What studies are these? Oh THOSE studies, the unlinked kind that bolster your argument without being rude enough to be checked for bias, method, or even to see if the conclusion matches your claims. Some open source software is better than proprietary, but the reverse can be just as true. Especially when you consider that for different types of projects, one might prefer one or the other. I'm no fan of Oracle, but to claim that this software is rubbish is a bit foolish, and not the point. The point is for Ubuntu to be removing this from user's systems, when those users might depend on it (and thus breaking their other software/projects) - is another mark against Ubuntu.
Licenses are like programming languages - the right tool for the right job. Some projects - especially those authors want adopted in a business environment - are going to want to go with more permissive licenses. A trend like this says that more and more projects feel they need to be more permissive, not that people are abandoning the GPL. The question becomes why do they need to be more permissive? I'd wager a guess that it has a lot to do with the number of corporations involves in supporting, expanding, and creating open source applications. As for myself, my next two projects are going to be using GPL 2 - but then again corporate adoption of my software is not a goal.
"I believe the tradeoff is worth it because ubiquitous technology in the hands of citizens can be more powerful than in the hands of government" - The government can spend millions of dollars on infrastructure and software to analyze and track this data. Basically the more resources required to tackle data, the further the balance tips in favor of government. Add to this the certain to follow laws restricting access to such surveillance (in addition to those that already exist). The government in the US has contemplated allowing government agencies to lie about whether data even exists, in addition to refusing to provide it. There's no way this ends up being in the favor of citizens.
It wasn't about technology, the actual ruling dealt with the content of the tweets. One hopes this would be used as precedent for tech cases though - in many of them it is the content not the medium.
"drug my wife over here to have her read it funny" - It is a hilarious comment, but did you have to slip your wife a little meth/crack soup just to hear her read it in her "zombie donald duck" voice?
I too would pay obscene sums of cash to watch obese people play musical chairs. I don't think reality tv even needs an excuse anymore, we could float this in front of a producer and when they woke up from their orgasm induced concussion, they wouldn't be able to sign the appropriate papers fast enough. "Biggest Loser: Musical Chairs Dallas" - coming to a small screen near you.
Ok, so if your ex want to send your parents, siblings, cousins, aunt and uncles emails saying you can't get off unless there is a dog in the room watching, you'd be ok with that? Because your family could easily block her emails. They wouldn't have to visit the site where she describes your long sessions watching sex scenes on animal planet whilst gorging on pizza covered in peanut butter. They could even complain to her ISP to get her account canceled (ok this part is where it gets silly. You are for free speech to the point of allowing a man to abusively harass his ex-girlfriend, but support cutting off his internet access entirely? Hey at least he'd have a blog he can't access).
Great, and you'd be helping him post intrusive and abusive messages about his ex. Is it because this is a blog that makes it so unique, or is it a gender thing? Let's reverse the genders. Say it was an woman who wrote a blog about how her ex-boyfriend had a tiny penis, never got her off during sex, and was super into dressing up like a fat goat during sex. Now say she sent a link to all of that to the man's parents, brother, friends, co-workers... That's textbook harassment whether or not he is in fact a poorly endowed selfish goat enthusiast. The man in this article is an idiot, who taunted the judge and harassed this woman's family, friends, and co-workers. He deserved - at a minimum - to lose the blog.
It is hilarious this got modded as flamebait, when a huge chunk of the comments on slashdot bemoan the increasing militarization of the police. A huge step in fighting that is coming up with slogans and language to explain how horrifying this slide towards fascism is.
Great, along with all the other evils Facebook has perpetuated on the net, they've now made php more powerful and potentially more popular. They might as well give Darth Vader a perm.
If we wait for our children to take up the fight, we will wait forever. As children grow, our generation will replace our parents as "the ones in charge", and we will oppress them and keep them from the halls of power the same way the previous generations do now. It is a cycle without end, unless we say WE are the generation to make change, and act on it. If that isn't enough to get you active, consider this: while we wait for our children to somehow rise up, we let everyone harmed by the current state of the world suffer.
"Maybe you'll get enough together and win." - and that would be exactly the reason we're not getting anywhere. If I had 100k friends, that would still be only a tiny fraction of the number of votes needed for federal office of any kind. Do you have even a tenth as many friends? However thanks to Citizen United, in addition to purchasing people who spend 100% of their time talking to politicians to influence legislation, a wealthy corporation can spend millions on campaigns to get the people they want into office. Corps can spend money getting voter suppression laws on the books. But go on thinking voting matters, and telling people who have a legitimate complaint about the way our system works their voice does not matter because they don't dance kabuki with the rest of us. More and more citizens are ignoring opinions like yours, and looking for ways outside of voting to influence or shake up a broken system.
The design, wording and overall presentation of that banner is brilliant. The site appears to have been (hopefully briefly) slashdotted. But they have an emblem for "American Censorship Day" across from one for the "Great Firewall". Fantastic juxtaposition. Bravely and skillfully done all around - to post this just after having gotten the domain back.
I am a longtime user, and I didn't realize that. What is to stop Google from pulling a Facebook and quietly adding new checkboxes, in the default position of "on"?
The problem in Egypt is that the liberal forces that started and lead the peaceful revolution couldn't compete against the better organized theocratic opposition. While they were allies during the revolution, on victory it became a contest between the organized and the unorganized, and a lesson for anyone interested in politics. So yes Egyptians did vote in some theocrats, but in an election the theocrats worked to hasten to deny the liberals the time to organize.
Ah yes, anecdotal evidence, king of evidence on slashdot. An increasing number of your friends (which could be satisfied with 1 friend turning into 3) are not replacing their PC's. But how many people avoid having a pc of some sort in general? I could just as easily counter with an anecdotal counter-example, but why bother? There was just an article on slashdot calling for an end to console gaming, and there is an article at least every few months calling for the death of the somehow still living PC. Normal users hate "crapware infested" general PCs, not general PCs. The problem is right now you have only a few choices: a crapware infested PC with Windows 7 from a store, a PC with a fresh install of Windows 7 (no bloatware, just lots of DRM built in), a half walled garden PC (Apple, which encourages you to stay on the walled side of the garden, but let's you install whatever you want... for now), or a completely open garden with random broken bits of wall and glass for you to watch out for (Linux, which has all sorts of messy hazards for users who don't know how to edit config files, hunt down the reason their hardware isn't working, etc).
That said I see things getting better for PCs. Linux is constantly improving, Apple seems to be avoiding completely walling off their garden, and Windows seems to have become stable environment. The problem for normal users will be educating them on how to avoid installing crapware, malware, and spyware. That is a problem that exists *currently* on tablets and phones.
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Speaking just for myself, I find it hard to imagine feeling "humbled" by a desktop's ability to display graphics well.
Hahaha, +1!
What studies are these? Oh THOSE studies, the unlinked kind that bolster your argument without being rude enough to be checked for bias, method, or even to see if the conclusion matches your claims. Some open source software is better than proprietary, but the reverse can be just as true. Especially when you consider that for different types of projects, one might prefer one or the other. I'm no fan of Oracle, but to claim that this software is rubbish is a bit foolish, and not the point. The point is for Ubuntu to be removing this from user's systems, when those users might depend on it (and thus breaking their other software/projects) - is another mark against Ubuntu.
The best part of my comment is looking back over all the typos I've made. I must have been drunk on hypocrite whiskey when I made that comment.
Licenses are like programming languages - the right tool for the right job. Some projects - especially those authors want adopted in a business environment - are going to want to go with more permissive licenses. A trend like this says that more and more projects feel they need to be more permissive, not that people are abandoning the GPL. The question becomes why do they need to be more permissive? I'd wager a guess that it has a lot to do with the number of corporations involves in supporting, expanding, and creating open source applications. As for myself, my next two projects are going to be using GPL 2 - but then again corporate adoption of my software is not a goal.
We now know what a difference an s makes. $70k.
"I believe the tradeoff is worth it because ubiquitous technology in the hands of citizens can be more powerful than in the hands of government" - The government can spend millions of dollars on infrastructure and software to analyze and track this data. Basically the more resources required to tackle data, the further the balance tips in favor of government. Add to this the certain to follow laws restricting access to such surveillance (in addition to those that already exist). The government in the US has contemplated allowing government agencies to lie about whether data even exists, in addition to refusing to provide it. There's no way this ends up being in the favor of citizens.
Errr, about Ron Paul and the dominionists: Religious Fundamentalism in the Republican Party.
It wasn't about technology, the actual ruling dealt with the content of the tweets. One hopes this would be used as precedent for tech cases though - in many of them it is the content not the medium.
"drug my wife over here to have her read it funny" - It is a hilarious comment, but did you have to slip your wife a little meth/crack soup just to hear her read it in her "zombie donald duck" voice?
I too would pay obscene sums of cash to watch obese people play musical chairs. I don't think reality tv even needs an excuse anymore, we could float this in front of a producer and when they woke up from their orgasm induced concussion, they wouldn't be able to sign the appropriate papers fast enough. "Biggest Loser: Musical Chairs Dallas" - coming to a small screen near you.
I don't know if the blame is so easy to place. It is kind of like watching one fat guy explain to another why they can't sit on the same bench.
Ok, so if your ex want to send your parents, siblings, cousins, aunt and uncles emails saying you can't get off unless there is a dog in the room watching, you'd be ok with that? Because your family could easily block her emails. They wouldn't have to visit the site where she describes your long sessions watching sex scenes on animal planet whilst gorging on pizza covered in peanut butter. They could even complain to her ISP to get her account canceled (ok this part is where it gets silly. You are for free speech to the point of allowing a man to abusively harass his ex-girlfriend, but support cutting off his internet access entirely? Hey at least he'd have a blog he can't access).
Great, and you'd be helping him post intrusive and abusive messages about his ex. Is it because this is a blog that makes it so unique, or is it a gender thing? Let's reverse the genders. Say it was an woman who wrote a blog about how her ex-boyfriend had a tiny penis, never got her off during sex, and was super into dressing up like a fat goat during sex. Now say she sent a link to all of that to the man's parents, brother, friends, co-workers... That's textbook harassment whether or not he is in fact a poorly endowed selfish goat enthusiast. The man in this article is an idiot, who taunted the judge and harassed this woman's family, friends, and co-workers. He deserved - at a minimum - to lose the blog.
It is hilarious this got modded as flamebait, when a huge chunk of the comments on slashdot bemoan the increasing militarization of the police. A huge step in fighting that is coming up with slogans and language to explain how horrifying this slide towards fascism is.
Its part of a pattern of using military weaponry against civilians. In The Battlefield Today? In Your Backyard Tomorrow.
Where do you want to be strip searched today?
Great, along with all the other evils Facebook has perpetuated on the net, they've now made php more powerful and potentially more popular. They might as well give Darth Vader a perm.
If we wait for our children to take up the fight, we will wait forever. As children grow, our generation will replace our parents as "the ones in charge", and we will oppress them and keep them from the halls of power the same way the previous generations do now. It is a cycle without end, unless we say WE are the generation to make change, and act on it. If that isn't enough to get you active, consider this: while we wait for our children to somehow rise up, we let everyone harmed by the current state of the world suffer.
"Maybe you'll get enough together and win." - and that would be exactly the reason we're not getting anywhere. If I had 100k friends, that would still be only a tiny fraction of the number of votes needed for federal office of any kind. Do you have even a tenth as many friends? However thanks to Citizen United, in addition to purchasing people who spend 100% of their time talking to politicians to influence legislation, a wealthy corporation can spend millions on campaigns to get the people they want into office. Corps can spend money getting voter suppression laws on the books. But go on thinking voting matters, and telling people who have a legitimate complaint about the way our system works their voice does not matter because they don't dance kabuki with the rest of us. More and more citizens are ignoring opinions like yours, and looking for ways outside of voting to influence or shake up a broken system.
The design, wording and overall presentation of that banner is brilliant. The site appears to have been (hopefully briefly) slashdotted. But they have an emblem for "American Censorship Day" across from one for the "Great Firewall". Fantastic juxtaposition. Bravely and skillfully done all around - to post this just after having gotten the domain back.
I am a longtime user, and I didn't realize that. What is to stop Google from pulling a Facebook and quietly adding new checkboxes, in the default position of "on"?
The problem in Egypt is that the liberal forces that started and lead the peaceful revolution couldn't compete against the better organized theocratic opposition. While they were allies during the revolution, on victory it became a contest between the organized and the unorganized, and a lesson for anyone interested in politics. So yes Egyptians did vote in some theocrats, but in an election the theocrats worked to hasten to deny the liberals the time to organize.
Ah yes, anecdotal evidence, king of evidence on slashdot. An increasing number of your friends (which could be satisfied with 1 friend turning into 3) are not replacing their PC's. But how many people avoid having a pc of some sort in general? I could just as easily counter with an anecdotal counter-example, but why bother? There was just an article on slashdot calling for an end to console gaming, and there is an article at least every few months calling for the death of the somehow still living PC. Normal users hate "crapware infested" general PCs, not general PCs. The problem is right now you have only a few choices: a crapware infested PC with Windows 7 from a store, a PC with a fresh install of Windows 7 (no bloatware, just lots of DRM built in), a half walled garden PC (Apple, which encourages you to stay on the walled side of the garden, but let's you install whatever you want ... for now), or a completely open garden with random broken bits of wall and glass for you to watch out for (Linux, which has all sorts of messy hazards for users who don't know how to edit config files, hunt down the reason their hardware isn't working, etc).
That said I see things getting better for PCs. Linux is constantly improving, Apple seems to be avoiding completely walling off their garden, and Windows seems to have become stable environment. The problem for normal users will be educating them on how to avoid installing crapware, malware, and spyware. That is a problem that exists *currently* on tablets and phones.
What were the scientists thinking? Maybe they got so consistently drunk they named it in memory of their formerly healthy organs?