This guy gives an honest review of SUSE (it wouldn't install), so it gets Flamebait? WTF is up with that? That's useful information. It's saved me time and money.
Hepatitis, schmepatits. I can't imagine what this world will be like when having unprotected sex with multiple partners may mean that you get a life-saving virus! Count me in!
Not everyone runs out to buy shiny new drives the second they're released, only to pay triple what they're worth in 2 weeks. I generally use 5-10 gig hard drives, so I stick with 128. Besides, 128 sounds just fine to me. If you don't like 128, go ahead and rip and share at 192 or 256 and see how many people are interested.
Maine spent millions of dollars giving every school kid a fucking laptop. Every kid in the whole goddamned state. That right there is plenty of evidence that either politicians, educators, parents, or all three believe this.
Secondly, a basic government is needed to protect property rights (that's a tenent of Libertariansim). Your assumption is that everybody wants to code for free, which is utter bullshit. How do you propose protecting the rights of people who develop software and want to sell it? If people who want to sell their work have no way of protecting their property, then what you've done is just ended all non-free software development, so all software development is in the hands of people who happen to have the time and money to code for free. The government is there to protect basic rights that make capitalism possible.
What you're advocating is the gov't in Atlas Shrugged, and what happened there, would happen here if copyright an IP laws were ever abolished. Those people who DO create and want to be rewarded for it will have nothing to do with this country any more.
I used to write software for a living, and if the software I wrote had no IP behind it, I simply wouldn't write software.
Free software is not capitalism, and it doesn't fit. Capitalism assumes that people want to be reimbursed in some way. Free software makes no logical sense, because people do it out of altruism and stupidity.
Not *everything* can be done with a bunch of Linux boxes from local garage sales, as much as the/.'ies want it to be true. You seem to have a serious case of the "one tool fits all" syndrome.
Yeah, I know. I'm 100% in favor of it. Unfortunately, there's no way it would ever happen. It would cost tens of thousands of jobs at the IRS, and poor people would have to pay their fair share, so there go the votes.
It's very simple. It's interfering with his business. Whether or not his business is legal is another question. But I was expecting that eventually somebody would win against these blacklists. They're interfering with businesses, and they're blocking communications. Whether or not people want them to do it is irrelevant. You can't intentionally stop anybody else from doing business, and that's exactly what Spamcop, Spamhaus, etc. are doing. They're all going to be ordered to stop at some point. What they're doing is on par with is a telephone company that owned switches in the middle of the country decided to stop carrying your calls because they didn't like you, or possibly someobyd cutting your businesses telephone lines. What they're doing may or not be good, but whatever the case is, what they're doing is illegal and indefensible.
Bad idea, bad definition, bad enforceability, bad tax revenue idea
Congratulations! You just summed up the US income tax laws in a nutshell! If this passes, there'll be legions of lawyers, accountants, and politicians who do nothing but add more and more shit to this law ("an office suite, but not one used my more than 4 users, whatever"). IT'll become a rats-nest of laws that nobody other than people who spend 20 years studying it can understand. Very typical of US tax laws.
If somebody doesn't know there could be a cliff in the area, then yeah, let 'em rot. We've eliminated natural selection in every other aspect of society, I say leave it here. How stupid can somebody be not to notice a cliff?? The gene pool is actually getting worse, since the stupid breed, and the smart doesn't.... Oh wait... this sounds like a journal entry...
Yup, I'm that guy. If I wanted to make bullshit smalltalk with people, I wouldn't be IN THE WOODS! I can't avoid people unless I'm *very* deep in somewhere, or it's my own property. But yeah, I don't acknowledge other people in the woods at all. They could be on fire for all I care. But then again, you're probably some yuppie suburbanite who can't possibly understand what it means to be truly alone. In this pampered, babied, protected, watched society, people can go their whole lives not being truly alone, and that's really, really sad.
If someone died because the tracking sensors were torn down, you could also be hit with manslaughter or criminal negligence. Assuming they figured out it was you.
It's not about privacy. It's about preserving nature. The last thing I want to see when I'm alone in the woods is another piece of electronic junk. Natural areas are there for a reason.
As far as risk goes... if you're worried about getting lost or hurt, don't go in the woods. Go on a "hike" in a local park with paved "paths". If I fall down and get hurt, that's my problem. There's *GOT* to be somewhere left where people can be in pure nature. There's gotta be.
Tax dollars? Puh-lease. That's a joke. Give me your address, and I'll send you $6. $5 for the stupid sensor, and $1 so you can buy yourself a clue. Public property gets destroyed all of the time in ways that I don't agree with. There's the few hundred billion that was ruined in Iraq, for example.
Yup. Guess so. And as long as Big Brother ain't watching, I'm gonna continue to be. But, what am I saying? We'll have systems in place to track everyone everywhere in a few years both to "fight terrorism" and to "protect the children". I'm gonna enjoy being a hardened criminal while I can.
I have a personal policy that if I see anything manmade in the woods other than a basic signpost, it comes down. Trash, sensors (never seen those), signs ("bike race this direction!"), etc. If I ran across anything like this in the woods that was public property, I'd rip them out in a heartbeat and throw them away, no questions asked. The woods are becoming a precious, quiet, away-from-the-things-of-man commodity. This shit doesn't need to be in the woods. If a hiker gets lost, that's their problem.
But the thing is, IBM doesn't have to play nice. They can anally rape OSS, and still sell it. MS hasn't done anything "against" OSS other than simple marketing. MS is a much larger software company than IBM: they're not stupid. MS will probably fight OSS with direct competition, and IBM will probably "embrace and extend" OSS.
Well, the fact is, we haven't seen MS do this any more than IBM. On top of that, everybody says that they need to defend their patents. VA Linux (the owner of/., OSDN, Sourceforge, etc.) say that repeatedly in their SEC filings, too. That doesn't mean they're going to do it.
Actually, I think there's enough money at stake that IBM will start doing this eventually. They're not going to lose any developer support. There's always a fresh batch of naive kids in college willing to code for free.
Prior art is all well and good, but a LAWYER needs to be pointing at it saying, "Look here, Mr. Judge. It's already been done!". In and of itself, "prior art" is useless. Very expensive lawyers would have to be hired to fight a very expensive legal battle.
Normally, yes, a patent fight is an expensive one, but against most OSS projects? There's nobody to defend OSS! IBM's corporate lawyers could make swiss cheese out of OSS developers, if they wanted to, and it'd be one of their easiest legal battles, ever. Whether or not they decide to, I don't know. But if they do, it's all over before it even starts.
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This guy gives an honest review of SUSE (it wouldn't install), so it gets Flamebait? WTF is up with that? That's useful information. It's saved me time and money.
Hepatitis, schmepatits. I can't imagine what this world will be like when having unprotected sex with multiple partners may mean that you get a life-saving virus! Count me in!
Not everyone runs out to buy shiny new drives the second they're released, only to pay triple what they're worth in 2 weeks. I generally use 5-10 gig hard drives, so I stick with 128. Besides, 128 sounds just fine to me. If you don't like 128, go ahead and rip and share at 192 or 256 and see how many people are interested.
You want to learn about Egyptian culture? Just watch "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns". That's how I learned about Egypt!
Well, I can only assume that for something this important, they've been building it and testing it for several years...
Maine spent millions of dollars giving every school kid a fucking laptop. Every kid in the whole goddamned state. That right there is plenty of evidence that either politicians, educators, parents, or all three believe this.
First off, you're not a libertarian.
Secondly, a basic government is needed to protect property rights (that's a tenent of Libertariansim). Your assumption is that everybody wants to code for free, which is utter bullshit. How do you propose protecting the rights of people who develop software and want to sell it? If people who want to sell their work have no way of protecting their property, then what you've done is just ended all non-free software development, so all software development is in the hands of people who happen to have the time and money to code for free. The government is there to protect basic rights that make capitalism possible.
What you're advocating is the gov't in Atlas Shrugged, and what happened there, would happen here if copyright an IP laws were ever abolished. Those people who DO create and want to be rewarded for it will have nothing to do with this country any more.
I used to write software for a living, and if the software I wrote had no IP behind it, I simply wouldn't write software.
Free software is not capitalism, and it doesn't fit. Capitalism assumes that people want to be reimbursed in some way. Free software makes no logical sense, because people do it out of altruism and stupidity.
Not *everything* can be done with a bunch of Linux boxes from local garage sales, as much as the /.'ies want it to be true. You seem to have a serious case of the "one tool fits all" syndrome.
Yeah, I know. I'm 100% in favor of it. Unfortunately, there's no way it would ever happen. It would cost tens of thousands of jobs at the IRS, and poor people would have to pay their fair share, so there go the votes.
It's very simple. It's interfering with his business. Whether or not his business is legal is another question. But I was expecting that eventually somebody would win against these blacklists. They're interfering with businesses, and they're blocking communications. Whether or not people want them to do it is irrelevant. You can't intentionally stop anybody else from doing business, and that's exactly what Spamcop, Spamhaus, etc. are doing. They're all going to be ordered to stop at some point. What they're doing is on par with is a telephone company that owned switches in the middle of the country decided to stop carrying your calls because they didn't like you, or possibly someobyd cutting your businesses telephone lines. What they're doing may or not be good, but whatever the case is, what they're doing is illegal and indefensible.
Bad idea, bad definition, bad enforceability, bad tax revenue idea
Congratulations! You just summed up the US income tax laws in a nutshell! If this passes, there'll be legions of lawyers, accountants, and politicians who do nothing but add more and more shit to this law ("an office suite, but not one used my more than 4 users, whatever"). IT'll become a rats-nest of laws that nobody other than people who spend 20 years studying it can understand. Very typical of US tax laws.
If somebody doesn't know there could be a cliff in the area, then yeah, let 'em rot. We've eliminated natural selection in every other aspect of society, I say leave it here. How stupid can somebody be not to notice a cliff?? The gene pool is actually getting worse, since the stupid breed, and the smart doesn't.... Oh wait... this sounds like a journal entry...
Yup, I'm that guy. If I wanted to make bullshit smalltalk with people, I wouldn't be IN THE WOODS! I can't avoid people unless I'm *very* deep in somewhere, or it's my own property. But yeah, I don't acknowledge other people in the woods at all. They could be on fire for all I care. But then again, you're probably some yuppie suburbanite who can't possibly understand what it means to be truly alone. In this pampered, babied, protected, watched society, people can go their whole lives not being truly alone, and that's really, really sad.
If someone died because the tracking sensors were torn down, you could also be hit with manslaughter or criminal negligence. Assuming they figured out it was you.
Yet another reason to rip down the sensors.
People are manmade. Woman-made, too. Do you smash people?
That'd be nice. Unfortunately, I'm not the Hulk.
It's not about privacy. It's about preserving nature. The last thing I want to see when I'm alone in the woods is another piece of electronic junk. Natural areas are there for a reason.
As far as risk goes... if you're worried about getting lost or hurt, don't go in the woods. Go on a "hike" in a local park with paved "paths". If I fall down and get hurt, that's my problem. There's *GOT* to be somewhere left where people can be in pure nature. There's gotta be.
Tax dollars? Puh-lease. That's a joke. Give me your address, and I'll send you $6. $5 for the stupid sensor, and $1 so you can buy yourself a clue. Public property gets destroyed all of the time in ways that I don't agree with. There's the few hundred billion that was ruined in Iraq, for example.
Throw them away where? In the woods? Or do you carry them out?
I actually carry out anything man-made. It's the whole outdoor person's "leave no mark" philosophy.
you're a vandal
Yup. Guess so. And as long as Big Brother ain't watching, I'm gonna continue to be. But, what am I saying? We'll have systems in place to track everyone everywhere in a few years both to "fight terrorism" and to "protect the children". I'm gonna enjoy being a hardened criminal while I can.
I have a personal policy that if I see anything manmade in the woods other than a basic signpost, it comes down. Trash, sensors (never seen those), signs ("bike race this direction!"), etc. If I ran across anything like this in the woods that was public property, I'd rip them out in a heartbeat and throw them away, no questions asked. The woods are becoming a precious, quiet, away-from-the-things-of-man commodity. This shit doesn't need to be in the woods. If a hiker gets lost, that's their problem.
But the thing is, IBM doesn't have to play nice. They can anally rape OSS, and still sell it. MS hasn't done anything "against" OSS other than simple marketing. MS is a much larger software company than IBM: they're not stupid. MS will probably fight OSS with direct competition, and IBM will probably "embrace and extend" OSS.
Well, the fact is, we haven't seen MS do this any more than IBM. On top of that, everybody says that they need to defend their patents. VA Linux (the owner of /., OSDN, Sourceforge, etc.) say that repeatedly in their SEC filings, too. That doesn't mean they're going to do it.
Actually, I think there's enough money at stake that IBM will start doing this eventually. They're not going to lose any developer support. There's always a fresh batch of naive kids in college willing to code for free.
Prior art is all well and good, but a LAWYER needs to be pointing at it saying, "Look here, Mr. Judge. It's already been done!". In and of itself, "prior art" is useless. Very expensive lawyers would have to be hired to fight a very expensive legal battle.
Normally, yes, a patent fight is an expensive one, but against most OSS projects? There's nobody to defend OSS! IBM's corporate lawyers could make swiss cheese out of OSS developers, if they wanted to, and it'd be one of their easiest legal battles, ever. Whether or not they decide to, I don't know. But if they do, it's all over before it even starts.
Ah, good point. That makes more sense.