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Comment Re:Good for her! (Score 1) 150

>He has no right to film her

Wrong. She's in public. Period. This happened in the U.S..

>he has no right to film on the subway in the first place

Wrong. Unless the subway is both privately owned AND has ENFORCED no camera rules.

>He certainly has no right to use her video (which he still does, it seems).

Wrong. First amendment covers this, the only entity that can say he can't use the video is the hosting site. That's also assuming the hosting site isn't owned by some form of the government.

It is also covered under news, as she battered him, and destroyed his property, causing her to lose any protections she may have had, which were... already none.

>And he absolutely no right to monetise her.

Again, wrong. Monetization has nothing to do with anything here. News sources are also monetized, and can post video from public spaces. They don't need permission to show someone doing something if they catch something of interest in said public space.

  >Unfortunately, the internet has created millions of jackasses out there broadcasting their poor behaviour.

The only poor behaviour[sic] is from the woman and your extremely poor understanding of the world around you. You cannot use violence just because you don't like something that has zero bearing on your physical well being being a minor annoyance. If the woman called him an asshole, cussed him out, and made rude gestures she would be in the right.

Destruction of property ( the glasses / camera ) and battery (physically removing something from a person without permission to touch them ) absolutely makes her in the wrong, and the police 100% should get involved.

Comment Re:Without Controls (Score 1) 47

Then either the I.T. staff are garbage, or you got the next Mitnick.

If factory resetting doesn't get provisioned through your image servers to right back to the setup you had installed on it initially it's the I.T. departments fault. If the altered OS is allowed back on your network / VPN after a factory reset and not having your access software on it... again I.T's fault.

So go ahead kid, factory reset that ipad.

Whoops, caught immediately because you can't log in to your portal to do your homework / tests. You got an unlocked ipad, but you failed the class dumbass. Now you can also get charged for the time it takes to re-re-setup that ipad and if it doesn't get paid you can't graduate / advance to the next year. Just like library fines or lunch overdraws.

Comment Re: Has Climate Doom Modeling Turned Into Clickbai (Score 2) 130

>I'm in the UK, and I clearly remember a school textbook with drawn pictures of Trafalgar Square fully iced up.

*Science* has never said that. Either some idiot who writes textbooks for money said that, or YOU misunderstood what was in the text book. There are zero scientists that say glaciation would happen that fast, even if the average global temperatures would drop to constantly below freezing.

There just plain isn't enough precipitation to grow giant ice sheets in a decade or two. It takes thousands to tens of thousands of years to grow to that significant of size. And if, somehow IF, you could grow glaciers that fast, which is again impossible, the air would be so dry that the ice sheets would be the least of your problems when trying to stay alive.

Comment Re:I doubt that (Score 1) 24

You can be as accurate as any top scientist, but if you don't SOUND like a scientist you won't be taken (as) seriously. It's stupid, but it's true.

It's no different than with accents, which have been studied quite a lot. You can say the most profound thing, but if you have a southern / redneck / hillbilly accent when you say it? You immediately are perceived as less intelligent, and depending on the listener it can invoke some heavy cognitive dissonance, distracting from the message being sent. Again, this is a well studied and known thing.

Comment Re:Pixel Drop? (Score 1) 26

I care because the last update to my pixel 7 and Google Fi completely FUCKED the contacts pane in the phone app. It no longer shows a list of all your contacts on the phone app "home" screen, just recent calls. Nor does the CONTACTS TAB show you all of your contacts, only contacts with a recent call / text history.

Nope, right under the fucking tabs is a small "view contacts" button oh so conveniently placed that you can fat finger hit the tabs buttons when going for it. So convenient, why would you want to see your full contact list when looking at the contacts tab...

It's almost as convenient as having biometrics that randomly force you to put in your PIN to unlock the phone every day or two. Because I guess your face / fingerprint isn't good enough to unlock your god damn phone THAT particular time.

Comment Re:What if? (Score 1) 48

>Your theoretical Debian distro might be fine for general purpose use, but there may be people who want a distro for games, or a wide range of hardware compatibility.

So your installer installs a custom compiled and signed kernel, proton packages, and whatever else needed for gaming on the base install? Just like every full distro does for updates... You know you can have multiple kernels and have them be selectable - with one default selected through grub-setup - at boot time, yes?

>and a distro bundled with certain desktop GUIs and applications.

That's what package managers are for. You don't NEED to install some super special distro just to install "supercleandestop" which is a meta package that just install all the crap it needs to run, including the actual packages that install the desktop. You could even have it set up as a task in Debian based systems so users can install it with tasksel. I don't know WHY you would want to do that, as just installing the metapackage is 10,000X easier, but you could. Especially since versioning is ( fairly ) clean in Linux, and you can have multiple versions of the same library installed if needed.

>there is no one way that would make everyone happy - no matter what changes you add on top of it.

As a matter of fact, especially for 99% of the people making the specialized desktop / workstation / specialized for X distros, having a standard base to install on to would cut down on their work SIGNIFICANTLY, allowing them to work more on the special bits they want to have people use. No more need to repeat work over and over again compiling and making ISO's that are 99% identical to every other ISO out there. Just make sure your package is compatible the the ONE base version, and it can go into basically any repository and be used. As an added bonus, they wouldn't have to compile different versions for different distros that have differing package names / version numbers either. Anyone could build a SINGLE PACKAGE that will run on a specific version number of the base.

That's what Snap / Flatpack / Appimage are trying to do for devs, but it comes with extra costs compared to bare metal running your program.

Comment Re:Standard Response (Score 0) 102

Ahh yes, "Stupid Opinion". People don't want to think the same way as you so they must be stupid, right?

Or the fact that electric doesn't cut it for a BUNCH of people. Mostly for those of us who actually WORK in our daily lives. And know what a "tow" receiver is, and not a "toe hitch". Or even those of us who DO actually tow things more than once a year. Amazing how many trailers you see behind people when your head isn't up your own ass.

But yeah, let me just buy something like 4-5 more trucks to always have enough charge when towing stuff around farms all day. Then I can have three on charge, one in use, and one on standby when the one in use towing 5-10K pounds around between farms runs out of range in 80 miles. Or construction site. Or non-route delivery.

There's a very good reason why most farm work is done with diesel pickups, or at least gas pickups that are older than dirt and easily replaceable. Can't afford the downtime on a farm, and it takes five minutes to swap out a dead ICE for a non-broken spare that's parked out in a field for most of its retirement.

Guess I should be required to buy an electric, and perma lease an ICE - everyone LOVES those subscription models these days right? Nah, miss me with that crap.

Comment Re:What about not eating it daily? (Score 2) 186

It's even worse than that. They are talking about risk chances. It's literally clickbait, and I'm not convinced the journalists these days even understand how they are fucking up and misleading. It may actually be stupidity and not malice...

So say it IS an 11 percent risk increase for X. Eating that occasional hot dog then makes your original risk for X increase BY 11% not an 11% risk.

Say for the heart attack: at your age group lets just say your baseline risk is 0.35% of you having a heart attack and kicking the bucket per year. Increase that original 0.35% by 11% and you get.... a 0.388% chance.

Pretty sure a delicious belly burner every once in a while is worth a whole lot more than the 0.03% higher chance of you blowing a heart valve at 60.

Comment Re:Just ... why? (Score 3, Informative) 65

Let's see:

Hmm. All of them. They require the user to have more than two brain cells to rub together to spark a thought, but there are tons of options. Some are integrated to Desktops / Package Managers and can be turned on to do automatic work too.

1: BTRFS / ZFS snapshots.
2: DD images
3: Simple tarballs
4: Haven't found a non-embedded Linux yet that doesn't support disk / partition cloning software, especially sparse file disk cloning so you clone only the actual data.
5: Did I mention FS snapshots yet? They are made specifically for this. And some are Enterprise Ready level of support.
6: Some package managers can be set up to be able to revert changes to pre update / install states too.

Any / all of these ways can be used with ANY age. Haven't changed much on that ZFS cold storage volume that you just fat fingered changing the permissions on? Who the fuck cares if the snapshot is 180 days old? Take a new snapshot, restore the old snapshot, and compare file differences sorted by something other than the fucked up perms... It's not rocket surgery.

Or store a snapshot just before you do any major changes like perms. Then it's an easy rollback to 5 mins ago. But you still have the option to use the 180 day old snapshot too.

Comment Re:Just ... why? (Score 0) 65

Funny, haven't seen an ad in 11 Pro. Same install since I got and tossed new parts in this PC... just after 11 came out. I can also turn updates completely off, or to only notify me when they are available. Kind of like I have absolute control over the "hidden" settings. Like GPE. Or the Registry.

It's almost like the "I'm a cheap bastard and buy the absolute cheapest shit I can" (maybe, haven't seen it myself in Home on my dads laptop I have to admin), and "free" versions get ads.

Comment Re:Do you remember when you got (Score 1) 135

URL and QR code that takes you somewhere remotely relevant? I wish. Shit sold "Solar Ready", with QR codes that take you to the manufacturers site to try and sell you their Solar Garbage, but you only get the wiring and install instruction if you buy THEIR overpriced garbage. Otherwise fuck you, plebian, figure it out yourself. Just give me a fucking PDF of the wiring you pre-dropped for fucks sake, I ALREADY gave you money, and you already spent the fucking time and wires...

The "owners manual" of a brand new camper I had to work on recently was more than useless. Practically anything you looked up didn't have any actual information, it was just a list of the 6 or so manufacturers that could be installed in YOUR particular camper - with the caveat that it could also be something not listed. And better hope they remembered to toss the paperwork into the messy drawer full of crap. Not that the paperwork actually told you anything, but...

Then the "inverted outlets" that were all labeled really nicely and literally say "inverter powered outlet" that they don't tell you is only actually inverted if you buy an inverter and install it. Not even in the owners manual. The manual literally says the outlets are inverted, but NONE of the damn things come from the factory with an inverter.

At least they could toss the damn manual in anything they built, it could probably cover every damn model since it didn't even remotely focus on one.

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