To re-implement Windows, you're bound to end up breaking a software patent somewhere. There are only so many ways to implement the same API. Currently they have no money and don't affect MS profits at all so there's no point to going after them, but if they were successful then efforts would be made. Even if they remain entirely in Russia, Russia is not totally immune to IP lawyers, especially when a company can afford to put a big bribe in the right pocket.
Transparent troll. Child abusers get a trial and all the same human rights as anyone else, more human rights than their victims. Nobody has a right to commit all their crimes anonymously. In this case, we're talking about a situation where a crime is being committed and the already-established-red-handed perpetrators are being unmasked -- not a situation where hundreds of random people are being unmasked just to see whether they're doing anything criminal (which would be bad of course).
It's not as if the FBI set up their own site and curated their own collection of child porn. They simply continued the service for two weeks after their first opportunity to shut it down. If the FBI takes over the leadership of a massive drug cartel, then I think it would also be perfectly reasonable for them to allow the cartel's employees continue distributing drugs for 2 weeks for the purpose of catching them and their contacts in the act of doing something illegal.
That's simply one of the seasons why they only do it for a limited time, two weeks in this case. That's not enough time for knowledge of the FBI ownership of the site to leak out, so not enough time for the site's consumers to try to poison the well by giving innocent people links.
At any rate, you can already SWAT somebody with a telephone.
No, I don't remember that, because it never happened. Fedora was created by Red Hat and run by Red Hat employees from the very beginning. Which is why, when I tried it out in 2004, it didn't have MP3 or anything else non-free that other distros shipped -- Red Hat set the rules against that from the start.
California has ridiculously more water than we could ever use, even in drought years. It's just at the opposite end of the state from where the people who want to use it are. Transporting across the state is a lot cheaper/easier than towing an iceberg (or desalinization) though.
Soon, once there's a few competitors doing this, we'll have enough satellites surrounding the planet that it'll cut down the incoming sunlight enough to reverse global warming.
What about if you're a developer who doesn't want to have to buy a copy of Windows solely for the purpose of running Edge because it's the only non-cross-platform rendering engine?
I dislike the idea of a "robot tax", it seems counterproductive. If robots make business more efficient and more profitable than human employees do, then the solution to that is to tax the resultant company profits and invest those tax dollars wherever needed. Specifically taxing the use of robots forces needless inefficiency and thus brings in less tax revenue while preventing some types of businesses from being profitable / developing at all. It also needlessly forces people to work jobs that are so mind-numbingly dull that a robot could do them.
Used to be websites had good desktop/laptop usability and poor phone/tablet usability. Now they have good phone/tablet usability and poor desktop/laptop usability.
But how are you going to incorporate PDFs into your login screen now? (Okay, actually there are a lot of other safer plugins for that if you wanted to...)
It does seem pointlessly annoying, but it's not as though mdm's webkit can be remotely exploited until you install a malicious theme.
I am a big fan of the idea of the H1B program and believe immigrants are the primary thing which has made and continues to make our country great
The H1B program is specifically designed to prevent the workers from staying any longer than the particular employer needs them. I'd be all for a program that allows skilled works to immigrate, but H1B is about making them indentured servants for a company with no negotiating leverage -- not making them citizens.
Helicopters do in fact guillotine people from time to time. If your neighbors are landing one in their driveway while you walk past, you really should be worried enough about it to keep a close eye on it and be careful.
By that, I assume you mean that his investment in his new Boring Company means he has a vested interest in preventing flying cars: they're never going to use his tunnels.
Of course there was evidence of an airplane before one was invented: all the prototypes, models and plans people had been working on and refining for decades. In fact the first heavier than air fixed-wing aircraft and the first demonstration model that proved that airplanes were possible (George Cayley in 1799) was more than a hundred years before the invention of the final product we call an airplane. Inventions do not poof into existence fully-formed.
I would've potentially felt some sympathy, but the gofundme part certainly smashed any chances of that. Sad thing is, a highly paid contractor who gets himself terminated from a contract will likely raise 100x more with his gofundme begging than a street bum who actually needs the money will get.
Poor people are not renting anything for $5-$10 a day, they're buying a bus pass. And cars do not cost that much to buy or maintain. My total car-related expenses last year were $1056.
Stallman is more like the kind of political extremist who would tell everybody not to vote because it perpetuates the system. He doesn't force anybody to do anything, he only forces himself and suggests to others. Forcing is what he's against.
Where do you get resources without a gravity well? Certainly not an object like Enceladus, which has a very large gravity well. Maybe a tiny asteroid, but it's highly doubtful that it's possible to land on an asteroid using a solar sail (that doesn't has a laser propulsion source anymore)... at least not in less than millions of years. Even if you did land on the tiny asteroid, extracting metal from it is not going to be possible using a few grams of spacecraft.
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To re-implement Windows, you're bound to end up breaking a software patent somewhere. There are only so many ways to implement the same API. Currently they have no money and don't affect MS profits at all so there's no point to going after them, but if they were successful then efforts would be made. Even if they remain entirely in Russia, Russia is not totally immune to IP lawyers, especially when a company can afford to put a big bribe in the right pocket.
Transparent troll. Child abusers get a trial and all the same human rights as anyone else, more human rights than their victims. Nobody has a right to commit all their crimes anonymously. In this case, we're talking about a situation where a crime is being committed and the already-established-red-handed perpetrators are being unmasked -- not a situation where hundreds of random people are being unmasked just to see whether they're doing anything criminal (which would be bad of course).
It's not as if the FBI set up their own site and curated their own collection of child porn. They simply continued the service for two weeks after their first opportunity to shut it down. If the FBI takes over the leadership of a massive drug cartel, then I think it would also be perfectly reasonable for them to allow the cartel's employees continue distributing drugs for 2 weeks for the purpose of catching them and their contacts in the act of doing something illegal.
That's simply one of the seasons why they only do it for a limited time, two weeks in this case. That's not enough time for knowledge of the FBI ownership of the site to leak out, so not enough time for the site's consumers to try to poison the well by giving innocent people links.
At any rate, you can already SWAT somebody with a telephone.
Eve if they could 100% replicate Windows so faithfully that you wouldn't realize you're not running the real thing, they'd be sued into oblivion.
No, I don't remember that, because it never happened. Fedora was created by Red Hat and run by Red Hat employees from the very beginning. Which is why, when I tried it out in 2004, it didn't have MP3 or anything else non-free that other distros shipped -- Red Hat set the rules against that from the start.
California has ridiculously more water than we could ever use, even in drought years. It's just at the opposite end of the state from where the people who want to use it are. Transporting across the state is a lot cheaper/easier than towing an iceberg (or desalinization) though.
FTP for the purpose of downloading is now rare. FTP for uploading files to web hosts is still ubiquitous, more so than SFTP.
Soon, once there's a few competitors doing this, we'll have enough satellites surrounding the planet that it'll cut down the incoming sunlight enough to reverse global warming.
Webkit is open source, and you can use it in Konqueror or other browsers. Not remotely analogous to Edge, there's no need for a Mac.
What about if you're a developer who doesn't want to have to buy a copy of Windows solely for the purpose of running Edge because it's the only non-cross-platform rendering engine?
I dislike the idea of a "robot tax", it seems counterproductive. If robots make business more efficient and more profitable than human employees do, then the solution to that is to tax the resultant company profits and invest those tax dollars wherever needed. Specifically taxing the use of robots forces needless inefficiency and thus brings in less tax revenue while preventing some types of businesses from being profitable / developing at all. It also needlessly forces people to work jobs that are so mind-numbingly dull that a robot could do them.
Used to be websites had good desktop/laptop usability and poor phone/tablet usability. Now they have good phone/tablet usability and poor desktop/laptop usability.
But how are you going to incorporate PDFs into your login screen now? (Okay, actually there are a lot of other safer plugins for that if you wanted to...)
It does seem pointlessly annoying, but it's not as though mdm's webkit can be remotely exploited until you install a malicious theme.
The H1B program is specifically designed to prevent the workers from staying any longer than the particular employer needs them. I'd be all for a program that allows skilled works to immigrate, but H1B is about making them indentured servants for a company with no negotiating leverage -- not making them citizens.
Helicopters do in fact guillotine people from time to time. If your neighbors are landing one in their driveway while you walk past, you really should be worried enough about it to keep a close eye on it and be careful.
By that, I assume you mean that his investment in his new Boring Company means he has a vested interest in preventing flying cars: they're never going to use his tunnels.
Of course there was evidence of an airplane before one was invented: all the prototypes, models and plans people had been working on and refining for decades. In fact the first heavier than air fixed-wing aircraft and the first demonstration model that proved that airplanes were possible (George Cayley in 1799) was more than a hundred years before the invention of the final product we call an airplane. Inventions do not poof into existence fully-formed.
I would've potentially felt some sympathy, but the gofundme part certainly smashed any chances of that. Sad thing is, a highly paid contractor who gets himself terminated from a contract will likely raise 100x more with his gofundme begging than a street bum who actually needs the money will get.
Poor people are not renting anything for $5-$10 a day, they're buying a bus pass. And cars do not cost that much to buy or maintain. My total car-related expenses last year were $1056.
It is just like Jesus: he died millennia ago and people are still claiming to speak with him through dubious representations and mediations.
Ideally this company should include a taxidermy service and have the actual stuffed dead person voice the chatbot.
Stallman is more like the kind of political extremist who would tell everybody not to vote because it perpetuates the system. He doesn't force anybody to do anything, he only forces himself and suggests to others. Forcing is what he's against.
Atari BASIC, then QBasic, then Visual Basic. Then in college C++. Post-college, PHP and Javascript.
Where do you get resources without a gravity well? Certainly not an object like Enceladus, which has a very large gravity well. Maybe a tiny asteroid, but it's highly doubtful that it's possible to land on an asteroid using a solar sail (that doesn't has a laser propulsion source anymore)... at least not in less than millions of years. Even if you did land on the tiny asteroid, extracting metal from it is not going to be possible using a few grams of spacecraft.
If we're going to use an EMDrive, why not just have a wizard make it go poof and reappear at the desired destination?