It doesn't seem so restrictive when you see that the GPL's "restrictions" basically mean "you can't use GPL'ed code in closed-source software, thereby defeating the entire purpose of the license." Yes it's a "restriction" the BSDs and similar don't have, but it's on purpose and most of us like it that way. Those that don't should just use the BSD license, and don't bitch when you get ripped off.
I think he meant the old-fashioned chiropractic quacks (like Dr. Bob) vs the modern chiropractors who usually call themselves "sports physiotherapists" or something like that to differentiate themselves.
I've actually discovered how Christians rationalize this. They consider God's sense of justice to be different from man's, and that God's is absolute and perfect while man's is flawed. Yes, he would create man with a sense of justice that makes his own look dickish.
So there you have it folks, God's justice is to act like a dickhead/b/tard who broke into an MMO's admin account.
I don't see what's so different about this idea. A lot of regular porn sites have gross shit mixed in with the other stuff. Just that instead of avoiding granny porn/BDSM/whatever turns you off, you'll have to avoid animal snuff films.
For once PETA does something I approve of. Yes, get more female celebrities to pose nude! I'm sure it will turn me from an omnivore to a herbivore once I get enough exposure!
I think the reason that Google isn't releasing Android 3 source is that they don't want it installed on every crappy phone and tablet coming out of China, and giving it a bad name.
This sounds a lot like the argument Apple fanboys use for not allowing other OSes on iShinies.
I wouldn't say Android is a move away from openness but if it's a move towards greater openness at all, it's a very tiny one.
In practice an Android phone with a locked bootloader (and running a closed-source Android version) is as closed as an iPhone. How is that a significant step towards greater openness? Because the kernel is a distant relative of the Linux kernel? Big deal, some Windows versions used a BSD network stack and nobody was cheering.
Named after "greenwashing," the act of selling something as eco-friendly when it actually isn't, openwashing is the act of selling something as open when it actually isn't. Like those "open" phones that you can't get the source code for and run locked bootloaders so you can't even jai- uh, "root" the phone.
I'm not against open phones, I want open phones. That's why I don't want anyone to accept an openwashed substitute.
The other day someone was trying to convince my boss that the risk of a backdoor in open source code is greater than the risk of a backdoor in closed source code, and that it takes an uber-leet top hacker to audit code.
Trying to stick their ugly proprietary fingers in a government database project. Fuck those guys.
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Same thing, different stuff.
Desktops: Close the hardware to preserve the marketing purity of the software.
iShinies: Close the software to preserve the marketing purity of the hardware.
It doesn't seem so restrictive when you see that the GPL's "restrictions" basically mean "you can't use GPL'ed code in closed-source software, thereby defeating the entire purpose of the license." Yes it's a "restriction" the BSDs and similar don't have, but it's on purpose and most of us like it that way. Those that don't should just use the BSD license, and don't bitch when you get ripped off.
Huh, didn't know this. Does the NH2 look any different from the NH? How could I tell them apart if I ordered one online?
That's true, but unfortunately a lot of this ice is sitting on land...
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I think he meant the old-fashioned chiropractic quacks (like Dr. Bob) vs the modern chiropractors who usually call themselves "sports physiotherapists" or something like that to differentiate themselves.
Possibly, but on the other hand, a lot of the bullshit medicine that is outlawed in the US is legal overseas.
I've actually discovered how Christians rationalize this. They consider God's sense of justice to be different from man's, and that God's is absolute and perfect while man's is flawed. Yes, he would create man with a sense of justice that makes his own look dickish.
So there you have it folks, God's justice is to act like a dickhead /b/tard who broke into an MMO's admin account.
I can only imagine that there is some semi-normal fraction of PETA's support base that's looking at this and going "WTF???"
No, there is no semi-normal fraction of the support base.
I don't see what's so different about this idea. A lot of regular porn sites have gross shit mixed in with the other stuff. Just that instead of avoiding granny porn/BDSM/whatever turns you off, you'll have to avoid animal snuff films.
Rule 34! 8-(
Sounds more like /s
Wow, is iOS4 more open than Android 3? Hahaha this is pretty fucked up!
For once PETA does something I approve of. Yes, get more female celebrities to pose nude! I'm sure it will turn me from an omnivore to a herbivore once I get enough exposure!
For the record I don't claim to have invented it, a lot of people naturally came up with it around the same time.
I think the reason that Google isn't releasing Android 3 source is that they don't want it installed on every crappy phone and tablet coming out of China, and giving it a bad name.
This sounds a lot like the argument Apple fanboys use for not allowing other OSes on iShinies.
I wouldn't say Android is a move away from openness but if it's a move towards greater openness at all, it's a very tiny one.
In practice an Android phone with a locked bootloader (and running a closed-source Android version) is as closed as an iPhone. How is that a significant step towards greater openness? Because the kernel is a distant relative of the Linux kernel? Big deal, some Windows versions used a BSD network stack and nobody was cheering.
More specifically, I call it "openwashing."
Named after "greenwashing," the act of selling something as eco-friendly when it actually isn't, openwashing is the act of selling something as open when it actually isn't. Like those "open" phones that you can't get the source code for and run locked bootloaders so you can't even jai- uh, "root" the phone.
I'm not against open phones, I want open phones. That's why I don't want anyone to accept an openwashed substitute.
The other day someone was trying to convince my boss that the risk of a backdoor in open source code is greater than the risk of a backdoor in closed source code, and that it takes an uber-leet top hacker to audit code.
Trying to stick their ugly proprietary fingers in a government database project. Fuck those guys.
I think we should transfer the Borg gear to a Tim Cook face for the Apple icon. I've been saying this for a couple of years now.
Yeah the ClamWin virus DB is woefully inadequate. Which is really too bad, because if it didn't suck then MoonSecure might be worth using.
Also the built-in defrag will use up all your RAM until it is full if you have no swap file. Had this happen on a Win7 system with 12GB RAM.
Remember how awful the economy was when Clinton was president? Eight horrible years of peace and prosperity, thank God that's long gone.
The Onion had a good article looking back on those dark times:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/
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