The answer is right there in the Preamble of the GPL:
Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run
modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer
can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of
protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic
pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to
use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we
have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those
products.
Merely distributing the source isn't enough; Apple would have to allow anyone to run anything on the iPhone, which has security implications beyond simply increasing user freedom. If you refrain from oversimplifying things, you'll see that there are reasons beyond simply wanting to restrict users just for the hell of it. Apple isn't forcing anyone to agree with their model; participation is entirely voluntary, involving purchase of an Apple device.
This consisted of using the old school stain your hand for a week ink for ALL fingers. They would then hold up the card, look at it intently and say something about the US requiring THEIR citizen to do this, then tear up the paper and throw it away.
That would be so awesome if true. It just sounds too good to be.
OK, so cue panel 2 of the cartoon, showing two more mouths to feed, now that you fed the first one. If all these children really are dying due to lack of food, what the hell is creating even more children who will suffer the same fate, and what is going to prevent this from creating even more once you provide more food?
I am amazed that you apparently believe that doing things to maximize profits must automatically mean that it has no value to anyone else (positive externalities). Do you also believe that the grocer, whose goal is to make money, provides no benefit to customers? Or that attempting to maximize profits, by for example using more efficient shipping or better environment control, isn't also benefitting his customers?
If I had an induction cooktop, I'd not play around with it, because these are expensive and you never know what will damage the thing. They likely use some form of feedback, and doing stupid things could cause the driver to do something bad and kill some parts. Doesn't seem worth the risk. Maybe someone familiar with the drivers can comment on how robust they are.
BTW, I hesitated on making this joke because floating-point is anything but random, even though it's often thought to be unpredictable. What it is is not the same as integer or infinite-precision math, so attempts to treat it like either fail.
You take a number which you don't know very well, so you estimate it. Then multiply it by a factor which you really don't know, so you just guess that. Next you multiply the result by another number which you may never know, so you just pull that one out of/dev/random, and multiply them all together.
And wow, you get a result that you like! That's amazing!
Wow, you just described how floating-point math works.
Hmmm, now I wonder whether the bogus "two bags of trash outside the trash can without pre-paid stickers" $16 charge on my utility bill this month is similar, as I've never put any bags of trash outside the trash cart. I almost didn't notice it, as my electric usage was about the same amount lower than last month. That prompted me to go back through the past few years' of bills to be sure this hadn't already happened without me noticing it.
I have two lives. One in which I participate, which includes face to face contact, use of online forums, youtube, picasa and email, and one that exists only on Facebook, where I exist but only in a vague form, unsubstantiated, realised only through inference and unable to contribute, respond or even view.
Mr. Cedric... it seems that you've been living... two... lives...
Why the FUCK does a document display program have the ability to alter anything on my machine?
Because your OS lacks the ability to allow you to tell it to allow the program to write to only its settings and cache files, nothing more. Some day we'll be able to do this easily.
The history of nuclear command and control systems has too many examples of risky designs that favor the ability to launch over the danger of an accidental one."
Isn't it a good thing that the designs don't favor the danger of an accidental launch? Or do you also donate to groups that support cancer?
The technology is capable of full 1080p HD video and Dolby Digital surround sound audio transmissions, over distances of up to 30 feet with less than a millisecond of latency.
This is fabulous. Now when I'm watching a movie or switching streams, I won't have to watch the whole movie delayed by a second or more. That just kills the mood.
As the word cyber has become synonymous with the use of electronic technology, the word cyberforensics bears no mystery.
Use of electronic technology, eh? In that case, I, a cyberuser here on this cyberwebsite, am glad this cyberreview was posted today. I and other cyberusers can make cybercomments in this cyberdiscussion about the cyberreview. We can even benefit from the cybermoderation system that allows cybermoderators to cybermod cyberposts up and down.
To follow my last post, I usually like to use the following argument: If I'm asked what the answer to 1+1 is, I'm going to answer '2'. I'm not going to say that the answer is '3' next time just to make my answer different.
You're just not being creative enough. You can come up with a different answer, for example "1+1 is 1.999..." or "1+1 is 1, for sufficiently large values of 1" etc.
I've played those NES etc. games again and some are tough, but now I'm wise enough to see that the difficulty was usually just due to poor design or poor implementation. I can see that something can't really be learned well, and is mostly chance, or that it's some quirk that you have to figure out to get around it. It kind of kills my enthusiasm to see the "difficulty landscape" and that it's not worth even trying, but maybe that's a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
If it is going to pass, then everyone could just stay home and avoid the hassle of voting. This could be a really useful tool.
Merely distributing the source isn't enough; Apple would have to allow anyone to run anything on the iPhone, which has security implications beyond simply increasing user freedom. If you refrain from oversimplifying things, you'll see that there are reasons beyond simply wanting to restrict users just for the hell of it. Apple isn't forcing anyone to agree with their model; participation is entirely voluntary, involving purchase of an Apple device.
1.44mb you say? Perhaps they're using floppy disks to transfer this data, which would explain the high cost.
That would be so awesome if true. It just sounds too good to be.
OK, so cue panel 2 of the cartoon, showing two more mouths to feed, now that you fed the first one. If all these children really are dying due to lack of food, what the hell is creating even more children who will suffer the same fate, and what is going to prevent this from creating even more once you provide more food?
Wouldn't this allow quartering the size, since you have this halving in both dimensions?
I am amazed that you apparently believe that doing things to maximize profits must automatically mean that it has no value to anyone else (positive externalities). Do you also believe that the grocer, whose goal is to make money, provides no benefit to customers? Or that attempting to maximize profits, by for example using more efficient shipping or better environment control, isn't also benefitting his customers?
If I had an induction cooktop, I'd not play around with it, because these are expensive and you never know what will damage the thing. They likely use some form of feedback, and doing stupid things could cause the driver to do something bad and kill some parts. Doesn't seem worth the risk. Maybe someone familiar with the drivers can comment on how robust they are.
BTW, I hesitated on making this joke because floating-point is anything but random, even though it's often thought to be unpredictable. What it is is not the same as integer or infinite-precision math, so attempts to treat it like either fail.
Wow, you just described how floating-point math works.
Hmmm, now I wonder whether the bogus "two bags of trash outside the trash can without pre-paid stickers" $16 charge on my utility bill this month is similar, as I've never put any bags of trash outside the trash cart. I almost didn't notice it, as my electric usage was about the same amount lower than last month. That prompted me to go back through the past few years' of bills to be sure this hadn't already happened without me noticing it.
Not if it's hidden among legitimate traffic.
Mr. Cedric... it seems that you've been living... two... lives...
Nice, yet another "addiction". Maybe we can misuse the word into meaninglessness in a few years.
And as usual, Facebook is discussed as if it weren't opt-in. There are plenty of other ways of communicating with people.
Because your OS lacks the ability to allow you to tell it to allow the program to write to only its settings and cache files, nothing more. Some day we'll be able to do this easily.
Isn't it a good thing that the designs don't favor the danger of an accidental launch? Or do you also donate to groups that support cancer?
I used to dislike the e- prefix, but it's much preferable to cyber. email, OK. ebanking, OK. cybermail, NO. cyberbanking, NO.
This is fabulous. Now when I'm watching a movie or switching streams, I won't have to watch the whole movie delayed by a second or more. That just kills the mood.
Versions that work (unless they really did claim that Google copied Slashdot's Java code):
Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Its Java Code
Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied Our Java Code'
Wow, I always thought Rick Moranis was shorter than that.
Use of electronic technology, eh? In that case, I, a cyberuser here on this cyberwebsite, am glad this cyberreview was posted today. I and other cyberusers can make cybercomments in this cyberdiscussion about the cyberreview. We can even benefit from the cybermoderation system that allows cybermoderators to cybermod cyberposts up and down.
You're just not being creative enough. You can come up with a different answer, for example "1+1 is 1.999..." or "1+1 is 1, for sufficiently large values of 1" etc.
I've played those NES etc. games again and some are tough, but now I'm wise enough to see that the difficulty was usually just due to poor design or poor implementation. I can see that something can't really be learned well, and is mostly chance, or that it's some quirk that you have to figure out to get around it. It kind of kills my enthusiasm to see the "difficulty landscape" and that it's not worth even trying, but maybe that's a good thing.
Is this where the author of something passes it off as his own? I agree, that's a terrible thing.