No it's not. If really are concerned about "intrusive government" then copyright is about as intrusive as it gets. It's starting to govern aspects of your life from the time you wake up until the time you go to sleep.
Not allowing a user an easy path to fix a machine based on a breached key = hardware manufacturers wet dream. Now you have to buy new hardware after a hack!
They can get away with it because many normal users can't differentiate between an appliance and a general use machine. You can always bank on the ignorance of the masses.
If the signing key is breached (not out of the question with MS's track record recently) then the hardware is permanently untrusted.
So you have to make the hardware trusted again.
Sounds like a boon to Dell and to computer shops to me, unless you create a simple way for a user to fix the problem, at which point your purpose was defeated.
Not to mention that you have one of two choices if a key is breached:
1) The hardware is forever "untrusted" or
2) You have to put in a way to *easily* (i.e. not some BIOS procedure magical to the user) fix breached keys, in which you necessarily create a way for malware writers to install their own key.
While this is horrifying, it's at least a little comfort that there is any rule of law or due process left at all. That itself will probably be gone given a decade or so.
If you are one of the idiots that think our country is going Marxist or the Obama is a Marxist you are not worth talking to. You are part of the problem because, apparently, you are fine with redefining words to mean whatever you want them to mean.
Hint: when corporations can purchase laws, that is about as far from Marxism as you can get.
Right on the head. One of my biggest problems with schools going all the way back to my own school days is the treatment of students like commodities. If you do the exact same process to a block of wood you get the same result. If you do the exact same process to a kid you don't. Kids are not raw materials. They are humans with their set of experiences and a lot more complex. The problem with NCLB and the school system in general is they are treated in that way, and testing makes this idea worse. You can't poor ingredients into a person's head and get the same results. Assembly-line education will always fail.
There is no consistent philosophy to American life right now. It's all exactly like this... change your philosophy at the drop of the hat to whatever benefits you at that particular moment.
So the assholes complaining that were hurting the "productive class" with rules are all of a sudden FOR rules when it benefits them.
We're screwed if this continues. There is currently no integrity in our leaders (Democratic, Republican, Corporate) or our institutions right now. It's simply win at all costs.
The fact is that Oracle was trying to clobber competitors with the "Intellectual Property" card. This time it happened to be a company that has made something in the past. It's just a matter of degree from an outfit like Technicolor which made stuff in the past but is now a full fledged patent troll by any definition. If Oracle stops producing stuff and does the same thing then they'll be a patent troll too.
Ubuntu can and does sell some software through their software manager, so you're interest in the "apt-get donation" has sort of been addressed, though not directly as an apt-get add on.
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Sorry.. was that a Loiter Squad skit?
I can't see any way that as not meant as an intentional parody.
Either way, or the writer was on drugs.
Oh yeah, it's the latter. Never mind.
The Facebook generation. Soon to be known as the Eloi.
Actually I think buying Dark Side of the Moon would be more appropriate.
Until CDs came along there were record plants making nothing but copies of DSotM because people bought a new copy as their old copy wore out.
Go for a zillion-quagillian dollars damage.
Hire the same accounts that figure up the RIAA's damage estimates. They'll make it work.
No it's not. If really are concerned about "intrusive government" then copyright is about as intrusive as it gets. It's starting to govern aspects of your life from the time you wake up until the time you go to sleep.
Not allowing a user an easy path to fix a machine based on a breached key = hardware manufacturers wet dream. Now you have to buy new hardware after a hack!
They can get away with it because many normal users can't differentiate between an appliance and a general use machine. You can always bank on the ignorance of the masses.
Actually is sounds like an opportunity for the small builder once again. And Linux in a much more subtle way.
In itself, that is a great indication of how worthless it is... at least in terms of true meaning.
Watch Ubuntu & Debian continue to rise as Red Hat turns into corporate asshats, becoming the thing we were all trying to avoid.
Money equals Speech therefore corporations can scream the loudest by far.
See my other post...
If the signing key is breached (not out of the question with MS's track record recently) then the hardware is permanently untrusted.
So you have to make the hardware trusted again.
Sounds like a boon to Dell and to computer shops to me, unless you create a simple way for a user to fix the problem, at which point your purpose was defeated.
Not to mention that you have one of two choices if a key is breached:
1) The hardware is forever "untrusted" or
2) You have to put in a way to *easily* (i.e. not some BIOS procedure magical to the user) fix breached keys, in which you necessarily create a way for malware writers to install their own key.
BRILLIANT. Well thought out, M.S... as always.
While this is horrifying, it's at least a little comfort that there is any rule of law or due process left at all. That itself will probably be gone given a decade or so.
Yeah, it's a joke, but it is pumping a liquid into a sack to make it firm. Very familiar.
Good for you. But the OTHER home schooling wing is definitely about not teaching and is anti-educational. It's part of the problem.
If you are one of the idiots that think our country is going Marxist or the Obama is a Marxist you are not worth talking to. You are part of the problem because, apparently, you are fine with redefining words to mean whatever you want them to mean.
Hint: when corporations can purchase laws, that is about as far from Marxism as you can get.
Oh B.S. I work helping support science experiments. It's *all* playing with toys.
Well, not quite, playing with toys and explaining the results. The toy part comes first though.
Right on the head. One of my biggest problems with schools going all the way back to my own school days is the treatment of students like commodities. If you do the exact same process to a block of wood you get the same result. If you do the exact same process to a kid you don't. Kids are not raw materials. They are humans with their set of experiences and a lot more complex. The problem with NCLB and the school system in general is they are treated in that way, and testing makes this idea worse. You can't poor ingredients into a person's head and get the same results. Assembly-line education will always fail.
Dogs can also handle contexts. Funny how school administrators and politicians can't.
If he *is* that way (and I'm not sure he is) then what made him that way?
Hey.. they have pay that incompetent superintendent $200,000. If they don't they get one even worse.
The biggest money drain in the school corporation today are the executives. And they are all perfect examples of the Peter Principle.
There is no consistent philosophy to American life right now. It's all exactly like this... change your philosophy at the drop of the hat to whatever benefits you at that particular moment.
So the assholes complaining that were hurting the "productive class" with rules are all of a sudden FOR rules when it benefits them.
We're screwed if this continues. There is currently no integrity in our leaders (Democratic, Republican, Corporate) or our institutions right now. It's simply win at all costs.
Well, this is a semantic argument.
The fact is that Oracle was trying to clobber competitors with the "Intellectual Property" card. This time it happened to be a company that has made something in the past. It's just a matter of degree from an outfit like Technicolor which made stuff in the past but is now a full fledged patent troll by any definition. If Oracle stops producing stuff and does the same thing then they'll be a patent troll too.
Ubuntu can and does sell some software through their software manager, so you're interest in the "apt-get donation" has sort of been addressed, though not directly as an apt-get add on.