Yes, and it's "reasonable" to assume that child porn on your work PC or drugs in your desk were put there by you. Simply because it's your area at work or your home doesn't entirely eliminate the possibility of frame-up jobs. As I said before, the more we assume this, the more people will want to create situations like this because it means an easy way to get rid of someone.
I don't want to seem to defend ignorance, but it can generally be said that everyone has violated some AUP or EULA at some point. Cox's looks mild and laissez-faire compared to many. All I am saying is that it doesn't entirely justify Cox's actions and this highlights the very real issue of setups (like the "download child porn onto someone else's computer" scenario that has been reported several times now) and impersonation. What constitutes a reasonable level of security? Assuming that the connection from the modem to the ISP is always coming from the customer isn't necessarily a good policy, since the more draconian measures like this get the more people will have to gain from impersonation.
I think that this is basically a tool. You can use it for good (find out places where players get frustrated or confused and fix them) or use it for evil (try to force them to buy crap and pay the publisher more money). Unfortunately, most seem to make a beeline for the latter.
It's disheartening to see something which I voted down on the Firehose as an obvious slashvertisement appear anyway. Will the "Understanding Mormonism" and link to an ad farm spam show up too?
The advantages are more nuanced than people think. Sure, the proprietary drivers have better raw performance, but the FOSS drivers are (as you said) much more stable because they're generally updated in step with kernel and Xorg updates, which means that their compatibility is much better. Both the nvidia and catalyst drivers, on the other hand, tend to get updated more infrequently and more in a pattern of being fixed when obvious bugs crop up, not being updated to avoid bugs even existing.
Pretty much the only worthwhile argument you can make for using the proprietary drivers is if you commonly use a feature that the FOSS drivers don't support for your card version yet, which can be common with newer cards.
No, the Core series is i686. the Pentium series was 586 (penta == 5, like with pentagons). Since Sandy Bridge just came out and another series seems to be planned, I doubt we'll be in i786 any time soon.
Indeed. If he wanted to get the progression correct, he would have just gone "8086/8, 286, 386, 486, 586, 686." It's as simple as that, but he's fallen to Intel's marketing terms.
This is one option, but another is that people like the BSA will use it as an example of how "evil" free software is. When in doubt, public opinion tends to go the way of lobbyists.
The point he's trying to make is that the news media in general is trying to capitalize from the furor surrounding the Fukushima incident by focusing on any kind of incident involving nuclear material.
Oh, so it looks like we went from blinkenlights to terminals to Windows without stopping, and any form of interface other than that is either irrelevant or obsolete. I guess they actually consider it the end-all and be-all.
You don't need to spend cash to "get" ebooks. Always a thought to consider. Even if you see something wrong with torrents and such, Project Gutenberg has many classic works and some authors release free ebook versions of their works.
RMS is basically correct, but makes a generalized argument rather than targeting the specific problems with the ebook "industry". I would have liked smaller, more realistic suggestions to go along with the ambitious ones (such as using ePUB and non-DRM'd PDFs instead of closed formats like PDB, Amazon's MOBI, and Microsoft's LIT.)
Actually, this is closer to the Nostradamus Effect, wherein a "prophet" whose words are unclear and generic enough can be "proven" right any number of times.
Hitler in fact almost won "Person of the Century" (which was instead given to Einstein). The reason being that he "failed in his goals", which is completely avoiding the fact of how much (albeit negative) influence he had. It was more to protect Time from pressure from people (after all, giving someone an award is generally seen as a sign of positive support except, arguably, in cases in the Darwin Awards) who wouldn't understand why they have given it to Hitler. If I recall correctly, Hitler was Person of the Year in the 1930s, when his rise to power from virtually nothing was seen as remarkable.
That depends on the theory you ascribe to. The likeliest theory is the "Guns, Germs, and Steel" one. Mayan culture in particular was very advanced, it simply lacked many of the resources Eurasians took for granted. However, you are correct in that the Europeans used trade to their advantage, especially given the number of things that were invented in China and made their way along the Silk Road.
IANAL, but from previous/. comments (the case of the chiropractors suing the skeptic), it seems that in British law, something counts as libel if it's considered damaging whether it's true or not, which makes review sites like Yelp very libelous indeed. For an example, if I told people that your restaurant had horrible service it would be libel because it damaged your business, whether or not it was actually true. From the perspective of someone from a legal system that values the truth (which, for all its faults, the American one does) this is absolutely abhorrent. I believe this has something to do with the foundation of libel law in Britain, which was designed to protect the nobility and rich businessmen from personal attacks.
I agree. The main issue I see with this, one of the most venerable of car analogies, is that it's a false equivalency -- people don't need to know how their cars run because cars (in terms of what they can do) are fairly simple tools. No matter how complex they are under the hood, their operation isn't very complex. Comparing a car to a computer is like comparing a hammer to a table saw; it just makes no sense. Even if you can do lots of things with hammers (or cars), their basic function is fairly simple. To highlight how stupid the analogy is, saying that people shouldn't need to know how to type in a URI to use a browser is like saying people shouldn't need to know how to turn the ignition key to start their car and a good workaround is to buy a robot that turns the key for you. It isn't a matter of knowing "how" things work or what's under the hood, but understanding the basic functionality of the tool you are using. Sure, you can go under the hood and become an auto mechanic or Linux/BSD user, but even so, if you say you can use that tool you should be able to grasp one of its most basic functions: to go from place to place without relying on a search engine.
The fact simply is that no matter how much people want computers to be like simple appliances, they will never be unless all functionality is restricted and they essentially become a child's toy. If people want to use a complex tool, they need to accept the responsibility for its use.
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Yes, and it's "reasonable" to assume that child porn on your work PC or drugs in your desk were put there by you. Simply because it's your area at work or your home doesn't entirely eliminate the possibility of frame-up jobs. As I said before, the more we assume this, the more people will want to create situations like this because it means an easy way to get rid of someone.
I don't want to seem to defend ignorance, but it can generally be said that everyone has violated some AUP or EULA at some point. Cox's looks mild and laissez-faire compared to many. All I am saying is that it doesn't entirely justify Cox's actions and this highlights the very real issue of setups (like the "download child porn onto someone else's computer" scenario that has been reported several times now) and impersonation. What constitutes a reasonable level of security? Assuming that the connection from the modem to the ISP is always coming from the customer isn't necessarily a good policy, since the more draconian measures like this get the more people will have to gain from impersonation.
... there's been fairly steady trends over some time period now for adult to go down ...
Well, yes.
I think that this is basically a tool. You can use it for good (find out places where players get frustrated or confused and fix them) or use it for evil (try to force them to buy crap and pay the publisher more money). Unfortunately, most seem to make a beeline for the latter.
It's disheartening to see something which I voted down on the Firehose as an obvious slashvertisement appear anyway. Will the "Understanding Mormonism" and link to an ad farm spam show up too?
The advantages are more nuanced than people think. Sure, the proprietary drivers have better raw performance, but the FOSS drivers are (as you said) much more stable because they're generally updated in step with kernel and Xorg updates, which means that their compatibility is much better. Both the nvidia and catalyst drivers, on the other hand, tend to get updated more infrequently and more in a pattern of being fixed when obvious bugs crop up, not being updated to avoid bugs even existing.
Pretty much the only worthwhile argument you can make for using the proprietary drivers is if you commonly use a feature that the FOSS drivers don't support for your card version yet, which can be common with newer cards.
No, the Core series is i686. the Pentium series was 586 (penta == 5, like with pentagons). Since Sandy Bridge just came out and another series seems to be planned, I doubt we'll be in i786 any time soon.
Remember, it's Phoronix.
Indeed. If he wanted to get the progression correct, he would have just gone "8086/8, 286, 386, 486, 586, 686." It's as simple as that, but he's fallen to Intel's marketing terms.
It's only 5 years away!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialized_medicine#Examples A taster.
Tell that to all the socialist countries around the world that are working just fine.
This is one option, but another is that people like the BSA will use it as an example of how "evil" free software is. When in doubt, public opinion tends to go the way of lobbyists.
The point he's trying to make is that the news media in general is trying to capitalize from the furor surrounding the Fukushima incident by focusing on any kind of incident involving nuclear material.
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Oh, so it looks like we went from blinkenlights to terminals to Windows without stopping, and any form of interface other than that is either irrelevant or obsolete. I guess they actually consider it the end-all and be-all.
You don't need to spend cash to "get" ebooks. Always a thought to consider. Even if you see something wrong with torrents and such, Project Gutenberg has many classic works and some authors release free ebook versions of their works.
RMS is basically correct, but makes a generalized argument rather than targeting the specific problems with the ebook "industry". I would have liked smaller, more realistic suggestions to go along with the ambitious ones (such as using ePUB and non-DRM'd PDFs instead of closed formats like PDB, Amazon's MOBI, and Microsoft's LIT.)
Actually, this is closer to the Nostradamus Effect, wherein a "prophet" whose words are unclear and generic enough can be "proven" right any number of times.
Hitler in fact almost won "Person of the Century" (which was instead given to Einstein). The reason being that he "failed in his goals", which is completely avoiding the fact of how much (albeit negative) influence he had. It was more to protect Time from pressure from people (after all, giving someone an award is generally seen as a sign of positive support except, arguably, in cases in the Darwin Awards) who wouldn't understand why they have given it to Hitler. If I recall correctly, Hitler was Person of the Year in the 1930s, when his rise to power from virtually nothing was seen as remarkable.
That depends on the theory you ascribe to. The likeliest theory is the "Guns, Germs, and Steel" one. Mayan culture in particular was very advanced, it simply lacked many of the resources Eurasians took for granted. However, you are correct in that the Europeans used trade to their advantage, especially given the number of things that were invented in China and made their way along the Silk Road.
IANAL, but from previous /. comments (the case of the chiropractors suing the skeptic), it seems that in British law, something counts as libel if it's considered damaging whether it's true or not, which makes review sites like Yelp very libelous indeed. For an example, if I told people that your restaurant had horrible service it would be libel because it damaged your business, whether or not it was actually true. From the perspective of someone from a legal system that values the truth (which, for all its faults, the American one does) this is absolutely abhorrent. I believe this has something to do with the foundation of libel law in Britain, which was designed to protect the nobility and rich businessmen from personal attacks.
More importantly, on PCs you have the option to wipe it all off and install Linux.
I agree. The main issue I see with this, one of the most venerable of car analogies, is that it's a false equivalency -- people don't need to know how their cars run because cars (in terms of what they can do) are fairly simple tools. No matter how complex they are under the hood, their operation isn't very complex. Comparing a car to a computer is like comparing a hammer to a table saw; it just makes no sense. Even if you can do lots of things with hammers (or cars), their basic function is fairly simple. To highlight how stupid the analogy is, saying that people shouldn't need to know how to type in a URI to use a browser is like saying people shouldn't need to know how to turn the ignition key to start their car and a good workaround is to buy a robot that turns the key for you. It isn't a matter of knowing "how" things work or what's under the hood, but understanding the basic functionality of the tool you are using. Sure, you can go under the hood and become an auto mechanic or Linux/BSD user, but even so, if you say you can use that tool you should be able to grasp one of its most basic functions: to go from place to place without relying on a search engine.
The fact simply is that no matter how much people want computers to be like simple appliances, they will never be unless all functionality is restricted and they essentially become a child's toy. If people want to use a complex tool, they need to accept the responsibility for its use.
Maybe the FSF supports torrenting commercial games until free alternatives can be released ;)