Yeah, except that both the link he posted and the title of the article clearly say "Rand" instead of "Ron". Anyone with 1/10th a brain would have gotten it right. The Slashdot editors seem to be lacking even that much mental prowess.
I'm guessing you didn't read my post. Yes, public safety codes should be freely accessible since they are legally mandated. The WLAN standard is not legally mandated and thus is a completely different thing. Yes, if you were forced by law to implement 802.11 it should be freely accessible, but adhering to the standard IS COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY.
Your link was about access to public safety codes and had no citation about a private industry standard being forced through law. Yes, public safety codes should be free to access but they are in a completely different class to the latest WLAN standard of which no one is forced to implement or adhere to. Flawed comparison is flawed.
Yeah because people are going to give up the ease of setting up a facebook account with having to jump through ridiculous hoops to run a freedombox instance. Oh wait....
Because this was for testing purposes? They aren't going to try a newly ramped-up process on what is a flagship product that has higher manufacturing costs and possibly risk lots of returns. They'll do it on the lower priced version that would be less costly if errors did pop up.
That's all well and good to say but ignores the reality of how these dissident mvements work in these third world countries. And just because something is cryptographically signed doesn't mean it's trustworthy. Whose to say the government doesn't have forged certs? These people are rag tag groups of people who meet up online, not cryptographic specialists.
I you trust no one you can never form any groups. You eventually have to trust someone. Again, it's quite easy for you to criticize from your comfortable life in a country thousands of miles away.
Sure, but whose to say that the person you meet face-to-face is the same person? The government could have easily killed the real person and had someone go in his place. Most of these dissidents probably met up online and would have no idea if they are meeting a real dissident or a government stooge. It's quite easy to criticize this person from your safe position thousands of miles away.
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Maybe finish reading the whole summary where even Adobe welcomes this? Oh and you've made sure to bitch about Mozilla doing the same thing to older versions of the Java plugin, right?
Yeah, except that both the link he posted and the title of the article clearly say "Rand" instead of "Ron". Anyone with 1/10th a brain would have gotten it right. The Slashdot editors seem to be lacking even that much mental prowess.
It's cute that you think samzenpus is actually literate.
So you'll buy expensive electronics yet whine about a $400 surge protector? Miss the foresr for the trees much?
Yes, hydroperoxyl is dangerous since it destroys ozone in the stratosphere.
Because it was a review the actual GPU encoders themselves not various frontends to those GPU encoders.
Yes, IBM for one which did so with their Lotus Symphony Suite.
There's a huge difference between the GPL and the...GPL? lolwut?
Sure! if you ignore the fact that it was government money that helped to pay to lay telephone lines across the country in the first place.
Are we ignoring the fact that the major players in this very industry were at one time colluding to keep prices artificially high until the DoJ stepped in?
Why? Because you say so? That's not a compelling argument.
I'm guessing you didn't read my post. Yes, public safety codes should be freely accessible since they are legally mandated. The WLAN standard is not legally mandated and thus is a completely different thing. Yes, if you were forced by law to implement 802.11 it should be freely accessible, but adhering to the standard IS COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY.
So complaining about having to pay money to access the standard isn't about money? lolwut?
Still doesn't make it an Internet standard. The Internet has no reliance on the WLAN standard. They are orthognal standards.
Your link was about access to public safety codes and had no citation about a private industry standard being forced through law. Yes, public safety codes should be free to access but they are in a completely different class to the latest WLAN standard of which no one is forced to implement or adhere to. Flawed comparison is flawed.
Says the guy whining over a 5 dollar pdf.
This just in: This isn't an Internet standard.
You don't need a subscription. You can buy the pdf for 5 dollars.
Yeah, however will you afford the 5 dollars to buy the pdf. Woe is you...
Yeah because people are going to give up the ease of setting up a facebook account with having to jump through ridiculous hoops to run a freedombox instance. Oh wait....
Because this was for testing purposes? They aren't going to try a newly ramped-up process on what is a flagship product that has higher manufacturing costs and possibly risk lots of returns. They'll do it on the lower priced version that would be less costly if errors did pop up.
Yeah it's opt-in. For now. It's rather naive to think that this isn't just the first step to banning it.
That's all well and good to say but ignores the reality of how these dissident mvements work in these third world countries. And just because something is cryptographically signed doesn't mean it's trustworthy. Whose to say the government doesn't have forged certs? These people are rag tag groups of people who meet up online, not cryptographic specialists.
I you trust no one you can never form any groups. You eventually have to trust someone. Again, it's quite easy for you to criticize from your comfortable life in a country thousands of miles away.
Sure, but whose to say that the person you meet face-to-face is the same person? The government could have easily killed the real person and had someone go in his place. Most of these dissidents probably met up online and would have no idea if they are meeting a real dissident or a government stooge. It's quite easy to criticize this person from your safe position thousands of miles away.