I get why purists hate it, because it takes away the nice hours and days of tinkering for something to work.
No, you quite clearly don't get it. The clue, regarding the objection of the purists, is right there in the word purist. Relevant FSF page.
I'm not a purist myself (I run Mint Linux in VMware on Windows 7), but you are confusing Free Software proponents with OS hobbyists. The former advocate gNewSense. The latter play with Syllable, MenuetOS, Haiku, etc.
Is Europe really that strict on anti-competition? Games-consoles are allowed to refuse to play games not signed by the console manufacturer, for instance.
Are you trolling, or have you somehow missed the point entirely?
The Newton/Leibniz example shows that independent invention does not necessarily imply obviousness. That calculus has never been patented is entirely irrelevant.
You seem to be right though: regarding totals deaths in Nazi death camps: Wikipedia says over three million. This thread on Answers.com says 6.4 million, not including 'labor camps or executions' of Soviet prisoners, and it notes that Many victims of the Holocaust were not killed in camps. I believe 6.4 million includes both death camps and concentration camps, which might explain the greater number than Wikipedia's 3 million for death camps alone.
How can you say it is "core component" if it is purely optional?
Because it's one of the three main services Steam offer to publishers/developers, alongside distribution via download ('digital distribution' if you prefer tautologies) and game-updating.
I could say the Steam client includes a DRM system, used by nearly all games available from the Steam library. Better? It remains that Steam is DRM.
There are studios that will not sell their games without a DRM system. This means that the fault lies in the hands of the studios demanding DRM and the consumers purchasing drm laden games.
Sure. Valve is one such company.
If you want to fault Steam for something fault them for not being upfront with the consumer with which games have DRM.
This changes nothing. The fact that a few games opt-out of Steam's DRM doesn't change the fact that Steam is a DRM system.
Steam is also a distribution system, an update system, and a few other things (instant-messaging etc), but none of this matters. Steam is, or if you prefer, includes as a core component, a DRM system. This cannot be denied.
Yes. This is exactly what evanh just said. Wine doesn't translate instruction-sets, it just makes available the Windows ABI. Therefore, if you want to run Linux+Wine on anything but x86/x86-64, you'll need hardware-emulation, which Wine itself doesn't provide.
Strongly disagree. If they're spying on you, then you're being watched. That's what it means. The NSA might hope to dilute the perception of this being a violation, but you're still being watched. That they haven't singled you out for special treatment is a different matter.
Example: The NSA aren't watching innocent people is false.
The scary warnings in browsers aren't likely to go away anytime soon, so I doubt that any webmaster of a website meant for public use is going to be using self-signed certs (other than those catering to specific, tech-savvy audiences).
Tech-savvy audiences are ok with self-signed certs?
in today's news, you're a bit like a judge sitting in a trial. You know that both sides somehow lie to you and it's your job to find out what really happened
I agree that one must apply discernment, and that foreign news sources can be valuable, but no, it's not impossible that one side is simply telling the truth, and the other simply lying.
I think not. Multiple 'cookie sandboxes' would be nice (especially for purposes of paranoia... ignoring Evercookie and Panopticlick), but it's not happened yet.
Google turned up this, but it's just Firefox's current private-browsing, given a stupid name.
The project had weak leadership and a huge amount of infighting, which is the real reason 3 different *BSDs forked out of it. Its quite possible Torvolds looked at the BSD mailinglists and said "forget them!"
Is it safe to be exposed to such high levels of irony?
Microsoft has a long history of creating "lock-in" products then dumping support for them. If you need XP because of something Microsoft did in the past and they're not selling XP any more then I think you have a right to cheat on them.
A fine illustration of the perils of depending on a proprietary software-platform, sure enough, but not a justification of copyright-infringement. That your need-to-run application depends on XP is an unfortunate failing of that application, but it doesn't give you the right to 'pirate' Microsoft's products.
The upgrade cycle is their revenue-stream, and they are under no obligation to support old products indefinitely. This is how proprietary-software-as-a-product works. Windows belongs to Microsoft. If you don't like this, I suggest looking into Free and Open Source alternatives.
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I get why purists hate it, because it takes away the nice hours and days of tinkering for something to work.
No, you quite clearly don't get it. The clue, regarding the objection of the purists, is right there in the word purist. Relevant FSF page.
I'm not a purist myself (I run Mint Linux in VMware on Windows 7), but you are confusing Free Software proponents with OS hobbyists. The former advocate gNewSense. The latter play with Syllable, MenuetOS, Haiku, etc.
Is Europe really that strict on anti-competition? Games-consoles are allowed to refuse to play games not signed by the console manufacturer, for instance.
Not only are you hopelessly wrong about Bitcoin not being anonymous, as chill pointed out, but you seem to have also missed the memo that the US government is tracking snail-mail on a massive scale.
Are you trolling, or have you somehow missed the point entirely?
The Newton/Leibniz example shows that independent invention does not necessarily imply obviousness. That calculus has never been patented is entirely irrelevant.
Starting to get it at last?
Uh, GP isn't arguing for disallowing A/C posts, he's simply pointing out the deficiencies in GGP's reasoning.
This is correct. I thought that was clear, but here we are again with:
You aren't going to get your way and there's not a thing you can do about it
Sigh. Rather than try to spell things out further, I'll just leave you a link: the appeal to force fallacy.
As for
no matter how superior you imagine yourself to be. Maybe you should go call your mommy now and tell her there is a mean man on the internet ...
Petty name-calling doesn't even count as a fallacy.
A fine example of an utter waste of space posted anonymously. I'll respond anyway...
Points 1, 3, 4, 4a, and 5 are all variations of Why bother to try to improve something?. How about actually arguing against the specific suggestion?
Also, it is nothing short of absurd to call someone a 'control freak' for suggesting that an online forum have different rules.
I wasn't aware of any overzealous legislation regarding holocaust denial. Link please.
There is a reason the West is fading. This is a symptom caused by the same disease.
I suspect it's caused by sensitivities regarding the Holocaust...
You're meant to link to a source, not just whine.
You seem to be right though: regarding totals deaths in Nazi death camps: Wikipedia says over three million. This thread on Answers.com says 6.4 million, not including 'labor camps or executions' of Soviet prisoners, and it notes that Many victims of the Holocaust were not killed in camps. I believe 6.4 million includes both death camps and concentration camps, which might explain the greater number than Wikipedia's 3 million for death camps alone.
The 'Reply to This' button is intended to be used for, you know, replies.
To have an unbiased opinion, you really should have your search plugin randomized. Organically, you will notice one is better.
Err, no.
IMHO all papers should be read be statisticians just to be sure the calculation are correct.
Slashdot doesn't offer a too much confidence rating.
Also your 'calculation' is wrong: should be 'calculations'.
How can you say it is "core component" if it is purely optional?
Because it's one of the three main services Steam offer to publishers/developers, alongside distribution via download ('digital distribution' if you prefer tautologies) and game-updating.
I could say the Steam client includes a DRM system, used by nearly all games available from the Steam library. Better? It remains that Steam is DRM.
There are studios that will not sell their games without a DRM system. This means that the fault lies in the hands of the studios demanding DRM and the consumers purchasing drm laden games.
Sure. Valve is one such company.
If you want to fault Steam for something fault them for not being upfront with the consumer with which games have DRM.
They should be more upfront, but they do at least list an Internet connection in the System Requirements.
Also, for what little it's worth, John Logie Baird was in Hastings, England, when he invented the television (though he was Scottish).
Who did the real inventing: man or city? Who am I to say?
This changes nothing. The fact that a few games opt-out of Steam's DRM doesn't change the fact that Steam is a DRM system.
Steam is also a distribution system, an update system, and a few other things (instant-messaging etc), but none of this matters. Steam is, or if you prefer, includes as a core component, a DRM system. This cannot be denied.
Yes. This is exactly what evanh just said. Wine doesn't translate instruction-sets, it just makes available the Windows ABI. Therefore, if you want to run Linux+Wine on anything but x86/x86-64, you'll need hardware-emulation, which Wine itself doesn't provide.
Strongly disagree. If they're spying on you, then you're being watched. That's what it means. The NSA might hope to dilute the perception of this being a violation, but you're still being watched. That they haven't singled you out for special treatment is a different matter.
Example: The NSA aren't watching innocent people is false.
it is impossible to resell, since I'm renting the game, but never "own" it.
Indeed. I think Steam should stop using the word Buy (which they currently do).
but if Steam goes down the path of DRM
Steam has been DRM since before Half-Life 2.
Sounds reasonable - I thought you meant you were expecting tech-savvy users to ignore browser warnings.
The scary warnings in browsers aren't likely to go away anytime soon, so I doubt that any webmaster of a website meant for public use is going to be using self-signed certs (other than those catering to specific, tech-savvy audiences).
Tech-savvy audiences are ok with self-signed certs?
We seem to be in agreement. Argument-to-moderation is a pet-peeve of mine; otherwise enlightened-seeming people can fall for it.
in today's news, you're a bit like a judge sitting in a trial. You know that both sides somehow lie to you and it's your job to find out what really happened
I agree that one must apply discernment, and that foreign news sources can be valuable, but no, it's not impossible that one side is simply telling the truth, and the other simply lying.
I think not. Multiple 'cookie sandboxes' would be nice (especially for purposes of paranoia... ignoring Evercookie and Panopticlick), but it's not happened yet.
Google turned up this, but it's just Firefox's current private-browsing, given a stupid name.
The project had weak leadership and a huge amount of infighting, which is the real reason 3 different *BSDs forked out of it. Its quite possible Torvolds looked at the BSD mailinglists and said "forget them!"
Is it safe to be exposed to such high levels of irony?
Apple's mobile devices are awful from a software-freedom perspective.
That Google's products are also awful has absolutely no bearing on this.
Microsoft has a long history of creating "lock-in" products then dumping support for them. If you need XP because of something Microsoft did in the past and they're not selling XP any more then I think you have a right to cheat on them.
A fine illustration of the perils of depending on a proprietary software-platform, sure enough, but not a justification of copyright-infringement. That your need-to-run application depends on XP is an unfortunate failing of that application, but it doesn't give you the right to 'pirate' Microsoft's products.
The upgrade cycle is their revenue-stream, and they are under no obligation to support old products indefinitely. This is how proprietary-software-as-a-product works. Windows belongs to Microsoft. If you don't like this, I suggest looking into Free and Open Source alternatives.