She could be a hermaphrodite - both male *and* female. So, she would be a female in that case. To remove her wins because of that would be tantamount to a gross violation of human rights and discrimination to boot.
Wow, if only the US DOJ had the same attitude in the DOJ vs Microsoft case in the late 90s...
It's amazing (not really) how if it's the rich who are getting hurt, there's one law for them (always in their favour). When it's the poor, there's a screw them for as much as you can get attitude.
I've already outline how to defeat laws like this in a previous/. post.
Oh, and the legal systems can only act so fast. Clog them up and that system breaks. Something like this would need 95% of the Internet based population worldwide continously and brazenly downloading copyrighted material. Non stop.
Yes, it is horrible for the consumers. It is becoming more and more clear to me that the US legal system is severely fucked up, in favour of the RIAA and MPAA. The real way to break their stranglehold is for every single individual with a high speed Internet connection to continuously download illegal content. The courts can only fine you so much, and let's face it, fining someone a massive amount of money that they can't possibly pay back can only do so much as a deterrent. Taking people's possessions away will only result in resentment and anger and crime. It'll also result in fewer people being prepared to actually work, when they don't get any return for it (if the RIAA gets such a large portion of their pay packet that little is left for them to survive on). Furthermore, the Jail systems cannot hold so many people - either they put everyone in jails with a severe drop in quality of life in jail (violating the UN rights of the individuals), or introduce ultra harsh extremes like the death penalty for piracy. The problem with that is if everyone's doing it, and everyone gets punished, it leaves no workers for the rich powerful corporations, which means that they don't make any money. They wouldn't like that, and the US economy, and indeed, the world economy would collapse with no hope of recovery, and since our society is built on money and power, ultimately, society would collapse. I'd personally rather see that happen than let these bastards continously get away with their greed.
You can't punish the vast majority of society - it just doesn't work. Oh, and removing the ability for the majority of the population to have an Internet connection just won't work either - it'd kill the entire communications industry and cause massive problems economically.
Sometimes, civil disobedience on a massive scale is the only way to win. Solidarit.
The only reason why Apache, MIT and BSD licences are becoming popular is because greedy large corporations can see the ability to rape the code for no cost and not have to do anything in return. Of course the corporations love it and say that these licenses are friendly to them! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see which one the greedy bastards will go for.
The GPL keeps the bastards honest and they don't like that.
So, before you spew your bullshit propaganda out, think about your logic first.
As to IP, software patents are illegal, but have been largely ignored by the corrupt US processes. Software is mathematically based, and the law clearly states that mathematically based items cannot be patented. If only a US government had the balls to actually do something about it. But then, most of the large software companies in the world are US owned, and US based, and it benefits the US economically to support software patents and shove them down the rest of the worlds throats. Well, the rest of the world that doesn't have a spine that is. The US is nothing but a political, economical and physical bully, doing things to ONLY suit its own greedy needs.
It's simple guys - just *DON'T* buy the game. If no one buys it, Blizzard will get the message. Personally, it looks far too WOW for me. Blizzard did a great job of the original Diablo and StarCraft/Broodwars. Diablo 2 was a gross fuckup imho. Diablo 3 doesn't look much better, and StarCraft 2 is shaping up to be a fuckup as well. No thanks.
Absolutely correct. The US isn't the lucky country, it's the lucky country for 0.05% of the population who screw the other 99.95%, with the permission of the legislative and juridiscial systems.
And I have to disagree. Trademarks, patents & copyright really are against true freedom. I hesitate to use the word open source, since it's not necessarily true freedom (think BSD).
Ah, so I can have an anti GPS tracking device on my car or in my car, which blocks the police's device? Since the police had no legal authority to track me, I'm not interfering with a *legal* investigation, am I?
Why is the human response to something that they fear or do not understand to immediately attack and kill it? The vast majority of other species simply move away somewhere else.
Maybe if you actually learnt about them, you'd realise that there's no need to go killing them. Without spiders, we'd have a host of pest insect issues.
Daddy long legs - they quite happily kill both black and brown house spiders (what Americans call funnel web spiders, not to be confused with the Australian version, which is a mygalomorph (primative spider), not an araenomorph (modern spider)), recluse, brown and black widows (aka redback spiders in Australia, theriidae family from memory).
Huntsman will quite happily kill pest insects for you and generally mind their own business.
Wolf spiders tend to keep to themselves, but can get aggressive. A little bit of effort (glass jar, cardboard) and some time and you can catch them without hurting them and release them back outside into the garden. You should see some of the woppers I've found in my bedroom - Wolf spiders greater than 10cm diameter including legs.
Yup, it probably thought you were a tree and were safe to climb and hide on.
Years ago, when I smoked, I'd go out the front and have my ciggie. Most times I'd turn the porch light on, but this time I didn't. I took a step out, trod on something, wondered 'what the fuck?', backtracked and turned the light on and there was this friggen huge huntsman, probably, including legs, a good 10cm in diameter. It just stayed there looking up at me as if to say "why the fuck did you step on me, what did I do to you?". I was like "holy fuck, I trod on that!?!?!?" After a few seconds of stunned silence I told it to shoo and lo and behold, as if it could perfectly understand me, it did.
Since then I've been bitten by a black house spider, huntsman, wolf spider, white tailed spider, nary a problem. The black house spider made me quite ill for most of the day, huntsman for a few hours, white tailed spider stung like hell for an hour, but pain killers fixed that. Didn't hurt the next day, but the day after my arm started to go numb in the bite area. That lasted a day but then was gone. The wolf spider bite itched and burned like crazy but was much better after some aloe vera gel. Didn't need anything other than that. Most of the bites have been my fault - black house spider was on a bath towel when I grabbed it, huntsman was inside my track suit pants that were on the clothes line drying, wolf spider, I was on the ground trying to image it lol. The white tailed spider must have crawled along the floor and up my clothing, unbeknownst to me.
I image Insects & Arachnids as a hobby, which I've been doing for the past 3-4 years now. Prior to this, I had a severe arachnophobia (and I mean severe). Now that I've learnt about them, and spent a fair amount of time observing them, I've mostly conquered most of my fear. I have nothing but fascination and respect for spiders. My favourites are from the Salticidae family (Jumping Spiders) and I'll handle them now without any fear. They are highly intelligent, curious and quite cheeky, plus incredibly beautiful.
Oh please. They're not particularly aggressive, like most spiders. They're not deadly poisonous to humans, and they'll usually run the hell away from you, rather than come near you. Stop being a panic merchant and learn a bit about them.
Try removing that application from/Applications, and the plist (preference list) files from/Library/Preferences and also ~/Library/preferences. Drag the offending application's.plist file to your desktop. Use finder to do a search for anything else that might be lodged elsewhere. Drag it to a folder on desktop. See if that helps. You might want to zap the pram as well (apple + option + p + r) when you hear the startup chime. resetting nvram can be a good thing sometimes as well (from memory, apple + option + o + f at startup chime). And single user mode is pretty good for running fsck as well, apple + s at startup chime. Run fsck -y from memory. Exit when done. Finally, try a repair permissions. Reinstall application. Test. If that doesn't work, remove and follow previous instructions, create a new user and reinstall and re-test.
OS X is stable, but it has its moments. I've seen it screw up as well. Vista is very stable, I really only have to reboot for updates, and not every update requires a reboot. It's the best O/S from Microsoft yet. I run a triple boot system btw - Vista Ultimate x64, Windows XP x32 (for legacy applications that won't run in 64 bit, haven't found any yet) and Debian AMD64. Then there's the VMs - Solaris 10, freeBSD, openBSD, Fedora 10, Debian 5...
I like Vista and I have choice.:-)
Dave
PS I used to work for Apple Australia as tier 1 tech support years ago...did 15 months with them, friggen mongrel of a company to work for, I'd NEVER work for them ever again, and I hate American companies.
Yeah, but politicians are the same the world over - a bunch of lying, self centred, egotistical, did I mention lying, fuckwits. They pander to the rich, and to the powerful too, and fuck the little average guy like you and me. We're dirt under our feet.
The US is nothing but a bully. Nothing more, and nothing less. Good on North Korea and Iran and Venezuela sticking up for themselves and giving the US the finger.
Not sure on US law, but under British common law, trespassing is NOT part of the crimes act. It's a civil torte. In reality, the police have no legal power to detain or remove you, you are not breaking a criminal law, and that's what the police deal with.
I remember having an interesting argument with an Australian police person (was an asshole to boot) who told me to bugger off, he wasn't doing jack shit about this dude who lived up the road and was trespassing on our property, refusing to leave and also threatening my father. He refused to arrest the individual, and he and his partner refused to take any action, or force him to vacate the premises. They asked him to leave, he didn't and they left it at that. In reality, he's technically right - the police person, at least under British common law, has no legal right to force you to vacate the premises as you are not committing a crime (under the crimes act). It's simply a civil torte, and up to the affected individual to take legal action in a court of law against the trespasser.
Well, I run Vista (x64) and have no problems. No crashes, no funny business, it just *works*. Minimal hassle on my end. Linux was an upgrade nightmare, having to constantly ensure that things work, and stay working. After six years of running only Linux, I gave up on it.
Apple, I used to work for, and let me tell you they are one nasty company, and one lying s.o.b. And yes, the Apple Hardware Tax is a helluva lot more expensive than a typical PC. Ripoff? Yes. OS X is good, very good in fact, but like all OSes it has its problems.
Oh, and it's my right to say I don't like Apple's overpriced hardware. Get over it.
2024 are you fucking kidding? More like 10000000 AD at this rate. Seriously, didn't Linux have around 2.5% usage rates like 5 years ago? Linux will never succeed whilst the large operating system vendors have their own way and do their own thing, in a purely anti competitive and monopolistic manner. Until the government(s) and laws start hammering these bastards, nothing will change. I care little for bullshit like "free trade" - it does nothing for the people, only for big business and kickbacks to political parties. I'm all for the people, I don't fucking care at all about big business. They're nothing but leeches.
With a fuck you attitude like that to your potential users, yes, you're an asshole. It's about time discrimination and freedom of speech were legally enforced against these so called "private websites". If you want a private website, get it off the fucking net, the net is a public place. End of story. Set up your own fucking WWW and keep it private. Otherwise, you're nothing but a leech, depriving others of their freedoms. I hate bastards like you.
As to the social website in question - typical, they're already *owned* by big business and political parties. That's an even more reason for knocking these bastards down.
Sure, the government extended copyrights without *consulting* the people. Copyrights are for *everyone*, just not big business. Just because the government extended copyrights doesn't make it right, and the courts should have been nailing the government for over reaching it's legal rights. But, this is the US of A, where big business rules, and the little bloke gets fucked over. Let's consider the freebie handouts to rescue the fucking banks and others who spent without consideration or thought. I say get your hands off public money and go bust like you bastards deserve.
Yeah well, until software patents are abolished, you're in for the same shit. Both the US democratic and republican parties, as well as most political parties world wide are *owned* by big business. These bastards aren't in the best interest of the public, they're in the best interest of filling their own pockets with bribes and kickbacks from big, self interested businesses. Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't happening. Oh, and Obama isn't any better, he's just as bad as the rest of them.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Never a truer word. But then, I'm an anti social, chaos anarchist at heart.
It's Apple, what do you think? They're a bunch of fucking legal "we'll sue your ass" cunts that deserve to be seriously smacked down. I can't stand Apple - if there's one company I'd *love* to see go bust, it's them.
Overpriced hardware rip off. Sure, OS X is great, but you pay through the roof for the priviledge of using it.
Copyright law, as it stands, is bad. We have seen governments, and local industry organisations like the RIAA & MPAA manipulate both governments, laws & legislation, increasing copyright lengths, and making public domain more and more irrelevant.
There is a reason why copyright and public domain were created the way that they were originally - there is nothing wrong with the original ideals, other than the fact that greedy copyright owners want to make more money, for longer periods of time.
Good on the FSF and the GPL - some call it communist in ideals (a completely wrong analogy imho), it's a great way of ensuring that people share something, for the greater good. And it uses laws that have been badly abused for a long time in order to do it. Great isn't it?
Yeah, I know. I'm using Vista atm, quite like it, it's been rock solid for the past year. I do a lot of photography, so I use Photoshop CS2, which up until very recently, would not run under WINE. Yes, I could have done a VM, but decided not to. After many years of using Linux, I've given up on it - it's a half baked effort imho, with some critical problems that no one wants to resolve. I have very firm beliefs that until these core issues are resolved, Linux will go no where.
Linux, imho, has missed the boat, and OS X has left port at the right time. Many Linux users are either migrating to OS X, or have already done so. Linux numbers will continue to dwindle, especially since hardware vendors and software vendors are still not porting drivers/software to the platform.
There'll always be some Linux users - those who hate Macs, those who don't/won't, or can't, spend money on an O/S, or those that believe in the GPL. I think in the long run, most of those with probably migrate to freeBSD, which despite the licence, is better in many respects.
My bad, I was referring to using Handbrake on Windows - it's as useless as the proverbial on Windows.
Yes, I know DVDs are encrypted, and I konw about libdvdread, decss etc etc. I've used Linux quite extensively for the better part of the last decade and more.
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She could be a hermaphrodite - both male *and* female. So, she would be a female in that case. To remove her wins because of that would be tantamount to a gross violation of human rights and discrimination to boot.
Dave
Wow, if only the US DOJ had the same attitude in the DOJ vs Microsoft case in the late 90s...
It's amazing (not really) how if it's the rich who are getting hurt, there's one law for them (always in their favour). When it's the poor, there's a screw them for as much as you can get attitude.
I've already outline how to defeat laws like this in a previous /. post.
Dave
Oh, and the legal systems can only act so fast. Clog them up and that system breaks. Something like this would need 95% of the Internet based population worldwide continously and brazenly downloading copyrighted material. Non stop.
Dave
Yes, it is horrible for the consumers. It is becoming more and more clear to me that the US legal system is severely fucked up, in favour of the RIAA and MPAA. The real way to break their stranglehold is for every single individual with a high speed Internet connection to continuously download illegal content. The courts can only fine you so much, and let's face it, fining someone a massive amount of money that they can't possibly pay back can only do so much as a deterrent. Taking people's possessions away will only result in resentment and anger and crime. It'll also result in fewer people being prepared to actually work, when they don't get any return for it (if the RIAA gets such a large portion of their pay packet that little is left for them to survive on). Furthermore, the Jail systems cannot hold so many people - either they put everyone in jails with a severe drop in quality of life in jail (violating the UN rights of the individuals), or introduce ultra harsh extremes like the death penalty for piracy. The problem with that is if everyone's doing it, and everyone gets punished, it leaves no workers for the rich powerful corporations, which means that they don't make any money. They wouldn't like that, and the US economy, and indeed, the world economy would collapse with no hope of recovery, and since our society is built on money and power, ultimately, society would collapse. I'd personally rather see that happen than let these bastards continously get away with their greed.
You can't punish the vast majority of society - it just doesn't work. Oh, and removing the ability for the majority of the population to have an Internet connection just won't work either - it'd kill the entire communications industry and cause massive problems economically.
Sometimes, civil disobedience on a massive scale is the only way to win. Solidarit.
Dave
The only reason why Apache, MIT and BSD licences are becoming popular is because greedy large corporations can see the ability to rape the code for no cost and not have to do anything in return. Of course the corporations love it and say that these licenses are friendly to them! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see which one the greedy bastards will go for.
The GPL keeps the bastards honest and they don't like that.
So, before you spew your bullshit propaganda out, think about your logic first.
As to IP, software patents are illegal, but have been largely ignored by the corrupt US processes. Software is mathematically based, and the law clearly states that mathematically based items cannot be patented. If only a US government had the balls to actually do something about it. But then, most of the large software companies in the world are US owned, and US based, and it benefits the US economically to support software patents and shove them down the rest of the worlds throats. Well, the rest of the world that doesn't have a spine that is. The US is nothing but a political, economical and physical bully, doing things to ONLY suit its own greedy needs.
Dave
It's simple guys - just *DON'T* buy the game. If no one buys it, Blizzard will get the message. Personally, it looks far too WOW for me. Blizzard did a great job of the original Diablo and StarCraft/Broodwars. Diablo 2 was a gross fuckup imho. Diablo 3 doesn't look much better, and StarCraft 2 is shaping up to be a fuckup as well. No thanks.
Dave
Absolutely correct. The US isn't the lucky country, it's the lucky country for 0.05% of the population who screw the other 99.95%, with the permission of the legislative and juridiscial systems.
Dave
And I have to disagree. Trademarks, patents & copyright really are against true freedom. I hesitate to use the word open source, since it's not necessarily true freedom (think BSD).
Dave
Ah, so I can have an anti GPS tracking device on my car or in my car, which blocks the police's device? Since the police had no legal authority to track me, I'm not interfering with a *legal* investigation, am I?
Dave
Why is the human response to something that they fear or do not understand to immediately attack and kill it? The vast majority of other species simply move away somewhere else.
Maybe if you actually learnt about them, you'd realise that there's no need to go killing them. Without spiders, we'd have a host of pest insect issues.
Daddy long legs - they quite happily kill both black and brown house spiders (what Americans call funnel web spiders, not to be confused with the Australian version, which is a mygalomorph (primative spider), not an araenomorph (modern spider)), recluse, brown and black widows (aka redback spiders in Australia, theriidae family from memory).
Huntsman will quite happily kill pest insects for you and generally mind their own business.
Wolf spiders tend to keep to themselves, but can get aggressive. A little bit of effort (glass jar, cardboard) and some time and you can catch them without hurting them and release them back outside into the garden. You should see some of the woppers I've found in my bedroom - Wolf spiders greater than 10cm diameter including legs.
Dave
Yup, it probably thought you were a tree and were safe to climb and hide on.
Years ago, when I smoked, I'd go out the front and have my ciggie. Most times I'd turn the porch light on, but this time I didn't. I took a step out, trod on something, wondered 'what the fuck?', backtracked and turned the light on and there was this friggen huge huntsman, probably, including legs, a good 10cm in diameter. It just stayed there looking up at me as if to say "why the fuck did you step on me, what did I do to you?". I was like "holy fuck, I trod on that!?!?!?" After a few seconds of stunned silence I told it to shoo and lo and behold, as if it could perfectly understand me, it did.
Since then I've been bitten by a black house spider, huntsman, wolf spider, white tailed spider, nary a problem. The black house spider made me quite ill for most of the day, huntsman for a few hours, white tailed spider stung like hell for an hour, but pain killers fixed that. Didn't hurt the next day, but the day after my arm started to go numb in the bite area. That lasted a day but then was gone. The wolf spider bite itched and burned like crazy but was much better after some aloe vera gel. Didn't need anything other than that. Most of the bites have been my fault - black house spider was on a bath towel when I grabbed it, huntsman was inside my track suit pants that were on the clothes line drying, wolf spider, I was on the ground trying to image it lol. The white tailed spider must have crawled along the floor and up my clothing, unbeknownst to me.
I image Insects & Arachnids as a hobby, which I've been doing for the past 3-4 years now. Prior to this, I had a severe arachnophobia (and I mean severe). Now that I've learnt about them, and spent a fair amount of time observing them, I've mostly conquered most of my fear. I have nothing but fascination and respect for spiders. My favourites are from the Salticidae family (Jumping Spiders) and I'll handle them now without any fear. They are highly intelligent, curious and quite cheeky, plus incredibly beautiful.
Dave
Oh please. They're not particularly aggressive, like most spiders. They're not deadly poisonous to humans, and they'll usually run the hell away from you, rather than come near you. Stop being a panic merchant and learn a bit about them.
Dave
Try removing that application from /Applications, and the plist (preference list) files from /Library/Preferences and also ~/Library/preferences. Drag the offending application's .plist file to your desktop. Use finder to do a search for anything else that might be lodged elsewhere. Drag it to a folder on desktop. See if that helps. You might want to zap the pram as well (apple + option + p + r) when you hear the startup chime. resetting nvram can be a good thing sometimes as well (from memory, apple + option + o + f at startup chime). And single user mode is pretty good for running fsck as well, apple + s at startup chime. Run fsck -y from memory. Exit when done. Finally, try a repair permissions. Reinstall application. Test. If that doesn't work, remove and follow previous instructions, create a new user and reinstall and re-test.
OS X is stable, but it has its moments. I've seen it screw up as well. Vista is very stable, I really only have to reboot for updates, and not every update requires a reboot. It's the best O/S from Microsoft yet. I run a triple boot system btw - Vista Ultimate x64, Windows XP x32 (for legacy applications that won't run in 64 bit, haven't found any yet) and Debian AMD64. Then there's the VMs - Solaris 10, freeBSD, openBSD, Fedora 10, Debian 5...
I like Vista and I have choice. :-)
Dave
PS I used to work for Apple Australia as tier 1 tech support years ago...did 15 months with them, friggen mongrel of a company to work for, I'd NEVER work for them ever again, and I hate American companies.
Yeah, but politicians are the same the world over - a bunch of lying, self centred, egotistical, did I mention lying, fuckwits. They pander to the rich, and to the powerful too, and fuck the little average guy like you and me. We're dirt under our feet.
There's a reason why I'm a chaos anarchist.
Dave
had me in stitches, loved it. So damn true.
The US is nothing but a bully. Nothing more, and nothing less. Good on North Korea and Iran and Venezuela sticking up for themselves and giving the US the finger.
Dave
Not sure on US law, but under British common law, trespassing is NOT part of the crimes act. It's a civil torte. In reality, the police have no legal power to detain or remove you, you are not breaking a criminal law, and that's what the police deal with.
I remember having an interesting argument with an Australian police person (was an asshole to boot) who told me to bugger off, he wasn't doing jack shit about this dude who lived up the road and was trespassing on our property, refusing to leave and also threatening my father. He refused to arrest the individual, and he and his partner refused to take any action, or force him to vacate the premises. They asked him to leave, he didn't and they left it at that. In reality, he's technically right - the police person, at least under British common law, has no legal right to force you to vacate the premises as you are not committing a crime (under the crimes act). It's simply a civil torte, and up to the affected individual to take legal action in a court of law against the trespasser.
Dave
Well, I run Vista (x64) and have no problems. No crashes, no funny business, it just *works*. Minimal hassle on my end. Linux was an upgrade nightmare, having to constantly ensure that things work, and stay working. After six years of running only Linux, I gave up on it.
Apple, I used to work for, and let me tell you they are one nasty company, and one lying s.o.b. And yes, the Apple Hardware Tax is a helluva lot more expensive than a typical PC. Ripoff? Yes. OS X is good, very good in fact, but like all OSes it has its problems.
Oh, and it's my right to say I don't like Apple's overpriced hardware. Get over it.
Dave
2024 are you fucking kidding? More like 10000000 AD at this rate. Seriously, didn't Linux have around 2.5% usage rates like 5 years ago? Linux will never succeed whilst the large operating system vendors have their own way and do their own thing, in a purely anti competitive and monopolistic manner. Until the government(s) and laws start hammering these bastards, nothing will change. I care little for bullshit like "free trade" - it does nothing for the people, only for big business and kickbacks to political parties. I'm all for the people, I don't fucking care at all about big business. They're nothing but leeches.
Dave
With a fuck you attitude like that to your potential users, yes, you're an asshole. It's about time discrimination and freedom of speech were legally enforced against these so called "private websites". If you want a private website, get it off the fucking net, the net is a public place. End of story. Set up your own fucking WWW and keep it private. Otherwise, you're nothing but a leech, depriving others of their freedoms. I hate bastards like you.
As to the social website in question - typical, they're already *owned* by big business and political parties. That's an even more reason for knocking these bastards down.
Dave
Sure, the government extended copyrights without *consulting* the people. Copyrights are for *everyone*, just not big business. Just because the government extended copyrights doesn't make it right, and the courts should have been nailing the government for over reaching it's legal rights. But, this is the US of A, where big business rules, and the little bloke gets fucked over. Let's consider the freebie handouts to rescue the fucking banks and others who spent without consideration or thought. I say get your hands off public money and go bust like you bastards deserve.
Dave
Yeah well, until software patents are abolished, you're in for the same shit. Both the US democratic and republican parties, as well as most political parties world wide are *owned* by big business. These bastards aren't in the best interest of the public, they're in the best interest of filling their own pockets with bribes and kickbacks from big, self interested businesses. Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't happening. Oh, and Obama isn't any better, he's just as bad as the rest of them.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Never a truer word. But then, I'm an anti social, chaos anarchist at heart.
Dave
It's Apple, what do you think? They're a bunch of fucking legal "we'll sue your ass" cunts that deserve to be seriously smacked down. I can't stand Apple - if there's one company I'd *love* to see go bust, it's them.
Overpriced hardware rip off. Sure, OS X is great, but you pay through the roof for the priviledge of using it.
Dave
And this is bad because?
Copyright law, as it stands, is bad. We have seen governments, and local industry organisations like the RIAA & MPAA manipulate both governments, laws & legislation, increasing copyright lengths, and making public domain more and more irrelevant.
There is a reason why copyright and public domain were created the way that they were originally - there is nothing wrong with the original ideals, other than the fact that greedy copyright owners want to make more money, for longer periods of time.
Good on the FSF and the GPL - some call it communist in ideals (a completely wrong analogy imho), it's a great way of ensuring that people share something, for the greater good. And it uses laws that have been badly abused for a long time in order to do it. Great isn't it?
Dave
Yeah, I know. I'm using Vista atm, quite like it, it's been rock solid for the past year. I do a lot of photography, so I use Photoshop CS2, which up until very recently, would not run under WINE. Yes, I could have done a VM, but decided not to. After many years of using Linux, I've given up on it - it's a half baked effort imho, with some critical problems that no one wants to resolve. I have very firm beliefs that until these core issues are resolved, Linux will go no where.
Linux, imho, has missed the boat, and OS X has left port at the right time. Many Linux users are either migrating to OS X, or have already done so. Linux numbers will continue to dwindle, especially since hardware vendors and software vendors are still not porting drivers/software to the platform.
There'll always be some Linux users - those who hate Macs, those who don't/won't, or can't, spend money on an O/S, or those that believe in the GPL. I think in the long run, most of those with probably migrate to freeBSD, which despite the licence, is better in many respects.
Dave
My bad, I was referring to using Handbrake on Windows - it's as useless as the proverbial on Windows.
Yes, I know DVDs are encrypted, and I konw about libdvdread, decss etc etc. I've used Linux quite extensively for the better part of the last decade and more.
Thanks for the reply though.
Dave