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I have a pretty high quality blu-ray, it's not just on legacy media. EDIT: it occurs to me that "legacy media" means "not available through streaming/rental services/stores", my ba…

> Quite often laws will issue punishments for some behaviors, but also issue things like funding for programs that work on the roots of why particular crimes occur. That still requ…

> Everything else the same, would you rather live in a world where the average person makes $100k/year and the richest person is worth $1T, or a world where you make $1k/year and t…

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Oh well if there's jail time, surely people will be dissuaded and follow the law.

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> Because I think those aren't really necessities, yet the average person in the US has them. We're just quite spoiled in the 21st century, and many would argue (including clearly …

So—beer was certainly the primary beverage, but people still drank water without boiling it (which is, after all, rather time and energy consuming and requires a ready fire). I hav…

That wouldn't have been accessible via disk mode, though, so you can't write to it without first rooting it.

> The employment rate in the USA is usually somewhere around ~5% depending on what subset of the workforce you're looking at. Well based on the number of friends I have that work m…

This pdf[0] shows an iPod can view notes, but says you need to store them as a .txt. This O'Reilly snippet[1] claims the feature wasn't implemented until 2003, and even then explic…

No, we have nice things in spite of money.

What is the point of this finding? How is swapping out optimistic financing for "cognitive ability" helping anyone?

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> Saying "[this is yet] another area where Linux Distros are at least 10 years behind Windows" has a certain unpleasant tone that reeks of blame. How do you figure? This just strik…

Nobody was blaming Linux developers. This doesn't change the fact that Linux doesn't support vast swathes of hardware.

Did you ever pause to think "is this comment worth posting"? Maybe you should.

Linux does have to run on the hardware if it wants to be used by people. Blaming vendors doesn't fix the problem or get the community anywhere. This just reeks of being blinded by …

Ok, but none of modern computing was designed around this mentality. Virtually all computers are trivially compromisable if you have physical access to the machine.

I don't get the distinction. Linux has to run on the hardware, no?