Most people - if you ask them what they understand by 'free software'
Completely irrelevant; he was in a conference for professionals, not "most people". Should scientists avoid using the word theory, because "most people" think it means hypothesis?
Lastly, but even more so importantly, putting everything for Google to datamine and crawl is just stupid.
The advantage of a dumb data store is that you can layer some encryption transparently. Even something simple like putting a password on a RAR file is enough to prevent such snooping.
That said, I probably wouldn't use it for anything important anyway.
It's true that Apple filters the App Store, but that's the apps, not the OS.
That we know of. The reality is that Apple bends over for the Chinese government. Imagining a bug in the Chinese copies of iOS is not that farfetched.
I'd be very worried about a Chinese government-endorsed OS, since that's usually a codeword for "and we have monitoring code on your phone."
Sure, but at least you can root it and install a safe version. Which is only possible because it's OSS.
the kind that matters to someone that wants to modify Red Hat for his home theater PC.
No, it's the kind that matters if you want to make sure your devices aren't bugged by your government. And despite the compliments, with proprietary software like the iOS you can never be sure.
If Stallman had been in Tunisia during the Arab Spring revolutions, he would have been mostly oblivious to what was going on because he would have refused to use Facebook, Twitter, or maybe even Google.
Oh, please. FB and such were certainly important, but only 21% of all Egyptians had Internet access of any kind. I seriously doubt 79% of the population was "mostly oblivious to what was going on" because they couldn't access FB.
It's fun and all to talk about the importance of the social media, but it's hardly the only way to remain informed.
that a lot of the "Android/Linux is freedom" rhetoric is posturing from those with a skewed sense of priority, where having access to CyanogenMod matters more in their day-to-day lives than people being "disappeared" for their political views.
Now you're just talking bullshit. How is in any way advocating for Free Software an indication that one values that more over people being disappeared? That's a complete - and offensive - non-sequitur if I ever heard one.
As I like to tell fellow geeks: stop pretending that you're taking a political stand by choosing Android. It's just code. Real freedom is seeking out better living conditions, demanding your civil liberties, protesting, even starting revolutions. Richard Stallman is actually the most enslaved, limited geek on Earth, because he refuses to use so many things on the principle of "free" software that he's useless in real life and trapped by his own ideology.
Firstly, calling RMS "useless" is laughable. What exactly have you done that tops Emacs, GCC and the GNU coreutils, the GPL, etc?
Secondly, your argument applies to Ai Weiwei too: he could have a better life if he didn't refuse to accept the Chinese govt authoritarianism and didn't spend so much time in jail. RMS is an activist, just like him. That you don't find his cause important enough doesn't change that.
Not to mention that Android is officially endorsed by the Chinese government as its mobile platform of choice (customized as Open Mobile System). You know, the government that has political opposition jailed, censors the Internet, and spies on its citizens in a way that makes the NSA look modest.
You had a reasonable post, and then you crashed it with a big, ugly association fallacy.
China chooses Android because it's OSS, meaning they can change it to their liking, just like they did with Red Flag Linux. Claiming Google is a threat because of that is ridiculous. Is Torvalds evil too? China uses his kernel!
Actually, it does. You evolved to be an omnivore so your body needs some nutrients from meat.
It means you need some nutrients which are present in meat; it doesn't mean they're exclusively present in meat, so it doesn't mean you have to - or should - eat meat.
If you want to be a vegan, and you happen to produce children who are also vegan, and so on for their children perhaps in a few thousand years your great-great*50 children will have herbivore teeth and not need the nutrients in meat.
Lamarcking evolution has returned to the spotlight in the past few years, but I'm skeptical about drastic transformations like those.
Here in Portugal, they are. Cutting salaries, subsidies and more. And raising taxes too, effectively giving the death blow to our already anemic economy.
If you don't buy phones from companies that have sued over patents, I'm pretty sure you'll remain phoneless. Unless you get an openmoko or something similar.
(...) if that money was actually immediately earmarked for purposes of controlling any pollution running off such lands (...)
Yes? And why would that suddenly happen just because the govt didn't own the lands? The "holy hand of the free market" would touch their hearts and make them immune to corruption?
Slashdot Mirror
No, TFA says the guy asked for two(!) billion.
Actually,
Negotiating mostly on his own, Mr. Zuckerberg had fielded Mr. Systrom's opening number, $2 billion
Two billion dollars for a photo sharing social network with no business model /facepalm.
Tort is a common law concept. Does it even apply to the Netherlands?
Most people - if you ask them what they understand by 'free software'
Completely irrelevant; he was in a conference for professionals, not "most people". Should scientists avoid using the word theory, because "most people" think it means hypothesis?
It's not a "little detail". It's a fundamental characteristic of Java, which "was a major reason why Oracle acquired Sun" [sic].
If he didn't know that before spending $5.6 billion to acquire it, he's nothing short of incompetent. Of course, we all know he far from that.
Yes, but don't confuse money with "potential money".
I don't think this store (The Farmer's Market) used Bitcoin; that's Silkroad. This used Paypal AFAIK.
Lastly, but even more so importantly, putting everything for Google to datamine and crawl is just stupid.
The advantage of a dumb data store is that you can layer some encryption transparently. Even something simple like putting a password on a RAR file is enough to prevent such snooping.
That said, I probably wouldn't use it for anything important anyway.
It's true that Apple filters the App Store, but that's the apps, not the OS.
That we know of. The reality is that Apple bends over for the Chinese government. Imagining a bug in the Chinese copies of iOS is not that farfetched.
I'd be very worried about a Chinese government-endorsed OS, since that's usually a codeword for "and we have monitoring code on your phone."
Sure, but at least you can root it and install a safe version. Which is only possible because it's OSS.
the kind that matters to someone that wants to modify Red Hat for his home theater PC.
No, it's the kind that matters if you want to make sure your devices aren't bugged by your government. And despite the compliments, with proprietary software like the iOS you can never be sure.
If Stallman had been in Tunisia during the Arab Spring revolutions, he would have been mostly oblivious to what was going on because he would have refused to use Facebook, Twitter, or maybe even Google.
Oh, please. FB and such were certainly important, but only 21% of all Egyptians had Internet access of any kind. I seriously doubt 79% of the population was "mostly oblivious to what was going on" because they couldn't access FB.
It's fun and all to talk about the importance of the social media, but it's hardly the only way to remain informed.
that a lot of the "Android/Linux is freedom" rhetoric is posturing from those with a skewed sense of priority, where having access to CyanogenMod matters more in their day-to-day lives than people being "disappeared" for their political views.
Now you're just talking bullshit. How is in any way advocating for Free Software an indication that one values that more over people being disappeared? That's a complete - and offensive - non-sequitur if I ever heard one.
Yeah. Except Apple censors its App Store to appease the Chinese government, but hey, that doesn't count, right?
As I like to tell fellow geeks: stop pretending that you're taking a political stand by choosing Android. It's just code. Real freedom is seeking out better living conditions, demanding your civil liberties, protesting, even starting revolutions. Richard Stallman is actually the most enslaved, limited geek on Earth, because he refuses to use so many things on the principle of "free" software that he's useless in real life and trapped by his own ideology.
Firstly, calling RMS "useless" is laughable. What exactly have you done that tops Emacs, GCC and the GNU coreutils, the GPL, etc?
Secondly, your argument applies to Ai Weiwei too: he could have a better life if he didn't refuse to accept the Chinese govt authoritarianism and didn't spend so much time in jail.
RMS is an activist, just like him. That you don't find his cause important enough doesn't change that.
Not to mention that Android is officially endorsed by the Chinese government as its mobile platform of choice (customized as Open Mobile System). You know, the government that has political opposition jailed, censors the Internet, and spies on its citizens in a way that makes the NSA look modest.
You had a reasonable post, and then you crashed it with a big, ugly association fallacy.
China chooses Android because it's OSS, meaning they can change it to their liking, just like they did with Red Flag Linux. Claiming Google is a threat because of that is ridiculous. Is Torvalds evil too? China uses his kernel!
Actually, it does. You evolved to be an omnivore so your body needs some nutrients from meat.
It means you need some nutrients which are present in meat; it doesn't mean they're exclusively present in meat, so it doesn't mean you have to - or should - eat meat.
If you want to be a vegan, and you happen to produce children who are also vegan, and so on for their children perhaps in a few thousand years your great-great*50 children will have herbivore teeth and not need the nutrients in meat.
Lamarcking evolution has returned to the spotlight in the past few years, but I'm skeptical about drastic transformations like those.
Here in Portugal, they are. Cutting salaries, subsidies and more. And raising taxes too, effectively giving the death blow to our already anemic economy.
Phoronix exists since 2004 and has been posted on /. dozens of times at least since 2008.
No more than the fact that males have nipples is evidence that we should breastfeed babies.
Humans eat meat. Our teeth and intenstines are the evidence.
Naturalistic fallacy. Just because we evolved to eat meat doesn't mean we have to eat meat, or even that we should.
(not that I don't - I'm just pointing out the reasoning flaw)
There's $4 billion available without raising taxes: the oil and natural gas subsidies.
Uh, they can't allow them to continue operating because it's evidence. You can't give evidence to the accused, for obvious reasons.
You mean, like the dozens of Israeli Jewish people who convert to Islam every year? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3274735,00.html
How do you know this was posted by the same person, besides "Kevin-Roses-Left-Nut" word?
Facebook was found to be tracking users even those without an account across websites with the button. Yes, very "willingly giving away" /s
If you don't buy phones from companies that have sued over patents, I'm pretty sure you'll remain phoneless. Unless you get an openmoko or something similar.
(...) if that money was actually immediately earmarked for purposes of controlling any pollution running off such lands (...)
Yes? And why would that suddenly happen just because the govt didn't own the lands? The "holy hand of the free market" would touch their hearts and make them immune to corruption?
Your "solution" doesn't solve the real problem.
Yes, the brand will control what domains are created under their TLD, of course.
A TLD is itself an actual domain: try, for example, http://ac/