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Yeah pretty much this. Google had a pretty successful effort to sell these devices as part of a managed solution: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-educati... Im guessing it was pretty easy for teachers (who they reached out to bypassing school procurement officers) or IT to manage.

Honestly, I used use a cheap chromebook throughout college since it was a fantastic linux device. Cheap (bought secondhand), Very little compute power, but fantastic keyboard, battery life, durable, light, and it ran coreboot. Super easy to unlock too for the early devices. You just had to remove the read protect screw. Obviously thats very niche though

Its just a system that optionally exposes a birthday read from a json db. You don't have to use it, and you don't have to use applications that rely on it. And if you are going to use applications that have an age verification, this is a pretty serviceable standard.

I don't understand the uproar. Systemd isn't perfect but it gets so much hate for the value it provides

>One idempotent PowerShell script does all of it

Could you share this script?

Also how is your experience with actually using the VM? Can you get most/all of the GPU resource? Is it fully passing the GPU through?

You want the "community" to reverse engineer the game server, where all the game logic lives, from the game client? This is the state of many online only games.

Of course it should be legal to reverse engineer software you own, but you have to actually have access to the software to reverse engineer it.

The difficulty in distinguishing the two is likely intentional. At my previous org, Oracle sent a spreadsheet of IPs to my company's compliance department which they claimed were using the extension pack and so violated their license agreement. They demanded proof of the license.

The vast majority including I, only ever used guest additions (GPL).

It would be extraordinarily rude . But it's definitely not what the parent comment meant. :)

Except that the price has risen. Easily procurable sand (typically from river beds) is being depleted, and no the desert sand isn't any good for construction.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-threat-to-u-s-oil-drille...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPS1321

Pretty lousy argument. Firstly, the majority of inmates in the US are white (58%). I'd assume mug shot stats are similar, or at the very least not mostly black people.

Moreover, if a algorithm enforces bias to the detriment of inoccents, it's a bad algorithm

You're totally ignoring or forgetting context. Which is that the green book exists because of the Jim Crow laws at the time, along with the general racism.

It's not remotely racist to stay away from white businesses when there is a certain possibility of service refusal, and a possibility that you might be assulted and killed. Hence the necessity of this book.

To say that his family was racist for not trusting white people with the books info, is to be totally ignorant (Tulsa is one example).

You have an extremely weird idea of racism that is not grounded in reality.

What is the NPT issue?

How did you populate this map? I looked at the Transnational Radio Encounters dataset and didn't find a list of stations, let alone a link to their stream.

So from reading the XFS FAQ linked in the article(http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Write_barrier_support.), does this mean that Moto Z never flushes the cache to disk?

Wouldn't the cache HAVE to be flushed as it fills up at some point to maintain coherence.

The only way I can see that someone can't understand why some people support Trump is because they have not made an attempt to understand the other side's positions. I agree with close to none of Trump's positions and abhor the man, but it is simply smug to dismiss his supporters (credit to Sam for not dismissing them as dumb).

1) Anti-Free trade. Bernie and Trump both were very popular with working class individuals who are out of work. Trade deals have definitely caused job loss for many workers. Many anti-NAFTA people blame it on causing the immigration from Mexico

2) Anti-Immigration. Job loss and racial identity are both at play here. Lack of homogeny in the country. Too much diversity etc.

3) Disgust with career politicians. They like how brash he is.

4) Lower taxes

etc.

FWIW, this is exactly the kind of post that shouldn't be on hacker news.

Diminishing returns. Here is what GnuPG says about it https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#no_default_of_rsa40...

Being audited by the IRS has nothing to do with releasing returns. Unless the public catches something that the IRS misses.

There is nothing legally binding Trump

Yes free expression obviously does have limits; It probably doesn't have that silly "Fire in a theater" restriction.

Holmes (the supreme court justice you are quoting) said this with respect to this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States where they prosecuted Schenck for anti-war pamphlets. This is something that would be protected by the constitution today. This quote is a pretty lousy excuse for suppressing free expression considering Holmes's track record of dismissing free speech.

With regards to Facebook removing posts, why should there be a "due process" for a (specific) company to remove posts. What sense does this make?

>There was the brimming idealism when in 2008 NPR announced it was moving from discussion boards to individual story commenting

Never visited the discussion boards on NPR. But it seems like a far better solution than "infinite comments" or the fragmented social media discussion.

Monocropping really is tangential from whether or not a food is a GMO. As you pointed out, this is not a new phenomenon.

The rat tumor study is also not convincing (to scientists). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ralini_affair

As far as I've seen, there have been quite a few studies on GMOs. Though, it seems like an odd classification to study since GMOs are all very different.

There's alot of FUD in this post

The themes it produced were not inaccurate when it comes to Dylan. The vast majority (and his most beloved works) are not protest songs. Pretty much everything he did after Bringing It All Back Home is not a protest song. Like A Rolling Stone is definitely not a protest song. In fact, most of his work IS about relationships in some form.

I would disregard what the author has to say about Dylan even though it seems to be author's primary example. Dylan wrote a ton of songs and encompassed a couple different personas through his career. He's not one thing.

The author didn't exactly spell it out, but I found the suggestions to be so adequate that they become what i want to say. They become limiting in a sense.

The simulated conversation image is a great example. After seeing those responses, the response 'aww so cute' or 'Love the daisy' are about about the same or better than what I can or would care to think of in a text conversation. Is there really a better way to think answer that and why should I waste the time to do so?

That's a very disingenuous summary. It seems impossible to make the device open due to the NDAs. Can you explain how they would get around these?

With regards to the applet manager, that seems to be an issue with customer friction less so than being too hard. While "crypto nerds" would be fine, business applications could be affected.

I suppose I've been reading third party documentation.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices/Chrom...

Along with the link above indicates otherwise. Are these websites both wrong?

I did completely overwrite the firmware for my Acer c720 (by removing that write protect screw) but I assumed that was an exception.

edit: reread your question, probably not. Most chromebooks can't have the ROM totally overwritten.

most Chromebooks can run Linux by writing by writing over a sector of the ROM. Most (and probably this laptop) unfortunately can only write to the RW_LEGACY or BOOT_STUB which introduce significant problems. I'd definitely just run crouton for these.

https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...

Most chromebooks don't have replaceable storage. Acer seems to be the only one making new chromebooks with replaceable storage. Also, eMMC isn't an SSD

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chrome_OS_devices/Chrom...

Yes, Data is a competitive advantage. However, there ARE plenty of companies who do not know how to interpret that data. Especially companies who are NOT "tech" companies (Home Depot, Ace Hardware).

Hence, companies like Palantir and Pivotal that provide this service. To say that the ability to interpret data is ubiquitous is simply wrong.

Ah. I'm conflating multiple threads. I was referring to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11157666

I agree with you about All Writs, I don't see any precedent for "change your product". Thanks for pointing my mistake out.

You're really missing the point. Yes the only relevant code that is going to be run on that device will code signed by Apple. I don't think FBI will have direct access to this "key".

The FBI wants Apple to create "malicious" code/update/software version that would allow for multiple decryption attempts among other things. Apple CAN comply with these requests, probably easily. However, by doing so they will destroy trust in Apple signed code and set a precedent.

It doesn't matter WHO has the key because Apple will be acting in proxy.

More or less correct if fully trusting any signed code by a third party (Apple) is a backdoor. For what it's worth, signed code imparts security benefits to Apple and Android users who indeed can't be trusted to not screw up their own phones.

Thing is, this entire system is based off of trust. If people lose trust in Apple, then they lose trust product. While even Apple can't decrypt the data, existence of malicious signed code means you can't trust signed code.

FBI would have done better to ask Apple in secret. Apple really made the only possible choice when faced with a public request.

Well, the majority of users are pro status-quo. Most people want their content (their facebook, youtube, and links stemming from) to be free in cost, and are ignorant/unconcerned about tracking.

The ethical dilemma I see is whether users should have tracking disabled by default. These users do subsidize much of the content on the internet; is it wrong to leave them be.

This assumes that both lawyers were of equal competence. The authors does not think so (other members of the jury didn't think so).

In the end, won't the jury have to interpret "case law"? How can you be presented something without interpreting it.