That's perfectly scientific. Even the alleged refutation you present is a nice example of the scientific method in aggregate. Anyone can dispute results and provide a counter example. They can also provide enough information so that YOU personally can replicate their results.
Also... a few people making claims is not authoritative.
And if a few people in 7 Billion can manage the feat then it is indeed virtually impossible from a numerical standpoint.
That's the problem with a couple of "special effects guys" or even "a couple of real scientists". They may not be expert enough to evaluate certain types of claims. Handing this question off to the "scientific priesthood" would not have helped.
The idea that ANY one would actually PAY for a cam in this day and age is simply beyond belief. You gotta wonder if they are using some creative version of the terms "pay", "commerce" and "commercial use".
The relevant legal definitions may look like nothing we would recognize.
> Incarceration isn't a violent act, and more so, the damage that this guy did is real. It's really not that different from arson.
What a jackass you are.
Equating ARSON with copying and sharing a movie. No one is going to get KILLED by copying a movie. People may very well DIE because of arson.
THIS is why we have to have a public discussion about the correct level of punishment for the digital equivalent of shoplifting. Otherwise, anti-social morons will happily allow the imposition of midieval punishments that belong more in ISIS than a modern democracy.
Besides getting the better bonus for the work that was a turkey, I was not harmed by rampant piracy. It was supposed to have killed the entire industry before I was even in it but that never happened.
Good works will prosper. Turkeys will fail. Plenty of people will still pay.
The same was true for "Cute and Stupid 6". The rampant industry killing piracy didn't actually do the studio any real harm. Neither did the one particular example the the perp will do time for.
Incarcerating this person is just an unnecessary drain on my wallet as we collectively all have to pay big bucks for it.
> Sounds like you're a violent sociopath. Maybe we should cane you if you like that kind of punishment so much.
A good beating administered by the authorities in a controlled and relatively safe environment will likely do FAR MUCH LESS damage than being locked up with animals and sociopaths for 3 years.
You simply don't have any clue. You can't relate do doing any kind of hard time. You probably can't even relate do doing a week or a weekend in the local lockup.
> Proof that US slashdotters techies are just sort of OK at best since they don't want high skills immigration. Low skills immigration is fine since it doesn't compete directly with their jobs though.
What immigration?
H1Bs are an indentured servitude program.
It was a stark realization the first time found out that the imported PhDs in my shop were making less than I was. I was in a much better position to negotiate for better salary despite having less education and a more generic specialty.
I had the legal standing to tell my employer to "take this job and shove it".
I happily took advantage of the situation but never forgot the injustice of it.
All government data needs to be open to auditing. Thus any government data needs to be stored in open formats that can be examined and manipulated with tools that can be sourced from multiple parties. Furthermore, the government should not be in the business of helping entrench particular software monopolies.
The nature of the binaries being run is really just a side show.
Apple's success is hardly a good model for Linux. Despite a great deal of effort, having a GUI platform that nearly predates MS-DOS, having a BRAND that does predate MS-DOS, lots of focused resources, effective advertising, Super Bowl ads, and even dedicated stores they still only managed to eek out a small minority of the market.
Apple's current success is based on NOT being a computing company.
If anything, Apple is a pretty conclusive demonstration of how "doing everything right" will really get you nowhere in the desktop market.
As far as non-technical users go. Apple products are just quirky enough to be annoying and off putting.
A stupid noisy minority of techno-hipsters don't like X. For the rest of us it's invisible and no more bothersome than the graphics subsystem on any other platform.
The problem with your rant is that the still marginal market share of Apple refutes it. Linux in other forms was able to gain traction because of lack of an entrenched monopoly (or being the monopoly).
Apple demonstrates that applying the "one true way" approach to the desktop won't help you get away from Microsoft.
So there's no real point in sabotaging Linux just to suit some delusion that ignores reality on the ground.
> A stable binary driver interface would help for starters.
No. Probably not. Lack of stable interfaces never harmed the WinDOS market. That's because these kinds of things are driven by market share and have little to do with "platform quality". Either a vendor thinks the market is large enough to bother with or not. The "level of bother" factor is largely irrelevant.
That's why much software is still Windows-only despite there being a mythical commercial platform that's supposed to do everything right.
With only 2G, the OS will still be getting in your ways. This is all a flashback to the 90s when RAM was too expensive and you usually didn't see adequately equipped PCs. Any PC OS beyond DOS ended up getting in it's own way and running like a snail.
The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution is a limit placed on government. It's not a limit placed on the people. It's a statement of universal principle so important that our nation at it's birth was unwilling to accept a written Constitution without it.
It is not some sort of "legal loophole" that justifies everyone else being a tyrannical jackass.
> So any store that only carries Organic foods is censoring?
A merchant has to be able to make money to keep the lights on and pay the rent. A merchant is subject to physical constraints. A merchant is PAYING for the things they present to you.
Why didn't you just make it a bad car analogy from the start?
Trying to deviate from that doesn't make the problem of applying physical rules to the ethereal realm any more senseless.
"This years version of WinDOS finally got things right."
It's such a cliche that Apple even made a commercial about it. You guys always say that the latest and greatest fixes everyone's complaints but it's never like that if you actually try it.
Now TVs are funny beasts. They like to LIE. Yes, LIE. So they aren't a very good basis for comparison.
Windows still has driver issues. It's not just all "automagic". This is especially true if you try to install the thing yourself (like a Linux user might). Simple standard hardware is quite often NOT automagically sorted. This even applies to "market leading products" that you wouldn't think would suffer from such issues.
The emperor is still naked.
Not that this has any relevance to an enterprise corporate installation.
For document exchange in government, something that is an actual standard probably trumps all of the shiny shiny. In a lot of the legal field in the US, PDF is perfectly adequate for document exchange. It was widely adopted when Microsoft was having security issues with it's revisioning features.
The need for actual revisable documents is very likely a very marginal thing for a city government.
> Most peons growing up and using Microsoft Windows exclusively are too dumb to learn anything new, even if they are paid to do so. > > It's like a brothel staffed by people with down syndrome.
Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. Kids have no problems dealing with different platforms. HELL, the barely acknowledge that there are different platforms. They just use similar software the same way as the people from Xerox Parc intended.
It's the aging dinosaurs that have problems with Brand X of word processor versus Brand Y.
If they don't like Open Office, just wait till they see Ribbon and Win8.
I've seen people in small businesses nearly defect over either of those.
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That's perfectly scientific. Even the alleged refutation you present is a nice example of the scientific method in aggregate. Anyone can dispute results and provide a counter example. They can also provide enough information so that YOU personally can replicate their results.
Also... a few people making claims is not authoritative.
And if a few people in 7 Billion can manage the feat then it is indeed virtually impossible from a numerical standpoint.
That's the problem with a couple of "special effects guys" or even "a couple of real scientists". They may not be expert enough to evaluate certain types of claims. Handing this question off to the "scientific priesthood" would not have helped.
That may be true but it is this particular University that is making the situation painfully obvious today.
> "Correlation" is an oft-misused mathematical term of art.
Tell it to my status professor. I am sure he would get a good chuckle out of you.
Yes. That just doesn't pass the sniff test.
The idea that ANY one would actually PAY for a cam in this day and age is simply beyond belief. You gotta wonder if they are using some creative version of the terms "pay", "commerce" and "commercial use".
The relevant legal definitions may look like nothing we would recognize.
> Incarceration isn't a violent act, and more so, the damage that this guy did is real. It's really not that different from arson.
What a jackass you are.
Equating ARSON with copying and sharing a movie. No one is going to get KILLED by copying a movie. People may very well DIE because of arson.
THIS is why we have to have a public discussion about the correct level of punishment for the digital equivalent of shoplifting. Otherwise, anti-social morons will happily allow the imposition of midieval punishments that belong more in ISIS than a modern democracy.
The nonsense that passes for ethics these days...
Nope. "Bootlegging" has always been a criminal offense. It was even this way before recent lobbying got the relevant bits of the US Code changed.
Back in the day, crackers had really nasty things to say about people that sold pirated works.
Even then, in that context, there was a social convention dictating that selling other people's stuff wasn't cool.
> It sends the message that intangible property is still property.
Except it isn't. It's a temporary monopoly grant. It's a temporary license to violate my rights and standing to sue people.
Real property doesn't have an "expiration date".
How would I feel? Indifferent.
I've been there and done that.
Besides getting the better bonus for the work that was a turkey, I was not harmed by rampant piracy. It was supposed to have killed the entire industry before I was even in it but that never happened.
Good works will prosper. Turkeys will fail. Plenty of people will still pay.
The same was true for "Cute and Stupid 6". The rampant industry killing piracy didn't actually do the studio any real harm. Neither did the one particular example the the perp will do time for.
Incarcerating this person is just an unnecessary drain on my wallet as we collectively all have to pay big bucks for it.
> Sounds like you're a violent sociopath. Maybe we should cane you if you like that kind of punishment so much.
A good beating administered by the authorities in a controlled and relatively safe environment will likely do FAR MUCH LESS damage than being locked up with animals and sociopaths for 3 years.
You simply don't have any clue. You can't relate do doing any kind of hard time. You probably can't even relate do doing a week or a weekend in the local lockup.
> Proof that US slashdotters techies are just sort of OK at best since they don't want high skills immigration. Low skills immigration is fine since it doesn't compete directly with their jobs though.
What immigration?
H1Bs are an indentured servitude program.
It was a stark realization the first time found out that the imported PhDs in my shop were making less than I was. I was in a much better position to negotiate for better salary despite having less education and a more generic specialty.
I had the legal standing to tell my employer to "take this job and shove it".
I happily took advantage of the situation but never forgot the injustice of it.
All government data needs to be open to auditing. Thus any government data needs to be stored in open formats that can be examined and manipulated with tools that can be sourced from multiple parties. Furthermore, the government should not be in the business of helping entrench particular software monopolies.
The nature of the binaries being run is really just a side show.
It's the DATA that needs to be open.
Websites that link in 10 or 20 other domains already make me suspicious enough to wonder if I should avoid them before they avoid me.
Apple's success is hardly a good model for Linux. Despite a great deal of effort, having a GUI platform that nearly predates MS-DOS, having a BRAND that does predate MS-DOS, lots of focused resources, effective advertising, Super Bowl ads, and even dedicated stores they still only managed to eek out a small minority of the market.
Apple's current success is based on NOT being a computing company.
If anything, Apple is a pretty conclusive demonstration of how "doing everything right" will really get you nowhere in the desktop market.
As far as non-technical users go. Apple products are just quirky enough to be annoying and off putting.
> The problem is the GUI. People don't like X
A stupid noisy minority of techno-hipsters don't like X. For the rest of us it's invisible and no more bothersome than the graphics subsystem on any other platform.
The problem with your rant is that the still marginal market share of Apple refutes it. Linux in other forms was able to gain traction because of lack of an entrenched monopoly (or being the monopoly).
Apple demonstrates that applying the "one true way" approach to the desktop won't help you get away from Microsoft.
So there's no real point in sabotaging Linux just to suit some delusion that ignores reality on the ground.
> Linux "won" mobile in the same way Michael Moore "won" the war on anorexia.
So then what's the bit in that analogy of yours that corresponds to Microsoft's failed attempts to dominate? Or Apple's faultering position?
> A stable binary driver interface would help for starters.
No. Probably not. Lack of stable interfaces never harmed the WinDOS market. That's because these kinds of things are driven by market share and have little to do with "platform quality". Either a vendor thinks the market is large enough to bother with or not. The "level of bother" factor is largely irrelevant.
That's why much software is still Windows-only despite there being a mythical commercial platform that's supposed to do everything right.
With only 2G, the OS will still be getting in your ways. This is all a flashback to the 90s when RAM was too expensive and you usually didn't see adequately equipped PCs. Any PC OS beyond DOS ended up getting in it's own way and running like a snail.
The 1st Amendment of the US Constitution is a limit placed on government. It's not a limit placed on the people. It's a statement of universal principle so important that our nation at it's birth was unwilling to accept a written Constitution without it.
It is not some sort of "legal loophole" that justifies everyone else being a tyrannical jackass.
> So any store that only carries Organic foods is censoring?
A merchant has to be able to make money to keep the lights on and pay the rent. A merchant is subject to physical constraints. A merchant is PAYING for the things they present to you.
Why didn't you just make it a bad car analogy from the start?
Trying to deviate from that doesn't make the problem of applying physical rules to the ethereal realm any more senseless.
> Yes but that doesn't make the intestines a sexual organ.
There are plenty of girls that will STRONGLY disagree with you on that point.
> We're not forcing you to like anyone. We're simply requiring you to behave, in public, as if you don't hate them.
It's not even that. He can still hate people. He just can't ACT on it.
It's like he wants to act like ISIS and doesn't even see the painfully obvious parallel.
Tolerating people you don't personally approve of is just the cost of living in a free society that manages to tolerate YOU.
> That's because "IT" there is incompetent.
Sorry. You lose.
You have just admitted that it "requires a competent IT professional" just to install a printer on Windows.
That's simply not something that should be tolerated in 2014. You certainly wouldn't accept it for Linux.
Hypocrite.
...bullshit.
The same old bullshit.
"This years version of WinDOS finally got things right."
It's such a cliche that Apple even made a commercial about it. You guys always say that the latest and greatest fixes everyone's complaints but it's never like that if you actually try it.
Now TVs are funny beasts. They like to LIE. Yes, LIE. So they aren't a very good basis for comparison.
Windows still has driver issues. It's not just all "automagic". This is especially true if you try to install the thing yourself (like a Linux user might). Simple standard hardware is quite often NOT automagically sorted. This even applies to "market leading products" that you wouldn't think would suffer from such issues.
The emperor is still naked.
Not that this has any relevance to an enterprise corporate installation.
For document exchange in government, something that is an actual standard probably trumps all of the shiny shiny. In a lot of the legal field in the US, PDF is perfectly adequate for document exchange. It was widely adopted when Microsoft was having security issues with it's revisioning features.
The need for actual revisable documents is very likely a very marginal thing for a city government.
> Most peons growing up and using Microsoft Windows exclusively are too dumb to learn anything new, even if they are paid to do so.
>
> It's like a brothel staffed by people with down syndrome.
Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. Kids have no problems dealing with different platforms. HELL, the barely acknowledge that there are different platforms. They just use similar software the same way as the people from Xerox Parc intended.
It's the aging dinosaurs that have problems with Brand X of word processor versus Brand Y.
If they don't like Open Office, just wait till they see Ribbon and Win8.
I've seen people in small businesses nearly defect over either of those.