I'd say "nice straw man", but it's blatant and weak.
What does restricting someone's right to campaign for a political party based upon their renter's preferences have to do with Flikr's enforcement of their acceptable use policy?
The expectation implicit in the complaint of this article is just so hopelessly naive. Then you support the article by making an attack on Reagan supporters? Such rabid political dogma and hate is just depressing.
Do you *really* want to live in a world where every business is forced to follow in the bureaucratic footsteps of our necessarily constrained government? So maybe Flikr should have its own judiciary system equal to the US government's or clog courts with free speech arguments for every picture they need to remove, since it will need some way to enforce "free speech" as well as the govt does?
Maybe Flikr could then charge us taxes to pay for their enforcement and judicial infrastructure?
Do you really not understanding the difference between carefully restraining the powers of a monolithic/monopolistic government that has the power of force to hurt you and take your money vs restraining the powers of a business that offers a free service in a market of competitors?
At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies.
Which extreme personality traits aren't bad for society. All definable personality traits have their place in moderation within a healthy, evolving society. The worst of them are the ones that push society forward the fastest.
Neanderthals were probably a bunch of peace-loving emotionally connected hippies, and look what happened to them. Okay, that's speculation...
Yep. I hate to knock Atkinson since he did such phenomenal work - but a net-savvy Hypercard still would have been missing the important revolutions of open software and open protocols.
I find firebrand statements like this to be divisive and petty.
I prefer to say it more delicately, like "Everyone without a stick up his ass just calls the OS 'Linux'".
I realize that his is also divisive since it could be "stick up her ass", but I hate to make the facts come across as so wordy when you have to say "his or her ass".
The really curious thing is why anyone reads Popular Mechanics as though it has anything to do with real mechanical things. Popular Mechanics is to machines as popular music is to music, Popular Science is to science, and the Enquirer is to news in general.
Yes, I like this idea. Let's take it further... Don't open the letter, then reproduce what you think the litigants might have said using court-approved "clean room" techniques.
Brilliant!
That way, they can't even claim you reverse engineered the letter.
Combination of being sick of waiting for them to get a clue and the job paying me to do Windows and buying my machines for me. ZFS is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's wallet.
Every time I have to mess with Solaris, I'm annoyed at how much dorking I have to do with it to get it to have a reasonably modern environment and set of tools on it like a fresh install of Ubuntu or Fedora Core.
FreeBSD... maybe... I kind of like the Apple hardware, though.
This reads like a nerd's unsubstantiated wet dream.
An absolutely, positively, amazing feature set. I can't wait until it's stable enough for production use. After 7 years of staying away from Apple products, I'm going back to the Mac.
The cause of the hunger in the first place is the lack of mental feeding. Hungry bellies are just a symptom of the broken society over there. Sure, money can buy rice to feed the hungry kids for a while. They'll still be hungry when that money runs out. People have been throwing food supplies at Africa for generations and Africa is worse off than ever.
As Dr. Phil would say, "How's that working for ya?"
Maybe Dvroak should have a nice big cup of stfu while someone tries something different this time.
It's a balancing game. Who are you more worried about impacting your rights, police thugs or non-police thugs?
Personally, I've been impacted more by the non-police thugs than the police ones. Plus, the police thugs bother me on a philosophical/indignation level. I object to their being abusive and rude... searching me without proper permission, etc. The non-police thugs tend to be the kind that take your belongings and possibly your life. It's an entirely different kind of cost/benefit analysis.
I know everyone gets their panties in a wad about the guvmint decrypting their data, but I'm somewhat okay with it if a court is involved in the issuance of a valid search warrant. It's not fundamentally different from the court-overseen right to come into your home and search the premises.
You can't completely declaw the police or they'll be useless at any type of law enforcement.
If you had, you'd know beyond any doubt that no amount of self delusional geek greatness makes you more intelligent than a trained lawyer at home in their profession.
Sometimes a geek can know specific areas of the law and his rights better than those in the legal profession and law enforcement.
Sure, the law is more complicated than some geeks give it credit for. But pursuing knowledge of it isn't forbidden or even a bad idea. I wouldn't recommend that any more than I'd recommend that attorneys leave the computer technical stuff to IT professionals.
Notice that the comparison didn't talk about actually RELEASING the product.
I've spent some time building an application in SWT, which is reasonably sweet and sophisticated -- however, now that I'm looking to release my application, I'm having to experiment with applications to bundling third-party products, experiment with batch launchers, learning how to manipulate jar files, etc.
I wrote a C# program in VS a few months back, and on top of the immediately present and obvious GUI manipulation tools, the ability to just take my exe and run it on another machine without doing further research was a nice benefit.
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Oh yes... behold the awesome power of the Libertarian Party.... muhuhahahaha
I say that in complete self-mockingness since I normally vote for the LP candidate.
I'd say "nice straw man", but it's blatant and weak.
What does restricting someone's right to campaign for a political party based upon their renter's preferences have to do with Flikr's enforcement of their acceptable use policy?
The expectation implicit in the complaint of this article is just so hopelessly naive. Then you support the article by making an attack on Reagan supporters? Such rabid political dogma and hate is just depressing.
Do you *really* want to live in a world where every business is forced to follow in the bureaucratic footsteps of our necessarily constrained government? So maybe Flikr should have its own judiciary system equal to the US government's or clog courts with free speech arguments for every picture they need to remove, since it will need some way to enforce "free speech" as well as the govt does?
Maybe Flikr could then charge us taxes to pay for their enforcement and judicial infrastructure?
Do you really not understanding the difference between carefully restraining the powers of a monolithic/monopolistic government that has the power of force to hurt you and take your money vs restraining the powers of a business that offers a free service in a market of competitors?
At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies.
Which extreme personality traits aren't bad for society. All definable personality traits have their place in moderation within a healthy, evolving society. The worst of them are the ones that push society forward the fastest.
Neanderthals were probably a bunch of peace-loving emotionally connected hippies, and look what happened to them. Okay, that's speculation...
sarcasm
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lots of distance
your understanding of sarcasm
Just an opinion - but having an opinion that disagrees with your own isn't flamebait.
Yep. I hate to knock Atkinson since he did such phenomenal work - but a net-savvy Hypercard still would have been missing the important revolutions of open software and open protocols.
So if you could make the world just a bit smarter on average by making these pills as common as aspirin, you wouldn't encourage that?
Maybe people could be smarter about how they vote, consume, invent, live with one another?
You're saying that's a bad thing? Because it comes in pill form?
... a successful cold confusion experiment.
meh
I find firebrand statements like this to be divisive and petty.
I prefer to say it more delicately, like "Everyone without a stick up his ass just calls the OS 'Linux'".
I realize that his is also divisive since it could be "stick up her ass", but I hate to make the facts come across as so wordy when you have to say "his or her ass".
The really curious thing is why anyone reads Popular Mechanics as though it has anything to do with real mechanical things. Popular Mechanics is to machines as popular music is to music, Popular Science is to science, and the Enquirer is to news in general.
French police surrender to Linux
Yes, yes, it's more of a cliche than a joke.
Yes, I like this idea. Let's take it further... Don't open the letter, then reproduce what you think the litigants might have said using court-approved "clean room" techniques.
Brilliant!
That way, they can't even claim you reverse engineered the letter.
Careful, dude, this is Slashdot. Special pleading for open source software is allowed and even encouraged.
I mean, what non-zealot could even half take the premise of this article/editorial seriously?
Combination of being sick of waiting for them to get a clue and the job paying me to do Windows and buying my machines for me. ZFS is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's wallet.
Every time I have to mess with Solaris, I'm annoyed at how much dorking I have to do with it to get it to have a reasonably modern environment and set of tools on it like a fresh install of Ubuntu or Fedora Core.
FreeBSD... maybe... I kind of like the Apple hardware, though.
This reads like a nerd's unsubstantiated wet dream.
An absolutely, positively, amazing feature set. I can't wait until it's stable enough for production use. After 7 years of staying away from Apple products, I'm going back to the Mac.
Yikes, you're too much fun for fark, that's for sure.
Don't hurt yourself getting off that high horse.
The cause of the hunger in the first place is the lack of mental feeding. Hungry bellies are just a symptom of the broken society over there. Sure, money can buy rice to feed the hungry kids for a while. They'll still be hungry when that money runs out. People have been throwing food supplies at Africa for generations and Africa is worse off than ever.
As Dr. Phil would say, "How's that working for ya?"
Maybe Dvroak should have a nice big cup of stfu while someone tries something different this time.
To be fair, "sham poo" wouldn't be considered to be authentic poo by the National Association of Poo Fanciers (NAPF).
[Insert tub girl link here]
It's a balancing game. Who are you more worried about impacting your rights, police thugs or non-police thugs?
Personally, I've been impacted more by the non-police thugs than the police ones. Plus, the police thugs bother me on a philosophical/indignation level. I object to their being abusive and rude... searching me without proper permission, etc. The non-police thugs tend to be the kind that take your belongings and possibly your life. It's an entirely different kind of cost/benefit analysis.
Does the UK have the concept of a search warrant?
I know everyone gets their panties in a wad about the guvmint decrypting their data, but I'm somewhat okay with it if a court is involved in the issuance of a valid search warrant. It's not fundamentally different from the court-overseen right to come into your home and search the premises.
You can't completely declaw the police or they'll be useless at any type of law enforcement.
Sometimes a geek can know specific areas of the law and his rights better than those in the legal profession and law enforcement.
Sure, the law is more complicated than some geeks give it credit for. But pursuing knowledge of it isn't forbidden or even a bad idea. I wouldn't recommend that any more than I'd recommend that attorneys leave the computer technical stuff to IT professionals.
I couldn't find anything googling. When was the searching of customers upheld in court?
Notice that the comparison didn't talk about actually RELEASING the product.
I've spent some time building an application in SWT, which is reasonably sweet and sophisticated -- however, now that I'm looking to release my application, I'm having to experiment with applications to bundling third-party products, experiment with batch launchers, learning how to manipulate jar files, etc.
I wrote a C# program in VS a few months back, and on top of the immediately present and obvious GUI manipulation tools, the ability to just take my exe and run it on another machine without doing further research was a nice benefit.