Good idea. If we can get the manufacturer promises there aren't any government backdoors, we'll be perfectly safe from any and all conceivable attacks.
I've found it as effortless as switching between two non-native languages. I just have to take a second to remember which I'm typing in, and after a sentence or two I'm up to my normal speed for that layout.
Dvorak doesn't seem any faster at all to me (though I'm out of practice), but it does seem to hurt less after hours of use than qwerty.
This is an economic bill, with the "fuel inefficient" part added in to make it a bit less damaging. I agree completely though about the true motivation.
Microsoft doesn't ship windows with antivirus, arguably a critical component (windows is exploited frequently AND MS recommends AV strongly). I don't see how this is/that/ different to be honest. Not really arguing one side or another here, just saying that both a browser and whatever is necessary to make the OS secure should be included with the initial install.
As much as I support opposing the MAFIAA's lawsuits, I have to admit. If we beat them here, what will they try next? Will it be worse? They might put the time and money they were putting into lawsuits into censoring the internet instead of merely looking at it as a side project.
HOW CAN I INSTALLS NOSCRIPTS ON MY WINDOWS MICROSOFT EXPLORER VISTA? KTHANKSBYE!
Sarcasm aside, that's not going to cut it. We may be in an arms race, but we do need to try to keep up. The internet should not just be for technogeeks any more than medicine should be only for doctors. But I guess you can argue that this is like a doctor telling you to eat well, excercise regularly, and lose Windows--erm, weight.
Last I checked you had to tell Dell about fifteeen times yes I'm sure to buy a computer without windows, and click through warning after warning. I hate Dell, but she has NO case.
It still seems to me this model breaks down completely unless the publishers declare there are X copies of the game when they make it, and once that many are sold/pirated they can't sell it any more. Computers mean that information can be copied without cost, and traditional property law simply doesn't work here. The sooner we realize this and update the law, the better off everyone involved will be.
The whole commandments things is taken pretty loosly. But joking aside, the text can be better translated as "you must not murder". Murder is unjustified killing. Remember, we have free will and reason. In nearly all adherents to Exodus, we see little to no reluctance to kill when they deem it "necessary". All the disagreement is over when it's necessary.
This is why I don't really see most religions as "war-like" or peaceful, with a few exceptions like the Society of Friends.
True. But morality and legality never have been identical and never will be. One more case study of how the best we can only hope for is a crude approximation.
But then again, pretty much everybody is committing hundreds of "crimes" per day, the justice is all in the enforcement.
There's nothing immoral with ROM dumping a game YOU own and playing it on your computer, no matter what industry propaganda may claim otherwise.
It's when, in addition to your condition, you remove from someone else the good.
Consider: when you steal a stick of gum from a store, you are both obtaining something for free AND depriving the store of the good. Essentially, you are committing two crimes. Suppose you merely copied the gum. You still didn't buy it, but the store can sell it to someone else.
An alternate argument: If you weren't going to buy it, how is the seller actually harmed?*
They're definitely related, but it's a gross oversimplification to claim it's the same thing.
* Personally I'd argue you always "were" going to buy some portion of the number of media you pirate, and hence it's still wrong. But assuming you *actually* wouldn't have taken it if you couldn't have it for free, then I fail to see any direct harm the same way stealing a car from a dealership is. You have a car that isn't yours AND the dealership is out one.
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Good idea. If we can get the manufacturer promises there aren't any government backdoors, we'll be perfectly safe from any and all conceivable attacks.
But I guess it is an improvement at least.
If your keyboard, not your mind, is the limiting step for your programming, you need to learn a better language.
I've found it as effortless as switching between two non-native languages. I just have to take a second to remember which I'm typing in, and after a sentence or two I'm up to my normal speed for that layout.
Dvorak doesn't seem any faster at all to me (though I'm out of practice), but it does seem to hurt less after hours of use than qwerty.
This is an economic bill, with the "fuel inefficient" part added in to make it a bit less damaging. I agree completely though about the true motivation.
Reminds me of when MS was making rumblings that Linux was illegally undercutting them by giving it away for free...
It's hard to include software in a package manager when you need specific permission from EVERY package AND you have to charge for most of them.
They'll start shipping MSVPC with an Ubuntu image on it, that has FF installed on it. There's just no other way to do it fairly.
Microsoft doesn't ship windows with antivirus, arguably a critical component (windows is exploited frequently AND MS recommends AV strongly). I don't see how this is /that/ different to be honest. Not really arguing one side or another here, just saying that both a browser and whatever is necessary to make the OS secure should be included with the initial install.
Funny, the RIAA reported the figure at over 9000%. Clearly we must be fair and balanced, and average both sides to reach a compromise.
(>9000% + 95%) / 2 is >4547.5%
Just tube it off bittorrent, I'm sure someone will put it up. After all, it'll be in the public domain!
Tube connection. Unless you can download that too, in which case all you need is a bit of cash to bootstrap,
As much as I support opposing the MAFIAA's lawsuits, I have to admit. If we beat them here, what will they try next? Will it be worse? They might put the time and money they were putting into lawsuits into censoring the internet instead of merely looking at it as a side project.
I'm shocked Windows is considered secure enough for said systems. Hell, I wouldn't trust the BSDs with that.
HOW CAN I INSTALLS NOSCRIPTS ON MY WINDOWS MICROSOFT EXPLORER VISTA? KTHANKSBYE!
Sarcasm aside, that's not going to cut it. We may be in an arms race, but we do need to try to keep up. The internet should not just be for technogeeks any more than medicine should be only for doctors. But I guess you can argue that this is like a doctor telling you to eat well, excercise regularly, and lose Windows--erm, weight.
Duh, it's where the American tubes are joined to the Elbonian tubes
No but we can request that they be extradited or, failing that, tried there, for the crimes that are illegal in their own country.
Last I checked you had to tell Dell about fifteeen times yes I'm sure to buy a computer without windows, and click through warning after warning. I hate Dell, but she has NO case.
I'd tell her that bullshit red tape would prevent it otherwise it's a good idea. But then I'm a scientist.
It still seems to me this model breaks down completely unless the publishers declare there are X copies of the game when they make it, and once that many are sold/pirated they can't sell it any more. Computers mean that information can be copied without cost, and traditional property law simply doesn't work here. The sooner we realize this and update the law, the better off everyone involved will be.
If I learned anything from Zardoz it's that it's not the gun that is evil...
Yeah but it's gonna take a bit for his shield to recharge, best to find cover.
Oh come on, it was only 9mm. He must be one of the nonviolent priests or he'd have a fully automatic:-)
The whole commandments things is taken pretty loosly. But joking aside, the text can be better translated as "you must not murder". Murder is unjustified killing. Remember, we have free will and reason. In nearly all adherents to Exodus, we see little to no reluctance to kill when they deem it "necessary". All the disagreement is over when it's necessary.
This is why I don't really see most religions as "war-like" or peaceful, with a few exceptions like the Society of Friends.
True. But morality and legality never have been identical and never will be. One more case study of how the best we can only hope for is a crude approximation.
But then again, pretty much everybody is committing hundreds of "crimes" per day, the justice is all in the enforcement.
There's nothing immoral with ROM dumping a game YOU own and playing it on your computer, no matter what industry propaganda may claim otherwise.
It's when, in addition to your condition, you remove from someone else the good.
Consider: when you steal a stick of gum from a store, you are both obtaining something for free AND depriving the store of the good. Essentially, you are committing two crimes. Suppose you merely copied the gum. You still didn't buy it, but the store can sell it to someone else.
An alternate argument: If you weren't going to buy it, how is the seller actually harmed?*
They're definitely related, but it's a gross oversimplification to claim it's the same thing.
* Personally I'd argue you always "were" going to buy some portion of the number of media you pirate, and hence it's still wrong. But assuming you *actually* wouldn't have taken it if you couldn't have it for free, then I fail to see any direct harm the same way stealing a car from a dealership is. You have a car that isn't yours AND the dealership is out one.