Copyright isn't capitalism.. Copyright is protectionism. We had capitalism in this country before we started protecting book authors from book publishers. Our copyright system started off as a social program to protect weak individuals from powerful people.
The point of Open Source isn't really to have source code. That source is a means to an end, but not the end itself. The end goal is to have software that end users can modify to suit their purposes. And even further, the ability to legally share those modifications with other end users.
It is difficult to share modifications with binary patch schemes, and it is difficult to write those modifications. And I say this as a someone who spend a lot of time on 8-bit computers in the 80's where we did this sort of thing.
I wish decompilers were better. I've used them before, and HexRays is the best I've used but it's still sub-optimal. This is partly because the act of compiling discards much of the annotation that we enjoy in source code. You can find many obfuscators for your source code that basically discard annotation and mutate the structure of your code to make it difficult for a human being to comprehend. Distributing obfuscated source code is not really any better than distributing binaries, and is not at all in the spirit of the GPL.
the EULA is a license to use this copyrighted work,
Except I don't need an EULA to use a copyrighted work. Copyright law applies to my right to copy it. DMCA applies to providing information, services or products that are used to circumvent copyright. Interpretation outside of this is suspicious and can lead us into absurdly extreme hypothetical legal situations.
I can certainly agree to an EULA in exchange for something. Violating that EULA is not a copyright violation but a civil law case. Damages are possible. Revoking my access to products or services is typical with any sort of contract violation.
Not a totally accurate analogy, but it is like a landlord charging a tenant with criminal trespass (or breaking and entering) if they are a day late on their rent payment. It makes a weird logical sense if you interpret the law in an absurd way, but that's not how late payments generally play out. (eventually if you're removed and keep returning, it becomes a criminal issue between you and local police department and no longer a civil matter)
The soft stance taken with GPL violators is an attempt for a peace and love approach to copyleft. This is disappointing when copyleft should really be at war with the copyright tyrants that have repeatedly destroyed lives of so-called pirates with violent para-military raids and freezing of personal assets. The corporate world is playing hard ball, and the open source world wants to string daisy chains.
I've not had one HDTV with a VGA connector. Perhaps I bought the wrong brands, or perhaps my region doesn't normally do that. Usually my HDTVs have component inputs (Y Cb/Pb Cr/Pr), even the ones that did not have an HDMI input (very old 55" rear projection TV that I had. no 720p or 1080p. just 480i/p and 1080i).
You've called me names and bullied me for YEARS. Also read carefully, I did not call you a git.
5. talks like a git. really his English phrasing is bizarre.
No Intel AMT/ME on my ARM, so it's not really a problem that I've looked into. Given my networking background and multi-system household I probably would have attacked the problem using routing tables rather than hosts file, certainly disadvantages to routing tables but easily centralized and it's what I am familiar with.
Good on you for finding a solution that anyone can make use of and for sharing it. But that doesn't justify your abusive behaviour for the last several years.
I even show him complimenting my hosts technique & also where he TRIED 'weaselling out' of RTF issues I nailed him on.
Please paste the link where you nailed me on "RTF issues". We haven't seen any proof.
Doesn't add up considering YOU GOT DROPPED (or left) IN THAT SAME TIMEFRAME TOO LIAR / [slashdot.org] & "laid off" https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] YOU GOT DROPPED/FIRED https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] - IN THAT TIMEFRAME TOO - YOU are busted lying!
You screwed up the with your assumptions. The post from 2016 refers to being laid off in 2001. Which I was out of work for about a year and doing random consultant gigs to pay the bills.
Yes, I've been working in IT since 1996 and as an embedded SW engineer since 1999. That's over 15 years. I have worked a few places as full time, and a lot of places as contractor. The paperwork in California to work as a contractor for more than 2 years is complicated so I usually move on but sometimes I convert to full time. You could describe that as being a "jobhopper", although it has more to do with the legal requirements in my state than any lack of commitment on my part.
So no lies there. I've certainly made mistakes in my life and online. I'm certain I have embarrassing posts on slashdot, I vaguely recall writing several. But you've failed to turn up anything damning.
I think your lack of reading comprehension, inability to contextualize and wild assumptions have a lot to do with your emotional and mental state. Do you have difficulty empathizing with other people? Is it hard to read the motives of other people? Are you suspicious that people are plotting against you?
Well it's not true. I'm not plotting against you. I'm not your enemy. And I tried very hard to have a two way discourse in spite of threats, walls of texts, off topic rants and repetitive statements.
This has not been a two-way discussions, it's been you shouting at me the entire time. Thank you for your participation, in the future learn to let others people participate in the discussion as well.
The point is, when someone makes 99 consecutive "embarrasingly inaccurate" predictions, you would be a fool for believing the 100th one
Agreed. but that has not happened.
particularly if that prediction has a timeframe of 100 years and has a predictive window of one magnitude; "0.2 meters to 2.0 meters (0.66 to 6.6 feet) of sea level rise in the next 100 years".
I fail to see how 0.2 m to 2.0 m is not a reasonable range. If it is backed by models that others can evaluate and reproduce, that makes it science.
If policy makers are expected to act on every research paper that flows out of the science rags, we'd probably never get anything done. But if there are multiple confirmations on a general trend and scientists are at the point of debating the details then we can seriously consider making policy. We're at that point now, and have been beyond that point for 5-10 years depending on who you ask.
What's amusing to me is that policy makers use science frequently. Even if the research is incomplete. Take a look at the court system's use of DNA and fingerprinting. We continue to find problems with how this is done, but the law has ruled that it is fact even if the science now says it is not quite so black and white.
I think policy makers disregard some science and embrace other science out of political convenience. I would recommend you take a heavy dose of scepticism on anything you hear from right-leaning or left-leaning politically charged talk show hosts have to say on the subject of science.
Guess what else I found? You EVEN complimented me on hosts being effective for you in your post history stopping ads in videostreams (I could've told you that - I never see YouTube ads, or rarely until I block the server serving them up, easy to find) - but NOW you give ME SHIT?
You don't seem to understand that one thing has nothing to do with the other. I can appreciate your persistence and technical abilities, while finding your posts inscrutable and bizarre.
You seem upset, but I gave you a very fair enumeration of why people tend to down mod your posts. I'm not orchestrating some down mod conspiracy against you, but I did draw a reasonably accurate picture of how mods independently come to the same conclusion.
If you want to take my old resume and do something with it. I'll let you know that it is copyrighted material, and authorization to reproduce that material is not automatic and must be obtained. I've granted others to reproduce it, but I have not granted you those same rights. (obviously)
It's OK. I knew he'd bring out personal attacks when I responded to him with my account. Usually people reply AC to him and he ignores them after a while. He'll be fuming for a day or two before he finds something new to do. I've dealt with him before, and I've dealt with others on/. that were worse with boundaries than APK, to the point of filing police reports. At least APK usually only tries to discredit or embarrass me.
So fucking what? This site allows anonymous posting. That is not a reason to downmod anything. Anonymous comments already start at 0. Just because you think everything online has to be tied to an account doesn't make it so.
Sure, it's fine to post as AC. It's an integral part of this site. But mods are going to down mod ACs if they post horseshit. And in APK's case, he's not really anonymous. He's signed everything and chooses not to post under an account in an attempt to manipulate the comment system. He's done this for years with limited success.
PS - I've not spent a single mod point on this thread (obviously I cannot). This account is old enough that if I had multiple accounts I would more likely have the mod points on this account than some newer account, so it cannot be a sockpupper mod either.
PPS - I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home. His persistence and technical abilities work well for maintain host files. But he's less effective at communicating with other human beings on this forum. Either by his own choice or by his own limitations.
Your downmodded posts aren't hidden. They are correctly categorized as garbage. Some people will browse and see the 0 and -1 garbage, usually other mods or brave people with too much free time.
Reasons that APK deserves frequent downmoding:
1. lacks an account and always posts as AC
2. makes duplicate posts
3. admits to trying to avoid moderation
4. frequently posts off topic advertisements for his [free] products and services.
5. talks like a git. really his English phrasing is bizarre.
It's not so much an argument as an observation. I think the concept of property is changing in society, and primarily in favor of business rather than individuals.
Which is actually one of my biggest issues with Android -- it's too damned fragmented.
If you don't like variety then stick with only purchasing Nexus devices. Google works directly with various vendors to make a device with a consistent experience. Pretend that the others variants of Android don't exist, this is something you can easily do as an end-user. (but not as an app developer)
Most of Android is Open Source, so you should not be surprised that every OEM gets to try something a little different. But because most customers upgrade phones regularly, there is not much incentive for the OEMs to maintain these forked code bases beyond a few dozen months. If you don't like it, take your money elsewhere, like to the flagship Nexus products.
It's embarrassing for./ really. The Content-Type header says "charset=utf-8". And they could have easily fixed the form with a slight tweak to./'s HTML. Example: <form action="//apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl" method="post" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
Well it's only be ~10 years since the Inconvenient Truth. I'm not sure what "near future" mean. If that means 1 year to you or 50 years to the rest of us. (I think his film was aiming at the year 2100, but I don't recall exactly).
The most up to date information has projections range from 0.2 meters to 2.0 meters (0.66 to 6.6 feet) of sea level rise in the next 100 years. [Melillo et al., 2014]. And that's the thing about science, you'll find that it is never 100% accurate and if you look back to previous theories and predictions can be embarrassingly inaccurate. But the scientific method generally leads to better answers through many iterations of models, research and theories.
Al Gore's 20 feet rise greatly exceeds the most conservative models, as you've already noted. On the other hand if all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet). That's the far extreme of what could be done with the matter available on Earth, it's not at all likely. (maybe if the Earth's axis tilted to expose the poles? Or maybe if 10's of thousands of years went by and we acquired an atmosphere like Venus that make air temperature nearly uniform across the planet, including the poles?)
A lie is an intentional deception. If you have a computer that can lie to you, it must have passed the Turing test a long time ago and may even be self-aware by now.
Computers process data, and operate on the principle of: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
I could understand the argument if TVs were interlaced, has weird color artifacts (NTSC) and were low resolution (300-400 pixels wide). But a low-end HDTV made in the last 10 years has a stable digital picture and a pretty respectable resolution for text, photos and videos (duh).
Feels like 1996 all over again (WebTV). Then again it could be 2007 all over again(Wii). From WebTV to Wii there seems to be a trend of announcing the internet in your living room every 10 years. I guess if you go 10 years before WebTV(1996) you run into Ceefax, ExtraVision, and Telidon.
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instead of buying one cert from one authority, perhaps they want us to buy a cert from every authority. profits!
I wonder if this is something we can train ourselves out of? Or will we forever be doomed to not being able to text and drive?
Copyright isn't capitalism.. Copyright is protectionism. We had capitalism in this country before we started protecting book authors from book publishers. Our copyright system started off as a social program to protect weak individuals from powerful people.
The point of Open Source isn't really to have source code. That source is a means to an end, but not the end itself. The end goal is to have software that end users can modify to suit their purposes. And even further, the ability to legally share those modifications with other end users.
It is difficult to share modifications with binary patch schemes, and it is difficult to write those modifications. And I say this as a someone who spend a lot of time on 8-bit computers in the 80's where we did this sort of thing.
I wish decompilers were better. I've used them before, and HexRays is the best I've used but it's still sub-optimal. This is partly because the act of compiling discards much of the annotation that we enjoy in source code. You can find many obfuscators for your source code that basically discard annotation and mutate the structure of your code to make it difficult for a human being to comprehend. Distributing obfuscated source code is not really any better than distributing binaries, and is not at all in the spirit of the GPL.
the EULA is a license to use this copyrighted work,
Except I don't need an EULA to use a copyrighted work. Copyright law applies to my right to copy it. DMCA applies to providing information, services or products that are used to circumvent copyright. Interpretation outside of this is suspicious and can lead us into absurdly extreme hypothetical legal situations.
I can certainly agree to an EULA in exchange for something. Violating that EULA is not a copyright violation but a civil law case. Damages are possible. Revoking my access to products or services is typical with any sort of contract violation.
Not a totally accurate analogy, but it is like a landlord charging a tenant with criminal trespass (or breaking and entering) if they are a day late on their rent payment. It makes a weird logical sense if you interpret the law in an absurd way, but that's not how late payments generally play out. (eventually if you're removed and keep returning, it becomes a criminal issue between you and local police department and no longer a civil matter)
The soft stance taken with GPL violators is an attempt for a peace and love approach to copyleft. This is disappointing when copyleft should really be at war with the copyright tyrants that have repeatedly destroyed lives of so-called pirates with violent para-military raids and freezing of personal assets. The corporate world is playing hard ball, and the open source world wants to string daisy chains.
I've not had one HDTV with a VGA connector. Perhaps I bought the wrong brands, or perhaps my region doesn't normally do that. Usually my HDTVs have component inputs (Y Cb/Pb Cr/Pr), even the ones that did not have an HDMI input (very old 55" rear projection TV that I had. no 720p or 1080p. just 480i/p and 1080i).
OrangeTide you called me names 1st offtopic:
You've called me names and bullied me for YEARS. Also read carefully, I did not call you a git.
5. talks like a git. really his English phrasing is bizarre.
No Intel AMT/ME on my ARM, so it's not really a problem that I've looked into. Given my networking background and multi-system household I probably would have attacked the problem using routing tables rather than hosts file, certainly disadvantages to routing tables but easily centralized and it's what I am familiar with.
Good on you for finding a solution that anyone can make use of and for sharing it. But that doesn't justify your abusive behaviour for the last several years.
I even show him complimenting my hosts technique & also where he TRIED 'weaselling out' of RTF issues I nailed him on.
Please paste the link where you nailed me on "RTF issues". We haven't seen any proof.
Doesn't add up considering YOU GOT DROPPED (or left) IN THAT SAME TIMEFRAME TOO LIAR / [slashdot.org] & "laid off" https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] YOU GOT DROPPED/FIRED https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] - IN THAT TIMEFRAME TOO - YOU are busted lying!
You screwed up the with your assumptions. The post from 2016 refers to being laid off in 2001. Which I was out of work for about a year and doing random consultant gigs to pay the bills.
YOU GOT DROPPED/FIRED https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] - IN THAT TIMEFRAME TOO - YOU are busted lying!
My post in 2015 is about my quitting Amazon in 2009.
7 yrs. on SAME job eh? [...] Doesn't add up per https://slashdot.org/comments....
I've been at NVIDIA for 7 years. Started in 2010.
AFTER this from your post history (of bullshit) https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org] & 15 yrs. on that job too?
Yes, I've been working in IT since 1996 and as an embedded SW engineer since 1999. That's over 15 years. I have worked a few places as full time, and a lot of places as contractor. The paperwork in California to work as a contractor for more than 2 years is complicated so I usually move on but sometimes I convert to full time. You could describe that as being a "jobhopper", although it has more to do with the legal requirements in my state than any lack of commitment on my part.
So no lies there. I've certainly made mistakes in my life and online. I'm certain I have embarrassing posts on slashdot, I vaguely recall writing several. But you've failed to turn up anything damning.
I think your lack of reading comprehension, inability to contextualize and wild assumptions have a lot to do with your emotional and mental state. Do you have difficulty empathizing with other people? Is it hard to read the motives of other people? Are you suspicious that people are plotting against you?
Well it's not true. I'm not plotting against you. I'm not your enemy. And I tried very hard to have a two way discourse in spite of threats, walls of texts, off topic rants and repetitive statements.
This has not been a two-way discussions, it's been you shouting at me the entire time. Thank you for your participation, in the future learn to let others people participate in the discussion as well.
The point is, when someone makes 99 consecutive "embarrasingly inaccurate" predictions, you would be a fool for believing the 100th one
Agreed. but that has not happened.
particularly if that prediction has a timeframe of 100 years and has a predictive window of one magnitude; "0.2 meters to 2.0 meters (0.66 to 6.6 feet) of sea level rise in the next 100 years".
I fail to see how 0.2 m to 2.0 m is not a reasonable range. If it is backed by models that others can evaluate and reproduce, that makes it science.
If policy makers are expected to act on every research paper that flows out of the science rags, we'd probably never get anything done. But if there are multiple confirmations on a general trend and scientists are at the point of debating the details then we can seriously consider making policy. We're at that point now, and have been beyond that point for 5-10 years depending on who you ask.
What's amusing to me is that policy makers use science frequently. Even if the research is incomplete. Take a look at the court system's use of DNA and fingerprinting. We continue to find problems with how this is done, but the law has ruled that it is fact even if the science now says it is not quite so black and white.
I think policy makers disregard some science and embrace other science out of political convenience. I would recommend you take a heavy dose of scepticism on anything you hear from right-leaning or left-leaning politically charged talk show hosts have to say on the subject of science.
Guess what else I found? You EVEN complimented me on hosts being effective for you in your post history stopping ads in videostreams (I could've told you that - I never see YouTube ads, or rarely until I block the server serving them up, easy to find) - but NOW you give ME SHIT?
You don't seem to understand that one thing has nothing to do with the other. I can appreciate your persistence and technical abilities, while finding your posts inscrutable and bizarre.
You seem upset, but I gave you a very fair enumeration of why people tend to down mod your posts. I'm not orchestrating some down mod conspiracy against you, but I did draw a reasonably accurate picture of how mods independently come to the same conclusion.
If you want to take my old resume and do something with it. I'll let you know that it is copyrighted material, and authorization to reproduce that material is not automatic and must be obtained. I've granted others to reproduce it, but I have not granted you those same rights. (obviously)
It's OK. I knew he'd bring out personal attacks when I responded to him with my account. Usually people reply AC to him and he ignores them after a while. He'll be fuming for a day or two before he finds something new to do. I've dealt with him before, and I've dealt with others on /. that were worse with boundaries than APK, to the point of filing police reports. At least APK usually only tries to discredit or embarrass me.
So fucking what? This site allows anonymous posting. That is not a reason to downmod anything. Anonymous comments already start at 0. Just because you think everything online has to be tied to an account doesn't make it so.
Sure, it's fine to post as AC. It's an integral part of this site. But mods are going to down mod ACs if they post horseshit. And in APK's case, he's not really anonymous. He's signed everything and chooses not to post under an account in an attempt to manipulate the comment system. He's done this for years with limited success.
PS - I've not spent a single mod point on this thread (obviously I cannot). This account is old enough that if I had multiple accounts I would more likely have the mod points on this account than some newer account, so it cannot be a sockpupper mod either.
PPS - I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home. His persistence and technical abilities work well for maintain host files. But he's less effective at communicating with other human beings on this forum. Either by his own choice or by his own limitations.
Your downmodded posts aren't hidden. They are correctly categorized as garbage. Some people will browse and see the 0 and -1 garbage, usually other mods or brave people with too much free time.
Reasons that APK deserves frequent downmoding:
1. lacks an account and always posts as AC
2. makes duplicate posts
3. admits to trying to avoid moderation
4. frequently posts off topic advertisements for his [free] products and services.
5. talks like a git. really his English phrasing is bizarre.
I'm still using FriendFace.
It's not so much an argument as an observation. I think the concept of property is changing in society, and primarily in favor of business rather than individuals.
Which is actually one of my biggest issues with Android -- it's too damned fragmented.
If you don't like variety then stick with only purchasing Nexus devices. Google works directly with various vendors to make a device with a consistent experience. Pretend that the others variants of Android don't exist, this is something you can easily do as an end-user. (but not as an app developer)
Most of Android is Open Source, so you should not be surprised that every OEM gets to try something a little different. But because most customers upgrade phones regularly, there is not much incentive for the OEMs to maintain these forked code bases beyond a few dozen months. If you don't like it, take your money elsewhere, like to the flagship Nexus products.
It's embarrassing for ./ really. The Content-Type header says "charset=utf-8". And they could have easily fixed the form with a slight tweak to ./'s HTML. Example: <form action="//apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl" method="post" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">
Well it's only be ~10 years since the Inconvenient Truth. I'm not sure what "near future" mean. If that means 1 year to you or 50 years to the rest of us. (I think his film was aiming at the year 2100, but I don't recall exactly).
Here's an example, some islands are completely covered by water at high tide. http://theconversation.com/sea...
The most up to date information has projections range from 0.2 meters to 2.0 meters (0.66 to 6.6 feet) of sea level rise in the next 100 years. [Melillo et al., 2014]. And that's the thing about science, you'll find that it is never 100% accurate and if you look back to previous theories and predictions can be embarrassingly inaccurate. But the scientific method generally leads to better answers through many iterations of models, research and theories.
Al Gore's 20 feet rise greatly exceeds the most conservative models, as you've already noted. On the other hand if all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet). That's the far extreme of what could be done with the matter available on Earth, it's not at all likely. (maybe if the Earth's axis tilted to expose the poles? Or maybe if 10's of thousands of years went by and we acquired an atmosphere like Venus that make air temperature nearly uniform across the planet, including the poles?)
A lie is an intentional deception. If you have a computer that can lie to you, it must have passed the Turing test a long time ago and may even be self-aware by now.
Computers process data, and operate on the principle of: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
As a programmer I can assure you that I am infallible and perfect. My superiority is the reason I am a programmer and most people are not.
I could understand the argument if TVs were interlaced, has weird color artifacts (NTSC) and were low resolution (300-400 pixels wide). But a low-end HDTV made in the last 10 years has a stable digital picture and a pretty respectable resolution for text, photos and videos (duh).
Feels like 1996 all over again (WebTV). Then again it could be 2007 all over again(Wii). From WebTV to Wii there seems to be a trend of announcing the internet in your living room every 10 years. I guess if you go 10 years before WebTV(1996) you run into Ceefax, ExtraVision, and Telidon.
Was thinking it was your phone. You paid the manufacturer for the right to carry it around, but they get to decide what software runs on it.
He just wants you to think he's a drug addled maniac so that you don't suspect that he is Satoshi.
Also, a young 18 year old McAfee was the second gunman.
B...b...but President Trump said his SCIF has the best wireless connectivity! Way better than anyone else's SCIF!
Unfortunately he said that while giving tours to Russian diplomats.