> The IRS requesting donor lists was illegal, yet they did it and the mainstream media ignored the complaints because...because...why?
An anti-government group complaining about the government and conspiracies really isn't news. It's hard to take some claims seriously based on who is making them. Unfortunately if you sound like a nutbag you will tend to be treated like one.
That's one "bias" that's pretty hard to get away from.
The better question is where were the right-leaning journalists. Where was Fox News and the Journal?
> Oh boo fucking who communist loving fucktard. Contrary to what your Commie
What's so communist about personal property rights?
This is all about large corporations (not unlike the British East India Company) trying to reserve all rights and priveleges for itself while ignoring anyone else.
What about my right to my property? That copy is property. It's not a license. That much has already been adjudicated. So what about my rights to do anything I like with my personal property.
In the current patent regime, it is far more likely that the patents involved are total bullsh*t. It's Microsoft that has to justify itself here. Of course it will never do that because the entire Android community could then try to code around this kind of larceny and extortion.
Although some things boil down to "being compatible".
NT doesn't have to be based on DOS to suffer from the same kind of bad design decisions and single user mentality that plagued it's predecessors. Windows is fundementally a legacy support product. Cruft and bad habits linger.
There's a small number of infected sites. That clearly indicates that this is likely a case of digital burglary rather than the much lower bar of something like a viral infection. Otherwise we would be talking about thousands of sites or half the Internet.
Your screed would be more relevant if not for the fact that there are various fairly common workarounds employed on the various browsers to mitigate just this kind of nonsense.
A little paranoia goes a long way. That's far more useful than the sort of blissful ingorance that tends to be associated with non-OSS software.
It's not 1994. It's 1984. It's always 1984 because you can't quite get away from the really bad design decisions that you once institutionalized. Even if you try to get away from it, it will tend to continue to linger and bite you in the arse.
> doing network administration for a Fortune 100 business with over 150,000 workstations. Every night, I push out a half-dozen new applications, patches, and OS installs.
You need to troll better. I'm not calling you a troll because you disagreed with me. I am calling you a troll because you are a very bad liar.
Some of us have actually worked in environments like that.
It's like you're bringing a knife to an NRA convention.
I can't address your apparent problems with the man pages. However, I have encountered numerous applications have have managed to specify particular minor library versions.
> And if you think I'm going to grep a few thousand lines of output
You are a completely ignorant moron not really worth responding to. You are a very incompetent troll.
> It's a black box that happens to meet the business needs of most organizations I have worked for.
In other words you're unemployed and living in your mother's basement. Your weak attempts at bluster impresses NO ONE here.
You have no real clue abut Linux or corporate computing.
Windows just assumes that you have free run of the system. The installer runs amok and does whatever it likes with your system. This is hardly anything to emulate or brag about.
There is no API. There's just the single user DOS mentality.
You also don't need Canonical leading you by the nose with this option. Basic Unixisms will let you create a NeXT style "package" just fine. A number of apps are already distributed this way.
> That's because Linux suffers from a similar problem that Windows 95/98, and XP to a lesser extent did: DLL hell.
"DLL hell" has squat to do with it. The package manager is going to want to replace one version of an app with another. That is the only real problem here. If you ignore the package manager, you can install what you want.
Linux has had versioned shared libraries for ever.
The registry is just crap and you're a moron for even bringing it up in this context.
With n+1 copies of something you have n+1 entities that need to update their shared components. Most of them might not bother. If they don't bother, then you don't have anything to update.
This is just the way the industry operates. The house is supposed to win. If you violate this, then somehow you are a cheat or something else that justifies you being ejected from the premises and put on a blacklist.
It's a total double standard and yet another reason to avoid these establishments.
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No you don't. Clearly he can't cook and can't judge the work of those who can.
> The IRS requesting donor lists was illegal, yet they did it and the mainstream media ignored the complaints because...because...why?
An anti-government group complaining about the government and conspiracies really isn't news. It's hard to take some claims seriously based on who is making them. Unfortunately if you sound like a nutbag you will tend to be treated like one.
That's one "bias" that's pretty hard to get away from.
The better question is where were the right-leaning journalists. Where was Fox News and the Journal?
> Oh boo fucking who communist loving fucktard. Contrary to what your Commie
What's so communist about personal property rights?
This is all about large corporations (not unlike the British East India Company) trying to reserve all rights and priveleges for itself while ignoring anyone else.
What about my right to my property? That copy is property. It's not a license. That much has already been adjudicated. So what about my rights to do anything I like with my personal property.
Copyright was never about artistic megalomania.
Given their stated strategic objectives, they should have achieved this particular milestone already. Why commit the atrocity that is Unity otherwise?
...in an extremely limited and entirely self-serving way.
Redhat and Suse deserve those billions far more than Microsoft does. Even Canonical has a better claim.
In the current patent regime, it is far more likely that the patents involved are total bullsh*t. It's Microsoft that has to justify itself here. Of course it will never do that because the entire Android community could then try to code around this kind of larceny and extortion.
Although some things boil down to "being compatible".
NT doesn't have to be based on DOS to suffer from the same kind of bad design decisions and single user mentality that plagued it's predecessors. Windows is fundementally a legacy support product. Cruft and bad habits linger.
...and the server wasn't using any of the various forms of brute force attack countermeasures.
These come prepackaged now but you could easily craft one yourself out of basic Unix tools. Did that very thing before discovering fail-to-ban.
A little paranoia goes a long way.
There's a small number of infected sites. That clearly indicates that this is likely a case of digital burglary rather than the much lower bar of something like a viral infection. Otherwise we would be talking about thousands of sites or half the Internet.
Your screed would be more relevant if not for the fact that there are various fairly common workarounds employed on the various browsers to mitigate just this kind of nonsense.
A little paranoia goes a long way. That's far more useful than the sort of blissful ingorance that tends to be associated with non-OSS software.
It's not 1994. It's 1984. It's always 1984 because you can't quite get away from the really bad design decisions that you once institutionalized. Even if you try to get away from it, it will tend to continue to linger and bite you in the arse.
> then I recompile the kernel.
You might as well rename yourself to troll-in-training for that one.
It's like you aren't even trying.
> doing network administration for a Fortune 100 business with over 150,000 workstations. Every night, I push out a half-dozen new applications, patches, and OS installs.
You need to troll better. I'm not calling you a troll because you disagreed with me. I am calling you a troll because you are a very bad liar.
Some of us have actually worked in environments like that.
It's like you're bringing a knife to an NRA convention.
> I want something that just works
As far as "just works" goes. Nothing that MacOS or WinDOS has can touch a Linux package manager.
That's why Apple copied this feature in their appliances.
I can't address your apparent problems with the man pages. However, I have encountered numerous applications have have managed to specify particular minor library versions.
> And if you think I'm going to grep a few thousand lines of output
You are a completely ignorant moron not really worth responding to. You are a very incompetent troll.
> It's a black box that happens to meet the business needs of most organizations I have worked for.
In other words you're unemployed and living in your mother's basement. Your weak attempts at bluster impresses NO ONE here.
You have no real clue abut Linux or corporate computing.
Windows just assumes that you have free run of the system. The installer runs amok and does whatever it likes with your system. This is hardly anything to emulate or brag about.
There is no API. There's just the single user DOS mentality.
You also don't need Canonical leading you by the nose with this option. Basic Unixisms will let you create a NeXT style "package" just fine. A number of apps are already distributed this way.
> Does ldconfig allow for different versions of the same library to be requested by the application?
Yes.
> Does ldconfig warn you when a dependancy isn't met?
Better than that. You as a user can see what libraries are loaded from where and which ones are missing precisely.
The "superior alternative" is just a black box.
> That's because Linux suffers from a similar problem that Windows 95/98, and XP to a lesser extent did: DLL hell.
"DLL hell" has squat to do with it. The package manager is going to want to replace one version of an app with another. That is the only real problem here. If you ignore the package manager, you can install what you want.
Linux has had versioned shared libraries for ever.
The registry is just crap and you're a moron for even bringing it up in this context.
With n+1 copies of something you have n+1 entities that need to update their shared components. Most of them might not bother. If they don't bother, then you don't have anything to update.
I put it on my mobile device but it managed to disappear. For some reason it pulled a 1984. I guess that's what I get for using Amazon's book reader.
Thought it would feel at home on a mobile device.
It's gambling and you are talking about morality. You're really funny.
> If an ATM starts spitting out double money, I don't think I'm entitled to keep it even though
Except it isn't an ATM that we're talking about. It's not even close.
I dunno. He says you cannot win.
That sounds like a pretty good summary of playing slots.
This is just the way the industry operates. The house is supposed to win. If you violate this, then somehow you are a cheat or something else that justifies you being ejected from the premises and put on a blacklist.
It's a total double standard and yet another reason to avoid these establishments.
The main limiting factor there are tablet vendors that want us all to be helpless couch potatoes.
The main limitation is policy, not tech.