Naw, that is when we relies on politicans who don't know nothing about a particular issue to make choices for US of A. Also, don't forget political spinning, only promoting their characters instead of their issue, etc.
If only the population can be taught to resist such petty tactics and actually consults the geeks, the scientists, or what have you.
The problem is we humans, are stupid.
As far as I know for some Christians, you must believe in god and all is forgiven and good work will come with your faith. While the Catholics believe things differently, they believe that you must work for the lord to get admited to haven.
Ha! As if you know what my knowledge of copyright is?
I am not an economist:) but I do have a rather strong opinion on copyright law.
From my rather brief exploration of copyrightalliance.org, it is not a good source for copyright debate information. It seem to support the strengthing of copyright laws. I am also having a hard time finding informations that oppose their views. In short, it is not really netrual
If you can tell me why my view of copyright are not well informed, I would be grateful.
I did read several articles and books on the issue of copyright. I also debate furiously with other people on copyright(and patents). I defintely heard many agurements for copyright and their counteragurements.
I am not afraid of being ridiculed, mind you. So I will defend my positions.
You don't have the right to make a living. You only have the right to try. Big differences.
If you can't make a living because you can't figure out how to take advantage of the fact that people copy.
There are probably numberous ways to make a living. If you're a musicans, you could tour the country giving live performances while letting your recorded musics go around.
If anything, copyright law are really intellectual monopoly. They let you control people's copies, which the buyers probably obtained legimatively from someone else. You can make everybody to stop distributing your work until the end of the copyright term.
Killing and copying is not anaglous either.
With copying, I am not depriving anyone of their liberty, their health, and otherwise. With killing, I am depriving someone of their health. With sex, I am infringing on someone's liberty.
Copying does not harm. In fact, if you take advantage of it as an artist, they will work for you instead of against you.
No. That is called laziness.
Not procrastinators. Procrastinators don't do any work until the last second.
Lazy people rather get it over with, with the most efficient and laziest way possible.
Although, laziness in itself, hard work.
Must. Resist. Temptation. To. Work. Inefficiently.
You're confusing philosophy with science.
Science is the study and investigation of nature.
You're talking about philosophy that form much of the foundation of science.
They are not the same thing.
Can you point to us the link and its location within the link?
[Arugment begin)
You're wrong on some level. Just because proprietary softwares is widely spread does not mean it is good. There is nothing about Free softwares that is against paying for softwares.
Users don't even care about proprietary versus Free softwares!
If you want pragmatic, look to the Open Source movement.
Free software is a social movement.
Open source is a pragmatic movement.
Anyway....can you care to prove me wrong with links?
This smell of bullshits.
RMS is a political activist. His issue are political. Free softwares are generally political statement.
The Free software movement is alway a social movement, which mean it is a political movement.
BS. FSF is alway an activist organization. And an organization I would gladly support.
Why do we want the average users to use linux? Because it is better? Because it is Free softwares?
What the linux community can gain from having a larger userbase? Fame? Money?
If using proprietary softwares is the way to achieves linux popularity is the way to do it. But are we willing to pay the price of non-freedom? Or we simply don't care? Even if we justify it as a way to gain more freedom in the long term. I fear that we will go down the slippy slopes of being dependent on proprietary softwares. Not good. It is like the bitkeeper scenario that the linux kernel face.
I ask you, slashdot audience, is popularity more important than freedom? Or you don't care about freedom?
The site strike me as poorly executed to the point of silliness.
It need a better looking website and having convince contents. It is going to be very difficult to convince people to care about dumping MS cruft, and the contents do not help either.
The anti-FSF is high right now. But to FSF, VISTA is the enemy as everything properitary softwares are enemies. Don't be surprise that FSF is anti-vista or even anti-Microsoft. Microsoft just happen to be the no. 1 public enemy to FSF.
Anybody who is using proprietary softwares will at some point be urged by the FSF not to use it, and instead use Free softwares. Do not forget FSF's contributions, or there are no Free software movement, or even the Open Source movement.
Of course, I don't speak for the FSF. I do strongly agree with the FSF's philosophy.
Government is a necessary guardian of freedom, but the natural enemy of freedom is the government.
What the government should be doing is protecting the right of the individuals(The right to free speech, freedom of religion,etc), therefore for the good of society.
Enemy combatants are not the only one to be a threat to freedom, but also fear, corporate interest, ignorance, and other factors.
Remember the quote "There is nothing to fear but fear itself".
I believe the enemy combatants(Islamic extremists) won when USA become a police state. However, I don't it will be. Remember the "Red Scare"? We're still a relatively free country after that.
We need to spend money on NASA. NASA's pioneering work in the space race give us advances in technology. The exploration of Mars should be taken seriously to the extent of the level of Iraq war spending.
NASA is a legendary organization during the space race. We need to make NASA a legendary level government organization again.
We have very good reason to go to Mars. Discovering lifeform on another planet is very improtant. Even if it is bacteria life, it will be a still very important step to answering mankind's question "Are we alone?". Even if we don't discover life, we will advance the technological level of mankind by doing so.
OpenOffice in my opinion is simply a clone of MS Office suite.
Instead of trying to mimic MS' product. It should innovate. Try things. Risk things. Experiment. Do something crazy. Remove all features that isn't useful or doesn't add to the experience and add features that rock. Don't let feature creep come in.
Don't worry if the competitors got this many features.
Until OpenOffice finally have a reason for me to use it(Such as killer UI or killer implementations of features), I will continue to use other word proccessor.
I couldn't believe that congress is not backward this time. I thought they are all under the control corporate mongers! I thought congress will approve the bill, based on their past action. But they did not this time.
I think this is a dream! Hurry! Somebody wake me up pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase!
All "hackers" who choosen to work for criminal organizations are not true hackers.
They are against the ways of the hackers! They choose to harm the internet! They don't deserve the title "hackers". What they really deserve is the title "crackers". For they have chosen such unspeakable unethical career!
Slashdot Mirror
Naw, that is when we relies on politicans who don't know nothing about a particular issue to make choices for US of A. Also, don't forget political spinning, only promoting their characters instead of their issue, etc. If only the population can be taught to resist such petty tactics and actually consults the geeks, the scientists, or what have you. The problem is we humans, are stupid.
Why does everyone assumes hacked xbox as bad? They might simply be hacked to add more features and play homebrew video games.
Now, that's brilliant!
Wee! Short sightness prevailed!
As far as I know for some Christians, you must believe in god and all is forgiven and good work will come with your faith. While the Catholics believe things differently, they believe that you must work for the lord to get admited to haven.
Ha! As if you know what my knowledge of copyright is? :) but I do have a rather strong opinion on copyright law.
I am not an economist
From my rather brief exploration of copyrightalliance.org, it is not a good source for copyright debate information. It seem to support the strengthing of copyright laws. I am also having a hard time finding informations that oppose their views. In short, it is not really netrual
If you can tell me why my view of copyright are not well informed, I would be grateful.
I did read several articles and books on the issue of copyright. I also debate furiously with other people on copyright(and patents). I defintely heard many agurements for copyright and their counteragurements.
I am not afraid of being ridiculed, mind you. So I will defend my positions.
You don't have the right to make a living. You only have the right to try. Big differences. If you can't make a living because you can't figure out how to take advantage of the fact that people copy. There are probably numberous ways to make a living. If you're a musicans, you could tour the country giving live performances while letting your recorded musics go around. If anything, copyright law are really intellectual monopoly. They let you control people's copies, which the buyers probably obtained legimatively from someone else. You can make everybody to stop distributing your work until the end of the copyright term. Killing and copying is not anaglous either. With copying, I am not depriving anyone of their liberty, their health, and otherwise. With killing, I am depriving someone of their health. With sex, I am infringing on someone's liberty. Copying does not harm. In fact, if you take advantage of it as an artist, they will work for you instead of against you.
No. That is called laziness. Not procrastinators. Procrastinators don't do any work until the last second. Lazy people rather get it over with, with the most efficient and laziest way possible. Although, laziness in itself, hard work. Must. Resist. Temptation. To. Work. Inefficiently.
You're confusing philosophy with science. Science is the study and investigation of nature. You're talking about philosophy that form much of the foundation of science. They are not the same thing.
Can you point to us the link and its location within the link? [Arugment begin) You're wrong on some level. Just because proprietary softwares is widely spread does not mean it is good. There is nothing about Free softwares that is against paying for softwares. Users don't even care about proprietary versus Free softwares! If you want pragmatic, look to the Open Source movement. Free software is a social movement. Open source is a pragmatic movement. Anyway....can you care to prove me wrong with links?
This smell of bullshits. RMS is a political activist. His issue are political. Free softwares are generally political statement. The Free software movement is alway a social movement, which mean it is a political movement. BS. FSF is alway an activist organization. And an organization I would gladly support.
Why do we want the average users to use linux? Because it is better? Because it is Free softwares? What the linux community can gain from having a larger userbase? Fame? Money? If using proprietary softwares is the way to achieves linux popularity is the way to do it. But are we willing to pay the price of non-freedom? Or we simply don't care? Even if we justify it as a way to gain more freedom in the long term. I fear that we will go down the slippy slopes of being dependent on proprietary softwares. Not good. It is like the bitkeeper scenario that the linux kernel face. I ask you, slashdot audience, is popularity more important than freedom? Or you don't care about freedom?
Does this mean that programmers are more logical than people?
The site strike me as poorly executed to the point of silliness.
It need a better looking website and having convince contents. It is going to be very difficult to convince people to care about dumping MS cruft, and the contents do not help either.
The anti-FSF is high right now. But to FSF, VISTA is the enemy as everything properitary softwares are enemies. Don't be surprise that FSF is anti-vista or even anti-Microsoft. Microsoft just happen to be the no. 1 public enemy to FSF.
Anybody who is using proprietary softwares will at some point be urged by the FSF not to use it, and instead use Free softwares. Do not forget FSF's contributions, or there are no Free software movement, or even the Open Source movement.
Of course, I don't speak for the FSF. I do strongly agree with the FSF's philosophy.
Government is a necessary guardian of freedom, but the natural enemy of freedom is the government. What the government should be doing is protecting the right of the individuals(The right to free speech, freedom of religion,etc), therefore for the good of society. Enemy combatants are not the only one to be a threat to freedom, but also fear, corporate interest, ignorance, and other factors. Remember the quote "There is nothing to fear but fear itself". I believe the enemy combatants(Islamic extremists) won when USA become a police state. However, I don't it will be. Remember the "Red Scare"? We're still a relatively free country after that.
Feedbacks are good, but the real trick is thinking what do they REALLY WANT. Not what they SAY THEY WANT.
All the more reasons to spend money on NASA.
We need to spend money on NASA. NASA's pioneering work in the space race give us advances in technology. The exploration of Mars should be taken seriously to the extent of the level of Iraq war spending.
NASA is a legendary organization during the space race. We need to make NASA a legendary level government organization again.
We have very good reason to go to Mars. Discovering lifeform on another planet is very improtant. Even if it is bacteria life, it will be a still very important step to answering mankind's question "Are we alone?". Even if we don't discover life, we will advance the technological level of mankind by doing so.
OpenOffice in my opinion is simply a clone of MS Office suite. Instead of trying to mimic MS' product. It should innovate. Try things. Risk things. Experiment. Do something crazy. Remove all features that isn't useful or doesn't add to the experience and add features that rock. Don't let feature creep come in. Don't worry if the competitors got this many features. Until OpenOffice finally have a reason for me to use it(Such as killer UI or killer implementations of features), I will continue to use other word proccessor.
Naaah. Since they never probably evolve near humans, they couldn't possibility be harmful. But that is just my uninformed opinion though.
Unfortunately, I don't have much to say there.
:(
But yay!
VLC is a great piece software that probably play more format then many other media players combined.
I applaud the VLC team for making a new release.
Too bad it seem to be slashdotted.
And they are going to use DRM. Wow...such a compelling service...NOT!
I never see the movie "Hacker".
I couldn't believe that congress is not backward this time. I thought they are all under the control corporate mongers! I thought congress will approve the bill, based on their past action. But they did not this time.
I think this is a dream! Hurry! Somebody wake me up pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase!
All "hackers" who choosen to work for criminal organizations are not true hackers.
They are against the ways of the hackers! They choose to harm the internet! They don't deserve the title "hackers". What they really deserve is the title "crackers". For they have chosen such unspeakable unethical career!
-Happy Hacking, Kiba
Yeah. But..but..but..It is funny shits!