Bing? They just take from the project and do nothing for it in return. This may be okay in a legal sense, but it is a seriously nekulturny way to behave.
Free software advocates really need to understand that if you want to have true freedom, you have to let people use the project the way the want to and stop tossing a fit when someone doesn't contribute back to it. If you expect or want to get contributions back, you should choose a license that requires it. Otherwise you're being quite a hypocrite about free software.
Purpose of the BSD license also is to let everyone use code freely the way they want, the only true form of freedom. Once you start demanding something more than attribution you're removing freedom and limiting what people can do, making it no better than just having a commercial license. This is also why I view BSD license as way more free than GPL, which has many, many limitations forced upon you. Not really the definition of freedom, is it?
It depends how old the kids are. Even when I was 6-7 years old it would had been really creepy and I would had felt weird knowing someone follows me from a camera.
But it's not just for the kids. What about his wife? Somehow I think she also doesn't like someone watching her every action via video camera. I wouldn't and I really doubt my girlfriend would either. It's a different thing when you're physically there, but cameras are creepy.
So why not just do the normal "enable video camera when needed" and call with something like Skype?
It's not an USB device, it just looks like one. You know, if it was you could just download the USB image from the Internet, either directly from the hacker or someone who uploaded it.
But the video sure made it look like a mess. I was thinking they might have some animation for the single results and they would move or something, but according to the video the whole page changes at once, including all the results.
$0.99 is way too much for a single episode rental. With the same price you can buy the whole season from store and get a physical product with extras too.
Why not a subscription based service like Spotify, but for TV episodes? I would gladly pay $10 a month if I could stream any tv show and episode I wanted to. I already do for Spotify and seriously, I haven't felt the need to get mp3's since I started using it because frankly, it's just so convenient and easy. Hell, you can even offer an ad-based service too. Just have it huge library, don't delete old episodes or shows and add the new episodes there right after or when they're showing on TV.
You talk like there's no alternatives. Go search for some of the indie or freeware games, some of them are quite impressive. A lot of times they're also how games would be without big budgets. You don't really need to play big budget AAA games, but you want to, don't you?
I think it's only good we have a lot of choices, something for everybody.
It's not a either this or that situation, you can have both. In fact the gameplay is probably better if you good interface and great graphics that create good immersion. I love Dwarf Fortress as a game, but seriously if it had even a little bit better interface and graphics it would be a lot more enjoyable. Some games like Modern Warfare 2 or Bad Company 2 wouldn't really be so immersive or make you have "wow" moments if it didn't have good graphics and in Bad Company 2's case amazing sound system.
Personally I expect a great gameplay with graphics and special effects that make me go "whoa".
Music, and musicians, existed and even thrived for thousands of years before anyone thought up copyrights. I think your theory needs a little more work since it would imply that such a situation couldn't ever have existed.
Do you really, really just want to listen to such music? Because you know, you can already. You can go listen to local bands and ask for their demo tapes, and stay away from all the artists that belong to some label working with RIAA. No one is making you to listen to or pirate those artists/movies/games. Oh, but you actually want to because you think they're good.
While RIAA/MPAA is probably too far on the other side of view, you aren't really honest with yourself if you think theres no hoopholes with the current copyright law or if you think piracy isn't rampant. People obviously like to get all of this for free, but the content creators need to be paid too so they can continue making us those things.
How do you think game companies would continue to make games if everyone pirated them? It wouldn't be possible. We would currently have a lot more indie developers and small studios working on awesome games if people would buy the games instead of pirating them. Yes, not everyone would buy it, but it's still a significant amount. Normally people just get tired of waiting for the warez version and buy the game, or they buy the game if they want to play it online.
Creating quality content takes money. The more people pirate, the less there are quality products, because there is no money to make them.
why don't you understand how you are being used by the rich moneyed classes and corporate interests?
if you ARE rich and moneyed or a corporate interest, congratulations on your successful manipulation of your larger herd of sheep
Why do you think they don't understand it? Maybe, MAYBE, it could be that they want to use this to better their situation, either financially, politically or for any other reason, so that they gain something about it. Unless you're the son of some very powerful or rich person, you have to leverage your way to success. Sometimes that includes licking some other guys ass, who already is on the top.
This is what it has looked like for a long time. iOS is on their every other line of devices and the walled garden apps economy is a significant money maker for Apple. Combine that with the recent patent of remotely detecting and disabling jailbroken iPhones and I think Apple really wants to control the whole area, and obviously wants more and more money. Say goodbye to hobbyists or hackers, and just imagine if Microsoft did the same.
I never really liked the Windows Explorer as a file manager. Hundreds of different windows, folder settings now following you around but different folders showing differently, slow and just not powerful enough. Pre-Vista era I always liked Turbo Navigator a lot more, similar to how I use xplorer2 now. The recent Windows versions came with even more simpler and stupid file managers. I guess they're fine for a casual user, but a file manager really needs to have tabs and two panels.
This is actually faulty programming in applications, not Windows. Kind of like buffer overflows. It's what happens when you don't know what you're doing nor are you following secure coding standards.
Because application developers, not Windows, are to blame, Microsoft can't patch the operating system without crippling an unknown number of programs that run on the platform.
There are no reports of any Microsoft or default Windows applications containing the bug, so unless you have a specific third party app you're not vulnerable. Also, there is already a tool available from Microsoft you can use to block it from all applications, but some of the apps might obviously break.
To protect from stupid developers you would probably need something like selinux for Windows, but considering how much pain in the ass it is on Linux too, it wouldn't really work for all the casual people. However, moving applications from languages like C/C++ to languages like C# can help just like with buffer overflows. At least it provides extra layer of security against clueless programmers.
Oh come on, you cannot just throw that word around like that. You probably think all countries that don't like or are enemies of US are terrorists. Brainwashing seems to work great for you Americans.
Nokia is also a Finnish company, not US. Not everything revolves around Americans, you know. You should get to see the world sometimes, you have quite a closed mind.
Besides, this is a civil manner. If Nokia was actually breaking some criminal laws, they would had been in criminal court already, sued by the government.
It seems absurd that one should have to get permission from the city before one can write a blog on their home computer.
No one is saying you can't run a blog, or that you would need to get a permission. You just need to get a business license if you're making money with it, just like any other business. Just don't put ads on it and no one is asking you that $300.
So she says he runs a blog with ads and profits from, but is surprised that she actually needs to pay taxes and the other usual legistation while running a business? Yes, just like the Google, IGN or other huge sites on the internet that make money by advertising, he is also running a business.
It also looks like she only made like $50 between several years. That comes down to like $1-2 a month. Why not just drop the ads and continue blogging? If you really need a few dollars, just find a few bottles from the street and return them to stores.
It's not really a surprise. To begin with 99% of commercial games don't even have a Linux version, so there's nothing to sell to Linux gamers. You can't really rely on emulation either, if you sell the game as a Linux version you really have to do a native build. Then there are hundreds of different Linux distros and configurations which all work a little bit different. Also, just imagine the outcry about DRM and Valve not open sourcing Steam or it's games. The whole open source and everything-must-be-free mentality goes against businesses. You can already read here on slashdot how some people refuse to use Steam because it might go down in 50 years. This thinking is 100x worse with Linux users.
I think the problem with Linux is that those who develop it push their philosophy too much and refuse to give room for other philosophies, along with way too much spread ecosystem (distros, configurations, all the problems). There's a reason why we still haven't seen the year of Linux on desktop and probably never will. As much as I dislike Apple, if you want an UNIX based desktop OS you get a Mac.
So, I'm supposed to click a link to read a PDF about a PDF flaw. You sly boots!
It's not a PDF flaw, it's a flaw in Linux kernel. The malicious PDF file was just an example for an attack vector. You know, the same way it works in Windows. No system is immune to these kind of attacks, the only reason Linux and Macs see them less is because most of the users are on Windows (especially the "stupid" or casual ones). Not even the walled gardens like iPhone, where PDF attack was used to root and jailbreak the system just recently.
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And even if you're in last place, you could still have a great device and taking in millions in profit.
RIAA and MPAA have been suggesting the very same thing, actually.
Bing? They just take from the project and do nothing for it in return. This may be okay in a legal sense, but it is a seriously nekulturny way to behave.
Free software advocates really need to understand that if you want to have true freedom, you have to let people use the project the way the want to and stop tossing a fit when someone doesn't contribute back to it. If you expect or want to get contributions back, you should choose a license that requires it. Otherwise you're being quite a hypocrite about free software.
Purpose of the BSD license also is to let everyone use code freely the way they want, the only true form of freedom. Once you start demanding something more than attribution you're removing freedom and limiting what people can do, making it no better than just having a commercial license. This is also why I view BSD license as way more free than GPL, which has many, many limitations forced upon you. Not really the definition of freedom, is it?
It depends how old the kids are. Even when I was 6-7 years old it would had been really creepy and I would had felt weird knowing someone follows me from a camera.
But it's not just for the kids. What about his wife? Somehow I think she also doesn't like someone watching her every action via video camera. I wouldn't and I really doubt my girlfriend would either. It's a different thing when you're physically there, but cameras are creepy.
So why not just do the normal "enable video camera when needed" and call with something like Skype?
You do understand how much traffic Internet has? 1% is big.
It's not an USB device, it just looks like one. You know, if it was you could just download the USB image from the Internet, either directly from the hacker or someone who uploaded it.
Uh, do you honestly think that for example Microsoft's graphics team uses Paint instead of Photoshop?
But the video sure made it look like a mess. I was thinking they might have some animation for the single results and they would move or something, but according to the video the whole page changes at once, including all the results.
$0.99 is way too much for a single episode rental. With the same price you can buy the whole season from store and get a physical product with extras too.
Why not a subscription based service like Spotify, but for TV episodes? I would gladly pay $10 a month if I could stream any tv show and episode I wanted to. I already do for Spotify and seriously, I haven't felt the need to get mp3's since I started using it because frankly, it's just so convenient and easy. Hell, you can even offer an ad-based service too. Just have it huge library, don't delete old episodes or shows and add the new episodes there right after or when they're showing on TV.
You talk like there's no alternatives. Go search for some of the indie or freeware games, some of them are quite impressive. A lot of times they're also how games would be without big budgets. You don't really need to play big budget AAA games, but you want to, don't you?
I think it's only good we have a lot of choices, something for everybody.
It's not a either this or that situation, you can have both. In fact the gameplay is probably better if you good interface and great graphics that create good immersion. I love Dwarf Fortress as a game, but seriously if it had even a little bit better interface and graphics it would be a lot more enjoyable. Some games like Modern Warfare 2 or Bad Company 2 wouldn't really be so immersive or make you have "wow" moments if it didn't have good graphics and in Bad Company 2's case amazing sound system.
Personally I expect a great gameplay with graphics and special effects that make me go "whoa".
Music, and musicians, existed and even thrived for thousands of years before anyone thought up copyrights.
I think your theory needs a little more work since it would imply that such a situation couldn't ever have existed.
Do you really, really just want to listen to such music? Because you know, you can already. You can go listen to local bands and ask for their demo tapes, and stay away from all the artists that belong to some label working with RIAA. No one is making you to listen to or pirate those artists/movies/games. Oh, but you actually want to because you think they're good.
-Allow me to write my own music to which I own the copyright and stream it over the internet without having to pay you royalties.
Why, exactly, you cannot do this currently? Because every single artist on the planet can.
While RIAA/MPAA is probably too far on the other side of view, you aren't really honest with yourself if you think theres no hoopholes with the current copyright law or if you think piracy isn't rampant. People obviously like to get all of this for free, but the content creators need to be paid too so they can continue making us those things.
How do you think game companies would continue to make games if everyone pirated them? It wouldn't be possible. We would currently have a lot more indie developers and small studios working on awesome games if people would buy the games instead of pirating them. Yes, not everyone would buy it, but it's still a significant amount. Normally people just get tired of waiting for the warez version and buy the game, or they buy the game if they want to play it online.
Creating quality content takes money. The more people pirate, the less there are quality products, because there is no money to make them.
why don't you understand how you are being used by the rich moneyed classes and corporate interests?
if you ARE rich and moneyed or a corporate interest, congratulations on your successful manipulation of your larger herd of sheep
Why do you think they don't understand it? Maybe, MAYBE, it could be that they want to use this to better their situation, either financially, politically or for any other reason, so that they gain something about it. Unless you're the son of some very powerful or rich person, you have to leverage your way to success. Sometimes that includes licking some other guys ass, who already is on the top.
This is what it has looked like for a long time. iOS is on their every other line of devices and the walled garden apps economy is a significant money maker for Apple. Combine that with the recent patent of remotely detecting and disabling jailbroken iPhones and I think Apple really wants to control the whole area, and obviously wants more and more money. Say goodbye to hobbyists or hackers, and just imagine if Microsoft did the same.
I never really liked the Windows Explorer as a file manager. Hundreds of different windows, folder settings now following you around but different folders showing differently, slow and just not powerful enough. Pre-Vista era I always liked Turbo Navigator a lot more, similar to how I use xplorer2 now. The recent Windows versions came with even more simpler and stupid file managers. I guess they're fine for a casual user, but a file manager really needs to have tabs and two panels.
This is actually faulty programming in applications, not Windows. Kind of like buffer overflows. It's what happens when you don't know what you're doing nor are you following secure coding standards.
Because application developers, not Windows, are to blame, Microsoft can't patch the operating system without crippling an unknown number of programs that run on the platform.
There are no reports of any Microsoft or default Windows applications containing the bug, so unless you have a specific third party app you're not vulnerable. Also, there is already a tool available from Microsoft you can use to block it from all applications, but some of the apps might obviously break.
To protect from stupid developers you would probably need something like selinux for Windows, but considering how much pain in the ass it is on Linux too, it wouldn't really work for all the casual people. However, moving applications from languages like C/C++ to languages like C# can help just like with buffer overflows. At least it provides extra layer of security against clueless programmers.
aiding and abetting a terrorist regime.
Oh come on, you cannot just throw that word around like that. You probably think all countries that don't like or are enemies of US are terrorists. Brainwashing seems to work great for you Americans.
Nokia is also a Finnish company, not US. Not everything revolves around Americans, you know. You should get to see the world sometimes, you have quite a closed mind.
Besides, this is a civil manner. If Nokia was actually breaking some criminal laws, they would had been in criminal court already, sued by the government.
It seems absurd that one should have to get permission from the city before one can write a blog on their home computer.
No one is saying you can't run a blog, or that you would need to get a permission. You just need to get a business license if you're making money with it, just like any other business. Just don't put ads on it and no one is asking you that $300.
So she says he runs a blog with ads and profits from, but is surprised that she actually needs to pay taxes and the other usual legistation while running a business? Yes, just like the Google, IGN or other huge sites on the internet that make money by advertising, he is also running a business.
It also looks like she only made like $50 between several years. That comes down to like $1-2 a month. Why not just drop the ads and continue blogging? If you really need a few dollars, just find a few bottles from the street and return them to stores.
It's not really a surprise. To begin with 99% of commercial games don't even have a Linux version, so there's nothing to sell to Linux gamers. You can't really rely on emulation either, if you sell the game as a Linux version you really have to do a native build. Then there are hundreds of different Linux distros and configurations which all work a little bit different. Also, just imagine the outcry about DRM and Valve not open sourcing Steam or it's games. The whole open source and everything-must-be-free mentality goes against businesses. You can already read here on slashdot how some people refuse to use Steam because it might go down in 50 years. This thinking is 100x worse with Linux users.
I think the problem with Linux is that those who develop it push their philosophy too much and refuse to give room for other philosophies, along with way too much spread ecosystem (distros, configurations, all the problems). There's a reason why we still haven't seen the year of Linux on desktop and probably never will. As much as I dislike Apple, if you want an UNIX based desktop OS you get a Mac.
Do you honestly think that Microsoft would do nothing if there was a non-patched privilege escalation exploit in Windows?
What rock have you been living under?
Want to show me some non-patched privilege escalation exploit in Windows?
Do you honestly think that Microsoft would do nothing if there was a non-patched privilege escalation exploit in Windows?
Also, note that this was silently patched with no announcement of the problem. It has been there since kernel version 2.6. That is a long, long time.
So, I'm supposed to click a link to read a PDF about a PDF flaw. You sly boots!
It's not a PDF flaw, it's a flaw in Linux kernel. The malicious PDF file was just an example for an attack vector. You know, the same way it works in Windows. No system is immune to these kind of attacks, the only reason Linux and Macs see them less is because most of the users are on Windows (especially the "stupid" or casual ones). Not even the walled gardens like iPhone, where PDF attack was used to root and jailbreak the system just recently.