I swear, the next person who tells me they're "Literally on fire" gets sprayed with a fire-extinguisher as an object lesson. Power or CO2, I haven't decided yet. We'll just see what feels right at the time.
I doubt anyone could successfully make an argument they are not pirating software/videos/etc while paying to use 'Pirate ISP'.
The next time there's a stabbing in your region, expect the Police to book you for the murder. After all, you're a registered user on slashdot, so you must be a knife murderer.
I could very well be incorrect, but I am not aware of ANY in-contract phone that is available from ANY carrier running plain vanilla Android Linux.
All Google Nexus 1 phones are, regardless of carrier. I don't know if there are more models that are, or what percentage of the market they have, though.
Please note that it would be perfectly possible for a carrier to lock down a Maemo phone if they wanted to. Or, a phone vendor to use Maemo as the OS (I don't know if Nokia's licensing would allow this, but let's assume so for the sake of argument) and place a lock-down layer on top (Sense, Timescape, whatever). And, in both cases it would be possible to incorporate automatic OTA updates and install functionality. Yes, having root does theoretically enable you to find and stop such attempts, but what percentage of users could and would actually do that? I suspect we'd be in the other part of your 99,x% number again.
That is a function of the phone vendor, not the OS. On my Android phone, with a plain jane vanilla Android OS, root is just a command away. I get a screen telling me that if I root it, Google can't be held responsible for what I might mess up while being root. That's it. No additional software, reverse engineering or tricks required.
I think it is a little unfair to bash Google for what HTC, SE or Samsung does.
Which is just about the same as Android, then. Google releases the Android source so you could patch the install mechanism if you wanted to. I'm root on my Nexus 1 - that is basically just a command away.
The thing is, just because I am root and has access to the source code doesn't mean there aren't backdoors that hasn't been detected yet. I don't see how Maemo is different in that regard. Or say, Ubuntu. There COULD be a hidden backdoor somewhere, cleverly obfuscated for when Mark Shuttleworth wants to take over the world and reveal himself as an alien (his trip into space was him being homesick). I'm not saying there is, I'm saying there could be, and you being root can not realistically prevent that scenario.
Sometimes, you just have to go with a best effort, say "fuck this" and actually trust someone.
The idea that companies are in business to do business doesn't register.
Of course it does. However, some corporations seem to conflate the "do business" and "screw everyone" concepts. Some only do it once in a while and a few never does it. That's called "reality" and it doesn't come in black and white.
the moment they put up an international donation page, they would get flooded with money. remember obama's campaign and how he floated on $5 donations as opposed to clinton and won.
Not really. If you consider the two forms of information there is; private information that should be kept private and public information that should be kept public, you will see that any time you try to force one kind of information into the other realm, you get problems.
An example; a song is public information as it's broadcast on the radio, available for sale in shops and on iTunes. Any attempts to make this public information private via DRM or harsh copyright laws will run into problems with enforcement and collateral damages to privacy laws as *IAA has to eavesdrop on private conversations to see if there are any infringing activities going on.
OTOH, private information like what gender I fancy, my medical records or how I voted in the latest election should always be protected and kept private. Amy attempts to make this private information public via widespread wire-tapping or surveillance is anathema to a free and healty democracy.
Ultimately, the choice of making personal information public or private should lie with the individual, not big corporations or governments. As a rule, citizens should be protected from the government while government should be transparent to the citizens.
Hmm... its interesting, because you start off saying that OEMs that took th etime to customize have decent products, but then you blame Windows mobile for the problem you're having with your particular phone. Did you consider perhaps that HP dropped the ball and they screwed up your phone?
The WM version that's on my particular iPaq model is more or less untouched by HP, they just added a few themes and gave up. I'd say it's more like Microsoft screwed up Windows Mobile (BTW, I just checked and I have 6.1, not 6.5) and the OEMs that took the time to fix all of Microsoft's mistakes are to be commended. I can't say that HP dropped the ball, but it is quite obvious they didn't pick it up either.
They didn't screw up whole Windows Mobile like you could think
I have a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and... Well, yes they did. Totally. I have heard that the vendors that took the time, cost and effort to customize WM6.5 have produced fairly usable products. The HP iPaq 914c Business, not so much. Not at all, frankly. But I will give them this; they have ported the unique Windows experience to the small screen - I have to reboot the phone about once a week to prevent it from locking up when answering or placing calls. This functionality was obviously a low priority. I have to go into the task manager daily to remove programs, or else they fill up the memory, even preventing the task manager from running, another condition forcing a reboot.
Executive summary/mini-review of the HP iPaq 914c: Nice hardware, lousy camera, shitty OS.
That said, it's been said that when you're selling something, make the asking price high and you can always come down. Perhaos this is what the PP's "5 years" is about: "Ok, we'll compromise on a 30 year copyright length".
Yes, it is. Furthermore, it is an example, not a fixed limit.
"exempelvis fem ar fran verkets publicering" means "for example five years from the date of publication" as near as I can translate it.
BTW, I am speaking with some kind of authorithy here - I wrote that part of our declaration of principles.
There's an exception to this law in the recently enacted IPRED-law (based on an EU directive) that basically allows rightsholders to gather IP-addresses anyway.
I swear to God, sometimes it's like people equate "loss of some monopoly privileges" with "absolutely forbidden to sell a disc ever again".
Yes, some people will download instead of buying the CD or paying for it on iTunes. Others will find the artist through file-sharing sites and buy something to either support the artist, own the physical CD or just to feel good inside. On the whole, these effects evens out pretty well, except for the minority of really big artists who lose a bit of income and the majority of really small artists who gain from being more exposed. This is, generally speaking, a good thing since the incomes in the copyright industry is very uneven compared to other industries.
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My favorite band is the Dead Kennedys, you insensitive clod!
I swear, the next person who tells me they're "Literally on fire" gets sprayed with a fire-extinguisher as an object lesson. Power or CO2, I haven't decided yet. We'll just see what feels right at the time.
Much too lenient. Halon gas.
I doubt anyone could successfully make an argument they are not pirating software/videos/etc while paying to use 'Pirate ISP'.
The next time there's a stabbing in your region, expect the Police to book you for the murder. After all, you're a registered user on slashdot, so you must be a knife murderer.
I could very well be incorrect, but I am not aware of ANY in-contract phone that is available from ANY carrier running plain vanilla Android Linux.
All Google Nexus 1 phones are, regardless of carrier. I don't know if there are more models that are, or what percentage of the market they have, though.
Please note that it would be perfectly possible for a carrier to lock down a Maemo phone if they wanted to. Or, a phone vendor to use Maemo as the OS (I don't know if Nokia's licensing would allow this, but let's assume so for the sake of argument) and place a lock-down layer on top (Sense, Timescape, whatever). And, in both cases it would be possible to incorporate automatic OTA updates and install functionality. Yes, having root does theoretically enable you to find and stop such attempts, but what percentage of users could and would actually do that? I suspect we'd be in the other part of your 99,x% number again.
That is a function of the phone vendor, not the OS. On my Android phone, with a plain jane vanilla Android OS, root is just a command away. I get a screen telling me that if I root it, Google can't be held responsible for what I might mess up while being root. That's it. No additional software, reverse engineering or tricks required.
I think it is a little unfair to bash Google for what HTC, SE or Samsung does.
Which is just about the same as Android, then. Google releases the Android source so you could patch the install mechanism if you wanted to. I'm root on my Nexus 1 - that is basically just a command away.
The thing is, just because I am root and has access to the source code doesn't mean there aren't backdoors that hasn't been detected yet. I don't see how Maemo is different in that regard. Or say, Ubuntu. There COULD be a hidden backdoor somewhere, cleverly obfuscated for when Mark Shuttleworth wants to take over the world and reveal himself as an alien (his trip into space was him being homesick). I'm not saying there is, I'm saying there could be, and you being root can not realistically prevent that scenario.
Sometimes, you just have to go with a best effort, say "fuck this" and actually trust someone.
I'm troubled why people still run 2.4 server
They fit in well with his other servers, still running Windows 98 Advanced Server Edition.
But seriously, migrate to LVM already.
I hope they are also working on FireFox for Android.
Yes, they are: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android
The idea that companies are in business to do business doesn't register.
Of course it does. However, some corporations seem to conflate the "do business" and "screw everyone" concepts. Some only do it once in a while and a few never does it. That's called "reality" and it doesn't come in black and white.
That would be both illegal (as we're a political party) and futile (as we do not keep any such records). We have no idea who gives us money.
Thanks. We'll put it to good use (I just ordered more RAM for the servers, so that's one way donations will be used).
the moment they put up an international donation page, they would get flooded with money. remember obama's campaign and how he floated on $5 donations as opposed to clinton and won.
http://www.piratpartiet.se/donate
OK, so that seems a bit schizophrenic.
Not really. If you consider the two forms of information there is; private information that should be kept private and public information that should be kept public, you will see that any time you try to force one kind of information into the other realm, you get problems.
An example; a song is public information as it's broadcast on the radio, available for sale in shops and on iTunes. Any attempts to make this public information private via DRM or harsh copyright laws will run into problems with enforcement and collateral damages to privacy laws as *IAA has to eavesdrop on private conversations to see if there are any infringing activities going on.
OTOH, private information like what gender I fancy, my medical records or how I voted in the latest election should always be protected and kept private. Amy attempts to make this private information public via widespread wire-tapping or surveillance is anathema to a free and healty democracy.
Ultimately, the choice of making personal information public or private should lie with the individual, not big corporations or governments. As a rule, citizens should be protected from the government while government should be transparent to the citizens.
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Where I come from telcos support the phones they sell... I can't see how that's 'naive' since that's how it works in most of the world...
Really? You come from "most of the world"?
Yes it is. There's even a module for it: http://drupal.org/project/og
Hmm... its interesting, because you start off saying that OEMs that took th etime to customize have decent products, but then you blame Windows mobile for the problem you're having with your particular phone. Did you consider perhaps that HP dropped the ball and they screwed up your phone?
The WM version that's on my particular iPaq model is more or less untouched by HP, they just added a few themes and gave up. I'd say it's more like Microsoft screwed up Windows Mobile (BTW, I just checked and I have 6.1, not 6.5) and the OEMs that took the time to fix all of Microsoft's mistakes are to be commended. I can't say that HP dropped the ball, but it is quite obvious they didn't pick it up either.
Unless you're an internal tester, you do not have a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone.
Oops, you are correct. I have 6.1.
They didn't screw up whole Windows Mobile like you could think
I have a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and... Well, yes they did. Totally. I have heard that the vendors that took the time, cost and effort to customize WM6.5 have produced fairly usable products. The HP iPaq 914c Business, not so much. Not at all, frankly. But I will give them this; they have ported the unique Windows experience to the small screen - I have to reboot the phone about once a week to prevent it from locking up when answering or placing calls. This functionality was obviously a low priority. I have to go into the task manager daily to remove programs, or else they fill up the memory, even preventing the task manager from running, another condition forcing a reboot.
Executive summary/mini-review of the HP iPaq 914c: Nice hardware, lousy camera, shitty OS.
That said, it's been said that when you're selling something, make the asking price high and you can always come down. Perhaos this is what the PP's "5 years" is about: "Ok, we'll compromise on a 30 year copyright length".
Yes, it is. Furthermore, it is an example, not a fixed limit.
"exempelvis fem ar fran verkets publicering" means "for example five years from the date of publication" as near as I can translate it.
BTW, I am speaking with some kind of authorithy here - I wrote that part of our declaration of principles.
I did not think it was possible to think more of you than I already did. I was very, very, wrong.
Thanks for being on our side, Ray.
There's an exception to this law in the recently enacted IPRED-law (based on an EU directive) that basically allows rightsholders to gather IP-addresses anyway.
They can still do that.
I swear to God, sometimes it's like people equate "loss of some monopoly privileges" with "absolutely forbidden to sell a disc ever again".
Yes, some people will download instead of buying the CD or paying for it on iTunes. Others will find the artist through file-sharing sites and buy something to either support the artist, own the physical CD or just to feel good inside. On the whole, these effects evens out pretty well, except for the minority of really big artists who lose a bit of income and the majority of really small artists who gain from being more exposed. This is, generally speaking, a good thing since the incomes in the copyright industry is very uneven compared to other industries.