In light of the news about Comcast, I'm going to start a new ISP today, called FOCnet Today!, to serve customer needs better through an improved billing model. FOC stands for Our Customers (the F is silent).
We will guarantee up to 100 exabit-per-second service. You will, of course, be operating at 110 baud, but we said we guarantee UP TO 100 exabit-per-second service.
The billing model is as follows: For the first kilobyte of communication in each month: 1 cent per bit of framing data transmitted or received, 2 cents per bit of payload data transmitted or received, 5 cents per bit of encrypted data, video data, or VOIP data transmitted or received, 10 cents for every retransmitted bit, even for retransmissions caused by our DNWPI (Deliberate Network Wiring Problems Inducer) system. For all additional kilobytes, the above prices are doubled.
We promise to better serve you by maintaining a record of every single network communication you make and immediately complying with all disclosure requests from any third party, especially coming from foreign nations.
This should be interpreted as GOOD news to anyone who wants to start the next innovative research facility a la Bell Labs or Xerox PARC:
1. Start a skunkworks research labs that invents cool new materials, semiconductors, algorithms, etc. 2. ??? 3. Profit!!! And lots of it when your new technology becomes a must-have.
(What, you say? Technology doesn't become "must have?" Nobody needed electricity. Electricity is discovered. Voila! You can't go a day without it! Same for computers, cell phones, sliced bread, and other modern marvels.)
The DMCA should be repealed and replaced with a law that compels people to make illegal copies of copyrighted material. This way, if you obey this law, you'll be infringing on copyright. If you don't obey this law, you'll be breaking the law. Then, the government can selectively enforce one, the other, or neither, depending on who is friends with whom and deliberately messing with those who look at a government official or copyright holder the wrong way. Mutually contradictory laws are the only way to go in the new millenium, especially as our physicists learn the ins and outs of M-theory.
Apple is very secretive within the company; people working on Macs don't know anything about the new iPods, et cetera. Google is extremely open within the company; once you're a Google employee you have access to just about every piece of information there is.
Well, Google is, after all, the company that wants to make all information transparent and available to everyone. Apple, on the other hand, is an often-imitated company that must get its product to market before someone else gets a mimicked product out there. Once its on the market, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but if something like that shows up earlier, it pisses Apple off.
What do you do with a 10,000 volt electric spike? Install a mechanical governor on the wind collector to integrate changes in its speed. Use the collected power to turn very heavy flywheels (further integration), which then turn traditional generators through a conic drive transmission controlled electronically. The result is the mechanical equivalent of a variac -- a variable transformer. In fact, a large variac could be installed on the output of the generator. A large contactor present on the wind collector could break the circuit if output jumps beyond a reasonable limit. With the circuit broken, the collector will spin freely for a few moments, while the flywheel will prevent an immediate drop. An algorithm could be designed to control the variacs and other devices to produce very stable output.
Yes, the judge is right about this one. Censorship of this type is the classic way that government can sweep the bad things it does under the rug. We have to always keep in mind that "the government" is not some sort of ethereal force out there. It's a bunch of guys (and women) who happen to have been placed in a position of power, whether it's someone elected to office or that clerk at the local [insert government office here] who likes to be a jerk and inconvenience people because it gives him a power trip to feel like he's the king of some tiny kingdom. We always have to remember that. Just because someone is in "the government" does not make that person special or give that person any special rights whatsoever. Thus, the judge should not do anything about that website, but should force the government to fix its problems.
I thought "drugs" in videogames meant some 1337z h4x0rz fsck up the game executable in such a manner as to give themselves an edge over other players in a network game. The solution is clear. Legalize all drugs and have the government distribute them for free. Within a year, all the drug lords go bankrupt (why would anyone pay for drugs when they're free?!). Besides, all the drug addicts will die from taking massive amounts suddenly (since they'll use plenty more than before) and then there won't be a market even for free drugs. It's Darwin at work. Survival of the fittest.
The CVP could be further improved. Producing the CVP is an expensive operation when the stated purpose is to support networking with transient connections. It can be improved by parameterizing the XL with d instead of e. I think further research is needed in this area.
Punched paper tape. That will never go out of style. CDs will develop holes from microscopic CD worms eating away at it. SATA drives will develop tin whiskers thanks to all the green folks making lead solder illegal (when lead won't do anything to harm you or the environment). USB keys from today won't work in 25 years when USB 11 comes out. Even the filesystems we use today won't be in use. FAT-32? ext2? HFS+? No computer around will be able to read that crap. Yup. Punched paper tape. Any idiot can build a punched paper tape reader in his garage. And paper lasts a LONG time.
The solution is so simple, I'm baffled as to why nobody figured it out yet. Build a second parallel grid. Let the other old crumbling grid do its thing. Let the new wind-enabled "green" grid do its thing. At the electrical stations that serve relatively small areas, pump both grids into a huge ass inverter (hell, put some solar panels and a windmill at that station while you're at it) and churn out power to the neighborhoods. Problem solved. Yeah, it'll cost a trillion bucks, but when's the last time you heard of the government not spending money on something because it was too expensive?
Quick! Someone write a program in Brainfuck to verify this! I'd punch in the program right here, but/.'s "junk" filter would tell me to go shove it where the sun don't shine!
Let's look at this the other way. What if you bought a car and then you had to go and buy (separately) the software that runs that car's computer? Hey, if Apple can't make a product where the physical and software parts come as a unit, then why can't we extend this to other businesses? Just as you like to control your computer and decide what hardware and what operating system you want, I can assure you that there are equally many people who want to control their automobile in a similar manner. Next thing you know, you have to buy the software for your car separately because it's illegal for General Motors to make both the hardware and the software and to require the purchase of both as a unit to make the product function as a whole. Why not extend this to all businesses and to all types of components that fit together? Make it illegal for a bicycle manufacturer to package the frame, wheels, tires, chain, pedals, handlebars, etc., into one unit. You have to buy them all separately so you can have the choice of which to get. Does this make sense? I didn't think so. Then why does it make sense to use the force of the law to compel a company that wants to produce a product which consists of different parts to make the parts available separately in a manner which detracts from the focus of its business and will probably cause its brand image to become tarnished? This is America. You as an individual or company have the right to produce any product or service that you wish to produce, and to offer it for sale at any price that you want. Further, most of the "law" in this country is actually contract law, meaning you make up your own laws when you make agreements with others. It is your right to make an agreement with whomever you wish with whatever terms you wish. So long as no party is compelled to "agree" to something against their will, and so long as they're not insane or something, then the agreement holds. Apple decided that it felt like producing computers and operating systems, and the terms of use of the operating system is that you must use it on Apple hardware. They offer that at a certain price. Do you like it? Go, pay for it, and follow the agreement. What? You don't like it? Well this is a free country and nobody is forcing you to buy either a Mac or the OS! Vote with your dollars. Don't like what a company is doing? So don't buy their stuff! Get Linux, which you like better anyway, install it on your bad-ass hardware that's a million times better than a Mac, and leave Apple alone to do what they feel like doing.
Put another way: How would you feel if you invested decades of efforts and billions of dollars to arrive at something only to have the law come and compel you against your will to do things a different way? I don't give a damn that they're making zillions of dollars. They worked hard for it. They took huge risks for it. They deserve every penny they earn. Any argument that includes Apple somehow being bad because they're turning an amazing profit is a jacked up argument. This is America. You're SUPPOSED to make a huge profit off your hard work!!
If you purchase a Mac computer (this is a PHYSICAL object we're talking about), you can do anything you want with it. You can use it. You can disassemble it. You can desolder some components and solder other ones on if you want. You can even sell the result and it is perfectly within your right to do so. Because the moment you gave Apple your money and they gave you their computer, it became their money and your computer. They can do with that money whatever they please. You can do with that computer whatever you please. If it pleases you to drop it off a roof, do it.
Now on to the subject of software. Unfortunately, thanks to Bill Gates, software is not sold, it is licensed. That means you never bought the software. You paid money and in exchange got the non-exclusive right to use a piece of software as set forth in the licensing agreement. It is essentially a contract between you and the software maker. No paper has been signed as with traditional contracts but as I understand it, the "shrink-wrap" license agreement or the "I agree" button on the installer count as your affirmation that you agree to the terms of the contract. So you are not legally supposed to "buy" a copy of Mac OS X and install it on a toaster, unless the license agreement says you may. That's the suxx0rz but that's life. As an individual, you could probably get away with messing with the code and getting it to install. But as a company that licenses software (agrees to the contract!) and then turns around and sells a product that causes a violation of that contract cannot and will not get away with it. You'll see. Psystar's claims will be laughed out of court and Apple will win.
Ok. Let me get this straight. Apple makes an operating system and the license agreement that comes with it states that you have to run it on Apple branded hardware. When you get an Apple labeled computer and run the Apple labeled operating system on it, it works like a mortal luser would expect it to. For damn nearly the entire population of Apple computer users, it does what they need it to do and they run around spouting, "Macs rock! PCs suck!"
Ok, now imagine what would happen if every computer company out there decided to provide Mac OS X with their computers instead of Windoze Vista or whatever they're installing on garbage prebuilt computers nowadays. Suddenly OS X won't be quite as great anymore because it will have all kinds of subtle failures and stuff. First, the hardware can induce failures that are no fault of the software. Further, if the hardware is fine but operates somehow differently from Apple hardware, bugs in OS X which don't manifest themselves on a Mac will crop up. Some would argue that this is good as it helps to find and fix those bugs. But do you honestly think Apple will achieve what it does if its engineers suddenly spend their time making OS X work around the characteristics of hardware they have no control over? Do you think Apple has the time to go testing OS X on every five dollar garbage motherboard that some cheapskate company decided to put in a computer?
What will happen to Apple's brand if that happened? Oh! Suddenly people will go around saying how much OS X is the suxx0rz because it crashes and it deletes data and it locks up and all this shit, EVEN IF IT'S NO FAULT OF THE SOFTWARE! Because the lusers don't know what comes from software and what comes from hardware. Hey, it locked up, OS X is the suxx0rz. And Apple's brand is down the tubes.
It is Apple's right and responsibility as a business to protect its brand by making sure its products are high quality and by making sure that others, for any reason, don't tarnish that brand.
Psystar wants to make a Mac clone? Fine! Download Darwin. Download Afterstep. Download every graphics toolkit out there. Start modifying. Apple worked hard and invested tremendous amounts to make their software.
You want a computer that works? Either get a Mac or build a *BSD or Linux box yourself.
That makes NO sense! I know that theoretically it's the company's responsibility to secure the data, but if some 1337z h4x04z figure out some crazy way into the system, then why should the company's top people face criminal charges? If you don't want to risk your information getting stolen, then don't give it to anyone. The company is also a victim in this case. Charging the victim is like this: You have bars on your windows and locks on your door. One night, a burglar busts in someone and jacks your PS3. You get charged with a crime. Does that make sense? No. And neither does this.
McCain immediately goes and makes his site compatible with Linux and ALL Linux-based browsers, including Lynx. Heh heh heh... Who's his running mate gonna be? Isn't it about time he picked one? I think he should pick Hillary.
This program won't block all ads. It will just block those ads that are geared towards non-Microsoft products! Furthermore, this browser will be smart enough to actually rewrite ads on the fly. So an ad for a Linux cluster will appear as an ad for a cluster running 10,000 licensed copies of Windows Vista Enterprise. I think everyone will be happy about this.
Where's the stuff about how they'll turn the world into a black hole? Hopefully that won't happen. It would suck. Like a vacuum cleaner. But with gravity instead of vacuum.:-(
That would be really cool because it is currently a waste that programs need to take up twice as much "memory" as their actual size: Once for the amount it takes up on the hard drive (or flash or whatever) and once for the copy loaded into memory when you run the damn thing. It would be very, extremely cool if memory didn't wear out like flash currently does after so many writes and whatnot, and if it were plentiful and cheap, and execute-in-place and whatnot. This would actually be a bit more in line with how Joe Sixpacks view their computers. They'll have a billion gigs of free hard drive space and 640 bytes of available RAM (that's enough for anyone, isn't it?) and then a program says, "Out of memory" and they go, "Duh, what the hell? I got a billion gigs of free space!" Or another Joe Luser has a hard drive so full of pr0n that there's about three bits of available space (not even a whole byte) but he has ten gigs of RAM. So the damn thing says, "Device full" or whatever Windoze says when there ain't no more space, and he goes, "Duh, but I got ten gigs of memory!" If it were all one big huge string of memory like the way it was envisioned with Turing machines, then although computers wouldn't make one bit of sense more to these Sixpacks fellows than they do now, at least the terminology will be correct with respect to the whole memory thing.
I have this great multinational security idea that I'm gonna patent right now. Under this system, enormous prisons would be constructed and the entire population of each country would be placed inside these megaprisons, one person to a cell, chained down at all times with a gag in their mouth, a blindfold over their eyes, earplugs, and without the possibility of movement or communication. They would be fed from tubes. With the country's entire population locked up in this manner, we are all guaranteed great security! Better even than George Orwell's description of total control in 1984. Yup, I'm gonna hurry to patent this one because it's coming soon to a police state near you.
If they could make one of these solar powered things fly fast enough to be in daylight at all times, it could fly forever! Well, at least until something goes wrong.:-(
Yeah, great. Free software in terms of liberty and cost that allows you the freedom to do anything you want, except run software you want to run that doesn't comply with the necessary rules. That's like saying you can get a Ford Model T in any color you like, so long as it's black.
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In light of the news about Comcast, I'm going to start a new ISP today, called FOCnet Today!, to serve customer needs better through an improved billing model. FOC stands for Our Customers (the F is silent).
We will guarantee up to 100 exabit-per-second service. You will, of course, be operating at 110 baud, but we said we guarantee UP TO 100 exabit-per-second service.
The billing model is as follows: For the first kilobyte of communication in each month: 1 cent per bit of framing data transmitted or received, 2 cents per bit of payload data transmitted or received, 5 cents per bit of encrypted data, video data, or VOIP data transmitted or received, 10 cents for every retransmitted bit, even for retransmissions caused by our DNWPI (Deliberate Network Wiring Problems Inducer) system. For all additional kilobytes, the above prices are doubled.
We promise to better serve you by maintaining a record of every single network communication you make and immediately complying with all disclosure requests from any third party, especially coming from foreign nations.
FOCnet Today! Because you deserve better.
This should be interpreted as GOOD news to anyone who wants to start the next innovative research facility a la Bell Labs or Xerox PARC:
1. Start a skunkworks research labs that invents cool new materials, semiconductors, algorithms, etc.
2. ???
3. Profit!!! And lots of it when your new technology becomes a must-have.
(What, you say? Technology doesn't become "must have?" Nobody needed electricity. Electricity is discovered. Voila! You can't go a day without it! Same for computers, cell phones, sliced bread, and other modern marvels.)
The DMCA should be repealed and replaced with a law that compels people to make illegal copies of copyrighted material. This way, if you obey this law, you'll be infringing on copyright. If you don't obey this law, you'll be breaking the law. Then, the government can selectively enforce one, the other, or neither, depending on who is friends with whom and deliberately messing with those who look at a government official or copyright holder the wrong way. Mutually contradictory laws are the only way to go in the new millenium, especially as our physicists learn the ins and outs of M-theory.
Well, Google is, after all, the company that wants to make all information transparent and available to everyone. Apple, on the other hand, is an often-imitated company that must get its product to market before someone else gets a mimicked product out there. Once its on the market, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but if something like that shows up earlier, it pisses Apple off.
What do you do with a 10,000 volt electric spike? Install a mechanical governor on the wind collector to integrate changes in its speed. Use the collected power to turn very heavy flywheels (further integration), which then turn traditional generators through a conic drive transmission controlled electronically. The result is the mechanical equivalent of a variac -- a variable transformer. In fact, a large variac could be installed on the output of the generator. A large contactor present on the wind collector could break the circuit if output jumps beyond a reasonable limit. With the circuit broken, the collector will spin freely for a few moments, while the flywheel will prevent an immediate drop. An algorithm could be designed to control the variacs and other devices to produce very stable output.
Yes, the judge is right about this one. Censorship of this type is the classic way that government can sweep the bad things it does under the rug. We have to always keep in mind that "the government" is not some sort of ethereal force out there. It's a bunch of guys (and women) who happen to have been placed in a position of power, whether it's someone elected to office or that clerk at the local [insert government office here] who likes to be a jerk and inconvenience people because it gives him a power trip to feel like he's the king of some tiny kingdom. We always have to remember that. Just because someone is in "the government" does not make that person special or give that person any special rights whatsoever. Thus, the judge should not do anything about that website, but should force the government to fix its problems.
I thought "drugs" in videogames meant some 1337z h4x0rz fsck up the game executable in such a manner as to give themselves an edge over other players in a network game. The solution is clear. Legalize all drugs and have the government distribute them for free. Within a year, all the drug lords go bankrupt (why would anyone pay for drugs when they're free?!). Besides, all the drug addicts will die from taking massive amounts suddenly (since they'll use plenty more than before) and then there won't be a market even for free drugs. It's Darwin at work. Survival of the fittest.
The CVP could be further improved. Producing the CVP is an expensive operation when the stated purpose is to support networking with transient connections. It can be improved by parameterizing the XL with d instead of e. I think further research is needed in this area.
Punched paper tape. That will never go out of style. CDs will develop holes from microscopic CD worms eating away at it. SATA drives will develop tin whiskers thanks to all the green folks making lead solder illegal (when lead won't do anything to harm you or the environment). USB keys from today won't work in 25 years when USB 11 comes out. Even the filesystems we use today won't be in use. FAT-32? ext2? HFS+? No computer around will be able to read that crap. Yup. Punched paper tape. Any idiot can build a punched paper tape reader in his garage. And paper lasts a LONG time.
The solution is so simple, I'm baffled as to why nobody figured it out yet. Build a second parallel grid. Let the other old crumbling grid do its thing. Let the new wind-enabled "green" grid do its thing. At the electrical stations that serve relatively small areas, pump both grids into a huge ass inverter (hell, put some solar panels and a windmill at that station while you're at it) and churn out power to the neighborhoods. Problem solved. Yeah, it'll cost a trillion bucks, but when's the last time you heard of the government not spending money on something because it was too expensive?
Quick! Someone write a program in Brainfuck to verify this! I'd punch in the program right here, but /.'s "junk" filter would tell me to go shove it where the sun don't shine!
Put another way: How would you feel if you invested decades of efforts and billions of dollars to arrive at something only to have the law come and compel you against your will to do things a different way? I don't give a damn that they're making zillions of dollars. They worked hard for it. They took huge risks for it. They deserve every penny they earn. Any argument that includes Apple somehow being bad because they're turning an amazing profit is a jacked up argument. This is America. You're SUPPOSED to make a huge profit off your hard work!!
Correction:
If you purchase a Mac computer (this is a PHYSICAL object we're talking about), you can do anything you want with it. You can use it. You can disassemble it. You can desolder some components and solder other ones on if you want. You can even sell the result and it is perfectly within your right to do so. Because the moment you gave Apple your money and they gave you their computer, it became their money and your computer. They can do with that money whatever they please. You can do with that computer whatever you please. If it pleases you to drop it off a roof, do it.
Now on to the subject of software. Unfortunately, thanks to Bill Gates, software is not sold, it is licensed. That means you never bought the software. You paid money and in exchange got the non-exclusive right to use a piece of software as set forth in the licensing agreement. It is essentially a contract between you and the software maker. No paper has been signed as with traditional contracts but as I understand it, the "shrink-wrap" license agreement or the "I agree" button on the installer count as your affirmation that you agree to the terms of the contract. So you are not legally supposed to "buy" a copy of Mac OS X and install it on a toaster, unless the license agreement says you may. That's the suxx0rz but that's life. As an individual, you could probably get away with messing with the code and getting it to install. But as a company that licenses software (agrees to the contract!) and then turns around and sells a product that causes a violation of that contract cannot and will not get away with it. You'll see. Psystar's claims will be laughed out of court and Apple will win.
Ok. Let me get this straight. Apple makes an operating system and the license agreement that comes with it states that you have to run it on Apple branded hardware. When you get an Apple labeled computer and run the Apple labeled operating system on it, it works like a mortal luser would expect it to. For damn nearly the entire population of Apple computer users, it does what they need it to do and they run around spouting, "Macs rock! PCs suck!"
Ok, now imagine what would happen if every computer company out there decided to provide Mac OS X with their computers instead of Windoze Vista or whatever they're installing on garbage prebuilt computers nowadays. Suddenly OS X won't be quite as great anymore because it will have all kinds of subtle failures and stuff. First, the hardware can induce failures that are no fault of the software. Further, if the hardware is fine but operates somehow differently from Apple hardware, bugs in OS X which don't manifest themselves on a Mac will crop up. Some would argue that this is good as it helps to find and fix those bugs. But do you honestly think Apple will achieve what it does if its engineers suddenly spend their time making OS X work around the characteristics of hardware they have no control over? Do you think Apple has the time to go testing OS X on every five dollar garbage motherboard that some cheapskate company decided to put in a computer?
What will happen to Apple's brand if that happened? Oh! Suddenly people will go around saying how much OS X is the suxx0rz because it crashes and it deletes data and it locks up and all this shit, EVEN IF IT'S NO FAULT OF THE SOFTWARE! Because the lusers don't know what comes from software and what comes from hardware. Hey, it locked up, OS X is the suxx0rz. And Apple's brand is down the tubes.
It is Apple's right and responsibility as a business to protect its brand by making sure its products are high quality and by making sure that others, for any reason, don't tarnish that brand.
Psystar wants to make a Mac clone? Fine! Download Darwin. Download Afterstep. Download every graphics toolkit out there. Start modifying. Apple worked hard and invested tremendous amounts to make their software.
You want a computer that works? Either get a Mac or build a *BSD or Linux box yourself.
If they're saving all that information as mp3s, what happens when people start doing a petabyte DDOS attack by calling repeatedly and talking nonstop?
That makes NO sense! I know that theoretically it's the company's responsibility to secure the data, but if some 1337z h4x04z figure out some crazy way into the system, then why should the company's top people face criminal charges? If you don't want to risk your information getting stolen, then don't give it to anyone. The company is also a victim in this case. Charging the victim is like this: You have bars on your windows and locks on your door. One night, a burglar busts in someone and jacks your PS3. You get charged with a crime. Does that make sense? No. And neither does this.
They should make it that holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager and the later few Star Trek films.
McCain immediately goes and makes his site compatible with Linux and ALL Linux-based browsers, including Lynx. Heh heh heh... Who's his running mate gonna be? Isn't it about time he picked one? I think he should pick Hillary.
This program won't block all ads. It will just block those ads that are geared towards non-Microsoft products! Furthermore, this browser will be smart enough to actually rewrite ads on the fly. So an ad for a Linux cluster will appear as an ad for a cluster running 10,000 licensed copies of Windows Vista Enterprise. I think everyone will be happy about this.
Where's the stuff about how they'll turn the world into a black hole? Hopefully that won't happen. It would suck. Like a vacuum cleaner. But with gravity instead of vacuum. :-(
That would be really cool because it is currently a waste that programs need to take up twice as much "memory" as their actual size: Once for the amount it takes up on the hard drive (or flash or whatever) and once for the copy loaded into memory when you run the damn thing. It would be very, extremely cool if memory didn't wear out like flash currently does after so many writes and whatnot, and if it were plentiful and cheap, and execute-in-place and whatnot. This would actually be a bit more in line with how Joe Sixpacks view their computers. They'll have a billion gigs of free hard drive space and 640 bytes of available RAM (that's enough for anyone, isn't it?) and then a program says, "Out of memory" and they go, "Duh, what the hell? I got a billion gigs of free space!" Or another Joe Luser has a hard drive so full of pr0n that there's about three bits of available space (not even a whole byte) but he has ten gigs of RAM. So the damn thing says, "Device full" or whatever Windoze says when there ain't no more space, and he goes, "Duh, but I got ten gigs of memory!" If it were all one big huge string of memory like the way it was envisioned with Turing machines, then although computers wouldn't make one bit of sense more to these Sixpacks fellows than they do now, at least the terminology will be correct with respect to the whole memory thing.
I have this great multinational security idea that I'm gonna patent right now. Under this system, enormous prisons would be constructed and the entire population of each country would be placed inside these megaprisons, one person to a cell, chained down at all times with a gag in their mouth, a blindfold over their eyes, earplugs, and without the possibility of movement or communication. They would be fed from tubes. With the country's entire population locked up in this manner, we are all guaranteed great security! Better even than George Orwell's description of total control in 1984. Yup, I'm gonna hurry to patent this one because it's coming soon to a police state near you.
If they could make one of these solar powered things fly fast enough to be in daylight at all times, it could fly forever! Well, at least until something goes wrong. :-(
Yeah, great. Free software in terms of liberty and cost that allows you the freedom to do anything you want, except run software you want to run that doesn't comply with the necessary rules. That's like saying you can get a Ford Model T in any color you like, so long as it's black.
Wow! Mod parent up to +99999999999, Bitchen!