What you are saying is patently false. Creationism may not be a scientific point of view, but the idea that science is the only way to validate knowledge is a very narrowminded view -- and you're hearing this from someone who believes in evolution. Just because someone disagrees with you about some point (which doesn't make any practical difference to most people's lives anyway) doesn't make them ignorant. It makes you intolerant.
Well, I know quite a few intelligent creationists. Just because some set of a group are stupid/evil doesn't mean that they all are. Same as vegetarians, free software advocates, Windows users, Arabs, and politicians.
Some? If you want to do uninterrupted web browsing, it's almost a must. (Fortunately, Opera makes it really easy. I assume that other linux browers do as well.)
That said, based the computer owners I know, I would bet that Macs still outnumber Linux machines by a good two to one -- and that universities, which often deploy Linux extensively in computer labs, comprise a rather large proportion of total linux systems.
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I'm curious... Linus says that you can't put private keys in the binary... but what about loadable modules? After all, non-open-source kernel modules are allowed anyway, so it seems like you can essentially get anything you want into the kernel already.
Or is there some reason why that's not relevant? (I admit, I don't really know exactly how DRM's supposed to work.)
I've NEVER encountered porn unless I was looking for porn.
What? I take it you've never done much research with a search engine, then. There are plenty of sites that make a living by fooling google and the other search engines into ranking them high in the search results, and giving you a page full of pornographic pop-ups and banner ads. (I was trying to find something just a couple days ago, and a good 50% of the google search results were gibberish of that nature.)
The other thing which you mentioned (and dismissed) is that the warez and porn communities are strongly intertwined. However, most commonly warez means games, and what kids don't search the internet for games? I know that my youngest siblings (aged 7 and 11) have both run into porn accidently.
Banning the internet won't help, but neither will turning a blind eye to the problem. It most certainly is possible and even likely for kids to find porn accidently; that should be prevented.
rant I would have posted a link but you need a subscription to see back issues./rant
I suppose that they found out that giving everything away for free was so... 1999. (This must be fairly recent, as I was browsing through the old archives only six months ago.)
However, the reverse is true about nuclear power. The more we learn about it, the scarier it becomes.
Huh? Most people think that nuclear power creates giant insects, will cause their children to become homocidal glowing-eyed telepaths, and that the power plants are ready to explode catastrophically at any moment, as soon as Osama Bin Laden hacks into the computer systems. I don't see any difference in the irrational fears between nuclear energy and genetic engineering.
You continue to miss the point. X isn't the bottleneck. No amount of rewriting X is going to solve the slow GUI problem. As I said, repeat the "X is not the GUI" sentence until you understand it.
And again, you're missing the point. X is *not* the GUI. Everyone, repeat that until you understand it. Run X with a light window manager rather than the heavy desktop environments, and everything will respond much better than windows. After using a real OS for awhile, I absolutely cannot stand clicking the start button and having to wait half a second for a menu to pop up.
X is not the performance problem. It's unoptimized, eye-candy-filled but non-functional Gnome and KDE that need help. Those who claim that X is "holding back Linux" don't understand what X is.
FWIW, I'd rather see the money sunk into new books than new computers.
I agree completely. Whenever the local paper runs a story about how some school just spent a quarter million dollars to buy some computers which will be used as a bunch of glorified typewriters, I wonder why they don't use the money to replace some of the thirty-year-old textbooks that are still in use.
Why would anyone download music that he has already paid for?
Maybe because they've lost/damaged the original media? Or perhaps they keep all their CDs at home, and want to listen to them at work? I can envision at least a few scenarios where downloading copyrighted music would be both legal and ethical.
That said, I don't know anyone except for some of the stupider RIAA execs that would categorize downloading music that you already own as "piracy." And I find Nanogator's assertion that those people make up a significant proportion of the downloading population to be ridiculous. Changing the name to "music trading" is just a means of making something morally wrong sound a little bit nicer.
90:1 odds they give them the new development Microsoft code and MS uses it as a cheap way to getting hole patches.
And if that's true... so? Windows becomes more secure, students who will be writing software in years to come will get experience in debugging and securing real-life code. I can't think of any reason to oppose this unless you're a knee-jerk Microsoft basher who want them to go, down in flames...
Why, when I see any boy speaking l33t, watching Sci-Fi, wallowing in gamer culture, or wishing he were a hacker, do I immedately think "lives in his parents' basement with a career at the local CompUSA"?
You say that like there's something wrong with it.
(Seriously, I rather agree with the grandparent. I enjoy watching some anime, but like everything, there are a few people who carry things entirely too far.)
Why wouldn't you trust them to dub animes properly? I know that it's fun to bash the big corporation, but the Princess Mononoke was nothing short of amazing. I didn't get the chance to see Spirited Away in the theater, but I've heard that the dub is quite good as well.
This would also affect all those convenient emails that come to us from different companies though, like the daily dilbert, that I love, the emails that tell me I was outbid, the emails that tell me when my suit will be shipped out. I don't like this idea, not one bit. Who would get the money?
Wouldn't you be able to give them an authenticating key so that they could send to you freely?
The article says that there would be a whitelist. I assume that when you sign up for a mailing list, it would tell you to "add [x] address to your whitelist."
I personally like better the idea of having expensive ($1.00) stamps, that are paid to the reciever if they choose to redeem them. It raises the spam barrier far too high for anyone, but doesn't necessarily cost anything for legit mail. (Of course, in that system you need a whitelist as well.)
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What you are saying is patently false. Creationism may not be a scientific point of view, but the idea that science is the only way to validate knowledge is a very narrowminded view -- and you're hearing this from someone who believes in evolution. Just because someone disagrees with you about some point (which doesn't make any practical difference to most people's lives anyway) doesn't make them ignorant. It makes you intolerant.
Well, I know quite a few intelligent creationists. Just because some set of a group are stupid/evil doesn't mean that they all are. Same as vegetarians, free software advocates, Windows users, Arabs, and politicians.
Well, maybe politicians are a bad example.
Some? If you want to do uninterrupted web browsing, it's almost a must. (Fortunately, Opera makes it really easy. I assume that other linux browers do as well.)
That said, based the computer owners I know, I would bet that Macs still outnumber Linux machines by a good two to one -- and that universities, which often deploy Linux extensively in computer labs, comprise a rather large proportion of total linux systems.
I'm curious ... Linus says that you can't put private keys in the binary ... but what about loadable modules? After all, non-open-source kernel modules are allowed anyway, so it seems like you can essentially get anything you want into the kernel already.
Or is there some reason why that's not relevant? (I admit, I don't really know exactly how DRM's supposed to work.)
I've NEVER encountered porn unless I was looking for porn.
What? I take it you've never done much research with a search engine, then. There are plenty of sites that make a living by fooling google and the other search engines into ranking them high in the search results, and giving you a page full of pornographic pop-ups and banner ads. (I was trying to find something just a couple days ago, and a good 50% of the google search results were gibberish of that nature.)
The other thing which you mentioned (and dismissed) is that the warez and porn communities are strongly intertwined. However, most commonly warez means games, and what kids don't search the internet for games? I know that my youngest siblings (aged 7 and 11) have both run into porn accidently.
Banning the internet won't help, but neither will turning a blind eye to the problem. It most certainly is possible and even likely for kids to find porn accidently; that should be prevented.
Well, you could take that view, or you could just assume that everyone in power is EVIL.
That's what I do and look how well I've turned out!
So that's the secret to getting the +1 bonus!
Wow. The first time I've ever had a first post, and it gets moderated up. Excuse me, I've got to go buy some lottery tickets...
In the future, it will still be mythical...
rant I would have posted a link but you need a subscription to see back issues. /rant
... 1999. (This must be fairly recent, as I was browsing through the old archives only six months ago.)
I suppose that they found out that giving everything away for free was so
However, the reverse is true about nuclear power. The more we learn about it, the scarier it becomes.
Huh? Most people think that nuclear power creates giant insects, will cause their children to become homocidal glowing-eyed telepaths, and that the power plants are ready to explode catastrophically at any moment, as soon as Osama Bin Laden hacks into the computer systems. I don't see any difference in the irrational fears between nuclear energy and genetic engineering.
What, doesn't getting moderated up to +4 count as a proof?
Not being a mathemetician, I think it's a rather silly designation, however.
You continue to miss the point. X isn't the bottleneck. No amount of rewriting X is going to solve the slow GUI problem. As I said, repeat the "X is not the GUI" sentence until you understand it.
And again, you're missing the point. X is *not* the GUI. Everyone, repeat that until you understand it. Run X with a light window manager rather than the heavy desktop environments, and everything will respond much better than windows. After using a real OS for awhile, I absolutely cannot stand clicking the start button and having to wait half a second for a menu to pop up.
X is not the performance problem. It's unoptimized, eye-candy-filled but non-functional Gnome and KDE that need help. Those who claim that X is "holding back Linux" don't understand what X is.
Let's start overclocking, enhancing, and reverse engineering EVERYTHING to protest these laws.
I started doing this, but had to stop after my overclocked toaster burned down my house.
FWIW, I'd rather see the money sunk into new books than new computers.
I agree completely. Whenever the local paper runs a story about how some school just spent a quarter million dollars to buy some computers which will be used as a bunch of glorified typewriters, I wonder why they don't use the money to replace some of the thirty-year-old textbooks that are still in use.
Oh, come now. The veracity of such claims should be obvious to anyone with a tin foil helmet.
Why would anyone download music that he has already paid for?
Maybe because they've lost/damaged the original media? Or perhaps they keep all their CDs at home, and want to listen to them at work? I can envision at least a few scenarios where downloading copyrighted music would be both legal and ethical.
That said, I don't know anyone except for some of the stupider RIAA execs that would categorize downloading music that you already own as "piracy." And I find Nanogator's assertion that those people make up a significant proportion of the downloading population to be ridiculous. Changing the name to "music trading" is just a means of making something morally wrong sound a little bit nicer.
Whenever referring to this particular legend, this is the link to reference...
...who want them to go, down in flames...
As you can tell, I must have been in attendance at that Presidential grammar lesson that people have mentioned.
And if that's true
You say that like there's something wrong with it.
(Seriously, I rather agree with the grandparent. I enjoy watching some anime, but like everything, there are a few people who carry things entirely too far.)
Nausicaa has always been rather difficult to find. However, search online for some fansub distributors. That's how I got my copy.
Nausicaa is not only my favorite anime, it's also one of my favorite movies. Anyone who hasn't seen it ought to get their hands on a copy.
Why wouldn't you trust them to dub animes properly? I know that it's fun to bash the big corporation, but the Princess Mononoke was nothing short of amazing. I didn't get the chance to see Spirited Away in the theater, but I've heard that the dub is quite good as well.
This would also affect all those convenient emails that come to us from different companies though, like the daily dilbert, that I love, the emails that tell me I was outbid, the emails that tell me when my suit will be shipped out. I don't like this idea, not one bit. Who would get the money?
Wouldn't you be able to give them an authenticating key so that they could send to you freely?
The article says that there would be a whitelist. I assume that when you sign up for a mailing list, it would tell you to "add [x] address to your whitelist."
I personally like better the idea of having expensive ($1.00) stamps, that are paid to the reciever if they choose to redeem them. It raises the spam barrier far too high for anyone, but doesn't necessarily cost anything for legit mail. (Of course, in that system you need a whitelist as well.)