If no one is actually prosecuted for it then it doesn't really mean much. It's much like any other archaic bullshit law that's on the books and may not get enforced ever.
There are big time Windows vendors that would get shut down first before any Linux users had to worry about MPAA stormtroopers barging into their home.
They would have fun trying to demonize a guy just for playing his own DVDs. I don't see it working out too well but you can never tell with some crime and punishment types.
I dunno. If a game is running amok because gamers and game programmers suffer from an 80s mentality that a computer is a game console, then perhaps you don't want the rest of the GUI acknowledging this foolishness.
The fact that games on Linux don't scramble my desktop like they do under Windows IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING.
Even with the status quo, cleaning up after a game run amok is less bothersome under Linux.
These Republicans are projecting and showing what's in their heart. They are projecting onto others an honest image of themselves that they might not otherwise expose.
The attitude of ANY American election official or party official should be: "Bring it on. Let us show you how it's done."
So the Panthers were trying to scare away white voters?
That's silly.
You can't elect a black president in the absence of white voters. The math just doesn't work out. In a precinct with a Panther presence you are more likely than not just going to scare away sympathetic voters.
If you are going to go to the trouble of getting yourself a credential you might as well do it right. Don't dibble dabble. Seek out something that you know will be respected by future employers.
It's not just shipping "guest workers" here. It's also outsourcing the work entirely. A lot of computing jobs are really crap. They are support positions in non-tech companies that only see you as a drain on the business. Companies like this will try to cut corners any way they can regardless of whether or not it makes sense from a quality perspective.
If you are seen as only a cost center, the MBAs will treat you like dirt.
Nope. It's not racism. The H1B creates an underclass. That underlcass is in a weak bargaining position. This drives down wages. THAT is why most companies seek out H1B candidates.
It's purely a matter of dollars an cents.
There are a few valid H1B's out there in computing. You won't find them working IT jobs though since IT is pretty generic and mundane crap.
Most H1Bs are hired as scab labor to drive wages down. It has nothing to do wtih "racism".
An Indian with a green card is not helping create an underclass.
> Windows has never had anything as serious as a file system corruption bug.
That you know of...
Since the Windows development process isn't open, there's no way for you to tell. You don't get to see Microsoft's development versions and you don't get to see Microsoft's bug database.
Then why is the VNC server that ships with MacOS so full of suck?
I agree that Microsoft has done some interesting things. It might be wise to figure out what they have done. Trying to emulate Apple is not productive.
I can do useful things with X across the network. The same is true of RDP.
The approach that Wayland wants to take with VNC is already a disaster. You can see for yourself just by using a Mac.
I suspect that Microsoft treats the remote desktop use case with far more respect than the Wayland developers. That's pretty sad really.
I would not lump VNC and RDP together. VNC seems like something thrown in at the last moment just to say that the task was done. This seems to be the approach that Wayland wants to take.
RDP in Win7 actually isn't half bad. Although VNC in MacOS is still a completely unusable disaster.
The sad and funny part is that this Wayland nonsense comes at a time when Windows seems to finally have caught up and surpassed Unix in terms of graphical terminal tech. Now the Wayland twits want to flush all of that and put us 20 years behind Windows.
Remote desktop features are taken for granted in corporations. While certain Unix malcontents have been repeating the same tired old rhetoric about X, the rest of the industry caught up with us.
Replacing X without taking this into consideration is just retarded. Leaving it to be "bolted on" at some point in the future is similarly stupid.
If you want the Wayland experience just buy a Mac and stop trying to sabotage Linux.
It's not that they are replacing the X protocol for networks. They are just trying to ignore it. Some people buy into the idea that you can "fix this later" but you really can't It took Microsoft about 20 years to do that.
MacOS just ignores the problem entirely.
It would be one thing if Wayland was addressing that use case rather than just trying to ignore it.
These "users" were just consumers like couch potatoes. There was really very little they were doing with PCs to begin with. The fact that their limited use of a PC as a web terminal got displaced with another sort of web terminal is not really terribly interesting or relevant.
Even their use of the web was entirely passive.
Tablets are great if you don't have to actually input anything.
This isn't "stealing" because of some bogus legal theory. This isn't stealing because they paid for the works in question and as a matter of law in the US of A those works are required to come with subtitles or closed captions.
No. It became national news because it defies any notion of sanity in a civilized society.
It even defies "Wild West" standards.
If it's at all related to "gun control" in any manner it's a good example of what can happen when the NRA is allowed to run amok.
There is this myth that there was no sense of law and order in the old west. There were even things like gun control. It wasn't all just some sort of Mad Max macho fantasy.
Florida has lower standards now than Tombstone.
People need to get that through their thick skulls.
> Are you a lawyer or other legal expert, or just some guy making stuff up?
No. I am just someone that might sit on a jury and somone that doesn't want a jackass like Zimmerman prowling through the neighborhood. With my own HOA we had a nice visit from the local police asking all present to never engage in that kind of nonsense.
Dirty Harry is both a fictional character and well trained.
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This law is like a tree in the forrest.
If no one is actually prosecuted for it then it doesn't really mean much. It's much like any other archaic bullshit law that's on the books and may not get enforced ever.
There are big time Windows vendors that would get shut down first before any Linux users had to worry about MPAA stormtroopers barging into their home.
They would have fun trying to demonize a guy just for playing his own DVDs. I don't see it working out too well but you can never tell with some crime and punishment types.
It's my property. I bought it. It is a thing. There is no license.
THAT was adjudicated for books over 100 years ago.
Me using my own personal property should not be considered illegal or immoral.
I dunno. If a game is running amok because gamers and game programmers suffer from an 80s mentality that a computer is a game console, then perhaps you don't want the rest of the GUI acknowledging this foolishness.
The fact that games on Linux don't scramble my desktop like they do under Windows IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING.
Even with the status quo, cleaning up after a game run amok is less bothersome under Linux.
Then buy a better video card or run it windowed.
This full screen nonsense is something you flee from Windows to get away from. The idea that it is being dragged back into Linux is just annoying.
It's 2012. It's long past time that Game programmers realized that they don't get to run amok with the system.
It's 2012 and a modern OS, not an Amiga.
> Why aren't they selling OSX machines, as well?
They would be sued by Apple for software piracy.
These Republicans are projecting and showing what's in their heart. They are projecting onto others an honest image of themselves that they might not otherwise expose.
The attitude of ANY American election official or party official should be: "Bring it on. Let us show you how it's done."
Transparency is an integral part of democracy.
This kind of cowardice is really embarrassing.
So the Panthers were trying to scare away white voters?
That's silly.
You can't elect a black president in the absence of white voters. The math just doesn't work out. In a precinct with a Panther presence you are more likely than not just going to scare away sympathetic voters.
You're the one that's losing it.
A drive by shooting is not legal under any circumstances.
VOTING is.
If you are going to go to the trouble of getting yourself a credential you might as well do it right. Don't dibble dabble. Seek out something that you know will be respected by future employers.
"Tech schools" aren't it.
It's not just shipping "guest workers" here. It's also outsourcing the work entirely. A lot of computing jobs are really crap. They are support positions in non-tech companies that only see you as a drain on the business. Companies like this will try to cut corners any way they can regardless of whether or not it makes sense from a quality perspective.
If you are seen as only a cost center, the MBAs will treat you like dirt.
> Blaming H1B is racist scapegoating.
Nope. It's not racism. The H1B creates an underclass. That underlcass is in a weak bargaining position. This drives down wages. THAT is why most companies seek out H1B candidates.
It's purely a matter of dollars an cents.
There are a few valid H1B's out there in computing. You won't find them working IT jobs though since IT is pretty generic and mundane crap.
Most H1Bs are hired as scab labor to drive wages down. It has nothing to do wtih "racism".
An Indian with a green card is not helping create an underclass.
> Windows has never had anything as serious as a file system corruption bug.
That you know of...
Since the Windows development process isn't open, there's no way for you to tell. You don't get to see Microsoft's development versions and you don't get to see Microsoft's bug database.
MacOS added network friendly abstraction layers?
Then why is the VNC server that ships with MacOS so full of suck?
I agree that Microsoft has done some interesting things. It might be wise to figure out what they have done. Trying to emulate Apple is not productive.
I can do useful things with X across the network. The same is true of RDP.
The approach that Wayland wants to take with VNC is already a disaster. You can see for yourself just by using a Mac.
RDP can do the job.
VNC cannot.
I suspect that Microsoft treats the remote desktop use case with far more respect than the Wayland developers. That's pretty sad really.
I would not lump VNC and RDP together. VNC seems like something thrown in at the last moment just to say that the task was done. This seems to be the approach that Wayland wants to take.
RDP in Win7 actually isn't half bad. Although VNC in MacOS is still a completely unusable disaster.
The sad and funny part is that this Wayland nonsense comes at a time when Windows seems to finally have caught up and surpassed Unix in terms of graphical terminal tech. Now the Wayland twits want to flush all of that and put us 20 years behind Windows.
Remote desktop features are taken for granted in corporations. While certain Unix malcontents have been repeating the same tired old rhetoric about X, the rest of the industry caught up with us.
Replacing X without taking this into consideration is just retarded. Leaving it to be "bolted on" at some point in the future is similarly stupid.
If you want the Wayland experience just buy a Mac and stop trying to sabotage Linux.
It's not that they are replacing the X protocol for networks. They are just trying to ignore it. Some people buy into the idea that you can "fix this later" but you really can't It took Microsoft about 20 years to do that.
MacOS just ignores the problem entirely.
It would be one thing if Wayland was addressing that use case rather than just trying to ignore it.
Remote display on Macs suck and is no replacement for X.
You should actually bother to use the things that you seek to copy.
That fruity logo is no guarantee that you won't get a total piece of garbage.
These "users" were just consumers like couch potatoes. There was really very little they were doing with PCs to begin with. The fact that their limited use of a PC as a web terminal got displaced with another sort of web terminal is not really terribly interesting or relevant.
Even their use of the web was entirely passive.
Tablets are great if you don't have to actually input anything.
...kind of like what commercial closed captions have.
"These captions are courtesy of Turner Broadcasting".
Some Netflix users might even be grateful to the Scandinavian "pirates" in question.
This isn't "stealing" because of some bogus legal theory. This isn't stealing because they paid for the works in question and as a matter of law in the US of A those works are required to come with subtitles or closed captions.
No. It became national news because it defies any notion of sanity in a civilized society.
It even defies "Wild West" standards.
If it's at all related to "gun control" in any manner it's a good example of what can happen when the NRA is allowed to run amok.
There is this myth that there was no sense of law and order in the old west. There were even things like gun control. It wasn't all just some sort of Mad Max macho fantasy.
Florida has lower standards now than Tombstone.
People need to get that through their thick skulls.
> Are you a lawyer or other legal expert, or just some guy making stuff up?
No. I am just someone that might sit on a jury and somone that doesn't want a jackass like Zimmerman prowling through the neighborhood. With my own HOA we had a nice visit from the local police asking all present to never engage in that kind of nonsense.
Dirty Harry is both a fictional character and well trained.
You are neither.
He's already a murderer based on the facts that aren't in dispute.
Now we just have bigots trying to justify the killing of a nigger that was walking through the wrong neighborhood.
They are making a mockery of the rules of evidence to create any excuse to demonize the victim.