I have to say, I’ve always admired the Stack exchange system. Yes, it’s a Karma-like system, and it’s obviously not perfect, but it means that accounts always start with very little abilities, most notably that they’re not able to downvote yet. And when those accounts do get the ability to downvote (which doesn’t come all too quickly), it costs a certain amount of their “reputation”, which makes them think twice about downvoting.
For fuck’s sake.
What are parental controls?
Unfortunately not only a problem in schools. Where I work at there’s already a pay per use system that bills the department, with an entire system with separate codes to identify where you belong financially. Now they’re debating adding a fee for the ability to print.
I tried to find the article on it, but it was a while ago that I read, so I honestly don’t know 100%…
But I doubt it would be illegal, as a company they’re not small enough to fly under the radar and not big enough to flagrantly break laws and get away with it. Two possibilities that come to mind (and both may be true:
they did it via black box reverse engineering. That has less issues legally, since you’re not trying to decompile someone else’s code, but looking what that code does and trying to recreate it
the Linux Kernel’s GPL gives them certain rights in that area
Yes and no, Fairphone has actually managed to reverse engineer some of the drivers for its old phones to provide android upgrades years after the component manufacturers have dropped support. The Fairphone 2, for instance, received a little over 7 years of support and 4 major version upgrades, skipping one on the way. For the Fairphone 5, they’ve promised 10 years of software support, and judging by their track record, I believe them. They also open source as much as they can and even give instructions on how to build the OS yourself.
Of course, open source drivers would be better, but that doesn’t exist at the moment, unfortunately. At this point, Fairphone is one of the companies that comes closest (with Shiftphone being a close rival).
Yeah, that’s like… 250 billion tons of rice. That’s over 30 tons of rice per person in this world. Not sure this much rice even exists on this planet.
I’ve never heard that term used like that in the US, I’ve always heard ice pellets
It’s interesting how my muscle memory almost had me type ice in all caps
I understand that perfectly well. It unfortunately doesn’t change the fact that he is distorting the facts.
I fully get that point, and it would be pretty neat if we managed to pull that through from a legislative standpoint. I just wish he would stick to the facts more. Essentially making the argument you make in your last sentence.
I watched the first 10-15 minutes of this and have to say, while I agree with him on principle, he’s either misinformed or exaggerating the anti-circumvention regulation. There are a number of exemptions in anti-circumvention laws in the US for personal use. How far this goes was made clear in court, Apple took the creators of an iOS jailbreak to court and lost, making it clear that jailbreaking is not illegal, even though it clearly circumvents the “protection” system in place. Similar applies to circumventing DRM for backup copies of media, for instance.
Of course, I would rather see no anti-circumvention legislation whatsoever, but the way he misportrays the situation makes me question his credibility.
Jolla and fairphone don’t ship to my country
Which country? Someone I know well had a Fairphone shipped to a country where it does ship then brought it back home to a country where it doesn’t, and it works absolutely fine. Check the supported bands beforehand, but maybe there’s somewhere you can ship it to or some service that can forward it to where you live?
The protests have been disappointing recently but to be fair, their resistance to ICE raids is quite something. I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like it.
I think you’re missing the point a bit. I’m talking about how much heat different wavelengths of light transfer.
There’s an interesting experiment you can do if you have the right equipment: take the classic experiment where you produce a rainbow with a prism. Then, take a sensitive thermometer and go along the spectrum. The red end of the spectrum will be the warmest (unless you go even further, the area beyond that will be even warmer from the infrared), the blue end the coldest (although still warmer than the surroundings).
Not quite. “Warmer” colors actually heat things up more. There’s a reason why heat lamps produce red or infrared light.
Yes we are playing the “did you read” game, since you accused me of moving the goalposts when it was crystal clear in the sentence after that that the goalposts were there all along.
Yeah, it’s definitely not very productive to argue in bad faith.
Also, while we’re on the case of detecting fallacies, you’ve moved the goalposts from “That**’s** simply raising children.” to “explanation and exploring ideas sometimes simply doesn’t work”.
Did you even read what I wrote literally one sentence later?
At this point I’m starting to wonder whether you’re trolling. You’re equating behaviorism with authoritarianism, which is… Holy shit. I think some reading would help.
I’m not even remotely taking about hitting kids, jfc. But way to completely miss the point that explanation and exploring ideas sometimes simply doesn’t work and create a strawman.
Unfortunately, EU laws mean that they have to let companies bid on contracts, so their influence on who they deal with is somewhat limited.