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to me only the kernel could do it, and it would limit outgoing port 53 by default to every other process.
if I want to set configuration on my hosts file I damn sure want everything to follow it, not have to worry about thousands of applications that might or might not use it.
you are talking about dirty politicians, who are standing against something initially designed to twart oppressive regimes such as China's great firewall... any dirty trick in book is fair game to them.
/s (I guess)
someone who analyzed 200 years of data is criticizing people who analyzed 50 years of data before. and both think they can extrapolate to events that are assumed to cycle every 900-11,000 years!
all sumarized by a writer who uses star war analogies.
spare your time. don't bother reading this. Go read Foucault instead if you care for this topic.
dvd locked by region? don't worry, more expensive models can be bypassed by those two button presses, only the poor is really impacted.
tracking users and OS security bugs, don't worry, the latest $600+ devices will get a patch. only poor, used device buyers and developing countries models will be affected by not receiving a patch.
the modern world now is divided into the elite and the not-economically-viable-to-port-security-patches. And everytime we, the elite, dismiss something as a nuisance because we are the elite, we are making things irreparably worse.
my sugestion: do not give in to drm because you can work around it. instead pay the extra cents and get a used hardcopy. the convenience of a ebook is lost if you have to work around a drm anyway. and that way their drm sales drop to zero and they have to rethink this whole falacy.
The number of people accepting DRM content is used as a sales pitch by Pearson printing to force universities to use DRM text books that can't be resold! again, screw the poor, right?
PS: sorry for the rant. DRM makes me salty.
International apathy is at an all time high, thanks to most countries dealing with internal political issues (which in most cases involve rigth wing groups and fake news)
this discussion comes up time and time again (in rpm, apt et al). the consensus is: if you need that extra feature, manually download sensitive packages via ssl or something. everyone else (with nothing to hide, heh) keeps benefiting from a global cache of unencrypted transport of (mostly) open source data.
this is a indepth user guide, at most.
how do you handle that during layoffs, where you must cut a percentage of a specific project/role to fall within law?
(ps: I am actually fine with the only answer I can see: you forfeit layoffs legal benefits and call them by what the really are)
you can call that accetance, but that is the same "acceptance" it had earlier.
it's very backward to suggest planned obsolescence as a security feature instead of open software/standards