The problem is that people want to believe that because things are being done on a computer, they don't have to follow the law. Lodsys appears to be in the right here, Slashdot hatred of patents notwithstanding.
You mean people are having ridiculously overwrought, poorly thought out overreactions to an ostensibly copyright related issue? On the Internet? I refuse to believe it.
Yeah, you not understanding something is definitely how we should determine legitimacy. Assuming that yardstick fails, we'll just go with how many people on Slashdot scream about how obvious everything is in retrospect.
Nobody forces you to run modern software. You're welcome to continue using applications from the 80s. You might miss a lot of the advancement we have made for you, but at least your computer will sit there idling quickly enough for you.
Yeah, it's hard to compete with people who are better and more willing to work than you are. We should totally label that "the problem" and introduce artificial restrictions to "level the playing field" because that'll be good for... well, nobody, in the long run, but fuck that. You're entitled to be lazy!
You aren't paying with your privacy, because your privacy has no value to anyone but you. You may have "paid" with information, but good luck trying to make that abstraction count for anything in the real world.
Of course, if you want to be impractical about things, you can bitch till the end of time. Doesn't make it mean anything, though.
No, the real option is to adapt and stop expecting other people to take care of you, and definitely stop expecting progress to cease just because you don't want to adapt.
You'd see a huge chunk of our economy shut down, as well - but it wouldn't be the first time a bunch of self-appointed "intellectual elite" roused the rabble for something they didn't really understand with horrifying consequences.
Yeah, things were better when there was a huge, gigantic, vibrant technology market but no patents... oh, wait, that never actually existed outside of "free everything" dreamland.
This is Slashdot. You're supposed to think we all lose unless Apple has been destroyed.
I'm not sure why, exactly, aside from pop-psychology bullshit like jealousy over success or that weird geek impulse to hate anything anyone else likes. I personally have never had an issue not using things I don't like and just leaving them be, but I'm not a "normal" geek, for whatever that means.
Shocking, Comcast follow the law and serve the notices. They should be on the side of the little guy who just needs to watch Game of Thrones for free or he might be bored! The ignominy!
The N9 hurt itself by being Nokia's typically unusable mess. I mean let's be honest here - nerds who think UI peaked in the 70s loved it, and while I know there are dozens of you, that's not gonna sustain a technology market.
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The problem is that people want to believe that because things are being done on a computer, they don't have to follow the law. Lodsys appears to be in the right here, Slashdot hatred of patents notwithstanding.
You mean people are having ridiculously overwrought, poorly thought out overreactions to an ostensibly copyright related issue? On the Internet? I refuse to believe it.
Yeah, you not understanding something is definitely how we should determine legitimacy. Assuming that yardstick fails, we'll just go with how many people on Slashdot scream about how obvious everything is in retrospect.
Nobody forces you to run modern software. You're welcome to continue using applications from the 80s. You might miss a lot of the advancement we have made for you, but at least your computer will sit there idling quickly enough for you.
Yeah, it's hard to compete with people who are better and more willing to work than you are. We should totally label that "the problem" and introduce artificial restrictions to "level the playing field" because that'll be good for... well, nobody, in the long run, but fuck that. You're entitled to be lazy!
You aren't paying with your privacy, because your privacy has no value to anyone but you. You may have "paid" with information, but good luck trying to make that abstraction count for anything in the real world.
Of course, if you want to be impractical about things, you can bitch till the end of time. Doesn't make it mean anything, though.
Held responsible how? You want a money-back guarantee?
Sometimes the ungrateful attitude of the entitled whiners around here takes me aback, despite years of reading it.
No, the real option is to adapt and stop expecting other people to take care of you, and definitely stop expecting progress to cease just because you don't want to adapt.
So you don't actually know what the Secret Service is, right? That's what you're saying your actual, real problem is.
You'd see a huge chunk of our economy shut down, as well - but it wouldn't be the first time a bunch of self-appointed "intellectual elite" roused the rabble for something they didn't really understand with horrifying consequences.
So long as you get your free shit, right?
Yeah, things were better when there was a huge, gigantic, vibrant technology market but no patents... oh, wait, that never actually existed outside of "free everything" dreamland.
This is Slashdot. You're supposed to think we all lose unless Apple has been destroyed.
I'm not sure why, exactly, aside from pop-psychology bullshit like jealousy over success or that weird geek impulse to hate anything anyone else likes. I personally have never had an issue not using things I don't like and just leaving them be, but I'm not a "normal" geek, for whatever that means.
Ahh, so geeks are free to do whatever, so long as you approve? Interesting concept of freedom you semi-espoused there.
Shocking, Comcast follow the law and serve the notices. They should be on the side of the little guy who just needs to watch Game of Thrones for free or he might be bored! The ignominy!
The Slashdot definition of monopoly seems to be "making more money than I think they should have."
Damning screenshot evidence? No way that can be faked.
Yeah, and if that girl wasn't walking around with a vagina, she might not have been raped. Stupid victims.
It's instructive that this got modded all the way down. The Slashdot community's love of certain types of criminal behavior is... unsettling.
Yeah, you have the right to be entertained for free! Fight for it by whining anonymously on the Internet, that'll show 'em!
Oh well, live and learn.
jedidiah doesn't understand much. I think his purpose here is to put the lie to the concept that low UID = intelligence.
Yeah, it's a conspiracy to keep netbooks down, that's it. Probably run by white people, those devils.
The N9 hurt itself by being Nokia's typically unusable mess. I mean let's be honest here - nerds who think UI peaked in the 70s loved it, and while I know there are dozens of you, that's not gonna sustain a technology market.
Yeah, one example in an economy so big no one person can even comprehend how to comprehend it. OH NO THE SKY IS FALLING.
Yeah, and sometimes people get murdered on the street. Doesn't mean you can't leave your house, or that all of society is fucked.
But I get it - I should demand everything for free, because... I don't get that part, but fuck it. I should demand everything for free.