> Please point to the section of the Constitution which you think authorizes federal government to legislate laws
Really? Were you just born yesterday? If you don't already know the answer to this question then you just just STFU. You are an ignorant idiot spreading your stupidity everywhere.
You're like something out of a zombie movie. Except it's stupid that you're spreading.
You really don't want to go there. These are some of the most heavily regulated businesses on the planet. The companies in question might not even mind given the kind of chaos that could ensue otherwise.
Regulation gives everyone a nice level playing field.
> So, you're saying that if one day you need $2 million in hospital expenses
Do you even know such a person? While this is an interesting bit of nonsense. It does illustrate that such people do actually exist in America. I suspect in Europe such poeple would be SOL.
That's not so bad for the status quo.
On the other hand, due to basic frugality that would have been considered commonplace a generation ago (but is actively discouraged now) I can pay for my own minor surgical procedures.
I can do that because the government doesn't steal too much of my paycheck.
The problem with getting a freebie from a beaurocrat is that your freebie will likely cost DOUBLE in terms of real costs because of transaction overhead. Plus everyone is ignoring the cost of the freebie.
It doesn't really have anything to do with compassion. Quite often people are more than capable of paying their own way. They have just been indoctrinated otherwise. People are constantly fed this idea of the free lunch. All it really does is disassociate people from the consequences of their choices.
Your bogus liberal propaganda is just feeding the beast and encouraging people to abuse the system. Idiots like you try to actively fight against anything beyond corrupt apathy and try to claim that things like personal responsibility and self reliance are some sort of Republican myth.
In other words, all of the people that matter are Democrats. State politics and government are going to be dominated by that single big city that dwarfs all of those other counties combined.
Certainly for the purposes of this particular discussion "Oregon is a democratic state".
> Both wrong and irrelevant. This isn't about going line-by-line in somebody else's code, this is about having a solid chain of support for when things go wrong.
Which you can't really ever gaurantee over the long haul without source code.
This is by no means a new idea. A lot of older mission critical systems are built with this long term view in mind. Some proprietary systems even come with source so that the customer can ensure their own business continuity.
That's a very common idea in government procurement actually.
A lot of people are not impressed by the ability to blame someone else. That's all a "support contract" buys you a lot of the time.
Buying into the "support contract" mentality just means that you have to upset your apple cart because the company you bought it from decided to terminate support.
There's no good reason Free Software can't connect two proprietary systems. Chances are the two payware systems aren't terribly cooperative with to begin with.
Next week is going to be all about embedded Linux devices but since they are embedded devices, you don't actually have any control over them. So they will run amok and remote exploits will remain unpatched due to corporate neglect.
Of course Slashdot is going to have a lot of naysayers. We're the people that actually understand this stuff. We may have even tried to implement this stuff already.
Or as someone else put it:
> Wow, what could possibly go wrong with that? Devices which will communicate whether you want them to or not, and with all of that information in the hands of greedy assholes.
We just had the scandal break about LG smart TVs. Now I want to neuter mine and have a lot less interest in my other appliances being able to run amok.
Forget about my fridge being able to magically determine it's contents. Thermostats would be a good start.
Physics is still physics even in your Star Trek fantasy land. That's to say nothing of the regulatory and liability hurdes. However, the main problem with these flights of fancy is the extra energy expenditure involved. It is perhaps the least energy efficient method of transport you could possibly come up with.
What do the people that actually move things around have to say about this? Amazon is just a clueless customer of someone else's delivery service.
Finally, the DVD mailer still remains the best product of the company that killed blockbuster. It avoids many of the problems that people IGNORE when considering ALL of the issues involved in video streaming.
Even bandwidth isn't free and streaming licenses certainly aren't.
Both kinds of genuis are needed. Otherwise, great ideas get trapped at places like PARC or Bell Labs and never see the light of day. The idea that Steve's "borrowing" is a negative thing is yet another example of how creativity is stifled.
Sometimes that last 1% or 5% can make quite a bit of difference.
That's why allowing new ideas to be trapped in a quagmire of patent ownership is such a horrible idea.
It's not a "nerd" answer at all. A nerd will have no problem with the universe being unexplainable and out of control. It's the danes that are frightened by the prospect that the universe is a dangerous and hostile place.
A nerd wants a REAL answer, not just some comforting tripe.
Creation of the comforting tripe is not the domain of nerds.
Nerds are going to be the first people to realize that the comforting tripe is completely bogus.
...yes except it is not "us barbarians" that you're trying to denigrate. You're trying to denigrate a much older culture actually. That's the hilarious part about all of this. You're like a dwarf trying to call a midget shorty.
Sooner or later, companies will realize that they can save money by taking back ownership of their IT infastructure. It's simply a cycle very much in the tradition of pre-Abrahamic societies that viewed life in general as a never ending cycle.
Corporate beaurocrats need to re-arrange the deck chairs in order to make it look like they are doing something productive. Sooner or later, they will change things even if there isn't any real reason to.
If you think you don't, then you are just kidding yourself.
Our Constitution evolved in a context that includes things that could be described as "historical abuses" and is thus something that few modern Americans have any ability to relate to.
The SCOTUS is busy dismantling all of that. Fat lot of good a quaint notion of civics will do you when the supremes decide that well established limits on the power of government are now outdated.
Well DUH. Delcaring that you are not MADE OF MONEY is a very legitimate sort of thing to say in this kind of discussion. Also it doesn't just apply to "mere individuals". Many if not MOST corporations probably feel the same way.
SSD solutions that are far too expensive to be relevant for most individuals or even corporations are nothing new.
Doesn't mean squat really. That doesn't really tell us anything about the mix of IO operations you're doing or how that compares to what the other guy is doing.
> The streaming decryption has no use other than decrypting information the user has not paid for.
That is simply bullshit. Streaming decryption allows me to archive anything that I have paid for. It's just like DVD decryption. All it does is allow archival and playback. It has squat to do with piracy.
In this regard, a stream decryptor is EXACTLY like a set of lock pics.
I have some "streams" that I've PAID for that I would love to decrypt for my own personal use at home and on my own devices for when I'm away from home.
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> Do they really have nothing more pressing to deal with than legislating common courtesy?
That's why governments exist in the first place.
Most people need adult supervision.
> Please point to the section of the Constitution which you think authorizes federal government to legislate laws
Really? Were you just born yesterday? If you don't already know the answer to this question then you just just STFU. You are an ignorant idiot spreading your stupidity everywhere.
You're like something out of a zombie movie. Except it's stupid that you're spreading.
An airline?
You really don't want to go there. These are some of the most heavily regulated businesses on the planet. The companies in question might not even mind given the kind of chaos that could ensue otherwise.
Regulation gives everyone a nice level playing field.
> So, you're saying that if one day you need $2 million in hospital expenses
Do you even know such a person? While this is an interesting bit of nonsense. It does illustrate that such people do actually exist in America. I suspect in Europe such poeple would be SOL.
That's not so bad for the status quo.
On the other hand, due to basic frugality that would have been considered commonplace a generation ago (but is actively discouraged now) I can pay for my own minor surgical procedures.
I can do that because the government doesn't steal too much of my paycheck.
The problem with getting a freebie from a beaurocrat is that your freebie will likely cost DOUBLE in terms of real costs because of transaction overhead. Plus everyone is ignoring the cost of the freebie.
It doesn't really have anything to do with compassion. Quite often people are more than capable of paying their own way. They have just been indoctrinated otherwise. People are constantly fed this idea of the free lunch. All it really does is disassociate people from the consequences of their choices.
Your bogus liberal propaganda is just feeding the beast and encouraging people to abuse the system. Idiots like you try to actively fight against anything beyond corrupt apathy and try to claim that things like personal responsibility and self reliance are some sort of Republican myth.
In other words, all of the people that matter are Democrats. State politics and government are going to be dominated by that single big city that dwarfs all of those other counties combined.
Certainly for the purposes of this particular discussion "Oregon is a democratic state".
Yes it is.
We have alternatives. Those alternatives won't mix with the base system like oil+water because our system is modular.
> but it does solve the problem of in-home media distribution.
No. It does not solve that problem at all. The crapulence of DLNA is why people mess with things like Plex and HTPCs.
DLNA just takes something that's already well established and standardized and ads pointless cruft to it.
> Both wrong and irrelevant. This isn't about going line-by-line in somebody else's code, this is about having a solid chain of support for when things go wrong.
Which you can't really ever gaurantee over the long haul without source code.
This is by no means a new idea. A lot of older mission critical systems are built with this long term view in mind. Some proprietary systems even come with source so that the customer can ensure their own business continuity.
That's a very common idea in government procurement actually.
A lot of people are not impressed by the ability to blame someone else. That's all a "support contract" buys you a lot of the time.
Buying into the "support contract" mentality just means that you have to upset your apple cart because the company you bought it from decided to terminate support.
> It reminds me of what ESR said in his magnum opus, The Cathedral and the Bizarre: Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Clearly someone that's never used Oracle or SAP.
There's no good reason Free Software can't connect two proprietary systems. Chances are the two payware systems aren't terribly cooperative with to begin with.
Next week is going to be all about embedded Linux devices but since they are embedded devices, you don't actually have any control over them. So they will run amok and remote exploits will remain unpatched due to corporate neglect.
Of course Slashdot is going to have a lot of naysayers. We're the people that actually understand this stuff. We may have even tried to implement this stuff already.
Or as someone else put it:
> Wow, what could possibly go wrong with that? Devices which will communicate whether you want them to or not, and with all of that information in the hands of greedy assholes.
We just had the scandal break about LG smart TVs. Now I want to neuter mine and have a lot less interest in my other appliances being able to run amok.
Forget about my fridge being able to magically determine it's contents. Thermostats would be a good start.
Physics is still physics even in your Star Trek fantasy land. That's to say nothing of the regulatory and liability hurdes. However, the main problem with these flights of fancy is the extra energy expenditure involved. It is perhaps the least energy efficient method of transport you could possibly come up with.
What do the people that actually move things around have to say about this? Amazon is just a clueless customer of someone else's delivery service.
Finally, the DVD mailer still remains the best product of the company that killed blockbuster. It avoids many of the problems that people IGNORE when considering ALL of the issues involved in video streaming.
Even bandwidth isn't free and streaming licenses certainly aren't.
Both kinds of genuis are needed. Otherwise, great ideas get trapped at places like PARC or Bell Labs and never see the light of day. The idea that Steve's "borrowing" is a negative thing is yet another example of how creativity is stifled.
Sometimes that last 1% or 5% can make quite a bit of difference.
That's why allowing new ideas to be trapped in a quagmire of patent ownership is such a horrible idea.
Look at the poor butthurt fanboy. Someone defamed is pet corporation and it's (previous) imperious leader.
It's not a "nerd" answer at all. A nerd will have no problem with the universe being unexplainable and out of control. It's the danes that are frightened by the prospect that the universe is a dangerous and hostile place.
A nerd wants a REAL answer, not just some comforting tripe.
Creation of the comforting tripe is not the domain of nerds.
Nerds are going to be the first people to realize that the comforting tripe is completely bogus.
...yes except it is not "us barbarians" that you're trying to denigrate. You're trying to denigrate a much older culture actually. That's the hilarious part about all of this. You're like a dwarf trying to call a midget shorty.
Sooner or later, companies will realize that they can save money by taking back ownership of their IT infastructure. It's simply a cycle very much in the tradition of pre-Abrahamic societies that viewed life in general as a never ending cycle.
Corporate beaurocrats need to re-arrange the deck chairs in order to make it look like they are doing something productive. Sooner or later, they will change things even if there isn't any real reason to.
If you think you don't, then you are just kidding yourself.
Our Constitution evolved in a context that includes things that could be described as "historical abuses" and is thus something that few modern Americans have any ability to relate to.
Human nature doesn't change all that much really.
The SCOTUS is busy dismantling all of that. Fat lot of good a quaint notion of civics will do you when the supremes decide that well established limits on the power of government are now outdated.
> You're probably not the target customer.
Well DUH. Delcaring that you are not MADE OF MONEY is a very legitimate sort of thing to say in this kind of discussion. Also it doesn't just apply to "mere individuals". Many if not MOST corporations probably feel the same way.
SSD solutions that are far too expensive to be relevant for most individuals or even corporations are nothing new.
> I've used them at a Global Top 100 website
Doesn't mean squat really. That doesn't really tell us anything about the mix of IO operations you're doing or how that compares to what the other guy is doing.
"website"? Big deal...
There is nothing special about iTunes. Why anyone remains fixated on it in 2013 is a bizzare mystery.
A "brand X" fixation is for clueless losers.
> The streaming decryption has no use other than decrypting information the user has not paid for.
That is simply bullshit. Streaming decryption allows me to archive anything that I have paid for. It's just like DVD decryption. All it does is allow archival and playback. It has squat to do with piracy.
In this regard, a stream decryptor is EXACTLY like a set of lock pics.
I have some "streams" that I've PAID for that I would love to decrypt for my own personal use at home and on my own devices for when I'm away from home.