Accepting them is a "no-brainer" as a donation, there is no loss. But for any other serious financial transaction, well, unless you are a mobster or a dope dealer or otherwise involved in something illegal, the real question is WHY DEAL WITH IT.
Because freedom.
Also as the system become mature and ubiquitous it will be a good way to avoid extortion fee from the banks and credit card processors. There is lot more competition in currency exchange. As a result trading currency(eg: Bitcoin to USD) is cheaper then all the transaction fee you get for processing credit cards.
Just FYI there were no crime committed by Google in this case. This is just about Microsoft ignoring its competitor's TOS all while enforcing its own TOS on the users. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Google is levering its dominance in another area similar to what MS did with IE and Windows...
To clarify Microsoft leveraged, err abused, its monopoly to shove IE on Window and, in turn, forced proprietary IE extension on the web. The damage to the web is the wrong part, not offering a basic browser with the default Windows installation. Your comparison is invalid.
The european conviction and force un-bundle were simply symptom of judges and politicians not knowing shit about computer and the Interwebs.
Google is levering its dominance in another area similar to what MS did with IE and Windows...
Google is levering its dominance on a Google product? Why do you side with the convicted monopolist?
As much as I like the features Microsoft added to their Youtube app, this is clearly very wrong. Ads-free and ability to save are the kind of feature you would find on a not-for-profit amateur free software project, the kind of project Microsoft would sue to the death if it was 'adding feature' to their services. They are not doing this for the users, they are doing this only to get back at Google because Bing suck, Surface is horrible, Windows 8 is a failure and nobody care about Windows Phone.
I should add that, while downloading copyrighted materiel is not illegal, making it available could still get you sued. The original person that make the rip could be sue by the copyright holder. But in practice this never happen because it is extremely difficult to find him, and prove his guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. Also IANAL, but you already know that.
I think "for personal use" and "CD" is a pretty clear definition that doesn't include p2p. Apples, oranges, both fruit, right?
It has been ruled that using P2P is equivalent of me going to your house to make a personal copy using your equipment. Done 'over the intertubes' doesn't change the fact that it is a personal copy for personal use using personal equipment. eg: It is in no way commercial.
IMHO this is very sane and fair copyright ruling. Don't ask me for source, that was decades(~1.4 decades) ago in the Napster era. This has been common knowledge for all Canadian since.
John Lennon - yes, the dead Beetle - was watched by the FBI for - God forbid! - preaching peace!
We are a God fearing Christian Nation! We can't have those wackoes preaching Peace!
Preaching peace in time of war is clear and present danger to the government's recruitment efforts. It is LITERALLY like shouting fire in a crowded theatre.
This is why it is important to defend the free speech right to shout fire in a crowded theatre. Worst that could happen is everyone walking out calmly and in order. Just because someone think there is a fire doesn't give him the right to push, stomp or strike anyone that stand in his way. If peoples act like ass-holes during emergencies then this is what need to be addressed. Restricting a fundamental freedom in way that will, and was, abused by the state is not a solution.
Do chefs have to have a special license now or is everyone moving to straight razor one of knives that just flip around and such, for cooking?
It's carry for no other reason then 'it may be useful' that is banned. Edged tools are not illegal to possess. You can carry chef knives to your cooking class or a machete to the woods, but if you carry a blade for every day task it has to be non-locking and under 3 inch as I understand it. eg: You may not carry your sword to the pub.
Doesn't the U.K. have a "knife crime" problem. Hence the seemingly ridicules laws about carrying edged weapons?
I carry my Buck Knife (3" blade) everywhere with me. It's a tool. But I believe that could land me in jail in the U.K.?
Please confirm or refute.
If it lock, yes. All fix blade are banned, they consider a locked blade to be the equivalent of a fix blade. Slip join are fine, under 3 inch. eg: Laguiole, sak, spyderco uk.
IANAL. If you travel, buy a knife locally and ask the shop owner about local custom eg: It may be legal but inappropriate. A locally brought knife also make a great travel souvenirs.
How about international collaboration on having some self restraint and not causing others physical harm to others any time something in the world doesn't go your way?
You can't debate or find compromise with peoples that believe there is only one true God and that anyone not sharing that faith is wrong and unworthy of life. The only appropriate response to Saudi Arabia is to fuck off.
enjoy your playskool interface i will stick one that works without hiding everything
Nothing is hidden, you can access every part using the gnome terminal. Oh i get it, you need clicky interface with dozen of check box. It turn out that you aren't the 'power user' you thought you were. Enjoy your playskool interface...
We should remove freedom of religion. Anything acceptable* a religious person or group do is already covered by freedom of expression and assembly. Religion don't need a special case any more then Trekkies; both groups are obsesses with work of fiction.
* the extra right of mutilating babies under freedom of religion is not acceptable.
Christianity has evolved and we should expect the same from other religions.
Christianity did not evolve(eg: listen to the current pope's message for example), we simply mocked the shit out of it. Christianity learn it's place and is no longer a threat to the civilized world. The void its demise left in our societies was left empty on purpose. It is not a opportunity for Islam to take over and we must make that very clear by mocking the shit out of their religion too.
I never really understood what Mesa was. I thought it was what you installed if you wanted software rendering of OpenGL. If you wanted hardware rendering, you installed drivers for your hardware. But now Mesa is providing hardware accelerated OpenGL? What's the point if we have open source Intel drivers?
I don't get it.
Mesa is the user-space API that talk to the driver. Some driver(eg: nvidia) may provide their own libGL.so, other may use libGL.so from mesa(eg: open source drivers). Also mesa can be use to render in software and even off-screen(eg: batch processing images files or video).
The optical disks would be unreadable because, presumably, the electronic hardware used to access them would be unusable. Not because the disk itself somewhat melted away.
Been tried. It didn't work so well except as a way of employing a bunch of feds by making 'organised crime' flourish.
And so is this. If peoples are not willing to legalize other psychoactive drugs maybe prohibition of alcohol should be brought back to the table until these anti-drugs ass-holes finally get enlightened.
Steam will do much for software freedom, maybe enough to undo all the harm cause by gaming on Wine. Proprietary Internet marketplace will always be proprietary and large choice of popular games on Linux will spread the use of free software. Also it will bring native ports, something Wine never did (eg; native port that link with native libwine was never use with any success).
"Sir, I've obtained a search warrant for all digital storage devices in your residence..."
Exactly, let them try to get a search warrant. After a few denied requests they will learn to not abuse powers. In fact, I doubt they are willing to go further then intimidate peoples with empty threats. When high-school bullies graduate they enrol the police academy...
It was only a matter of time before leak or misuse happen. Sure 'anonymous' also committed a crime here, but the real criminal responsibility lies with the ISP and the Australian government for hoarding data they had no business to collect.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought this was explicit enough in the original message.
Except in this case the victims are the innocent people who's data has been released.
That crime was committed by the ISP, who collected the data in the first place, and the state for mandating the data to be stored for 2 years. Anonymous can only be blamed for the embarrassment the ISP suffered and everything else is not their fault. Put the blame where it is due, the ISP and the Australian government should be sued and damage should be paid to the affected customers.
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Accepting them is a "no-brainer" as a donation, there is no loss. But for any other serious financial transaction, well, unless you are a mobster or a dope dealer or otherwise involved in something illegal, the real question is WHY DEAL WITH IT.
Because freedom.
Also as the system become mature and ubiquitous it will be a good way to avoid extortion fee from the banks and credit card processors. There is lot more competition in currency exchange. As a result trading currency(eg: Bitcoin to USD) is cheaper then all the transaction fee you get for processing credit cards.
But yeah, continue to spread FUD about new technologies. In the meantime the US government continue to use 'honest' and 'legit' USD to traffic drugs.
Just FYI there were no crime committed by Google in this case. This is just about Microsoft ignoring its competitor's TOS all while enforcing its own TOS on the users. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Google is levering its dominance in another area similar to what MS did with IE and Windows...
To clarify Microsoft leveraged, err abused, its monopoly to shove IE on Window and, in turn, forced proprietary IE extension on the web. The damage to the web is the wrong part, not offering a basic browser with the default Windows installation. Your comparison is invalid.
The european conviction and force un-bundle were simply symptom of judges and politicians not knowing shit about computer and the Interwebs.
Google is levering its dominance in another area similar to what MS did with IE and Windows...
Google is levering its dominance on a Google product? Why do you side with the convicted monopolist?
As much as I like the features Microsoft added to their Youtube app, this is clearly very wrong. Ads-free and ability to save are the kind of feature you would find on a not-for-profit amateur free software project, the kind of project Microsoft would sue to the death if it was 'adding feature' to their services. They are not doing this for the users, they are doing this only to get back at Google because Bing suck, Surface is horrible, Windows 8 is a failure and nobody care about Windows Phone.
[...] the RIAA will look like assholes trying to kill new business models.
Implying that they are anything but that?
I should add that, while downloading copyrighted materiel is not illegal, making it available could still get you sued. The original person that make the rip could be sue by the copyright holder. But in practice this never happen because it is extremely difficult to find him, and prove his guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. Also IANAL, but you already know that.
I think "for personal use" and "CD" is a pretty clear definition that doesn't include p2p. Apples, oranges, both fruit, right?
It has been ruled that using P2P is equivalent of me going to your house to make a personal copy using your equipment. Done 'over the intertubes' doesn't change the fact that it is a personal copy for personal use using personal equipment. eg: It is in no way commercial.
IMHO this is very sane and fair copyright ruling. Don't ask me for source, that was decades(~1.4 decades) ago in the Napster era. This has been common knowledge for all Canadian since.
Except that by your definition, we were already there before 1984. In practice, as long the plebs has bread and games, we will never get there.
John Lennon - yes, the dead Beetle - was watched by the FBI for - God forbid! - preaching peace!
We are a God fearing Christian Nation! We can't have those wackoes preaching Peace!
Preaching peace in time of war is clear and present danger to the government's recruitment efforts. It is LITERALLY like shouting fire in a crowded theatre.
This is why it is important to defend the free speech right to shout fire in a crowded theatre. Worst that could happen is everyone walking out calmly and in order. Just because someone think there is a fire doesn't give him the right to push, stomp or strike anyone that stand in his way. If peoples act like ass-holes during emergencies then this is what need to be addressed. Restricting a fundamental freedom in way that will, and was, abused by the state is not a solution.
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Do chefs have to have a special license now or is everyone moving to straight razor one of knives that just flip around and such, for cooking?
It's carry for no other reason then 'it may be useful' that is banned. Edged tools are not illegal to possess. You can carry chef knives to your cooking class or a machete to the woods, but if you carry a blade for every day task it has to be non-locking and under 3 inch as I understand it. eg: You may not carry your sword to the pub.
Doesn't the U.K. have a "knife crime" problem. Hence the seemingly ridicules laws about carrying edged weapons?
I carry my Buck Knife (3" blade) everywhere with me. It's a tool. But I believe that could land me in jail in the U.K.?
Please confirm or refute.
If it lock, yes. All fix blade are banned, they consider a locked blade to be the equivalent of a fix blade. Slip join are fine, under 3 inch. eg: Laguiole, sak, spyderco uk.
IANAL. If you travel, buy a knife locally and ask the shop owner about local custom eg: It may be legal but inappropriate. A locally brought knife also make a great travel souvenirs.
How about international collaboration on having some self restraint and not causing others physical harm to others any time something in the world doesn't go your way?
You can't debate or find compromise with peoples that believe there is only one true God and that anyone not sharing that faith is wrong and unworthy of life. The only appropriate response to Saudi Arabia is to fuck off.
enjoy your playskool interface i will stick one that works without hiding everything
Nothing is hidden, you can access every part using the gnome terminal. Oh i get it, you need clicky interface with dozen of check box. It turn out that you aren't the 'power user' you thought you were. Enjoy your playskool interface...
There are consequences to throwing out a dictator without coming up with a replacement.
But you do it anyway when the consequences of keeping him are worst.
We should remove freedom of religion. Anything acceptable* a religious person or group do is already covered by freedom of expression and assembly. Religion don't need a special case any more then Trekkies; both groups are obsesses with work of fiction.
* the extra right of mutilating babies under freedom of religion is not acceptable.
Christianity has evolved and we should expect the same from other religions.
Christianity did not evolve(eg: listen to the current pope's message for example), we simply mocked the shit out of it. Christianity learn it's place and is no longer a threat to the civilized world. The void its demise left in our societies was left empty on purpose. It is not a opportunity for Islam to take over and we must make that very clear by mocking the shit out of their religion too.
I never really understood what Mesa was. I thought it was what you installed if you wanted software rendering of OpenGL. If you wanted hardware rendering, you installed drivers for your hardware. But now Mesa is providing hardware accelerated OpenGL? What's the point if we have open source Intel drivers?
I don't get it.
Mesa is the user-space API that talk to the driver. Some driver(eg: nvidia) may provide their own libGL.so, other may use libGL.so from mesa(eg: open source drivers). Also mesa can be use to render in software and even off-screen(eg: batch processing images files or video).
The optical disks would be unreadable because, presumably, the electronic hardware used to access them would be unusable. Not because the disk itself somewhat melted away.
So you're saying TSA don't do a good job? Then tell me how many buildings terrorists have flown airplanes into recently. Name one!
I got a tiger-repelling stone for you. 50% off! Interested?
Been tried. It didn't work so well except as a way of employing a bunch of feds by making 'organised crime' flourish.
And so is this. If peoples are not willing to legalize other psychoactive drugs maybe prohibition of alcohol should be brought back to the table until these anti-drugs ass-holes finally get enlightened.
Steam will do much for software freedom, maybe enough to undo all the harm cause by gaming on Wine. Proprietary Internet marketplace will always be proprietary and large choice of popular games on Linux will spread the use of free software. Also it will bring native ports, something Wine never did (eg; native port that link with native libwine was never use with any success).
You forgot the rest of it:
"Sir, I've obtained a search warrant for all digital storage devices in your residence..."
Exactly, let them try to get a search warrant. After a few denied requests they will learn to not abuse powers. In fact, I doubt they are willing to go further then intimidate peoples with empty threats. When high-school bullies graduate they enrol the police academy...
It was only a matter of time before leak or misuse happen. Sure 'anonymous' also committed a crime here, but the real criminal responsibility lies with the ISP and the Australian government for hoarding data they had no business to collect.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I thought this was explicit enough in the original message.
Except in this case the victims are the innocent people who's data has been released.
That crime was committed by the ISP, who collected the data in the first place, and the state for mandating the data to be stored for 2 years. Anonymous can only be blamed for the embarrassment the ISP suffered and everything else is not their fault. Put the blame where it is due, the ISP and the Australian government should be sued and damage should be paid to the affected customers.