Agreed, I can't see why this man is being called a victim, he had child porn, and last time I checked, child porn is illegal. It would make sense that he is to be treated with the full extent of the law for what he did.
What makes it worse is that the people who installed the drive are being made out to be the bad guys here, it said they looked for files they could use to test the drive, they weren't randomly looking through his pictures, they most likely just searched for any media files so they could try burn them, saw child porn and reported it, like any responsible person would do.
Yes, but the guy you quoted was saying not to compare then, this started because some guy said basically "notepad is lighter than [programs with tabs and syntax highlighter], therefore Windows is better programmed".
So you're right about what Notepad is, the guy you quoted was saying that is incomparable to KWrite and gEdit, not that it doesn't fulfill it's purpose
It's about Microsoft's love of scamming people and stealing. Don't claim otherwise, just agree with it and don't try explain or prove anything, that's how you earn karma points here.
It's also supposed to be faster than KDE3 since QT4 will be a lot faster than 3. I can't say for certain whether it will be, but the LiveCD seemed faster than the Kubuntu LiveCD using 3.5 by a good margin so that's at least some confirmation. (But obviously ifferent LiveCDs will have different services running)
The HUGE choir also happens to have a sizable pro-MS contingent that cannot bear anything resembling reasonable facts that throw their chosen system in a bad light, and another very sizable contingent that cannot bear a single sliver of comment showing MS in a "good" light. (The latter is quoted because the best you can say about my comments are that they're left-handed compliments regarding MS)
Yeah but we don't call them the "HUGE choir", we call him the anonymous coward, and for all we know there's no more than 2 or 3 copy-pasting "STFU n00b, I'm a Linux user since 1987 but it fails for these reasons: "
Ironically the main reason I started using Linux was that it, not Windows, would work with my soundcard, and I was lucky with my printer, I just had to click a few buttons to get it working in Kubuntu (unlike on Windows where it took 2 reboots, and installation of a load of software packaged with driver and a complete crash).
Though I agree that hardware support is one of the main reasons people don't stick with Linux (and wireless is becoming the new printer nowadays). I see no reason why companies don't release specifications of their hardware, especially since there are so many Linux developers willing to make a driver for free.
Most of the tasks I've seen so far weren't coding, they were to do with documentation, tutorials or examples, and the projects themselves have people correcting the entries, not google AFAIK
Hey hey, Tux Racer, Battle for Wesnoth, Super Tux, Secret Maryo Chronicles and that game with the bouncing balls, that's at least FIVE GPL games right there, more than enough for any serious gamer, now stop spreading FUD because I set RMS on you.
I'm 15 and I know exactly what the difference between GPL and LGPL is (not word for word of course, but in general what can be done with them), if you need a lawyer to make sense of it then I'd advise you to just stay clear of it altogether
But how is this surprising, I've done that many times, it's basically just a quicker way of searching milw0rm since it's likely that at some point every hash has been seen (and therefore cached) by google
From the stories before on this I thought Nigerias Government WERE the suppliers? Was this not known that they were separate until now or was it just overlooked for the purpose of taking a swing at Nigerias government?
Glad to know that MS got caught though, even without Francis having to use the 'B' word
I suppose to a point, a company employing people to read your messages is obviously evil. But a company scanning them for keywords without anyone actually seeing what you send isn't, especially not when it saves you money.
Can anyone say that actual humans will look through their messages if they use google?
If it is not cost effective to support those 6%, then yes, they should. Tell me, should they spend the same amount on 6% of their customers as they did on the other 94%?
What makes you think you and your choice of operating system is more important and deserves a bigger share of the money and resources than the other 95% of the population? What makes you think you are worth 19,400 times than 95% of the rest of the population?
Do you see the depths of your selfishness yet?
More importantly, if you had RTFA, you would have seen where they decided to support the majority of their visitors first and then add support for the rest later.
Now, stop being a self-centered asshole. Well then shouldn't Linux users be required to pay less tax so that it doesn't go to BBC? Or is that unreasonable? (yes that's a rhetorical question) Is it selfish to want to watch something you partially funded with having to go and buy Windows?
Also I don't recall anywhere stating that the BBC was aiming to make a profit, I DO recall that they aim to help make their programmes accessible to as much people as possible. Currently they're ignoring 6% of people. and the fact that it'd take £1000+ to port to Linux might make sense, except that the majority of the code would only need small changes, and they should be able to fairly easily identify the parts that need to be redone easily if they followed good design.
So really it comes down to something a bit more like £1000000 to develop for Windows, another 10-20000 to develop for Linux and Mac, unless you're suggesting they code the whole thing from scratch for each platform?
From one perspective (although undoubtedly an unpopular one here on/.) a free copy of Windows is worth more than a free copy of Mandriva.
After all, it vastly increases the range of applications that are now available for them to use.
Like I said, it may not be popular here, but I can see how this deal could be viewed as good for both parties by both parties... It gives them access to more apps and all while they're in school learning to use it, but when they leave school and they have to start paying the fee like the rest of us, do you really think they'll think "Thank god I learned to use MS instead of Linux".
Maybe this is acceptable where you live, where everyone goes to school happily, then graduates and gets a nice office job. But this is a developing country and these kids can't afford to start paying for software (the ones that get computers that is)
If suddenly everything's improved and all Nigerians are able and willing to pay for Windows instead of getting a free alternative then please correct me and I'll admit my fault
This is disingenuous and does not refute the fact that 94% of the visitors to the BBC site were using Windows before the iPlayer rollout.
Either the submitter can not read, can not think, or is a trolling fanboy. In any instance, the submission is inaccurate. So what about the other 6% of users? If 94% used Windows you think they should ignore 6%? Considering it's the general public who FUND the BBC, it's pretty much the same as a company refusing to acknowledge 6% of its shareholders
And if Best Buy knew that this kind of fraud was happening and didn't stop it, that would be racketeering. Funny how this stuff all fits together like this. WOW, it's almost like the legal system was structured so that people would get convicted and punished for crimes they commited. Or maybe this is just an isolated case of this happening?
I sent an email yesterday telling them that they were in violation of the GPL and that the story reached slashdot, didn't say much else and don't know much, but decided to inform them before they get a bunch of "OMG j00 r copyright n00b" emails.
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Agreed, I can't see why this man is being called a victim, he had child porn, and last time I checked, child porn is illegal. It would make sense that he is to be treated with the full extent of the law for what he did.
What makes it worse is that the people who installed the drive are being made out to be the bad guys here, it said they looked for files they could use to test the drive, they weren't randomly looking through his pictures, they most likely just searched for any media files so they could try burn them, saw child porn and reported it, like any responsible person would do.
Yes, but the guy you quoted was saying not to compare then, this started because some guy said basically "notepad is lighter than [programs with tabs and syntax highlighter], therefore Windows is better programmed".
So you're right about what Notepad is, the guy you quoted was saying that is incomparable to KWrite and gEdit, not that it doesn't fulfill it's purpose
It's about Microsoft's love of scamming people and stealing. Don't claim otherwise, just agree with it and don't try explain or prove anything, that's how you earn karma points here.
I accidentally marked this as insightful, posting here to get rid of it
It's also supposed to be faster than KDE3 since QT4 will be a lot faster than 3. I can't say for certain whether it will be, but the LiveCD seemed faster than the Kubuntu LiveCD using 3.5 by a good margin so that's at least some confirmation. (But obviously ifferent LiveCDs will have different services running)
Yeah but we don't call them the "HUGE choir", we call him the anonymous coward, and for all we know there's no more than 2 or 3 copy-pasting "STFU n00b, I'm a Linux user since 1987 but it fails for these reasons: "
Ironically the main reason I started using Linux was that it, not Windows, would work with my soundcard, and I was lucky with my printer, I just had to click a few buttons to get it working in Kubuntu (unlike on Windows where it took 2 reboots, and installation of a load of software packaged with driver and a complete crash). Though I agree that hardware support is one of the main reasons people don't stick with Linux (and wireless is becoming the new printer nowadays). I see no reason why companies don't release specifications of their hardware, especially since there are so many Linux developers willing to make a driver for free.
Most of the tasks I've seen so far weren't coding, they were to do with documentation, tutorials or examples, and the projects themselves have people correcting the entries, not google AFAIK
This doesn't apply to "highschoolers" outside the USA?
According to the article it's "REC", not "RCC"
Hey hey, Tux Racer, Battle for Wesnoth, Super Tux, Secret Maryo Chronicles and that game with the bouncing balls, that's at least FIVE GPL games right there, more than enough for any serious gamer, now stop spreading FUD because I set RMS on you.
I'm 15 and I know exactly what the difference between GPL and LGPL is (not word for word of course, but in general what can be done with them), if you need a lawyer to make sense of it then I'd advise you to just stay clear of it altogether
But how is this surprising, I've done that many times, it's basically just a quicker way of searching milw0rm since it's likely that at some point every hash has been seen (and therefore cached) by google
Well they only needed to send a small deposit fee, and then they'd get 35Mil in return so it makes sense.
From the stories before on this I thought Nigerias Government WERE the suppliers? Was this not known that they were separate until now or was it just overlooked for the purpose of taking a swing at Nigerias government?
Glad to know that MS got caught though, even without Francis having to use the 'B' word
Probably by saying something like "We're Google, they aren't"
I suppose to a point, a company employing people to read your messages is obviously evil. But a company scanning them for keywords without anyone actually seeing what you send isn't, especially not when it saves you money.
Can anyone say that actual humans will look through their messages if they use google?
What makes you think you and your choice of operating system is more important and deserves a bigger share of the money and resources than the other 95% of the population? What makes you think you are worth 19,400 times than 95% of the rest of the population?
Do you see the depths of your selfishness yet?
More importantly, if you had RTFA, you would have seen where they decided to support the majority of their visitors first and then add support for the rest later.
Now, stop being a self-centered asshole. Well then shouldn't Linux users be required to pay less tax so that it doesn't go to BBC? Or is that unreasonable? (yes that's a rhetorical question) Is it selfish to want to watch something you partially funded with having to go and buy Windows?
Also I don't recall anywhere stating that the BBC was aiming to make a profit, I DO recall that they aim to help make their programmes accessible to as much people as possible. Currently they're ignoring 6% of people. and the fact that it'd take £1000+ to port to Linux might make sense, except that the majority of the code would only need small changes, and they should be able to fairly easily identify the parts that need to be redone easily if they followed good design.
So really it comes down to something a bit more like £1000000 to develop for Windows, another 10-20000 to develop for Linux and Mac, unless you're suggesting they code the whole thing from scratch for each platform?
"419send.exe" won't run on Linux so they need Windows, how else are they children suppose to afford to go to school and use the computers?
After all, it vastly increases the range of applications that are now available for them to use.
Like I said, it may not be popular here, but I can see how this deal could be viewed as good for both parties by both parties... It gives them access to more apps and all while they're in school learning to use it, but when they leave school and they have to start paying the fee like the rest of us, do you really think they'll think "Thank god I learned to use MS instead of Linux".
Maybe this is acceptable where you live, where everyone goes to school happily, then graduates and gets a nice office job. But this is a developing country and these kids can't afford to start paying for software (the ones that get computers that is)
If suddenly everything's improved and all Nigerians are able and willing to pay for Windows instead of getting a free alternative then please correct me and I'll admit my fault
Either the submitter can not read, can not think, or is a trolling fanboy. In any instance, the submission is inaccurate. So what about the other 6% of users? If 94% used Windows you think they should ignore 6%? Considering it's the general public who FUND the BBC, it's pretty much the same as a company refusing to acknowledge 6% of its shareholders
Wait, what are we talking about?
I sent an email yesterday telling them that they were in violation of the GPL and that the story reached slashdot, didn't say much else and don't know much, but decided to inform them before they get a bunch of "OMG j00 r copyright n00b" emails.
Yeah but who's against the use of hammers for bludgeoning people to death, only music pirates and communists, don't you pay attention to the news?