- wrong. My argument is not about rented hardware, it is about bought hardware, get your facts straight.
If I buy a piece of hardware I must be able to do with it anything I want. Someone took it to mean that if I own a gun then by my logic I can kill without repercussions, which is of-course not doing whatever I want just with hardware but also with someone's life, so they are trying to be cute for the sake of an argument.
If I buy a TV tuner / cable receiver, it's mine. I should be able to do with it anything I want. Of-course they do not see it that way and will try to stop me from doing it, but in this case they are in the wrong, not me.
Well, people who create nothing of value generally don't care about copyright. Perhaps you're one of them.
- you are right, I am creating nothing of value. I don't care about copyrights. If you think that you are creating something of value you are wrong. My FF extensions are used by about 250 thousand people, but I still do not consider that of too much value. The code that I have created over the past 15 years at work for a number of companies is used across the world. I still do not consider that of too much value.
I am not being facetious, I really mean that whatever it is I am doing for money or as Free source is not that important that I should be fighting people about violating the copyrights. You are probably overestimating the importance of whatever it is you are doing.
I would only buy this device if it was Free as in a normal computer in this type of a form factor that I could do anything I wished and I don't want to fight some stupid DRM, so I am not buying this device.
Will wait until there is an alternative Free machine.
you are absolutely wrong and are trying to pull a fast one. Murdering someone is illegal whether you are using a gun or a stone or a knife or a computer.
On the other hand you can take your gun and use it to open food cans and that is an example of use that the gun was not intended for. You can smelt the gun and make a knife out of it. You can make it into a flute. You can make it into a paperweight. You can take it apart and use parts to put together some other machine. There is no legal argument against you using your hardware, except in ways that are criminal. Of-course, again, US is crazy - thus DMCA happened there.
You're talking about computers? Well, I can easily build a page turner for a shop-bought scanner, and set up a book scanning service. From there I can use OCR and finally distribute the resulting text files around the world.
- in your world you believe this is illegal or wrong, most people in the world do not care about what you think, they are doing what you are describing every single day, have you ever visited the real world?
Do you believe your rights extend that far?
- I don't believe in imaginary property that much, I don't particularly care if someone's copyrights are violated, that's an artificial construct and also it does not kill anyone, no moral problems at all.
Focus on the reality, not this hand-waving "I should be able to do anything!" crap. You never could, and never will.
- you certainly can do anything, you are brainwashed not to understand this. You can even kill people, just make sure that other people, who don't like you doing it don't catch you. However I don't consider this to be polite behavior.
On the other hand there is no argument that can be made against you using your computer for purposes that do not cross legal boundaries. Buying thing and then doing whatever you wish with them, that's your right to give up.
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You'd think that's creative, realize that AT&T was doing this with the landline home phones for decades, then realize that once they lost the government lawsuit and were forced to open the network's standards to other manufacturers immediately the market was flooded with various new machines - voice recorders for example, wireless phones, headsets etc.
This argument will not work where more than one manufacturer is present, there will always be someone willing to sell you a freaking computer.
Realize that I chose not to lease hardware but to buy it and so do most people.
Including anything. Any piece of hardware that you buy to own belongs to you, you should be able to do with it anything you want. I know that in US there are weird laws, like DMCA, but that is an abomination, not the rule.
what? When I buy a computer I buy it so that I can use it, and my usage pattern is always around writing software. If most people don't like to tinker like you are saying, then what is the problem with making the platform open in the first place, they won't 'be tinkering' then anyway, right?
The point is, if you are paying money for a piece of hardware, you should be able to do with the hardware anything you wish.
Who are these MDs, that moderated the above comment?
The flat line you see on the machinery during NDE is the heart that stops pulsing.
Brain activity stops within 3 minutes after clinical death but it is still possible to revive the brain tissues up to around 10-20 minutes after the blood stops oxygen flow to the brain, though most likely it will be completely damaged.
To say that there is no electrical activity in the brain is to make a statement that the brain is dead. Once the brain is dead it cannot be brought back to life, so the above comment is ignorant.
I see, so you want an entity that will take care of moving stuff efficiently and quickly to make sure that the people affected by a natural disaster are not left without food/water/clothing/energy/medical supplies but you also want this entity to do all of that based on truly altruistic motives?
Wow, I wonder what other standards you are expecting this world to follow to fit with your ideals?
I read this and say: of-course. Governments are captured by private corporate interests and this is the obvious outcome - corporations are your governments. Do you think a King pays taxes? Why would he pay to himself?
When you pay your taxes, when the government prints money, when government sells treasury bills, when private corporations get privilege of getting money at near 0% from the government, when private corporations get all of your money in bailouts and you get nothing, ask yourself this question: why should you continue playing by the rules that are set up to screw you?
Stop paying taxes altogether, not like anything will change, they'll print the difference.
As a contractor for the past 10 years, I often found myself in situations where I am driving and there is a phone call and there is an emergency or there is a meeting and I have to be there, whatever, I always hate those, because I know it is not a good idea to drive and be on the phone where I actually have to solve something, pay attention, participate. Have to do it anyway, so I don't know if these 'super-taskers' have a natural ability or they just do what I have to do and increase the attention that I pay to the road even more than I normally do, because I am scared of getting into an accident during the call. So for real, I pay more attention to the road and driving and what is around me while on the phone, then when I am not distracted. It's just a necessary precaution, otherwise you can't do it, you'll crash into something. I also learned to be able to stop caring about the phone, no matter what's happening there in an instant when necessary, that's important because whatever you do, there is always a chance someone will be changing lanes right into you, maybe they are also on a call and are not scared.
No, I mean any human made contraption flies like any human made contraption swims, excluding living biological creatures of-course even if they are human made.
What the hell, let's have a movie with the following star cast:
Jim Carry, Will Ferrel, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Tom Green, Dane Cook, Carrot Top, Sinbad, Louie Anderson, Jimmy Fallon, Leno, Colbert, Sarah Silverman, Jack Black and Jimmy Carr.
I think this would be one of the movie sets that could benefit the world by blowing up into the air and throwing everyone out of the atmosphere.
Why not Wu? Wu was not supposed to be identifiable as someone of a specific race, is that why? The age is somewhat appropriate, but seriously, if they can do 15 feet tall blue Sigourney Weaver (I haven't seen yet, but I hear) then can't they do a bit of a makeover with Smith?
Really? Solaris was forever a closed source OS until it became Open, but look at other proprietary OS software. Windows is doing well in corporate environments, of-course it is mostly desktop systems, but they are a closed source OS that is not being really replaced by anything much.
Solaris, if bundled with Oracle DB, will sell just as well as Oracle DB all by itself, would it not?
1. Public relations need to be fixed somehow, so calling in NASA shows that the company is 'dead serious' about fixing this problem and they are going for the best people to do it, right?
2. A small token of appreciation to the government of USA by hiring NASA people, creating some employment, probably this is done with an involvement of a senator or two, some governor maybe, whatever, some politicians will get involved and this is probably important for Toyota now.
3. Something else, again not really related to the actual car problem, but trying to save the company's ass.
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Your argument is flawed
- wrong. My argument is not about rented hardware, it is about bought hardware, get your facts straight.
If I buy a piece of hardware I must be able to do with it anything I want. Someone took it to mean that if I own a gun then by my logic I can kill without repercussions, which is of-course not doing whatever I want just with hardware but also with someone's life, so they are trying to be cute for the sake of an argument.
If I buy a TV tuner / cable receiver, it's mine. I should be able to do with it anything I want. Of-course they do not see it that way and will try to stop me from doing it, but in this case they are in the wrong, not me.
Well, people who create nothing of value generally don't care about copyright. Perhaps you're one of them.
- you are right, I am creating nothing of value. I don't care about copyrights. If you think that you are creating something of value you are wrong. My FF extensions are used by about 250 thousand people, but I still do not consider that of too much value. The code that I have created over the past 15 years at work for a number of companies is used across the world. I still do not consider that of too much value.
I am not being facetious, I really mean that whatever it is I am doing for money or as Free source is not that important that I should be fighting people about violating the copyrights. You are probably overestimating the importance of whatever it is you are doing.
I would only buy this device if it was Free as in a normal computer in this type of a form factor that I could do anything I wished and I don't want to fight some stupid DRM, so I am not buying this device.
Will wait until there is an alternative Free machine.
you are absolutely wrong and are trying to pull a fast one. Murdering someone is illegal whether you are using a gun or a stone or a knife or a computer.
On the other hand you can take your gun and use it to open food cans and that is an example of use that the gun was not intended for. You can smelt the gun and make a knife out of it. You can make it into a flute. You can make it into a paperweight. You can take it apart and use parts to put together some other machine. There is no legal argument against you using your hardware, except in ways that are criminal. Of-course, again, US is crazy - thus DMCA happened there.
You're talking about computers? Well, I can easily build a page turner for a shop-bought scanner, and set up a book scanning service. From there I can use OCR and finally distribute the resulting text files around the world.
- in your world you believe this is illegal or wrong, most people in the world do not care about what you think, they are doing what you are describing every single day, have you ever visited the real world?
Do you believe your rights extend that far?
- I don't believe in imaginary property that much, I don't particularly care if someone's copyrights are violated, that's an artificial construct and also it does not kill anyone, no moral problems at all.
Focus on the reality, not this hand-waving "I should be able to do anything!" crap. You never could, and never will.
- you certainly can do anything, you are brainwashed not to understand this. You can even kill people, just make sure that other people, who don't like you doing it don't catch you. However I don't consider this to be polite behavior.
On the other hand there is no argument that can be made against you using your computer for purposes that do not cross legal boundaries. Buying thing and then doing whatever you wish with them, that's your right to give up.
You'd think that's creative, realize that AT&T was doing this with the landline home phones for decades, then realize that once they lost the government lawsuit and were forced to open the network's standards to other manufacturers immediately the market was flooded with various new machines - voice recorders for example, wireless phones, headsets etc.
This argument will not work where more than one manufacturer is present, there will always be someone willing to sell you a freaking computer.
Realize that I chose not to lease hardware but to buy it and so do most people.
Including anything. Any piece of hardware that you buy to own belongs to you, you should be able to do with it anything you want. I know that in US there are weird laws, like DMCA, but that is an abomination, not the rule.
what? When I buy a computer I buy it so that I can use it, and my usage pattern is always around writing software. If most people don't like to tinker like you are saying, then what is the problem with making the platform open in the first place, they won't 'be tinkering' then anyway, right?
The point is, if you are paying money for a piece of hardware, you should be able to do with the hardware anything you wish.
Who are these MDs, that moderated the above comment?
The flat line you see on the machinery during NDE is the heart that stops pulsing.
Brain activity stops within 3 minutes after clinical death but it is still possible to revive the brain tissues up to around 10-20 minutes after the blood stops oxygen flow to the brain, though most likely it will be completely damaged.
To say that there is no electrical activity in the brain is to make a statement that the brain is dead. Once the brain is dead it cannot be brought back to life, so the above comment is ignorant.
I see, so you want an entity that will take care of moving stuff efficiently and quickly to make sure that the people affected by a natural disaster are not left without food/water/clothing/energy/medical supplies but you also want this entity to do all of that based on truly altruistic motives?
Wow, I wonder what other standards you are expecting this world to follow to fit with your ideals?
Can Hell be Holy, now that's a question science should look at.
I read this and say: of-course. Governments are captured by private corporate interests and this is the obvious outcome - corporations are your governments. Do you think a King pays taxes? Why would he pay to himself?
When you pay your taxes, when the government prints money, when government sells treasury bills, when private corporations get privilege of getting money at near 0% from the government, when private corporations get all of your money in bailouts and you get nothing, ask yourself this question: why should you continue playing by the rules that are set up to screw you?
Stop paying taxes altogether, not like anything will change, they'll print the difference.
It is all fun and 1 of April games until someone gets a 0-core processor.
As a contractor for the past 10 years, I often found myself in situations where I am driving and there is a phone call and there is an emergency or there is a meeting and I have to be there, whatever, I always hate those, because I know it is not a good idea to drive and be on the phone where I actually have to solve something, pay attention, participate. Have to do it anyway, so I don't know if these 'super-taskers' have a natural ability or they just do what I have to do and increase the attention that I pay to the road even more than I normally do, because I am scared of getting into an accident during the call. So for real, I pay more attention to the road and driving and what is around me while on the phone, then when I am not distracted. It's just a necessary precaution, otherwise you can't do it, you'll crash into something. I also learned to be able to stop caring about the phone, no matter what's happening there in an instant when necessary, that's important because whatever you do, there is always a chance someone will be changing lanes right into you, maybe they are also on a call and are not scared.
No, I mean any human made contraption flies like any human made contraption swims, excluding living biological creatures of-course even if they are human made.
Helicopters fly as submarines swim.
What the hell, let's have a movie with the following star cast:
Jim Carry, Will Ferrel, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Tom Green, Dane Cook, Carrot Top, Sinbad, Louie Anderson, Jimmy Fallon, Leno, Colbert, Sarah Silverman, Jack Black and Jimmy Carr.
I think this would be one of the movie sets that could benefit the world by blowing up into the air and throwing everyone out of the atmosphere.
Why not Wu? Wu was not supposed to be identifiable as someone of a specific race, is that why? The age is somewhat appropriate, but seriously, if they can do 15 feet tall blue Sigourney Weaver (I haven't seen yet, but I hear) then can't they do a bit of a makeover with Smith?
Hollly shit, you fucking Anonymous Coward, you are right, you primitive, motherfucking, cock-licking bastard!
Holly shitting Jesus, did I invent a new fucking saying?
Aren't there other interesting stories that could be told through the art of movies that are not stupid?
Can't they finally shoot the Ring World or something like that with the same Will Smith as the main character?
Jesus holly fucker.
Really? Solaris was forever a closed source OS until it became Open, but look at other proprietary OS software. Windows is doing well in corporate environments, of-course it is mostly desktop systems, but they are a closed source OS that is not being really replaced by anything much.
Solaris, if bundled with Oracle DB, will sell just as well as Oracle DB all by itself, would it not?
There is a summary? I just read the title.
Did you RTFA?
- are you insane? This is /.!
What the parent is saying is that there is no such thing as soul.
There is consciousness, there is our mind, there is the unconsciousness and it is all part of our physical self.
Why is this a revelation?
I think this is a stunt on 2 levels:
1. Public relations need to be fixed somehow, so calling in NASA shows that the company is 'dead serious' about fixing this problem and they are going for the best people to do it, right?
2. A small token of appreciation to the government of USA by hiring NASA people, creating some employment, probably this is done with an involvement of a senator or two, some governor maybe, whatever, some politicians will get involved and this is probably important for Toyota now.
3. Something else, again not really related to the actual car problem, but trying to save the company's ass.