If it was the result of a user knowingly agreeing to view popups in exchange for some consideration, then those users are on their own just as much as if they'd made a cron job pop a dialog box up every 10 minutes informing them that they were an idiot.
It does prompt them, and there is no way around the prompt. It is usually 2 screens, sometimes more. People just like to spread FUD about it because it's one of those evil advertising companies without actually looking at anything factual.
Gator is really good about being extremely open about what they do. It's the closed-minded people who fail to realize that and just spread shit.
So you need permission from the car company to give people rides? you need permission from the TV company to share TV? What about permission from the radio stations to play radio? why arent speakers outlawed in echange for headphones so you cant share sound?
I'm talking about my car. I purchased my car. If you drive it, it's theft and I throw you in jail. If you take my content, and give it away, it's theft. You are saying, "Well if X, who sold you XYZ and relinquished rights to it, says so or not than that is binding, not what you, who actually own it, says!"
I was wrong, you actually can prove yourself to be a bigger idiot. I guess I should never doubt how stupid you can actually be.
My content/property is mine. To do with what I choose. Not what you choose. That is very simple, and you should have learned that in kindergarten. I'm sorry you didn't, I would blame your parents.
If intangible property is going to be treated like physical property, why is it we can share cars, our tvs, chairs, swimming pools, etc without the pool company trying to rob us of our freedom and demand we use these things which we own in a certain way?
You can share intangible property if you have permission, dipshit. But you know what? If you "share" somebodies car without permission, it's called grand theft auto.
Dont listen to the radio because you are stealing music, dont surf the web because its stealing html.
This sums up your idiocy enough, I don't think you need any other help.
Next time, Xerithane, when your flamewar drags on that long, stop using your karma bonus. I understand, the other dude was using his bonus, but... he's a moron.
Yeah, I should - my apologies.
Not a big deal, but it might make me rethink my current comments view (bonus to first 5% UIDs).
and the other lessons read just like Project Management 101 too. I would have loved to have seen something insightful or interesting about how open source changes the development environment or the management environment from single location to distributed, but no such luck.
I was in the same boat. It was a decent read, but it had the feeling of "Doctor it hurts when I do this" all over it.
Still makes me wonder how many people will be influenced by it. If so, then great. Maybe Freshmeat will stop getting so many "SuperApp 0.0.1" posts.
Until one of the laptop makers get's a clue and puts in there a Geforce 4 or even a Geforce 3 it isnt gonna happen.
You mean Toshiba?
Hell, my super slow P-III 866 with a geforce2 is faster playing quake 3 and Ut2003 than the new 2ghz dell laptops here at work.
One of my laptops (Which, ironically, is a P3-800mhz) has a GeForce 2. Now Toshiba uses GeForce 4's, and the P25 uses the GeForce FX 5200.
I think the reason why your laptops at work don't have high-end mobile video cards is because they're work systems.
At the time I got my laptop with the GeForce card in it, it could play any game on the market without any issues. It still plays War3 ok. So, in short, you just missed the boat.
First of all, its debateable right now if intangible property is a right, we havent really figured that out yet, the DMCA was not created in a democractic way.
Uhm, intangible property is a right and has been for very long time. That whole patent system thing, maybe you've heard about it.
Second, ok lets say intangible property is a right, no ones taking your intangible property when they copy it. If you own a tangible car and I take my major wand and copy that car, suddenly we both have a car. I havent taken your car, but I have your car.
If I have the only car, and I control who gets to see my car, and you copy my car and let everybody see it you stole my revenue from my car (Defining revenue as some sort of trade of goods, whether it be information or money.)
This is why it is stealing. It's not a very hard thing to understand. You are taking something that doesn't belong to you, and showing it to people who should not be allowed access to it.
Information is like water, instead of trying to control the flow of it, we should learn to profit from it in a way which allows it to flow freely.
Your arguments are like vomit, instead of trying to stop the flow of it, we should learn to dodge it in a way which allows it to flow freely.
Information is not like water. Why the fuck do you need to put everything in an analogy? It's not a metaphor dipshit. You are stealing copyrighted content. There is no fucking car. There is no "Information is water" -- it's information. It's been around long enough we don't need dumbass metaphors for it anymore.
This means to TAKE. That means if I copy all the files on your computer then I delete your files I have "took" your files.
See, when you look at a definition that was created before intangible property than yeah, you could possibly be right. The references I provided prove that under common linguistical terms, in the English language, that using content copyrighted by another party outside of the provisions of copyright is stealing. IP Theft is the unauthorized taking of anothers trade secrets and intangible property, for example.
But we're not in a digital era. Perhaps you would be better off living in the medieval times. I'm sure the rest of the Slashdot community would miss your idiocy though.
The proper term is "investment". For an English major you sure dont know the definition of the words you choose to use even if you spell them properly and/or have mastered the use of the spellcheck program in your OfficeXP ware.
Because you have such a lacking grasp on the english language I am going to help you with this term. Investment means that in the future, over a period of time ending at some expected date, you will receive a financial return or benefit greater than which you put in.
The word you are, continuously looking for, is purchase.
Investments are money given in advance in the hopes that a company will give returns. A purchase is buying a product or license, you purchase software from Microsoft, you invest in the stock market.
Oh wait, you figured that out. So, when you purchase a membership to MandrakeClub you are.. uhm, purchasing something. Or you purchase their boxed sets. Or you invest in their company by buying their stock, which isn't MandrakeClub.
Just like P2P users pay via the ads in those programs?
Except your logic is astoundingly flawed. Slashdot owns the content on their page, or attributes it otherwise. Other websites own their content.
No thats sharing content thats under copyright, stealing content is hacking into the site, copying it and then deleting the data from their harddrive.
Let's follow some logic here: Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission. Property:
1. Something owned; a possession.
2. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property. 3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
4. Possessions considered as a group.
What you do with it is irrelevant, if you delete it or not the person who posted it still stole it.
Get your facts straight, if you are an English major you should at least know the difference between copyright infringement and stealing.
Oops, proved wrong again. I'm surprised you have any dignity left.
There are alot of companies which arent doomed that are just as important such as Transgaming, even Slashdot. To say Mandrake should be helped by the masses even if its a waste of our money is to think we are rich and have unlimited money. WE DONT!
Transgaming is about a millionth of a percent more important to me than Mandrake. I don't purchase anything from Mandrake, either. Welcome to the free market.
This is what you call an investment, like the stock market, we invest when we expect to see returns, we dont invest as a donation.
No, it's called a purchase in most cases. Donations are different, because you don't get anything in return. This is why I said if you can get something for your money, do it. Otherwise, don't. Do it because you are purchasing something, not because it's a doomed or successful company.
It's a damn shame that comments like this are modded down here when they raise perfectly valid (and amusing) points. This wasn't flamebait for shit. Cocksucking moderators.
Here's why it wasn't flamebait, or wrong:
Mandrake Linux is geared for Linux on the Desktop; specifically: simplified Linux for migrating and new users.
Linux on the desktop suffers major problems such as:
Font inconsistencies, fontconfig is currently malformed and GTK1 applications (XMMS, Mozilla) are having horrid problems with using fontconfig2 and GTK2.
Driver inconsistencies; NVdriver has had serious problems with their Go series and ATI is sort of losing it's "unofficial" drivers on their websites.
No easy path to upgrade; Even with boot disks, it's too much. Why is there no software based upgrade for desktop distributions?
Too many applications; It's hard to decide which one you should use.
Mandrake is going to hurt as they reach market saturation. Too much competition for their target markets that have a head start (Red Hat, Lindows)
So the only way to see how many members are in the Mandrake Club is to actually join?
Yes.
Yeah right, people arent going to join unless they can see how many members have joined before them, they dont want to feel like they are wasting their money.
Except for those 15,000 people. Uhh.. what?
15,000 however is alot of members, I think if Mandrake can double that number they'd be fine. What mandrake needs is to keep a stat on their website which in realtime tells exactly how many members they have. Its important for people to know if they are helping a business which is dying, or if they are helping a business which is thriving.
Why is it important? What difference does this make at all? If it's a good company, with a good product than they deserve to be helped.
Anybody who thinks they can get something for their buck, even if it's just piece of mind, should part with it and join the MandrakeClub. Fuck thinking if it's helping a prosperous or doomed company.
...he's making good headway with Gimp, so I'll leave him with that till he finds something he can't do with it.
I would recommend grabbing the latest developers build of the Gimp (1.3.16) as long as you have GTK2 on your system. The differences between 1.2 and 1.3 are mind-blowing, and a definite upgrade.
I actually think 1.3 puts Photoshop to shame, at least for me. I've not had 1.3.16 crash on me yet, and it seems pretty stable (A few quirks you have to work around, like menu items not working with short-cut keys all the time.)
I want to see how many club members joined the club, as well as h ow many corperate club members there are.
Because you think they are lying? You see, you put "Where are the numbers?" comments when it's a bad company saying that they are slaughtering the competition. Not a distro company that is trying to get it's feet under them.
You could also try to find a spell checker, there are several free ones that are included in Mandrake.
That sounds like a GREAT idea! I think that all sensitive information should be stored in MySQL! I also don't lock the doors of my house and put up a "Please do not steal anything" sign on the front door.
Please stop spreading the FUD. MySQL's last exploit was = 3.23.56. Production is 4.0.13. Any database is a possible security hole, becaue if someone gets the login information everything is open anyway. This is why you put them in a trusted segment of the network, and watch connectios and you have less to worry about.
So, while you may not like MySQL for whatever reasons, don't make shit up about it. There are plenty of things to criticize about MySQL without the need to use your imagination.
The government would lay a new tax on Internet users, maybe spread uniformly, maybe based on how much you download, maybe on how much money you have. This would then be used to fund approved artists.
So... when you make up scenarios do you also put Godzilla in there, too? That would top it off, and I think you should add that into your little spiel.
Point well take, but then today's quantum physicists aren't really quantum physicists by futuristic standards. In 500 years, many of the arts we call science will be viewed as we regard alchemy today.
I always like to think about that. Here's a great example: All those ugly ass cars in the 70s were pimp-mobiles. Now we have cars with a fettish for black plastic, instead of fake wood.
In 50 years, who will make fun of us for what we do and develop.
In 500 years, who is going to sit and think "Why didn't they invent the hyperglobulanatormediaglyph 500 years ago, it's so simple."
So how is it that SCO's case against IBM is affecting GNU and Linux, but not just IBM?? Can't you see that you're being daft or just ignorant?
Wow, two sentences right next to each other that invalidate any hope that you can present an credible stance... but here goes a retort.
It is, at the moment, only affecting IBM and their distribution rights (AIX, etc.) Currently, there is no action (legal or technical) against GNU/Linux users. Hence, it is not affecting GNU/Linux or any members of it's kernel development team outside of IBM employees at all.
Legal problems are actually easy to handle - it's the FUD and clear thinking that's difficult to handle.
Yup, and this is why lawyers only get paid minimum wage. Because it's so easy to handle...
The potential risk that a co. which does not look beyond Windoze is that it might go bamkrupt, paying exorbitant annual licensing fees and geting nothing in return. When direct cash benefit is weighed against potential low legal risk, companies take the tangible benefits route.
Spell check my friend, please make use of it.
Companies also do not always take the tangible benefit route, and by that I think you are meaning TCO. If a TCO incorporates a liability risk (such as being sued for using Linux) than the TCO for any Linux-based system will be much higher than any other platform.
If SCO thinks they can announce an extortion license fee, and hope to collect it, they're plain stupid. Judging by the sly tone of your post, looks liek you're promoting the paranoia as well.
If you can't debate it, claim the other party is astro-turfing and side-step it!
97% of SCO's revenue comes from license fees that are paid for Unixware and IP licenses. Extended what those licenses cover won't take that much effort. If there is any code that is found to be tainted, anybody who distributes Linux will have to pay licenses or fight SCO in court.
Now, when you reply to me make sure you actually read what I'm writing and please use a spell check application and spell things correctly, e.g., "Windows" instead of "Windoze" so you actually sound like an adult.
They are. As soon as users are able to run custom code (thru a verified bootloader) they can run copied games - just do a "softboot". The whole point of the all the signing is to disallow the execution of non trusted code (like a self compiled "hello world.").
It would seem rather trivial to allow the bootloader a restricted set of permissions, but I haven't looked at the XBox system so maybe I'm over-simplifying it.
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If it was the result of a user knowingly agreeing to view popups in exchange for some consideration, then those users are on their own just as much as if they'd made a cron job pop a dialog box up every 10 minutes informing them that they were an idiot.
It does prompt them, and there is no way around the prompt. It is usually 2 screens, sometimes more. People just like to spread FUD about it because it's one of those evil advertising companies without actually looking at anything factual.
Gator is really good about being extremely open about what they do. It's the closed-minded people who fail to realize that and just spread shit.
I think Gator, et al, are guilty of not being completely honest with users about what they're up to.
Gator puts everything on their website, and on GAIN. How much more honest do you want them to be?
However, it'd be interested to know how much Microsoft is paying astroturfers these days.
$3 a word, payable in software licenses only or stock options. If you are really lucky, they use you in their Microsoft Switch ad campaign.
Wow you are an idiot.
So you need permission from the car company to give people rides? you need permission from the TV company to share TV? What about permission from the radio stations to play radio? why arent speakers outlawed in echange for headphones so you cant share sound?
I'm talking about my car. I purchased my car. If you drive it, it's theft and I throw you in jail. If you take my content, and give it away, it's theft. You are saying, "Well if X, who sold you XYZ and relinquished rights to it, says so or not than that is binding, not what you, who actually own it, says!"
I was wrong, you actually can prove yourself to be a bigger idiot. I guess I should never doubt how stupid you can actually be.
My content/property is mine. To do with what I choose. Not what you choose. That is very simple, and you should have learned that in kindergarten. I'm sorry you didn't, I would blame your parents.
If intangible property is going to be treated like physical property, why is it we can share cars, our tvs, chairs, swimming pools, etc without the pool company trying to rob us of our freedom and demand we use these things which we own in a certain way?
You can share intangible property if you have permission, dipshit. But you know what? If you "share" somebodies car without permission, it's called grand theft auto.
Dont listen to the radio because you are stealing music, dont surf the web because its stealing html.
This sums up your idiocy enough, I don't think you need any other help.
Next time, Xerithane, when your flamewar drags on that long, stop using your karma bonus. I understand, the other dude was using his bonus, but... he's a moron.
:)
Yeah, I should - my apologies.
Not a big deal, but it might make me rethink my current comments view (bonus to first 5% UIDs).
Done, I'll try to remember about that next time
and the other lessons read just like Project Management 101 too. I would have loved to have seen something insightful or interesting about how open source changes the development environment or the management environment from single location to distributed, but no such luck.
I was in the same boat. It was a decent read, but it had the feeling of "Doctor it hurts when I do this" all over it.
Still makes me wonder how many people will be influenced by it. If so, then great. Maybe Freshmeat will stop getting so many "SuperApp 0.0.1" posts.
Until one of the laptop makers get's a clue and puts in there a Geforce 4 or even a Geforce 3 it isnt gonna happen.
You mean Toshiba?
Hell, my super slow P-III 866 with a geforce2 is faster playing quake 3 and Ut2003 than the new 2ghz dell laptops here at work.
One of my laptops (Which, ironically, is a P3-800mhz) has a GeForce 2. Now Toshiba uses GeForce 4's, and the P25 uses the GeForce FX 5200.
I think the reason why your laptops at work don't have high-end mobile video cards is because they're work systems.
At the time I got my laptop with the GeForce card in it, it could play any game on the market without any issues. It still plays War3 ok. So, in short, you just missed the boat.
First of all, its debateable right now if intangible property is a right, we havent really figured that out yet, the DMCA was not created in a democractic way.
Uhm, intangible property is a right and has been for very long time. That whole patent system thing, maybe you've heard about it.
Second, ok lets say intangible property is a right, no ones taking your intangible property when they copy it. If you own a tangible car and I take my major wand and copy that car, suddenly we both have a car. I havent taken your car, but I have your car.
If I have the only car, and I control who gets to see my car, and you copy my car and let everybody see it you stole my revenue from my car (Defining revenue as some sort of trade of goods, whether it be information or money.)
This is why it is stealing. It's not a very hard thing to understand. You are taking something that doesn't belong to you, and showing it to people who should not be allowed access to it.
Information is like water, instead of trying to control the flow of it, we should learn to profit from it in a way which allows it to flow freely.
Your arguments are like vomit, instead of trying to stop the flow of it, we should learn to dodge it in a way which allows it to flow freely.
Information is not like water. Why the fuck do you need to put everything in an analogy? It's not a metaphor dipshit. You are stealing copyrighted content. There is no fucking car. There is no "Information is water" -- it's information. It's been around long enough we don't need dumbass metaphors for it anymore.
This means to TAKE. That means if I copy all the files on your computer then I delete your files I have "took" your files.
See, when you look at a definition that was created before intangible property than yeah, you could possibly be right. The references I provided prove that under common linguistical terms, in the English language, that using content copyrighted by another party outside of the provisions of copyright is stealing. IP Theft is the unauthorized taking of anothers trade secrets and intangible property, for example.
But we're not in a digital era. Perhaps you would be better off living in the medieval times. I'm sure the rest of the Slashdot community would miss your idiocy though.
The proper term is "investment". For an English major you sure dont know the definition of the words you choose to use even if you spell them properly and/or have mastered the use of the spellcheck program in your OfficeXP ware.
Because you have such a lacking grasp on the english language I am going to help you with this term. Investment means that in the future, over a period of time ending at some expected date, you will receive a financial return or benefit greater than which you put in.
The word you are, continuously looking for, is purchase.
Investments are money given in advance in the hopes that a company will give returns. A purchase is buying a product or license, you purchase software from Microsoft, you invest in the stock market.
Oh wait, you figured that out. So, when you purchase a membership to MandrakeClub you are.. uhm, purchasing something. Or you purchase their boxed sets. Or you invest in their company by buying their stock, which isn't MandrakeClub.
Uhm... What in the fuck are you talking about?
Maybe if you made more intelligent posts, your karma wouldnt be so low. Try to make an insightful post Mr.Troll
Lets see here... in my history I have been modded down twice and have one +5. In your history you have been modded down 5 times, and have one +3.
What does that tell you?
Just like P2P users pay via the ads in those programs?
Except your logic is astoundingly flawed. Slashdot owns the content on their page, or attributes it otherwise. Other websites own their content.
No thats sharing content thats under copyright, stealing content is hacking into the site, copying it and then deleting the data from their harddrive.
Let's follow some logic here:
Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
Property:
1. Something owned; a possession.
2. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property.
3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
4. Possessions considered as a group.
What you do with it is irrelevant, if you delete it or not the person who posted it still stole it.
Get your facts straight, if you are an English major you should at least know the difference between copyright infringement and stealing.
Oops, proved wrong again. I'm surprised you have any dignity left.
There are alot of companies which arent doomed that are just as important such as Transgaming, even Slashdot. To say Mandrake should be helped by the masses even if its a waste of our money is to think we are rich and have unlimited money. WE DONT!
Transgaming is about a millionth of a percent more important to me than Mandrake. I don't purchase anything from Mandrake, either. Welcome to the free market.
This is what you call an investment, like the stock market, we invest when we expect to see returns, we dont invest as a donation.
No, it's called a purchase in most cases. Donations are different, because you don't get anything in return. This is why I said if you can get something for your money, do it. Otherwise, don't. Do it because you are purchasing something, not because it's a doomed or successful company.
Since its stealing, why havent you paid for Slashdot? Why arent you payinng for every site? I mean you steal all these other websites.
Since you are a fucking idiot, I'll put this in simple terms:
I pay for Slashdot with advertiser views and click-throughs. I do click through links that I find interesting, and they get paid.
I pay for any website via their terms of service, whether it be free registration or advertising views.
Stealing content is taking content that is available only through a subscription and giving it to other people.
I'm a slashdot subscriber, are you?
No, but I'm at least literate.
Here's why it wasn't flamebait, or wrong:
Now for my -1, close-minded bitches.
So the only way to see how many members are in the Mandrake Club is to actually join?
Yes.
Yeah right, people arent going to join unless they can see how many members have joined before them, they dont want to feel like they are wasting their money.
Except for those 15,000 people. Uhh.. what?
15,000 however is alot of members, I think if Mandrake can double that number they'd be fine. What mandrake needs is to keep a stat on their website which in realtime tells exactly how many members they have. Its important for people to know if they are helping a business which is dying, or if they are helping a business which is thriving.
Why is it important? What difference does this make at all? If it's a good company, with a good product than they deserve to be helped.
Anybody who thinks they can get something for their buck, even if it's just piece of mind, should part with it and join the MandrakeClub. Fuck thinking if it's helping a prosperous or doomed company.
...he's making good headway with Gimp, so I'll leave him with that till he finds something he can't do with it.
I would recommend grabbing the latest developers build of the Gimp (1.3.16) as long as you have GTK2 on your system. The differences between 1.2 and 1.3 are mind-blowing, and a definite upgrade.
I actually think 1.3 puts Photoshop to shame, at least for me. I've not had 1.3.16 crash on me yet, and it seems pretty stable (A few quirks you have to work around, like menu items not working with short-cut keys all the time.)
Why dont you post the article here so we can actually read it.
Because it's a subscription article, and some people actually have moral objections to stealing content from people and companies.
I want to see how many club members joined the club, as well as h ow many corperate club members there are.
Because you think they are lying? You see, you put "Where are the numbers?" comments when it's a bad company saying that they are slaughtering the competition. Not a distro company that is trying to get it's feet under them.
You could also try to find a spell checker, there are several free ones that are included in Mandrake.
That sounds like a GREAT idea! I think that all sensitive information should be stored in MySQL! I also don't lock the doors of my house and put up a "Please do not steal anything" sign on the front door.
Please stop spreading the FUD. MySQL's last exploit was = 3.23.56. Production is 4.0.13. Any database is a possible security hole, becaue if someone gets the login information everything is open anyway. This is why you put them in a trusted segment of the network, and watch connectios and you have less to worry about.
So, while you may not like MySQL for whatever reasons, don't make shit up about it. There are plenty of things to criticize about MySQL without the need to use your imagination.
What the EFF really wants is Socialized Music.
Really? Where did they even vaguely hint at that?
The government would lay a new tax on Internet users, maybe spread uniformly, maybe based on how much you download, maybe on how much money you have. This would then be used to fund approved artists.
So... when you make up scenarios do you also put Godzilla in there, too? That would top it off, and I think you should add that into your little spiel.
"EFF supports socialization AND GODZILLA!"
Point well take, but then today's quantum physicists aren't really quantum physicists by futuristic standards. In 500 years, many of the arts we call science will be viewed as we regard alchemy today.
I always like to think about that. Here's a great example: All those ugly ass cars in the 70s were pimp-mobiles. Now we have cars with a fettish for black plastic, instead of fake wood.
In 50 years, who will make fun of us for what we do and develop.
In 500 years, who is going to sit and think "Why didn't they invent the hyperglobulanatormediaglyph 500 years ago, it's so simple."
So how is it that SCO's case against IBM is affecting GNU and Linux, but not just IBM?? Can't you see that you're being daft or just ignorant?
Wow, two sentences right next to each other that invalidate any hope that you can present an credible stance... but here goes a retort.
It is, at the moment, only affecting IBM and their distribution rights (AIX, etc.) Currently, there is no action (legal or technical) against GNU/Linux users. Hence, it is not affecting GNU/Linux or any members of it's kernel development team outside of IBM employees at all.
Legal problems are actually easy to handle - it's the FUD and clear thinking that's difficult to handle.
Yup, and this is why lawyers only get paid minimum wage. Because it's so easy to handle...
The potential risk that a co. which does not look beyond Windoze is that it might go bamkrupt, paying exorbitant annual licensing fees and geting nothing in return. When direct cash benefit is weighed against potential low legal risk, companies take the tangible benefits route.
Spell check my friend, please make use of it.
Companies also do not always take the tangible benefit route, and by that I think you are meaning TCO. If a TCO incorporates a liability risk (such as being sued for using Linux) than the TCO for any Linux-based system will be much higher than any other platform.
If SCO thinks they can announce an extortion license fee, and hope to collect it, they're plain stupid. Judging by the sly tone of your post, looks liek you're promoting the paranoia as well.
If you can't debate it, claim the other party is astro-turfing and side-step it!
97% of SCO's revenue comes from license fees that are paid for Unixware and IP licenses. Extended what those licenses cover won't take that much effort. If there is any code that is found to be tainted, anybody who distributes Linux will have to pay licenses or fight SCO in court.
Now, when you reply to me make sure you actually read what I'm writing and please use a spell check application and spell things correctly, e.g., "Windows" instead of "Windoze" so you actually sound like an adult.
They are. As soon as users are able to run custom code (thru a verified bootloader) they can run copied games - just do a "softboot".
The whole point of the all the signing is to disallow the execution of non trusted code (like a self compiled "hello world.").
It would seem rather trivial to allow the bootloader a restricted set of permissions, but I haven't looked at the XBox system so maybe I'm over-simplifying it.