You don't run as administrator in Windows anymore, either. Security updates are likewise pushed in windows. Windows has an updating function. Your statements all show unfamiliarity with Windows.
This is not an Adobe bug, this is a vulnerability in the PDF spec. Readers not from Adobe have already been shown to be vulnerable.
Linux is not immune, despite your specious claims.
When you say "copies it", do you mean "ctrl-c, ctrl-v" or "re-engineer from scratch"?
Neither.
Do you really mean to imply that people have the right to distribute ideas and yet still own them?
Patents, chief. You know, it's right in the title.
Do you think the descendants of some cave-man should be getting royalties for every combustion engine that internally uses fire?
No. That's about the most absurd extreme you could use. Do you always make such worthless arguments?
I am not surprised that you're modded up, being that your post agrees with the Slashdot groupthink, but really it's just intellectually sloppy. You aren't even echoing the normal entitlement justifications particularly well.
from where I sit, IBM likes Open Source only as long as they don't have to compete with it.
That surprises me, who wouldn't like to invest time and money to create something, then have to turn around and compete against someone who basically just copies it and gives it away?
Jokes are funny. This is just painfully stupid. One day out of the year for funny stories would be awesome. One day out of the year for boring lies... eh. I could do without.
Doing what, exactly? MS-DOS did nothing as an OS unless something was specifically requested of it. The response time doing nothing on even the slowest processor will significantly outpace any modern OS on any hardware.
I'm sorry, are you of the mistaken belief that the world owes you a living? Shit changes, learn to adapt or die. That's the reality. Holding the state steady so you can keep on keepin on forever isn't an option, no matter how badly you want it.
How does working to increase efficiency and reduce pollution wreck the economy? Last I saw, every technological advance drove our economy forward in ways no one even imagined beforehand.
Seems to me that the common sense approach is to invest heavily in technology to fix the problem, not invest heavily in public relations aimed at extending the problem. That way, we all win no matter what the truth is.
The same problem with any other patents. They are evil and wrong because people should be allowed to use the work of others with no compensation because they should. I think. I never really understand this part of the justification, it starts to loop back in on itself and no one has ever actually given me a solid understanding of the reasons, but I believe dammit. GIVE ME YOUR WORK FOR FREE OR I WILL WHINE ON THE INTERNET UNTIL YOU DO!
Take a look at the traffic stats for Slashdot sometime. It is a backwater. Don't mistake a few thousand active contributors for anything approaching a real audience.
Not to mention that Linux isn't anything like the only topic around this site.
OMG they want to make money? You mean they didn't spend billions designing and manufacturing the PS3 so that people could freely benefit from their work? The shame, the horror. Send in team socialism to correct their minds immediately.
The trend is towards correcting the gigantic mistake that was the release of the PS3. They tried to make a do everything machine, found out that no one wanted to pay for that, and are still now scrambling to get back to making money on their games division. You know, that division that used to be the winner in the market before they lost focus...
Slashdot Mirror
Nearly anything is true when you operate on the principles of confirmation bias.
How is the internet not necessary to function in daily life.
Seriously? Do you eat it, or breathe it, or take shelter in it when the weather gets bad?
That's not a valid question to a nannystater. You never question the nanny, you just obey.
Why bother? There is no value to simply reiterating my original post, and nothing I said was effectively rebutted.
You don't run as administrator in Windows anymore, either. Security updates are likewise pushed in windows. Windows has an updating function. Your statements all show unfamiliarity with Windows.
This is not an Adobe bug, this is a vulnerability in the PDF spec. Readers not from Adobe have already been shown to be vulnerable.
Linux is not immune, despite your specious claims.
When you say "copies it", do you mean "ctrl-c, ctrl-v" or "re-engineer from scratch"?
Neither.
Do you really mean to imply that people have the right to distribute ideas and yet still own them?
Patents, chief. You know, it's right in the title.
Do you think the descendants of some cave-man should be getting royalties for every combustion engine that internally uses fire?
No. That's about the most absurd extreme you could use. Do you always make such worthless arguments?
I am not surprised that you're modded up, being that your post agrees with the Slashdot groupthink, but really it's just intellectually sloppy. You aren't even echoing the normal entitlement justifications particularly well.
from where I sit, IBM likes Open Source only as long as they don't have to compete with it.
That surprises me, who wouldn't like to invest time and money to create something, then have to turn around and compete against someone who basically just copies it and gives it away?
Nothing is cuter than the concept of war waged according to rules. Who was the genius who decided that would be anything but conveniently ignored?
And the difference is basically non-existent for all realistic purposes. It's just a moral stance for MS opponents. It has no practical meaning.
Congratulations?
You are obviously a scholar of the American legal system
Jokes are funny. This is just painfully stupid. One day out of the year for funny stories would be awesome. One day out of the year for boring lies... eh. I could do without.
Doing what, exactly? MS-DOS did nothing as an OS unless something was specifically requested of it. The response time doing nothing on even the slowest processor will significantly outpace any modern OS on any hardware.
Here, I found an article explaining the issue.
The economy != one business.
To use a Slashdot-approved cliche, it wasn't the fault of the automobile manufacturers that the buggy whip industry up and died.
And the guy I responded to was just anonymously pulling shit from his ass in any case. Don't get all jumpy worrying about it.
I'm sorry, are you of the mistaken belief that the world owes you a living? Shit changes, learn to adapt or die. That's the reality. Holding the state steady so you can keep on keepin on forever isn't an option, no matter how badly you want it.
and identify through licensing.
It's wonderful, all these little back doors the powerseekers keep finding.
How does working to increase efficiency and reduce pollution wreck the economy? Last I saw, every technological advance drove our economy forward in ways no one even imagined beforehand.
Seems to me that the common sense approach is to invest heavily in technology to fix the problem, not invest heavily in public relations aimed at extending the problem. That way, we all win no matter what the truth is.
The same problem with any other patents. They are evil and wrong because people should be allowed to use the work of others with no compensation because they should. I think. I never really understand this part of the justification, it starts to loop back in on itself and no one has ever actually given me a solid understanding of the reasons, but I believe dammit. GIVE ME YOUR WORK FOR FREE OR I WILL WHINE ON THE INTERNET UNTIL YOU DO!
Ah, the grand fallacy of the Internet.
Take a look at the traffic stats for Slashdot sometime. It is a backwater. Don't mistake a few thousand active contributors for anything approaching a real audience.
Not to mention that Linux isn't anything like the only topic around this site.
That's not good enough. I paid for the hardware, now Sony owes me whatever I decide they owe me for the rest of my natural life.
OMG they want to make money? You mean they didn't spend billions designing and manufacturing the PS3 so that people could freely benefit from their work? The shame, the horror. Send in team socialism to correct their minds immediately.
Yeah, a war to stop pollution isn't ironic in any way at all. Maybe we can use those low carbon footprint bombs to get the world in line.
The trend is towards correcting the gigantic mistake that was the release of the PS3. They tried to make a do everything machine, found out that no one wanted to pay for that, and are still now scrambling to get back to making money on their games division. You know, that division that used to be the winner in the market before they lost focus...
That's what it looks like to me, anyway.
Enforce it? With what, bold proclamations?