Either you follow Chinese law when doing business in China and get boycotted by 50,000 out of 1 billion people, or ignore Chinese law and get locked out from 1 billion people, including those 50,000.
Yeah, they'll jump right on THAT. Way to make sure the information gets out to the people!
I'm confused; we can either use propaganda, or we can wind up having to bomb more people. If you're opposed to the bombing, why are you also opposed to the propaganda? Don't you want peace?
Right now there are daily killings over some cartoons, because a huge number of people are hearing only one side of the story. You got the previous attempts to get both sides of the story to them squashed by complaining that it wasn't right for the US to pay journalists to run stories; now you're going to object to the entire concept of the US getting our side of the story out to these people?
You're condemning us to perpetual war, if you succeed.
While GNU/Linux may "suffer" from not having a scripting language tied to everything in it, it benefits from the flexibility of having all languages be on equal footing and having to compete on features rather than favored language status.
Instead of one language being tied to the OS, the OS is tied to the idea that many languages will access its features. I have trouble seeing why some think this is a bad thing. Maybe it's because I'm too busy getting work done, instead of trying to prop up my not-quite-dead-but-coughing-up-blood-this-morning OS.
When that simulator was created, it was believed that the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, would forever be too expensive to mine, and that they contained less oil than current estimates.
Now, we know that there may be more oil there than in Saudi Arabia, and it can be mined (yes, mined, it's in the sand) economically.
That's just one place where the estimates were wrong 30 years ago. There are more.
To all who produce this crap, here's a hint: Stop making a swiss army knife out of every product. If you absolutely must put tinsel on the tree, make three trees. The first is bare bones (i.e. just a cell phone. no music, games, etc). The second has a few more items (include games and music). The third has everything (bleeding edge). If you check your sales figures you'll be surprised to learn which one sells the best (hint: it's not number three).
If you ever start a company, remind me to sell your stock short.
If you have a reasonable fear that the burglar will harm you or your family then that is self defense.
So if you have reasonable fear that a country will harm you or your allies, then it's self defense to invade them, depose their government, and set up a new government less likely to attempt to harm you.
In this scenario, I don't think there is any excusable way in any jurisdiction to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, since you *must* pirate Mac OS X to do so.
If you buy a Mac and put Linux on it, then put the OS X that came with it on a non-Mac, how have you pirated OS X?
It is *always* wrong to initiate the use of force against another person. The only time that the use of force is justified is to defend oneself or another against a person who has initiated the use of force.
In other words, it's not OK to shoot a burglar until after he stabs one of your kids?
I'm sorry, but at this point, one's work history is irrelevant. There have been so many people fired for playing games that playing a game at work, even if it complies with the written words of your company's policies, is such an act of monumental stupidity that it marks the offender as someone with such colossaly bad judgement that they are clearly not to be trusted making decisions for your business, at any level.
I mean, you KNOW this will probably get you fired, you KNOW that people can see you doing it from across the room, through the door, and down the hall, and you KNOW that no court is going to make things "right" if you do, because a jury is unlikely to be composed of 12 people with ADD who understand the concept that you can play solitaire and still get 5 times as much work done as anybody else.
So, if you play solitaire at work on your main PC where everybody can see, you're a dumbass who needs to be fired because what other horrible lapses of judgement are you going to inflict upon your employer?
Get a laptop and go into a conference room, facing toward the door. Duh.
We're not friggin robots. Even given that we have time to post a tiny blurb on slashdot, people still need time to breathe and relax. Burn yourself out if you like, but don't demand that the rest of us treat this job as if we were trading on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange.
For instance, some of us choose to relax by paraphrasing classic Marx Brothers jokes on Slashdot in response to book reviews, and some choose to relax by letting their heads explode in response.
The subject line should have been your first clue. Perhaps you didn't have time to read it.
It's not like they need help; I monitor half a dozen entries, and they get vandalized all day long.
Somebody went into Osama bin Laden earlier and added "mr starr killed jfk". Don't even get me started on how often "is a man" gets added in various places in Ann Coulter.
NOTE: this doesn't mean you must give up your private key however... just the key you use to sign the code.
It doesn't even mean that; you could set your hardware up to accept two keys, and give out one. As long as everything still works, that would fit the GPL3. IANAL, of course.
Well, I guess they could GPL3 all the portions of the kernel that aren't derivative works of Linus' parts. Which would be what, exactly? The build scripts?
So, please explain to me how you can have a sane system of laws that restrict things like sharing over P2p and don't restrict things like letting a friend read a book. In a digital world, I do not believe this is possible.
I could use DRM to give you a time-limited copy. Assuming the hardware and OS support DRM.
Yes, but it's true: there really are people out there who really do believe that God really is really real and the Bible really is really true.
There really are people out there who literally believe all that stuff, as though it was true.
Like Joel Primack, who co-developed the Cold Dark Matter theory. Or Brian Greene, Columbia University Physics professor. Or Albert Einstein, who once said:
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
I don't believe it, but believing it isn't a sign of stupidity, any more than not believing is a sign of intelligence. Those three men differ in their definition of what "God" is, but they all believe(d) that there was a first cause of the universe, with a purpose.
Studies show 40% of scientists believe in God. Discounting their works because of this will leave you with not much.
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I favor the strong anthropic principle; if they didn't work, we wouldn't call them "hard drives", we'd call them "door stops".
Think about the choice they're presenting Google:
Either you follow Chinese law when doing business in China and get boycotted by 50,000 out of 1 billion people, or ignore Chinese law and get locked out from 1 billion people, including those 50,000.
Yeah, they'll jump right on THAT. Way to make sure the information gets out to the people!
I'm confused; we can either use propaganda, or we can wind up having to bomb more people. If you're opposed to the bombing, why are you also opposed to the propaganda? Don't you want peace?
Right now there are daily killings over some cartoons, because a huge number of people are hearing only one side of the story. You got the previous attempts to get both sides of the story to them squashed by complaining that it wasn't right for the US to pay journalists to run stories; now you're going to object to the entire concept of the US getting our side of the story out to these people?
You're condemning us to perpetual war, if you succeed.
While GNU/Linux may "suffer" from not having a scripting language tied to everything in it, it benefits from the flexibility of having all languages be on equal footing and having to compete on features rather than favored language status.
Instead of one language being tied to the OS, the OS is tied to the idea that many languages will access its features. I have trouble seeing why some think this is a bad thing. Maybe it's because I'm too busy getting work done, instead of trying to prop up my not-quite-dead-but-coughing-up-blood-this-morning OS.
. The distro of choice was Gentoo, and instructions and patches are promised this weekend. ...when Gnome finishes compiling.
I think he was actually talking to Yakov Smirnoff.
I can't figure out how this qualifies as a virus and this doesn't.
Either this isn't a virus, or the "first" was two years ago.
When that simulator was created, it was believed that the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, would forever be too expensive to mine, and that they contained less oil than current estimates.
Now, we know that there may be more oil there than in Saudi Arabia, and it can be mined (yes, mined, it's in the sand) economically.
That's just one place where the estimates were wrong 30 years ago. There are more.
Funny the U.S. government targets Phil Zimmermann for three years but hardly raises so much as an eye when an encryption enabled OS is distributed.
Not really that unusual; administrations and laws have changed since then.
To all who produce this crap, here's a hint: Stop making a swiss army knife out of every product. If you absolutely must put tinsel on the tree, make three trees. The first is bare bones (i.e. just a cell phone. no music, games, etc). The second has a few more items (include games and music). The third has everything (bleeding edge). If you check your sales figures you'll be surprised to learn which one sells the best (hint: it's not number three).
If you ever start a company, remind me to sell your stock short.
If you have a reasonable fear that the burglar will harm you or your family then that is self defense.
So if you have reasonable fear that a country will harm you or your allies, then it's self defense to invade them, depose their government, and set up a new government less likely to attempt to harm you.
In this scenario, I don't think there is any excusable way in any jurisdiction to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, since you *must* pirate Mac OS X to do so.
If you buy a Mac and put Linux on it, then put the OS X that came with it on a non-Mac, how have you pirated OS X?
It is *always* wrong to initiate the use of force against another person. The only time that the use of force is justified is to defend oneself or another against a person who has initiated the use of force.
In other words, it's not OK to shoot a burglar until after he stabs one of your kids?
I'm sorry, but at this point, one's work history is irrelevant. There have been so many people fired for playing games that playing a game at work, even if it complies with the written words of your company's policies, is such an act of monumental stupidity that it marks the offender as someone with such colossaly bad judgement that they are clearly not to be trusted making decisions for your business, at any level.
I mean, you KNOW this will probably get you fired, you KNOW that people can see you doing it from across the room, through the door, and down the hall, and you KNOW that no court is going to make things "right" if you do, because a jury is unlikely to be composed of 12 people with ADD who understand the concept that you can play solitaire and still get 5 times as much work done as anybody else.
So, if you play solitaire at work on your main PC where everybody can see, you're a dumbass who needs to be fired because what other horrible lapses of judgement are you going to inflict upon your employer?
Get a laptop and go into a conference room, facing toward the door. Duh.
We're not friggin robots. Even given that we have time to post a tiny blurb on slashdot, people still need time to breathe and relax. Burn yourself out if you like, but don't demand that the rest of us treat this job as if we were trading on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange.
For instance, some of us choose to relax by paraphrasing classic Marx Brothers jokes on Slashdot in response to book reviews, and some choose to relax by letting their heads explode in response.
The subject line should have been your first clue. Perhaps you didn't have time to read it.
If I had time to read this book, I wouldn't need the book.
Is it just me, or does anybody else see the humor in this coming a few articles after the EFF warning people not to use Google Desktop?
Shooters like this suck on Xbox. They're much easier to play on PC, for some play styles.
It's not like they need help; I monitor half a dozen entries, and they get vandalized all day long.
Somebody went into Osama bin Laden earlier and added "mr starr killed jfk". Don't even get me started on how often "is a man" gets added in various places in Ann Coulter.
NOTE: this doesn't mean you must give up your private key however... just the key you use to sign the code.
It doesn't even mean that; you could set your hardware up to accept two keys, and give out one. As long as everything still works, that would fit the GPL3. IANAL, of course.
Well, I guess they could GPL3 all the portions of the kernel that aren't derivative works of Linus' parts. Which would be what, exactly? The build scripts?
Actually, I didn't propose anything. I merely gave an answer to a technical question.
So, please explain to me how you can have a sane system of laws that restrict things like sharing over P2p and don't restrict things like letting a friend read a book. In a digital world, I do not believe this is possible.
I could use DRM to give you a time-limited copy. Assuming the hardware and OS support DRM.
It's temporary. Google says it's a bug and they're working to fix it. Nothing nefarious to see here, move along.
Yes, but it's true: there really are people out there who really do believe that God really is really real and the Bible really is really true.
There really are people out there who literally believe all that stuff, as though it was true.
Like Joel Primack, who co-developed the Cold Dark Matter theory. Or Brian Greene, Columbia University Physics professor. Or Albert Einstein, who once said:
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
I don't believe it, but believing it isn't a sign of stupidity, any more than not believing is a sign of intelligence. Those three men differ in their definition of what "God" is, but they all believe(d) that there was a first cause of the universe, with a purpose.
Studies show 40% of scientists believe in God. Discounting their works because of this will leave you with not much.