What about the stupid German anti-hacking laws? Or is it okay for corporations to circumvent this kind of restriction? I'm guessing it probably is... But I wonder what would have happened if it was just individuals doing this, would it have been allowed then?
Okay, so what about previous issues that were on the fringes? Gay issues is an obvious one... Should the majority be able to repress the minority? I don't want to live in a society where the will of the masses dictates what I can do, and I don't want to dictate to them what they can do. The democracy you talk about sounds like a proletarian dictatorship, and I don't want that. Infact I don't want any master other than myself.
Please push your rights, check the Windows EULA. In order for any computer company to be able to sell computers that come with Windows, they have to sign a whole lot of legal agreements with Microsoft, and one of those things they have to sign says that if you reject the software licence, you should return it for a refund on the software. Push it!!
There is first of all, no proof of water memory, which is what you'd be looking for. A positive indication, not trying to disprove something like this which flies in the face of all our scientific understanding.
Why does water not remember all the other things that had been part of it, like urine, dirt, sand... Filtering wouldn't remove the memory of those things, as filters works of the basis of removing particles, not memory.
James Randi has often spoke brilliantly on the topic of homeopathy, in this authors@google video he speaks on it, among other things. http://youtube.com/watch?v=MTPj9VlNzQ0
Homeopathy is a terrible scam and I know too many people that have been sucked in to it due to lack of education, and the ability for critical thought.
Uhh the game is free to download, you can play it just fine, but if you want to get unique rare items or something, you can pay real money for that. If you're just a casual gamer, then you don't have to, no-one is forcing you to.
I think that this could be something that could possible even work with Free software (open source) games, or something similar.
It'd be great if they opened up the source for these games so that I could use it on any OS I choose to use.
Now I could be wrong, but I read that as them admitting it was because of DRM, they have to have the system locked down air tight, so that no 'glitches' can be got at by people trying to break the DRM. Peter Guttman gave a talk about this type of thing at the Auckland LUG a while ago, about how so much CPU power will be taken up just by trying to make sure that everything is secure, constantly checking and rechecking everything to make sure that nothing 'fishy' is being done.
UID digits don't mean too much, unless they're really low. I've been around this site for a long long time, just never signed up. Now off that topic.
How I feel about this could be perhaps put like saying that World War II was won just by the Americans, and that the British had nothing to do with it. The British had done most of the work, only for the Americans to then enter at the end when most of the battle had been fought... Thankfully we don't just credit the Americans with winning the war... Same with GNU/Linux, at least that's how I feel about it.
Well that's news to me. It's irritating when Linus is given all the credit for the operating system. He made the kernel, at the very least you generally need the GNU tool chain to have something usable, plus a couple of other little things.
I feel this is only a win if Ubuntu and Suse stop embracing proprietary, non-free (as in freedom) drivers. If they don't then the hardware manufacturers will still in in control of your computer, and you'll be at their mercy if there are bugs in the drivers which make the hardware unusable with your selected distro. Only if there is a push for free drivers will this be a win for everyone, rather than just for Ubuntu, Suse and others that happily ship non-free drivers.
Software is not the same as a physical object.
If you chop wood, you get paid for the work you do, you can't keep licensing the wood that you cut years ago and making money off it.
It'd be like a concreter that makes someones drive way and then licenses that person to be able to drive on it.
You get paid for the work you do, you shouldn't get paid for something you did 10 years ago.
The incentive to create software would be people/businesses paying you to create the software they need. You do the work and get paid for the work you do, rather than allowing copyright to let you license the work to the company while you sit back doing no work and just living on a stream of incoming.
People should work for the money they earn.
Haha indeed... But they hardly need worry about Eric Raymond... They could just let him talk, after a few minutes no-one want to hear anymore from him.
I can just imagine ESR now... "SCO are the enemy of.... Islamofascist SCO! Screw you and the camel you rode in on SCO!.... Hey why isn't anyone listening to me?"
Hey, I actually like this, though I found that his voice was a little bit too hard to hear, but I thought it was well done. I'm not a fan of hip hop either, infact I generally can't stand the stuff, but I enjoyed that. Thanks!
Were Australia not building up a filter service to allow customers to block porn sites a while ago? What is to stop this technology being used to filter out political writtings that they don't want people to be able to access?
It's not up to government to decide what we can and can't see, and I feel it is a very bad idea to build them the weapons to do so, no matter how much they promise to not use them for their own advantage.
I've just started saving up for a Thinkpad T series, and was hoping that something a bit better would come out by the time I could afford it. This is great news.
Hopefully it'll use the Intel 965 as I believe that this works fine with Free software drivers... I don't think the Wifi will be any good though, as usual.
I was actually talking about dvorak today with someone who just got a Thinkpad and wanted to be able to rearrange their keys to dvorak. It'd be great if Lenovo would start offering this, yes I know that us who use dvorak touch type anyway, but just because it'd look nice.
I've been using dvorak for a couple of years at least now.
My girlfriend just started using it a few weeks ago and can now touch type, she never learnt to touch type on qwerty.
Thank you, I am surprised that I got modded troll... It certainly wasn't my intention. Perhaps next time I'll have to give links to back up what I'm saying, I had simply assumed that people here on slashdot knew enough about the situation for me to not have to go and reiterate it.
Well actually when you update Windows, an encrypted list of all installed software is sent to Microsoft, at least with XP, and I'm sure Vista would do they same. I believe also, though I'm not sure, that Windows Media Player reports on you too.
So what about the developers that put spyware in Windows XP and I'm assuming Vista also contains spyware. Will they go to prison? Will Microsoft be forced to strip the spyware out of it's operating system?
There are Intel graphics cards available built in to desktop motherboards, a bought a machine making sure it had one actually, so that I could use gNewSense. The ATI Free software graphics drivers unfortunately require a small proprietary binary blob to run, would be nice if ATI would put that firmware under a free license. I'm watching the nvidia Free software driver project though, hopefully that'll turn out well and I may get an nvidia card at some point.
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What about the stupid German anti-hacking laws? Or is it okay for corporations to circumvent this kind of restriction? I'm guessing it probably is... But I wonder what would have happened if it was just individuals doing this, would it have been allowed then?
Okay, so what about previous issues that were on the fringes? Gay issues is an obvious one... Should the majority be able to repress the minority? I don't want to live in a society where the will of the masses dictates what I can do, and I don't want to dictate to them what they can do. The democracy you talk about sounds like a proletarian dictatorship, and I don't want that. Infact I don't want any master other than myself.
Please push your rights, check the Windows EULA. In order for any computer company to be able to sell computers that come with Windows, they have to sign a whole lot of legal agreements with Microsoft, and one of those things they have to sign says that if you reject the software licence, you should return it for a refund on the software. Push it!!
There is first of all, no proof of water memory, which is what you'd be looking for. A positive indication, not trying to disprove something like this which flies in the face of all our scientific understanding. Why does water not remember all the other things that had been part of it, like urine, dirt, sand... Filtering wouldn't remove the memory of those things, as filters works of the basis of removing particles, not memory.
James Randi has often spoke brilliantly on the topic of homeopathy, in this authors@google video he speaks on it, among other things. http://youtube.com/watch?v=MTPj9VlNzQ0
Homeopathy is a terrible scam and I know too many people that have been sucked in to it due to lack of education, and the ability for critical thought.
Uhh the game is free to download, you can play it just fine, but if you want to get unique rare items or something, you can pay real money for that. If you're just a casual gamer, then you don't have to, no-one is forcing you to.
I think that this could be something that could possible even work with Free software (open source) games, or something similar.
It'd be great if they opened up the source for these games so that I could use it on any OS I choose to use.
Now I could be wrong, but I read that as them admitting it was because of DRM, they have to have the system locked down air tight, so that no 'glitches' can be got at by people trying to break the DRM. Peter Guttman gave a talk about this type of thing at the Auckland LUG a while ago, about how so much CPU power will be taken up just by trying to make sure that everything is secure, constantly checking and rechecking everything to make sure that nothing 'fishy' is being done.
UID digits don't mean too much, unless they're really low. I've been around this site for a long long time, just never signed up. Now off that topic.
How I feel about this could be perhaps put like saying that World War II was won just by the Americans, and that the British had nothing to do with it. The British had done most of the work, only for the Americans to then enter at the end when most of the battle had been fought... Thankfully we don't just credit the Americans with winning the war... Same with GNU/Linux, at least that's how I feel about it.
Well that's news to me. It's irritating when Linus is given all the credit for the operating system. He made the kernel, at the very least you generally need the GNU tool chain to have something usable, plus a couple of other little things.
I feel this is only a win if Ubuntu and Suse stop embracing proprietary, non-free (as in freedom) drivers. If they don't then the hardware manufacturers will still in in control of your computer, and you'll be at their mercy if there are bugs in the drivers which make the hardware unusable with your selected distro. Only if there is a push for free drivers will this be a win for everyone, rather than just for Ubuntu, Suse and others that happily ship non-free drivers.
Awesome, I had said this is what people should do a long time ago. Mass peaceful civil disobedience is the best way to fight this stuff.
Software is not the same as a physical object. If you chop wood, you get paid for the work you do, you can't keep licensing the wood that you cut years ago and making money off it. It'd be like a concreter that makes someones drive way and then licenses that person to be able to drive on it. You get paid for the work you do, you shouldn't get paid for something you did 10 years ago. The incentive to create software would be people/businesses paying you to create the software they need. You do the work and get paid for the work you do, rather than allowing copyright to let you license the work to the company while you sit back doing no work and just living on a stream of incoming. People should work for the money they earn.
In a society without copyright, what is the incentive to hoard away your source code apart form just being greedy and not wanting to share?
Haha indeed... But they hardly need worry about Eric Raymond... They could just let him talk, after a few minutes no-one want to hear anymore from him.
I can just imagine ESR now... "SCO are the enemy of.... Islamofascist SCO! Screw you and the camel you rode in on SCO!.... Hey why isn't anyone listening to me?"
Hey, I actually like this, though I found that his voice was a little bit too hard to hear, but I thought it was well done. I'm not a fan of hip hop either, infact I generally can't stand the stuff, but I enjoyed that. Thanks!
Haha indeed.... Because when given power humans have proved themselves oh so capable of being responsible and moral with it.
Were Australia not building up a filter service to allow customers to block porn sites a while ago? What is to stop this technology being used to filter out political writtings that they don't want people to be able to access?
It's not up to government to decide what we can and can't see, and I feel it is a very bad idea to build them the weapons to do so, no matter how much they promise to not use them for their own advantage.
I've just started saving up for a Thinkpad T series, and was hoping that something a bit better would come out by the time I could afford it. This is great news. Hopefully it'll use the Intel 965 as I believe that this works fine with Free software drivers... I don't think the Wifi will be any good though, as usual.
I was actually talking about dvorak today with someone who just got a Thinkpad and wanted to be able to rearrange their keys to dvorak. It'd be great if Lenovo would start offering this, yes I know that us who use dvorak touch type anyway, but just because it'd look nice. I've been using dvorak for a couple of years at least now. My girlfriend just started using it a few weeks ago and can now touch type, she never learnt to touch type on qwerty.
Thank you, I am surprised that I got modded troll... It certainly wasn't my intention. Perhaps next time I'll have to give links to back up what I'm saying, I had simply assumed that people here on slashdot knew enough about the situation for me to not have to go and reiterate it.
Well actually when you update Windows, an encrypted list of all installed software is sent to Microsoft, at least with XP, and I'm sure Vista would do they same. I believe also, though I'm not sure, that Windows Media Player reports on you too.
So what about the developers that put spyware in Windows XP and I'm assuming Vista also contains spyware. Will they go to prison? Will Microsoft be forced to strip the spyware out of it's operating system?
There are Intel graphics cards available built in to desktop motherboards, a bought a machine making sure it had one actually, so that I could use gNewSense. The ATI Free software graphics drivers unfortunately require a small proprietary binary blob to run, would be nice if ATI would put that firmware under a free license. I'm watching the nvidia Free software driver project though, hopefully that'll turn out well and I may get an nvidia card at some point.
Who is going to want to compete in making an alternative exchange server other than Free software proponents and perhaps Apple.