Bullshit. I know a couple of people who've been mugged; they've both been injured in the process. Nothing too serious - a broken wrist, a sprained arm, a broken finger (which is never going to be straight and will always be scarred, by the way).
It's a NON-VIOLENT crime (unlike the invasion of Iraq).
What does that have to do with anything? My friends didn't order the invasion or take part in it.
THERE ARE NO VICTIMS.
Tell that to my friend who's still afraid to be out of her house after dark.
You can't pirate GPLed software, but you can pirate the proprietary stuff that a lot of distros package alongisde all the FOSS stuff, eg installers, config tools, etc.
People used to say that it's all David Blunkett's fault, until he left and his old department of civil servants carried on doing exactly the same thing with a new "leader".
Indeed, this is something I've thought about before. When Jack Boots Straw was home secretary, I couldn't wait to be rid of him - hearing that Blunkett was taking over was wonderful. Then Blunkett turned out to be as bad if not worse. Time passed, and he went, to be replaced by Charles Clarke. "At last," I thought, "maybe now we can have a return to sanity."
No, he's just as bad, if not worse.
Now either the PM is picking his home secretaries using some technique that selects for wannabe fascists, or it's not actually their fault* and everything is being orchestrated by the civil servants who, of course, are more or less permanent no matter who's in the office.
(* Other than that they do not stop them, of course)
While I agree with you, if I may play devil's advocate for a moment - while the sites will lose ad revenue, they'll also gain in the form of lower bandwidth bills...
I can't even try out Eclipse, I only have a meager 512 MB of RAM which can't accomodate wasteful Java applications
I used to develop J2EE apps under Linux using JBuilder on a machine with 256meg of RAM. Sure, it was slow, but it worked. If your machine can't run Eclipse in 512meg, I suggest your consider changing either your hardware or your OS.
I ignored your warning, but it's ok, I didn't make it past the first paragraph. Talk about run-on sentences - the final one is so long, even the author forgets that it's a question and leaves the question mark off the end.
IANAL, but you may be able to go after their UK operations under the Computer Misuse Act which, amongst other things, makes unauthorised access to a computer system or its resources illegal.
As you have formally requested DLink to stop using its address in their firmware and so prevent their products from accessing it (at least by default), they may now fall foul of the Act.
As they do business in the UK, I'd be surprised if they can't be prosecuted in the UK for breaking a UK law...
Well, assuming you're serious, the smmary says "forwarding to", not "routing via", so traceroute won't help you as it can't tell you where *copies* of all your packets are going.
Meanwhile, because Apple is not a Windows OEM, that means that Microsoft (or other OEMs) must deal with the support calls made when things go awry.
Retail boxed copies of Windows come with 2 support calls from MS included in the price. Further support calls are chargeable, at a rate depending on the contact method you use (online is significantly cheaper than by phone).
In other words, MS *already* deals with support calls for Windows. OEMs deal with support for copies of Windows that they pre-install, but purchasers of retail copies, or those with paid support agreements, are already supported by MS.
Apart from that, I agree with you, but I really don't think that this is as bad for MS as you appear to think that it is, at least not short term.
It's a theory in the common meaning of the word, "an idea that might explain (something)". It's most certainly not a theory in the scientific sense of the word as, as you say, it does not provide testable predictions.
Your automatic discounting of option A) is surprising, given the infamous "troll report" thread. That particular thread saw literally thousands of mod points expended on it, with the original post racking up a good few hundred itself. Once the dust had settled, lots of people found themselves unable to moderate; even now, several years later, I've not had mod points since. It was at least a year before I could even meta-mod. It was that thread that spurred the admins to move from explicit moderation totals to the current percentages. (eg showing "Insightful 70%" rather than "Insightful (23)")
I wonder why you are so quick to dismiss a small group of people who have done it before and have essentially unlimited moderation powers, in favour of a group of people who definitely have better things to do, have no guarantee of ever having mod points and a pretty slim chance overall of ever seeing any given post.
I don't doubt that a sufficiently-motivated large corporation couldn't orchestrate that sort of a moderation smack-down. I merely question the ROI on the amount of effort it would require; I can't imagine it would be worth it.
Sure thing Jeff, I'll get right on to it! You leave it with me!
Oh, wait - I can't do anything about it, just as I can't do anything about the dupes, blatant editorialising, misrepresentative and outright incorrect articles.
I sympathise, I really do - I know how important images are, especially to a group using it as part of their identity. But really, if you read/. at all regularly, you'll have seen how often people here complain about certain aspects of the site, and how little notice the editors appear to take of those complaints.
Good luck getting it changed; you're going to need it.
My personal, poorly-informed opinion is that VB.NET exists for two reasons only:
1) Their corporate customers would have crucified them for dropping VB altogether 2) As a stepping stone to a grown-up language like C# or Managed C++
When the main alternatives were C and C++, I could see a use for a language like VB. Now that C# is available (assuming you want to use.NET), I really don't see the point of it.
As hinted in the review Dot-Net has a lot of "magic" and that can make things quite hard when it comes to working out why something isn't working. For anything non-trivial the Visual Studio designer tools lose their benefit, and the result can be a pain to maintain.
So don't use the designer in those situations. Nothing prevents you from writing.NET applications the old fashioned way - in fact, the SDK includes command line compilers, so you don't really need VS.NET at all. There's also a port of ant to.NET (called nant), so all you really need is that, a text editor and the SDK and you're good to go.
Even using the designers you can always get at all the code; it's collapsed by default, but there's nothing stopping you from expanding it and reading through it if you want to understand it (in fact, I'd recommend that you do, for precisely the reason you gave - when things get tricky, the designer gets out of its depth, as do all such tools at some point).
So, they hold the list rather than me holding it myself, and they operate a postal service rather than requiring me to visit them personally, and suddenly it's patentable? Do me a favour.
(Not having a go at you, just at the sheer idiocy of anyone even attempting to patent this, let alone succeeding)
f the prostitutes had opportunities to do something else more profitable or safer, they would do it.
Increasing the education level of the population as a whole, and specifically of the prostitutes, is a major step in the direction of creating those opportunities.
Unemployment, limited opportunities for growth etc are some of the primary reasons why AIDS spreads as fast as it does among the world's poor.
All of these things can be combatted by increased education. If you're surrounded by a plentiful supply of resources, then you can get away with having a lower standard of education. When resources are scarce, you need to know how best to use what little you have.
Suing the company due to the driver's failure to control their vehicle? Sure, it's parking on auto-pilot, but don't think for one minute that the brakes won't work at least. In fact I'd expect that if you so much as nudge the steering wheel it'll surrender control back to you immediately.
Yes, I can see people trying to sue Toyota over this, but they'd be wrong, and would deserve to lose (assuming there's no manufacturing defect, etc)
As it is, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, says it's named "Linux", and Richard Stallman and GNU really don't have much say in the matter. GNU failed to get an OS out the door and joined Linux.
Now, as it happens I don't agree with calling it GNU/Linux either, but I can't agree with your argument, as it's wrong. It's wrong because RMS isn't suggesting that we rename Linux to GNU/Linux, he's suggesting that we rename the distribution to GNU/Linux. That is, you have the Linux kernel that is part of a GNU/Linux distro - eg RedHat GNU/Linux, or Slackware GNU/Linux, all of which incorporate (amongst other things) the Linux kernel and the GNU tool set.
I realise that most people (myself included) simply refer to "an OS distribution based on the Linux kernel" as simply "Linux", but that's what RMS is talking about.
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Apple hopes that they will then discover that they don't need Windows after all.
And even if they don't decide that, they've still bought a Mac...
Bullshit. I know a couple of people who've been mugged; they've both been injured in the process. Nothing too serious - a broken wrist, a sprained arm, a broken finger (which is never going to be straight and will always be scarred, by the way).
It's a NON-VIOLENT crime (unlike the invasion of Iraq).
What does that have to do with anything? My friends didn't order the invasion or take part in it.
THERE ARE NO VICTIMS.
Tell that to my friend who's still afraid to be out of her house after dark.
No, his c) is more like "I could do it, but I really can't be bothered".
You can't pirate GPLed software, but you can pirate the proprietary stuff that a lot of distros package alongisde all the FOSS stuff, eg installers, config tools, etc.
people would be forced to either give up their library of songs from iTunes, or upgrade from WinXP to OSX rather than Vista.
You seem to be forgetting option C), namely "or not upgrade their OS at all".
Some would call them "factual correctness nazis"...
People used to say that it's all David Blunkett's fault, until he left and his old department of civil servants carried on doing exactly the same thing with a new "leader".
Indeed, this is something I've thought about before. When Jack Boots Straw was home secretary, I couldn't wait to be rid of him - hearing that Blunkett was taking over was wonderful. Then Blunkett turned out to be as bad if not worse. Time passed, and he went, to be replaced by Charles Clarke. "At last," I thought, "maybe now we can have a return to sanity."
No, he's just as bad, if not worse.
Now either the PM is picking his home secretaries using some technique that selects for wannabe fascists, or it's not actually their fault* and everything is being orchestrated by the civil servants who, of course, are more or less permanent no matter who's in the office.
(* Other than that they do not stop them, of course)
While I agree with you, if I may play devil's advocate for a moment - while the sites will lose ad revenue, they'll also gain in the form of lower bandwidth bills...
I can't even try out Eclipse, I only have a meager 512 MB of RAM which can't accomodate wasteful Java applications
I used to develop J2EE apps under Linux using JBuilder on a machine with 256meg of RAM. Sure, it was slow, but it worked. If your machine can't run Eclipse in 512meg, I suggest your consider changing either your hardware or your OS.
MD is a magnetic disc, not an optical one.
I ignored your warning, but it's ok, I didn't make it past the first paragraph. Talk about run-on sentences - the final one is so long, even the author forgets that it's a question and leaves the question mark off the end.
IANAL, but you may be able to go after their UK operations under the Computer Misuse Act which, amongst other things, makes unauthorised access to a computer system or its resources illegal.
As you have formally requested DLink to stop using its address in their firmware and so prevent their products from accessing it (at least by default), they may now fall foul of the Act.
As they do business in the UK, I'd be surprised if they can't be prosecuted in the UK for breaking a UK law...
If they can't find convenient vectors, then the ability to produce a fat binary is useless.
Unfortunately, there's a very convenient vector indeed sat at the keyboard of the vast majority of PCs.
Well, assuming you're serious, the smmary says "forwarding to", not "routing via", so traceroute won't help you as it can't tell you where *copies* of all your packets are going.
Meanwhile, because Apple is not a Windows OEM, that means that Microsoft (or other OEMs) must deal with the support calls made when things go awry.
Retail boxed copies of Windows come with 2 support calls from MS included in the price. Further support calls are chargeable, at a rate depending on the contact method you use (online is significantly cheaper than by phone).
In other words, MS *already* deals with support calls for Windows. OEMs deal with support for copies of Windows that they pre-install, but purchasers of retail copies, or those with paid support agreements, are already supported by MS.
Apart from that, I agree with you, but I really don't think that this is as bad for MS as you appear to think that it is, at least not short term.
It's a theory in the common meaning of the word, "an idea that might explain (something)". It's most certainly not a theory in the scientific sense of the word as, as you say, it does not provide testable predictions.
Your automatic discounting of option A) is surprising, given the infamous "troll report" thread. That particular thread saw literally thousands of mod points expended on it, with the original post racking up a good few hundred itself. Once the dust had settled, lots of people found themselves unable to moderate; even now, several years later, I've not had mod points since. It was at least a year before I could even meta-mod. It was that thread that spurred the admins to move from explicit moderation totals to the current percentages. (eg showing "Insightful 70%" rather than "Insightful (23)")
I wonder why you are so quick to dismiss a small group of people who have done it before and have essentially unlimited moderation powers, in favour of a group of people who definitely have better things to do, have no guarantee of ever having mod points and a pretty slim chance overall of ever seeing any given post.
I don't doubt that a sufficiently-motivated large corporation couldn't orchestrate that sort of a moderation smack-down. I merely question the ROI on the amount of effort it would require; I can't imagine it would be worth it.
Sure thing Jeff, I'll get right on to it! You leave it with me!
/. at all regularly, you'll have seen how often people here complain about certain aspects of the site, and how little notice the editors appear to take of those complaints.
Oh, wait - I can't do anything about it, just as I can't do anything about the dupes, blatant editorialising, misrepresentative and outright incorrect articles.
I sympathise, I really do - I know how important images are, especially to a group using it as part of their identity. But really, if you read
Good luck getting it changed; you're going to need it.
My personal, poorly-informed opinion is that VB.NET exists for two reasons only:
.NET), I really don't see the point of it.
.NET applications the old fashioned way - in fact, the SDK includes command line compilers, so you don't really need VS.NET at all. There's also a port of ant to .NET (called nant), so all you really need is that, a text editor and the SDK and you're good to go.
1) Their corporate customers would have crucified them for dropping VB altogether
2) As a stepping stone to a grown-up language like C# or Managed C++
When the main alternatives were C and C++, I could see a use for a language like VB. Now that C# is available (assuming you want to use
As hinted in the review Dot-Net has a lot of "magic" and that can make things quite hard when it comes to working out why something isn't working. For anything non-trivial the Visual Studio designer tools lose their benefit, and the result can be a pain to maintain.
So don't use the designer in those situations. Nothing prevents you from writing
Even using the designers you can always get at all the code; it's collapsed by default, but there's nothing stopping you from expanding it and reading through it if you want to understand it (in fact, I'd recommend that you do, for precisely the reason you gave - when things get tricky, the designer gets out of its depth, as do all such tools at some point).
He's not saying it'd be ok, he's saying it's a likely consequence.
Duh.
So, they hold the list rather than me holding it myself, and they operate a postal service rather than requiring me to visit them personally, and suddenly it's patentable? Do me a favour.
(Not having a go at you, just at the sheer idiocy of anyone even attempting to patent this, let alone succeeding)
f the prostitutes had opportunities to do something else more profitable or safer, they would do it.
Increasing the education level of the population as a whole, and specifically of the prostitutes, is a major step in the direction of creating those opportunities.
Unemployment, limited opportunities for growth etc are some of the primary reasons why AIDS spreads as fast as it does among the world's poor.
All of these things can be combatted by increased education. If you're surrounded by a plentiful supply of resources, then you can get away with having a lower standard of education. When resources are scarce, you need to know how best to use what little you have.
Suing the company due to the driver's failure to control their vehicle? Sure, it's parking on auto-pilot, but don't think for one minute that the brakes won't work at least. In fact I'd expect that if you so much as nudge the steering wheel it'll surrender control back to you immediately.
Yes, I can see people trying to sue Toyota over this, but they'd be wrong, and would deserve to lose (assuming there's no manufacturing defect, etc)
GCC doesn't count in the context of producing a GNU-free distro? You do realise what that G stands for, right?
As it is, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, says it's named "Linux", and Richard Stallman and GNU really don't have much say in the matter. GNU failed to get an OS out the door and joined Linux.
Now, as it happens I don't agree with calling it GNU/Linux either, but I can't agree with your argument, as it's wrong. It's wrong because RMS isn't suggesting that we rename Linux to GNU/Linux, he's suggesting that we rename the distribution to GNU/Linux. That is, you have the Linux kernel that is part of a GNU/Linux distro - eg RedHat GNU/Linux, or Slackware GNU/Linux, all of which incorporate (amongst other things) the Linux kernel and the GNU tool set.
I realise that most people (myself included) simply refer to "an OS distribution based on the Linux kernel" as simply "Linux", but that's what RMS is talking about.