So on the basis of one person's opinion from another African country, you are quite happy to stereotype all Nigerians?
Wow, way to miss the point! I'm not saying that all Nigerians are crooks, I'm saying that they have difficulties getting tourist Visas from nearby countries and it's funny that they'd deny one to Bill Gates.
Your that asshole thats always frontin about respect even though you are constantly talking shit!
I'll teach you the difference between your and you're.
"Your" is indicative of possession, such as in "That's your ex-girlfriend with the black guy." "You're" is a contraction for "You are", such as in "You are an idiot."
I used to work with a guy from Zambia, otherwise I would know nothing of Pan African politics, and he told me that Nigerians aren't trusted ANYWHERE in Africa. It's even reflected in the immigration policies of other countries. For example, if my friend from Zambia wanted to visit south africa. They'd give him a Visa good for six months, if a Nigerian wants to visit they'll give him a Visa for five days.
It's not just funny that they denied his Visa, it's a slap in the face that a country that is so universally distrusted.
No mainstream vendor will want to have to be responsible for training their employees to accurate sort between who are the under-18 minors and who are the 18-and-older adults.
Yeah, because that's so much more complicated than differentiating between those who are over and under 17 when they sell used R-Rated DVDs.
You don't find stores that sell video games also selling tobacco (same age restriction in the US).
I grew up listening to rap music. All the while the adults went on and on about how stupid rap music was. Now, I'm an adult and when I hear the music that kids are listening to now, I feel like my parents' generation. Have you ever heard some of this garbage?
I feel your pain. If I hadn't been so paranoid about giving my email address to some anonymous dudes on the internet, I would have registered a month or two earlier.
The shittiest part is that I haven't had that email address for something like 8 years, so I screwed myself out of a kick ass ID because I was worried about getting spammed at an email address that no longer exists.
You are really grasping for straws in trying to find the 'added value' that comes from scalpers. No scalper did me a favor by 'acquiring' tickets for me.
Grasping at straws? The simple truth of the matter is that if they didn't provide a useful service, no one would pay their prices.
Because capitalism doesn't work by adding more men in the middle who do nothing.
If they really served no purpose, they'd have disappeared.
They act as a buffer. People may not be able to afford the tickets when they go on sale, or they may be too busy to get one when they go on sale. Obviously, people are willing to pay additionally for their services.
We live in a capitalist world. If you have the money, why can't you buy as many tickets as you want? If you want to sell tickets, why shouldn't you be able to sell them for as much as the market will bear?
But I will answer both the snickering adolescent homophobes and the people who have have a stick up their puckered asses over a mere "celebrity" being honored this way.
I'm way past adolescence, but some gay jokes are still funny to me. The "assteroid" tag at the top of the story cracked me up.
So, yeah: There's no question he deserves the modest honor of having an object in space named after him. And he can handle the jokes.
The TiVo is not a computing device that allows development at all. Development for it has to happen on a separate, non-TiVo general-purpose device, and the once development is finished, that image is placed onto a TiVo.
That you're arguing an unrelated point. TiVo runs GPLed software but it will refuse to run it if it's modified. That violates the spirit of the GPL, hence the addition of some of the features on GPLv3.
Furthermore, that's not "the point of GPLv3". The GPLv3 has explicit exceptions in it for devices like TiVo.
Those "explicit exceptions" require that they make their signing keys available if they use GPLv3 software.
Perfectly simple. Grab the source for TiVo's site, compile on my own hardware that I purchased myself, and voila! Software development based on TiVo's Linux code is possible.
Voici, you can't run that modified code on the TiVo that you also purchased yourself.
Like I've said several times in this thread, I don't think it's the role of a software license to guarantee that my code will run on a given piece of hardware, or to guarantee that general-purpose hardware is cheap and plentiful.
I don't know if you really don't understand or are just trolling, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The FSF is interested in actual freedom, not in academic freedom.
Software developers can't control what the rest of the world does, but they do have the right to say what other people can't do with their intellectual property. Sony has the right to say that you can't make an ISO of one of their movies and share it with Bittorrent or eDonkey. RMS and the FSF have the right to say that you can't take their software and use it in a manner that prevents modification by the end user. It's pretty much the same thing.
As long as I have the freedom to build my own hardware, and the source code to run derivative works of my code on that hardware, I'm happy.
Perhaps you are, but the FSF and those of us who agree with them would not be.
The term "Linux hardware" is as non-sensical as "Windows hardware" (something I've never heard or seen either). Hardware has nothing to do with an operating system.
Certain "software based" modems could be called Windows hardware fairly accurately.
Describe for me a computing device that will run code that I write for it, but not run code that is a derivative work of code that I wrote, but for which I have the source and can legally modify? It's impossible. There's no such thing.
Perhaps it's impossible for Dlugar, but it's not impossible for TiVo or Microsoft or Sony or Apple. That's the point of GPLv3.
For us to get to the stage where "you don't have hardware on which to run it," we also have to get to the stage where software development is impossible at all. I find it difficult to believe that will ever happen, but if it does, I don't think the GPLv3 will be of much help at that point.
We're there right now. Try to mod your new TiVo.
It might be very expensive, but I don't feel that a software license should be trying to guarantee cheap and plentiful hardware. It should simply make sure that the source is available, and that I can run it on for any purpose on my own hardware, even if that hardware is expensive and custom-build.
If you can afford custom hardware in that hypothetical future, it's not an issue for you.
Thus, I believe anti-DRM provisions are out of scope for a software license, because it attempts to dictate what sort of hardware you are allowed to distribute with your software.
That's exactly the point. What good does it do you to have free software if you don't have hardware on which to run it?
GPLv3 is forward thinking. Today, commodity PCs are cheap and plentiful. In 20 years, that may not be the case.
I hope that Linus changes his mind about taking the kernal to GPLv3. I understand that he's not all wrapped up in the politics of free software. I'll still use linux regardless, but it would be nice to have everyone on the same page.
pro-Choice is about leaving it up to people concerned. pro-Life is a wish to return to the back alley abortions days.
We don't want anyone getting back alley abortions. It YOUR side that will provide them if we're ever successful at recriminalizing abortion.
I'd be more incline to be pro-life if they'd show an inclination to support the people who seek abortions but many of the pro-life camp aren't concerned so much about the actual abortion but the fact that someone had sex in a fashion they don't approve.
Bullshit. Pregnancy can only result from vaginal intercourse. The one that happens to be the "approved method" by religious fundamentalists.
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So on the basis of one person's opinion from another African country, you are quite happy to stereotype all Nigerians?
Wow, way to miss the point! I'm not saying that all Nigerians are crooks, I'm saying that they have difficulties getting tourist Visas from nearby countries and it's funny that they'd deny one to Bill Gates.
LK
Your that asshole thats always frontin about respect even though you are constantly talking shit!
I'll teach you the difference between your and you're.
"Your" is indicative of possession, such as in "That's your ex-girlfriend with the black guy."
"You're" is a contraction for "You are", such as in "You are an idiot."
Do you understand the difference now?
LK
You lost your girlfriend to a black guy in high school, right?
Time to get over it or you'll never find another one.
LK
I used to work with a guy from Zambia, otherwise I would know nothing of Pan African politics, and he told me that Nigerians aren't trusted ANYWHERE in Africa. It's even reflected in the immigration policies of other countries. For example, if my friend from Zambia wanted to visit south africa. They'd give him a Visa good for six months, if a Nigerian wants to visit they'll give him a Visa for five days.
It's not just funny that they denied his Visa, it's a slap in the face that a country that is so universally distrusted.
LK
No mainstream vendor will want to have to be responsible for training their employees to accurate sort between who are the under-18 minors and who are the 18-and-older adults.
Yeah, because that's so much more complicated than differentiating between those who are over and under 17 when they sell used R-Rated DVDs.
You don't find stores that sell video games also selling tobacco (same age restriction in the US).
Wal-Mart, bitch!
LK
I grew up listening to rap music. All the while the adults went on and on about how stupid rap music was. Now, I'm an adult and when I hear the music that kids are listening to now, I feel like my parents' generation. Have you ever heard some of this garbage?
Laffy Taffy? Panic at the Disco?
WTF?
LK
I feel your pain. If I hadn't been so paranoid about giving my email address to some anonymous dudes on the internet, I would have registered a month or two earlier.
The shittiest part is that I haven't had that email address for something like 8 years, so I screwed myself out of a kick ass ID because I was worried about getting spammed at an email address that no longer exists.
LK
That in itself does not justify the existence of scalping. The only thing that needs to be done is to enact the legislation on a federal level.
You not liking it doesn't justify new federal regulations on local commerce.
Anti scalping regulation only raises the price a small, guaranteed amount - scalpers raise it to absurdity.
It's just like any other commodity, people buy them in the hopes that they will be able to find someone to buy it for more money than they paid.
LK
You are really grasping for straws in trying to find the 'added value' that comes from scalpers. No scalper did me a favor by 'acquiring' tickets for me.
Grasping at straws? The simple truth of the matter is that if they didn't provide a useful service, no one would pay their prices.
LK
Because capitalism doesn't work by adding more men in the middle who do nothing.
If they really served no purpose, they'd have disappeared.
They act as a buffer. People may not be able to afford the tickets when they go on sale, or they may be too busy to get one when they go on sale. Obviously, people are willing to pay additionally for their services.
LK
They are nothing more than scalpers.
What's wrong with scalpers?
We live in a capitalist world. If you have the money, why can't you buy as many tickets as you want? If you want to sell tickets, why shouldn't you be able to sell them for as much as the market will bear?
LK
But I will answer both the snickering adolescent homophobes and the people who have have a stick up their puckered asses over a mere "celebrity" being honored this way.
I'm way past adolescence, but some gay jokes are still funny to me. The "assteroid" tag at the top of the story cracked me up.
So, yeah: There's no question he deserves the modest honor of having an object in space named after him. And he can handle the jokes.
In the words of Carlos Mencia "If you can take a dick, you can take a joke."
LK
The TiVo is not a computing device that allows development at all. Development for it has to happen on a separate, non-TiVo general-purpose device, and the once development is finished, that image is placed onto a TiVo.
That you're arguing an unrelated point. TiVo runs GPLed software but it will refuse to run it if it's modified. That violates the spirit of the GPL, hence the addition of some of the features on GPLv3.
Furthermore, that's not "the point of GPLv3". The GPLv3 has explicit exceptions in it for devices like TiVo.
Those "explicit exceptions" require that they make their signing keys available if they use GPLv3 software.
Perfectly simple. Grab the source for TiVo's site, compile on my own hardware that I purchased myself, and voila! Software development based on TiVo's Linux code is possible.
Voici, you can't run that modified code on the TiVo that you also purchased yourself.
Like I've said several times in this thread, I don't think it's the role of a software license to guarantee that my code will run on a given piece of hardware, or to guarantee that general-purpose hardware is cheap and plentiful.
I don't know if you really don't understand or are just trolling, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The FSF is interested in actual freedom, not in academic freedom.
Software developers can't control what the rest of the world does, but they do have the right to say what other people can't do with their intellectual property. Sony has the right to say that you can't make an ISO of one of their movies and share it with Bittorrent or eDonkey. RMS and the FSF have the right to say that you can't take their software and use it in a manner that prevents modification by the end user. It's pretty much the same thing.
As long as I have the freedom to build my own hardware, and the source code to run derivative works of my code on that hardware, I'm happy.
Perhaps you are, but the FSF and those of us who agree with them would not be.
LK
If these computers reduce the demand for new production, couldn't that offset the amount of energy that they'll use?
LK
The term "Linux hardware" is as non-sensical as "Windows hardware" (something I've never heard or seen either). Hardware has nothing to do with an operating system.
Certain "software based" modems could be called Windows hardware fairly accurately.
LK
Describe for me a computing device that will run code that I write for it, but not run code that is a derivative work of code that I wrote, but for which I have the source and can legally modify? It's impossible. There's no such thing.
Perhaps it's impossible for Dlugar, but it's not impossible for TiVo or Microsoft or Sony or Apple. That's the point of GPLv3.
For us to get to the stage where "you don't have hardware on which to run it," we also have to get to the stage where software development is impossible at all. I find it difficult to believe that will ever happen, but if it does, I don't think the GPLv3 will be of much help at that point.
We're there right now. Try to mod your new TiVo.
It might be very expensive, but I don't feel that a software license should be trying to guarantee cheap and plentiful hardware. It should simply make sure that the source is available, and that I can run it on for any purpose on my own hardware, even if that hardware is expensive and custom-build.
If you can afford custom hardware in that hypothetical future, it's not an issue for you.
LK
Thus, I believe anti-DRM provisions are out of scope for a software license, because it attempts to dictate what sort of hardware you are allowed to distribute with your software.
That's exactly the point. What good does it do you to have free software if you don't have hardware on which to run it?
GPLv3 is forward thinking. Today, commodity PCs are cheap and plentiful. In 20 years, that may not be the case.
I hope that Linus changes his mind about taking the kernal to GPLv3. I understand that he's not all wrapped up in the politics of free software. I'll still use linux regardless, but it would be nice to have everyone on the same page.
LK
Ask Scott Peterson.
LK
In May, I bought an Acer laptop. Dual core 1.73Ghz, 1024MB of RAM, 120GB HDD, Dual layer DVD burner. I paid $499.
You must be smoking crack if you think that a "barely useful" would cost 1.5 times as much as I paid.
It came with Vista Home Premium, I "upgraded" to XP Pro and set up dual boot for linux.
LK
For example, do we call Apple's OS "OSX NextStep/BSD"??? :-)
No.
But the origins of the OSs are so different, it's a stupid question.
LK
A woman's right to choose whether or not to carry a fetus to term is in no way similar to the rape of young children by deviants.
Try again. An unborn child's right to not be murdered is very similar to a young child's right to not be molested.
LK
Please, tell us what exactly my religious comments were. Feel free to quote. /. saves them you know.
Tell us. What is my religion?
LK
Which is exactly the same thing, because a young boy is equally capable of making said decision as a pregnant woman is about making hers, right?
NARAL is worse. A young boy has a chance to scream when someone hurts him. An unborn child can't.
LK
I work with a bunch of dudes. The only kissable person in the building is the asian girl in accounting.
LK
pro-Choice is about leaving it up to people concerned. pro-Life is a wish to return to the back alley abortions days.
We don't want anyone getting back alley abortions. It YOUR side that will provide them if we're ever successful at recriminalizing abortion.
I'd be more incline to be pro-life if they'd show an inclination to support the people who seek abortions but many of the pro-life camp aren't concerned so much about the actual abortion but the fact that someone had sex in a fashion they don't approve.
Bullshit. Pregnancy can only result from vaginal intercourse. The one that happens to be the "approved method" by religious fundamentalists.
LK