for that, why do you want to force them on all others who don't need them. For most users, SystemD is anywhere between useless to utter crap.
Eight of the top ten companies in the world by market capitalization are tech firms
I have an issue with that: Amazon and Alibaba are online retailers, in what sense are they "tech" firms ? Google and Facebook are advertisement brokers, in what way are they "tech" firms ?
There is less "technology" in these companies' products than in a modern car. Apple and Tesla, OK, they DO technology. But Facebook or Alibaba : what innovative "technology" do they implement ?
The trouble is that the customers in this case are not 'paying for the bandwidth'. They are paying for a fraction of it.
it's the same as if you pay for the highway: if everyone wants to go to the same place at the same time, there is a traffic jam. A road is optimised for the mean usage, not the peak usage. If you wanted a highway such that even in the strongest traffic the throughput were fluid, the price during normal operation would be extremely high.
Because they aren't (in general) receiving any services from it.
They are getting the paying customers from them. No ISP, no Netflix customer.
that's the exact same "business model" as tax heavens: big corporations make stuff in a country with good infrastructure, good universities that provide skilled workforce, but make all their "profit" on a small remote island where they only have a virtual office and pay no taxes. They want a free ride, like Amazon, Google, Facebook ... and all the US net giants.
they want to watch things that others don't want to, they want full streams which aren't popular with their neighbors
did you read the article ? It specifically talks about videos that everybody wants to watch ! Which means that this should be broadcasted and not streamed. Netflix is using/abusing a system which was not meant for that.
However, the service offered by web hosting is not the same as the service offered by a restaurant.
it's exactly the same, they both say: "please come in and give us your money, in return we give you this service". If one would now add: "... unless I don't like you're political opinions (skin colour, religion, sexual orientation ...), in which case I can throw you out without notice" : that would be illegal.
Offering a service to enable people to incite hatred and plan violence against others is unequivocally a bad thing.
you're confusing bad with illegal.
any private business has the right to additionally censor any information coming out of it
does that also apply to restaurants ? Like: "I don't agree with your political views, therefore I won't serve you in my restaurant". I hope you see where I'm going with this argument. Therefore no, a private business cannot choose its clients. It can refuse clients based on some factual evidence - like proper cloths for entering a night-club for example - but it can't refuse clients because of political views. Or religion, or skin-color, or sexual orientation, or ...
The really funny part of this is that it's the self-proclaimed "left-leaning liberals" who are the most venomous arguing for the right to censorship by private mega-corporations. Icon, obviously.
If a project can't garner users it's pointless.
the usual marketing bollocks: exactly what advantage is it for an open-source developer to have 10, 1000 or 1000000 users ? (apart from the dick-measuring contest POV) They don't pay so they only use resources. They complain about stuff not installing in some random setup (recently, a user wanted to run FreeCAD in Windows 8 through RDP and wondered why it didn't work !!!). They request features that some expensive proprietary software has ...
The correct thing to say is:
If a project can't garner users contributors it's pointless.
My first experience with Linux was 1997 also, on a Motorola Macintosh clone with a PowerPC 603 CPU : it had a 2.1.125 kernel (with loadable modules !) and KDE: 24 years later and I'm still using Linux and KDE. But instead of the crappy RedHat RPM hell I use Debian-based distributions.
Microsoft office has trouble with Microsoft office compatibility
exactly that: we have been working in an international environment (public research) and had a mixture of Windows and Mac computers, a mixture of Office generations (2007, 2013, 2016) and a mixture of languages (German, French and English). End result was that documents written/saved on 1 computer could sometimes not be correctly opened in another (references missing, apparently because in German a table is "Tabelle" and in French it's "Tableau" while in English it's "Table": when one wanted to add a table from a french computer to a doc written on a german computer, the references numbers didn't follow: we had to manually adjust them all and each time.).
the development both of treatments and vaccines
I missed what treatments have been developed, all I ever hear is that vaccines and only vaccines are effective. It seems even that potential treatments are actively forbidden by governements and fraudulently badmouthed by leading scientists.
I'd be interested to know if this really does work.
My Mum just bought a new Windows computer, with Win10, and it was impossible to create a purely local account, it kept asking for a Microsof (or Skype ?!?! WTF ?) account. So we did create such an account, and when the computer was finished setting up, created a new, local, administrative account, and deleted the first one. So now, the computer is set-up without any Microsof account linked to it (minus the possibilities that Microsoft has kept some hidden shadow files somewhere)
So while don't know for sure whether your procedure works in Win11, a workaround might be to really create an MS-account with a throw-away email, and then do what you suggest. Worked in Win10, let's see in Win11.
He lost. Repeatedly.
as a general rule, you should read the article before commenting on it:
a ruling by Westminster Magistrates' Court that Assange couldn't be extradited.
It's the USA who lost, and are appealing against that, all the while forcing the UK to keep Julian Assange in prison for no apparent reason.
He skipped bail.
yes ... and then, what's the sentence to skipping bail : forever imprisonment ? Heck, is he even tried for skipping bail ? All we ever hear is that the USA are forcing the UK to keep an Australian guy in prison for warcrimes that the USA ha done in Irak. Doesn't make any sense to me.
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