The Internet is sort of like the internal combustion engine. And the DMCA ushered in a new era of flying, time-traveling, Mr. Fusion-powered DeLoreans.
TFA basically says the DMCA could be much, much worse. True. Any law of this nature is going to piss someone off. Any law of this nature is going to be abused. Any law of this nature is going to contain something odious for someone.
But this is/., so cue the small-but-vocal crowd of hysterical anti-copyright trolls.
They are. Sarah Palin's ascent partly had to do with dissing other Republicans there---but the Republican brand is so strong in the Great White North that even with all the scandal, the Democrats still didn't win.
But Stevens has had pretty tight margins this election due to the indictment (otherwise he'd be pretty safe), and the conviction can't help.
I have to say, installation is one of the areas where Ubuntu really is easier than XP. When I had to reinstall XP on a formatted hard drive, I spent about an hour having to hunt down all the drivers it didn't include.
That being said, try the Ubuntu LiveCD before you install.
Barack Obama's education was paid for by Saudi Arabian oil princes?
Barack Obama plans to enslave all of the hard-working, white Americans as part of black reparations?
Barack Obama paid $200,000 to the German Nazi organization UMLAUT to drive up attendance to his Berlin rally?
Michelle Obama retains her youthful look by bathing in the blood of infants?
Both Obamas are trained in the art of voodoo witchcraft?
Obama's supporters have engaged in a campaign of violence to terrorize God-fearing McCain supporters, including an underground vault where they torture and kill McCain campaign volunteers?
Obama's third-grade essay claimed that his personal heroes included Stalin, Mao, and Caligula?
Shuttleworth's real dig is not, "Hey, we're going to make it so that you can do stuff you couldn't do before." No, no, no. Of course you can already do stuff like this. And I'm sure everyone who reads this site could tell you how.
The point is making it screamingly obvious and intuitive. Fool-proof. Unconscious. Integrated. The kind of abstraction where you don't think, "Hey, I have an application to do such-and-such," but where you think, "This is a computer, so it does that if I click here." Like the "Back" button on your browser or the Save screen in a videogame. You want it all in one place and you don't want to think about it as a separate component.
There was a book I liked as a kid called, "Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day." Bad stuff kept on happening to the protagonist, and he kept on threatening to move to Australia. At the end of the book, someone pointed out to him that Australia sucks, too.
Just when I started considering relocating to Oz sometime after I graduate, to get away from all the American bullshit, you guys come out of the woodwork and remind me of that book.
I've wondered for a while if part of what makes white voters more likely to accept Obama as the first black president is the fact that, despite his dark skin color, he has very European facial features. Andrew Sullivan has recently been posting pictures of Obama's (white) grandfather, to whom the presidential candidate bears a striking resemblance.
Obviously, it's impossible to give a truly satisfying answer to such a counterfactual, but I can't help but suspect that if Obama had more stereotypically African features---you know what I mean---that he would not be in the position he is in now.
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FYI: I wasn't actually giving a cue.
The Internet is sort of like the internal combustion engine. And the DMCA ushered in a new era of flying, time-traveling, Mr. Fusion-powered DeLoreans.
TFA basically says the DMCA could be much, much worse. True. Any law of this nature is going to piss someone off. Any law of this nature is going to be abused. Any law of this nature is going to contain something odious for someone.
But this is /., so cue the small-but-vocal crowd of hysterical anti-copyright trolls.
Laws against felons voting, even. Of course there are laws against felons.
Felons tend to prefer Democrats. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the laws against felons are part of a strategy.
They are. Sarah Palin's ascent partly had to do with dissing other Republicans there---but the Republican brand is so strong in the Great White North that even with all the scandal, the Democrats still didn't win.
But Stevens has had pretty tight margins this election due to the indictment (otherwise he'd be pretty safe), and the conviction can't help.
It's like they used to say a century ago---everything that can be invented already has been. ;-)
(And before anyone comes along and corrects me, yes, I know the original quote is just an urban legend.)
Airplanes, /. threads...it's all hijacking.
Last time I checked, Windows didn't support YaST and wasn't called SUSE.
But really, I'm trying to count how many Linux user stereotypes are being validated by this post.
Is it just me, or does the new Ubuntu wallpaper look like a skull?
Disclaimer: I give really messed up answers on Rorschach tests.
I have to say, installation is one of the areas where Ubuntu really is easier than XP. When I had to reinstall XP on a formatted hard drive, I spent about an hour having to hunt down all the drivers it didn't include.
That being said, try the Ubuntu LiveCD before you install.
It's only
a slight
hyperbole.
Your signature is a nice touch.
Before you mod it down, it's called being facetious.
But not too facetious. Go check out some of the videos from outside Palin rallies.
Did you know that...
Barack Obama's education was paid for by Saudi Arabian oil princes?
Barack Obama plans to enslave all of the hard-working, white Americans as part of black reparations?
Barack Obama paid $200,000 to the German Nazi organization UMLAUT to drive up attendance to his Berlin rally?
Michelle Obama retains her youthful look by bathing in the blood of infants?
Both Obamas are trained in the art of voodoo witchcraft?
Obama's supporters have engaged in a campaign of violence to terrorize God-fearing McCain supporters, including an underground vault where they torture and kill McCain campaign volunteers?
Obama's third-grade essay claimed that his personal heroes included Stalin, Mao, and Caligula?
The More You Know.
I'm one step closer to getting my disability check when they identify the gene for humans. It's not laziness, it's a disease.
Shuttleworth's real dig is not, "Hey, we're going to make it so that you can do stuff you couldn't do before." No, no, no. Of course you can already do stuff like this. And I'm sure everyone who reads this site could tell you how.
The point is making it screamingly obvious and intuitive. Fool-proof. Unconscious. Integrated. The kind of abstraction where you don't think, "Hey, I have an application to do such-and-such," but where you think, "This is a computer, so it does that if I click here." Like the "Back" button on your browser or the Save screen in a videogame. You want it all in one place and you don't want to think about it as a separate component.
As to why that post got modded "Informative," I'm really stumped.
You know, I tell it to show me "raw and uncut", and it refuses to do so.
If you have the first post, and you don't say "FIRST!!!", then you automatically get modded up.
Damn those Redcoats with their cruise missiles, F-22s, ICBMs, M1s, B-52s, satellites and robots!
An underground lair located in a volcano?
I bet he could afford real sharks.
There was a book I liked as a kid called, "Alexander's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day." Bad stuff kept on happening to the protagonist, and he kept on threatening to move to Australia. At the end of the book, someone pointed out to him that Australia sucks, too.
Just when I started considering relocating to Oz sometime after I graduate, to get away from all the American bullshit, you guys come out of the woodwork and remind me of that book.
Just a socialist, or a socialist Muslim terrorist?
Real socialists are offended by the comparison.
I'll be writing in Ted Kaczynski.
I've wondered for a while if part of what makes white voters more likely to accept Obama as the first black president is the fact that, despite his dark skin color, he has very European facial features. Andrew Sullivan has recently been posting pictures of Obama's (white) grandfather, to whom the presidential candidate bears a striking resemblance.
Obviously, it's impossible to give a truly satisfying answer to such a counterfactual, but I can't help but suspect that if Obama had more stereotypically African features---you know what I mean---that he would not be in the position he is in now.