You know he didn't move there by choice, right? He simply got stuck there when his passport was revoked by the US government before he could catch his connecting flight. After that, Russia decided to grant him temporary asylum.
I hear that pretty much any VPN or other sort of tunneling or encrypted network traffic pretty much accomplishes the same thing. Probably just posting to discussions about this type of topic Slashdot does it too.
All of you, stop trying to turn this into a discussion about guns. This conversation is about network security. The two technologies could not be more fundamentally different.
I'm sure he's pissed a LOT of people off, but most of them probably aren't relevant to this discussion. The timing of this suggests that the real question is: "Who has he pissed off that thinks he might really have a legitimate chance at a bid for the U.S. presidency, and why do they think he has such a good chance they need to resort to this now since it will clearly have the side-effect of giving him more publicity."
I'm... blinking twice as I'm re-reading this and actually realizing the person who stands to gain the most from dusting off this tired, dead horse is McAffee himself....
What they may believe about Open Source, after all, does not change what it actually is.
Ah! But here's the problem; what they claim to believe about Open Source does indeed change what most common people think Open Source is really about. When they mischaracterize the OSI, it strategically weakens the movement as a whole, and it makes Free/Libre Software advocates seem unethical to the vast majority of people who don't really know any better and will just think the richest guy they meet must be the one always right about everything.
These guys didn't get rich by not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground. They got rich by using knowledge to strategically build on investment. I don't believe for a second that the misinformation spread around about Apache, RedHat, and OSI policy in general represents naivety; it represents protectionism. As long as people like for example, my non-tech-savvy relatives think that these assholes know more about the Open Source Initiative than I do, than my ethics and expertise, along with that of thousands of other Free/Libre Software advocates like me, will consistently be devalued by business. Saying these VCs are just unaware of the damage this misinformation does is like suggesting Apple and other Silicon Valley companies like them enter into no-poaching agreements on accident.
These VCs in question are actually spreading harmful misinformation about the state of OSI approved licenses. Read the article and you'll see the problem is deeper than just that they're funding it. The real problems are to do with what they're saying and doing *while* funding it, and who is believing their flat-out lies.
The BBB has no authority whatsoever. They are not a branch of the government. They're a non-profit organization.
You want the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) or the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) - why neither of THEM have even barely lifted a finger about this crap so far though is completely beyond me.
Thank you! This is the informative response I was looking for. I was not actually trolling (this time) but I knew I'd probably be down-modded as such anyway.
Though, that doesn't account for why the/sys/firmware/efi directory isn't even present on my system.
No, more likely they're doing this because nobody wanted to give up any of their private land on the sides of the roads, so using the road itself for solar paneling is an infinitely more efficient use of space, because the roads themselves are public land by definition, and paving them with solar panels takes up exactly 0 extra real estate.
Hmmm... my information seems to be outdated. Thank you for the correction. I still think it doesn't really excuse them implementing explicit vendor lock-in with said PDF file though.
Except that the "open" PDF standard you're talking about is only a small subset of the oldest, most primitive image/text drawing features of said file format, and the aforementioned government website is not only requiring use of a PDF document that used some of the newer (massively insecure) JavaScript-enabled interactive form input/validation features not included in said "open" PDF standard or implemented outside of Acrobat, but apparently they even then used said features to code the document such that it blocks you from even trying to read the document without Acrobat.
Go ahead. Go download it and try to open it with Xpdf, let us know how that works out.
The only thing broken here is your analogy. If a company sold locks that couldn't be locked or were too trivially pickable, and advertised them as locks, you can guarantee there would be (and historically has been) more or less equivalent blowback. The only real difference being that if you forget to lock your car or don't even fucking try, nobody would be surprised to get their shit stolen.
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You know he didn't move there by choice, right? He simply got stuck there when his passport was revoked by the US government before he could catch his connecting flight. After that, Russia decided to grant him temporary asylum.
They're just trying to capitalize on a crisis to strong-arm Apple into obedience. The shooters are already dead.
I hear that pretty much any VPN or other sort of tunneling or encrypted network traffic pretty much accomplishes the same thing. Probably just posting to discussions about this type of topic Slashdot does it too.
Aside from your cute reference to the plot of Ironman, this STILL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NETWORK SECURITY.
All of you, stop trying to turn this into a discussion about guns. This conversation is about network security. The two technologies could not be more fundamentally different.
You don't have any idea who/what the EFF actually is/does, do you?
+5 funny
I'm sure he's pissed a LOT of people off, but most of them probably aren't relevant to this discussion. The timing of this suggests that the real question is: "Who has he pissed off that thinks he might really have a legitimate chance at a bid for the U.S. presidency, and why do they think he has such a good chance they need to resort to this now since it will clearly have the side-effect of giving him more publicity."
I'm ... blinking twice as I'm re-reading this and actually realizing the person who stands to gain the most from dusting off this tired, dead horse is McAffee himself....
Stupid shit is big business. Ever heard of Twitter?
What they may believe about Open Source, after all, does not change what it actually is.
Ah! But here's the problem; what they claim to believe about Open Source does indeed change what most common people think Open Source is really about. When they mischaracterize the OSI, it strategically weakens the movement as a whole, and it makes Free/Libre Software advocates seem unethical to the vast majority of people who don't really know any better and will just think the richest guy they meet must be the one always right about everything.
(yes, i know i used the wrong "than," grammar nazis. sorry, i haven't had my morning coffee yet.)
These guys didn't get rich by not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground. They got rich by using knowledge to strategically build on investment. I don't believe for a second that the misinformation spread around about Apache, RedHat, and OSI policy in general represents naivety; it represents protectionism. As long as people like for example, my non-tech-savvy relatives think that these assholes know more about the Open Source Initiative than I do, than my ethics and expertise, along with that of thousands of other Free/Libre Software advocates like me, will consistently be devalued by business. Saying these VCs are just unaware of the damage this misinformation does is like suggesting Apple and other Silicon Valley companies like them enter into no-poaching agreements on accident.
These VCs in question are actually spreading harmful misinformation about the state of OSI approved licenses. Read the article and you'll see the problem is deeper than just that they're funding it. The real problems are to do with what they're saying and doing *while* funding it, and who is believing their flat-out lies.
...kiecrisp.
He's running it a VMware guest on Windows.
Oh wait, never mind.
The BBB has no authority whatsoever. They are not a branch of the government. They're a non-profit organization.
You want the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) or the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) - why neither of THEM have even barely lifted a finger about this crap so far though is completely beyond me.
Thank you! This is the informative response I was looking for. I was not actually trolling (this time) but I knew I'd probably be down-modded as such anyway.
Though, that doesn't account for why the /sys/firmware/efi directory isn't even present on my system.
Isn't "not running systemd" a good solution?
No, more likely they're doing this because nobody wanted to give up any of their private land on the sides of the roads, so using the road itself for solar paneling is an infinitely more efficient use of space, because the roads themselves are public land by definition, and paving them with solar panels takes up exactly 0 extra real estate.
Hmmm... my information seems to be outdated. Thank you for the correction. I still think it doesn't really excuse them implementing explicit vendor lock-in with said PDF file though.
Sigh. they used to be only $10,000. I really want one too. Maybe for christmas...
Except that the "open" PDF standard you're talking about is only a small subset of the oldest, most primitive image/text drawing features of said file format, and the aforementioned government website is not only requiring use of a PDF document that used some of the newer (massively insecure) JavaScript-enabled interactive form input/validation features not included in said "open" PDF standard or implemented outside of Acrobat, but apparently they even then used said features to code the document such that it blocks you from even trying to read the document without Acrobat.
Go ahead. Go download it and try to open it with Xpdf, let us know how that works out.
The only thing broken here is your analogy. If a company sold locks that couldn't be locked or were too trivially pickable, and advertised them as locks, you can guarantee there would be (and historically has been) more or less equivalent blowback. The only real difference being that if you forget to lock your car or don't even fucking try, nobody would be surprised to get their shit stolen.