GPL gives benefits to others via restrictions to others and calls it "freedom". Noting against the ideals of GPL, but stop calling it freedom, it is NOT.
Freedom and Patriotism have various definitions, depends upon whom you ask.
On the surface one might thing âoeThatâ(TM)s a great idea, it would make stolen phone useless!â
But beyond the idea that eventually hackers would find a path around such measures, it also opens the door to abuse by âoeLaw Enforcementâ, who are notoriously unable to police themselves from both breaking the law and abusing the privileges they have been given.
"Oh, you found your missing phone, which you thought was stolen, so we bricked it. Certainly we can unbrick it - for a modest fee of $85 - MUAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAH! Oh, pardon I dribbled a bit at the thought of extracting this fee for 5 seconds work. Excuse me while I get a mop and a bucket."
This is where Musk's Hubris is going to be a problem.
There's no way that he can know for sure what happened in the fire, and he's going to risk having to eat crow -- lots and lots of crow -- if he's proven wrong.
I love the guy, but hubris is clearly among his worst qualities.
You're charging it wrong.
What I find completely unbelievable in this story is that someone in California actually has their car in a garage.
Your garage is where you keep all the stuff you can't fit into the house.
This is where Musk's Hubris is going to be a problem.
There's no way that he can know for sure what happened in the fire, and he's going to risk having to eat crow -- lots and lots of crow -- if he's proven wrong.
I love the guy, but hubris is clearly among his worst qualities.
He has the power of the Force.
He just knows things.
Don't let him find your lack of faith disturbing...
You have a strange definition of freedom. A laptop with free hardware and free software let me do whatever with it, including signing up for pseudo-voluntary profiling in exchange for a meager chunk of ad ridden web service.
GNU licensed stuff poses additional restriction but those are aimed at the respect of others' freedom, in the same way that "do what you wish" makes a less free society than "do what you wish as long as it lets other do what they wish", no matter the smaller number of restrictions imposed.
I presume you'll access internet through someone else's connection, too.
No, it's not truly free unless it comes with exactly zero mysterious binary blobs calling home (or NSA, which may be the same thing).
It's not truly free until it doesn't let you access Google-anything or Facebook or Amazon or pretty much everything else, because to access is to surrender.
The ultimate free laptop is a cat (for various definitions of Free which involve feeding, care and a robust catnip supply.)
Not a surprise really. There weren't exactly large groups running around to intermingle. You want to procreate and expand the species you had to look within your own local group.
They probably didn't have intolerant idiots telling them who they could mate with, either.
If you had any idea how the FBI really works, you'd realize all those bitcoins are going to be spent on things nobody in the FBI has asked for or needs, but on things administrators "think" they'll need, based upon requests from years ago which have been sitting at the bottom of an In basket, somewhere under "Get new bra for JEH."
If so that would make all bitcoins worthless I would think.
Yep, the value of the Bitcoin, like the value of the Dollar, is in its security - if it were easy to make Dollars with your laserjet printer the market would flood with them and the Dollar value would plummet - this is beside the point of counterfeiting being illegal, if nearly everyone was doing it it would be a very difficult law to enforce.
To say another star has an exoplanet seems redundant. Why not just say it has planets?
In fact, seems to me that all stars have exoplanets, by definition.
Exi-planets would probably mean something like, they are being absorbed into the star.
Exo-planets is the sort of thing we live on. Scienterrific types like terminology, it's what they write White Papers with rather than "Y'know, there's like a bunch of stuff out there", which is meaningful, but isn't going to get you anywhere in a scientific body.
When robots have taken over the majority of labor and the number of unemployed people in the US rises over a billion, we'll notice. Does anyone else wonder how society will need to adapt to such a problem?
Going to be a while before we get to a billion people in the US, we're only 1/3 way there.
...until I saw non-geeks (or doctors) possessing them and blathering away like complete, oblivious idiots in places where sharing half a very personal conversation should have been abundantly clearly inappropriate.
I expect people will be as oblivious as the robots march past them, gathering in the town square, to proclaim the beginning of the end of Carbon Unit infestation of this world.
... so then she says, are you getting this? she says I'm not paying enough attention to what my kids are doing! do you believe the nerve. Oh, there's march of some kind of the town's robots going past, must be another recall or something. So anyway, I tell her to mind her own business and then do you know what she does? she calls me a mindless cow! really, like I have no feelings or anything, so I tell her listen here b...
If a President is going to have War Powers, shouldn't there be a war going on?
Dude, we've always been at war with Eastasia.
I think the general category is "Terrorists" and at least on specific one is "Al-Qeada", although "American Taliban", "Religious Extremists" and various other enemies of the State are used as needed. Should be a Bingo game - you get the park a peanut on a square each time one is mentioned in the news or in a press briefing.
Slashdot Mirror
Rupert Murdoch found out that Mossberg voted for Obama.
His successor will have been a *cough* former *cough* employee of Microsoft, Apple or someone else you "can" trust.
all the government has to do is turn off the cell towers. A kill switch is a mute point.
I see what you did there.
GPL gives benefits to others via restrictions to others and calls it "freedom". Noting against the ideals of GPL, but stop calling it freedom, it is NOT.
Freedom and Patriotism have various definitions, depends upon whom you ask.
Kill yourself, Mark Leno.
No, you need to blame the idiots who are so cavalier with their phones. I'm amazed how many I find on trails or in the middle of roads.
It has come to this.
Quite so. Quite so.
The crackers will figure out how to trigger the remote kill switch without your authorization, bricking thousands if not millions of phones.
Or the goobernmint will...
Incoming text: Send me $100 dollars or I'll freeze your phone.
On the surface one might thing âoeThatâ(TM)s a great idea, it would make stolen phone useless!â
But beyond the idea that eventually hackers would find a path around such measures, it also opens the door to abuse by âoeLaw Enforcementâ, who are notoriously unable to police themselves from both breaking the law and abusing the privileges they have been given.
"Oh, you found your missing phone, which you thought was stolen, so we bricked it. Certainly we can unbrick it - for a modest fee of $85 - MUAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAH! Oh, pardon I dribbled a bit at the thought of extracting this fee for 5 seconds work. Excuse me while I get a mop and a bucket."
Nah, it wouldn't be abused.
This is where Musk's Hubris is going to be a problem.
There's no way that he can know for sure what happened in the fire, and he's going to risk having to eat crow -- lots and lots of crow -- if he's proven wrong.
I love the guy, but hubris is clearly among his worst qualities.
You're charging it wrong.
What I find completely unbelievable in this story is that someone in California actually has their car in a garage.
Your garage is where you keep all the stuff you can't fit into the house.
The street is where you keep your car.
This is where Musk's Hubris is going to be a problem.
There's no way that he can know for sure what happened in the fire, and he's going to risk having to eat crow -- lots and lots of crow -- if he's proven wrong.
I love the guy, but hubris is clearly among his worst qualities.
He has the power of the Force.
He just knows things.
Don't let him find your lack of faith disturbing...
You have a strange definition of freedom.
A laptop with free hardware and free software let me do whatever with it, including signing up for pseudo-voluntary profiling in exchange for a meager chunk of ad ridden web service.
GNU licensed stuff poses additional restriction but those are aimed at the respect of others' freedom, in the same way that "do what you wish" makes a less free society than "do what you wish as long as it lets other do what they wish", no matter the smaller number of restrictions imposed.
I presume you'll access internet through someone else's connection, too.
No, it's not truly free unless it comes with exactly zero mysterious binary blobs calling home (or NSA, which may be the same thing).
It's not truly free until it doesn't let you access Google-anything or Facebook or Amazon or pretty much everything else, because to access is to surrender.
The ultimate free laptop is a cat (for various definitions of Free which involve feeding, care and a robust catnip supply.)
the UN going to protect anybodys privacy?
The real question is, does anyone pay any attention to what the UN says about anything?
I bet the UN is so widely ignored nobody on /. can remember what the last resolution was about (I certainly don't.)
It was his pocket lint. His pocket change is much more.
Not a surprise really. There weren't exactly large groups running around to intermingle. You want to procreate and expand the species you had to look within your own local group.
They probably didn't have intolerant idiots telling them who they could mate with, either.
... has some extra bit coins....
da da ... bing
If you had any idea how the FBI really works, you'd realize all those bitcoins are going to be spent on things nobody in the FBI has asked for or needs, but on things administrators "think" they'll need, based upon requests from years ago which have been sitting at the bottom of an In basket, somewhere under "Get new bra for JEH."
If so that would make all bitcoins worthless I would think.
Yep, the value of the Bitcoin, like the value of the Dollar, is in its security - if it were easy to make Dollars with your laserjet printer the market would flood with them and the Dollar value would plummet - this is beside the point of counterfeiting being illegal, if nearly everyone was doing it it would be a very difficult law to enforce.
To say another star has an exoplanet seems redundant. Why not just say it has planets?
In fact, seems to me that all stars have exoplanets, by definition.
Exi-planets would probably mean something like, they are being absorbed into the star.
Exo-planets is the sort of thing we live on. Scienterrific types like terminology, it's what they write White Papers with rather than "Y'know, there's like a bunch of stuff out there", which is meaningful, but isn't going to get you anywhere in a scientific body.
i've never heard of it
It's also known as The Eye of Sauron
Please don't type half your post in the subject, it makes your post unreadable. Especially when using alternative browsing methods.
Indeed. As with modern media the subject should be a play on words or shameless pun.
The body of the post should be non sequitur by the paragraph, which leaves the reader baffled as to which medication you are on.
This media backed up by the cloud
a Dizney movie, their scrips are dreadful these days.
When robots have taken over the majority of labor and the number of unemployed people in the US rises over a billion, we'll notice. Does anyone else wonder how society will need to adapt to such a problem?
Going to be a while before we get to a billion people in the US, we're only 1/3 way there.
...until I saw non-geeks (or doctors) possessing them and blathering away like complete, oblivious idiots in places where sharing half a very personal conversation should have been abundantly clearly inappropriate.
I expect people will be as oblivious as the robots march past them, gathering in the town square, to proclaim the beginning of the end of Carbon Unit infestation of this world.
It will be totally pwned by Russian black-hat hackers.
They will have a feeding frenzy of personal details, photos and of course the credit card numbers of anyone who makes a purchase there.
In Soviet Russia credit comes to YOU!
If a President is going to have War Powers, shouldn't there be a war going on?
Dude, we've always been at war with Eastasia.
I think the general category is "Terrorists" and at least on specific one is "Al-Qeada", although "American Taliban", "Religious Extremists" and various other enemies of the State are used as needed. Should be a Bingo game - you get the park a peanut on a square each time one is mentioned in the news or in a press briefing.
And also that Edward Snowden was a cheater!
"National Security" forgives a lot of sins.