I'm 99% sure that a notice generated by a bot is not a valid DMCA notice. YouTube takes them seriously because of agreements with the content providers, not because of the DMCA itself.
Of course they're irrational. They've based their decision not on logic and facts, but on either a complete lack of facts, or a complete lack of logic, or both.
Self driving cars don't exist yet. Virtually all proposals for self driving cars require that the cars be better than the vast majority of human beings before they're set loose on the world, with that requirement being tested repeatedly before we go ahead and launch them using real world accident rates.
To assume you would be more safe in a human driven car means one of three things:
1. You assume the driver would be better than the vast majority of human beings. That's almost certainly a delusional position, and therefore irrational.
2. You're unaware that the requirement that the cars be proven safer exists. That's ignoring or being unaware of the facts, which again makes your position irrational.
3. You're of the opinion that a transportation system that has less accidents than another comparable transportation system, in this case, self driving cars vs human driven cars, is less safe. That is the reverse of the facts, and thus illogical, and thus irrational.
What's the non-irrational scenario here? I'm not seeing it.
Why did they become popular in the first place? There have been numerous times in the last 20-30 years when PC gaming was the place to be. Yet we've swung back to consoles just as frequently, long before the number of games vs number of PC games justified the choice.
I suspect the reason is that your PC is something you have in your study/office/bedroom, hooked up to a 24" monitor, frequently needed for other tasks, whereas your console is something you can have in the living room hooked up to the 50" TV, ready to play games at a moment's notice for you and for everyone else.
The autonomous car isn't going to make traffic, construction, nor other idiot drivers magically disappear, so I'd say this is a hopeful but doubtful claim.
It won't make them disappear, but it'll make them not my problem. One of the things that makes train travel so wonderful is that it seriously doesn't matter (outside of stress about being late) if the scenery outside the window pauses for a little bit. You've got a book and some headphones, you don't need to care.
On Slashdot, "almost all" and "all" are actually synonyms, which is why you'll get flamed if you say something like "Almost all Foobar widgets cost over $10" by people complaining that they found a single Foobar widget for $9.
I think it's talking about gut bacteria and using highly resistant beneficial bacteria to prevent harmful bacteria moving in if someone is on anti-biotics (or something vaguely like that anyway.) But what is a "Poop transplant"?
Just bought a half terabyte laptop SSD for about $150, which was roughly what a 2.5" magnetic drive with equivalent capacity cost me three or four years ago, and only about twice the current 2.5" magnetic drive cost. I know, I know, still not comparable to 3.5" costs, but it gives you some idea of how quickly the prices are plummetting.
Basically, Richard Stallman's line is that the MIT license restricts your freedom as a software developer and a software user, and the GPL protects it. It's backwards double-think.
It would be if he'd ever said anything of the sort, which he hasn't. His only objections to licenses like the MIT license is they open the potential for someone to produce a closed fork of your work, he has absolutely no moral objection to it, and the statement he thinks it restricts your freedom is 100% false.
Is he Stallman, or Strawman? Because half the stuff posted here about what he supposedly believes seems to fit the latter.
Yes, but just because you didn't say it doesn't mean the GP can't have a rant at you as if you mentioned speech and set up an entire straw man arguing with you about fires in theaters!
Alas "The Man" will probably be fine with that. The entire point of Blu-Ray's access control features (vs DVDs) is that they can be constantly changing. AnyDVD in the public domain might cause a temporary blip in copying, but over time would become irrelevant.
I'd still like them to do it though. F--- Blu-ray.
If the entire point is to make it easy for end users, then yeah, it's worth it for them to have a separate.ISO that has everything configured from the get go, rather than say "You want a user friendly version of Ubuntu with a traditional desktop? Sure, just download the ISO, install it, and now follow the following list of instructions. 1. Log in. 2. Go to the Ubuntu logo, click on it, and wait for the menu to appear. Now type "Terminal" in the search box and press return. Now select the Terminal icon. Now, in the terminal type 'sudo apt-get...'"...
The aim here is to make it simple for end users. A simple alternative ISO isn't going to be hard to make. It's not as if the ISO will need to be maintained after making it, beyond making new versions for each major Ubuntu release.
Well, no, that's exactly it, Trump's support has been pretty much consistently 25-35% (25 when he's low, 35 when he's high) throughout the entire campaign.
There's a theory circulating at the moment that Trump actually isn't going to climb higher, based upon the fact numerous candidates have dropped out thus far, but Trump's figures have barely budged.
I'm not sure how true it is, I suspect someone like Cruz is probably the wildcard there as he has a potent mix of Tea Partiers and Theocrats as his base, and it's not certain any of them would be natural Rubio voters.
Looking at how HuffPo came to that conclusion I'm going to agree with RCP here. Only one of the seven polls taken in February shows a Clinton lead, and that poll is ridiculously out of whack with the rest.
HuffPo's final result seems also to be skewed by a January poll (again, an outlier) showing a 29 point lead for Clinton over Rubio (the other two in January show +5 Clinton, +3 Rubio respectively)
I'd say it's more likely than not that Rubio would win, which makes sense, his main opposition is from Tea Party types, who'll grudgingly vote for him anyway in November. He's not hated by Democrats, whereas Clinton most certainly is hated by Republicans (and some Democrats!)
Are the Kochs really donating to Cruz? They've sounded pretty ambivalent about the choices at this election. I've actually read (one them) show more positivity towards Bernie Sanders (no, they're supporting Sanders!) than the Republican candidates.
There's a world of difference between adding a repo to add some extra applications, and distributing an operating system where the majority of core components are coming in via a repo you don't have control over. That's why I think the word kludge is appropriate here.
Because I have nothing against Ubuntu, and the issue is relying on other repos beyond the control of the distribution, not Canonical per-se.
One thing I hate about discussions of distributions sometimes is that it descends to people feeling they need to pick sides and teams and be "Team Mint" or "Team Canonical". I'm not that way, and even if I were on Team Mint, I'd at least have the courage to acknowledge that Team Canonical made my operating system possible (just as Team Canonical member should acknowledge their debt to Team Debian.)
I don't use Mint because I hate Canonical. I like Canonical. I use Mint because it's the recommended Cinnamon distribution, and I like Cinnamon.
so you could argue why don't they just partner with Debian instead of rolling their own
Sure, that would be another option. That said, Ubuntu has nailed the "Install it and it just works" aspect of distributions in a way virtually nobody else has, and they're already set up and have a proven track record in the distribution spins ("our distribution with these modifications to create a different user experience") department. So if it were up to me, and partnering was the only option on the table I'd pick Canonical over Debian.
As far as security goes, I mostly agree in that I don't think Ubuntu/Canonical and its integration would be the principle problem with security holes. But the team doesn't appear to have a security focus and probably doesn't have the expertise required to have that focus. It's too small a group, and probably needs the (appropriate) people posting enthusiastically about it to start involving themselves in its development. Otherwise it's destined to become a Ron Paul of operating systems, loved enthusiastically by those who are attached to it, but too small to actually make a difference.
I'm a Mint user myself, but after 20 years or so of using GNU/Linux, Slackware, RedHat (pre-RHEL), RHEL/CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and now Mint, I've learned not to attach myself emotionally to any particular system. Originally I thought that sharing repositories with Ubuntu was a great thing given Ubuntu is a great operating system marred only by a relatively poor UI, but I'm not as inclined to agree right now.
They already do ship cinnamon packages apparently. But here we're essentially talking about a "You install the operating system and it comes with everything set up more or less how Mint would do it" type experience, hence the talk of a Cinnamon Ubuntu spin.
I've not tried it, but I can't imagine it would avoid the same problems. The issue isn't Ubuntu, it's that a third party controls, directly, 90% of the software that makes up a Mint distribution.
Good fucking god. They are not disconnecting themselves.
Who said they are? We wouldn't be having this discussion if they were.
Mint is based on stable version of Ubuntu. How hard is it to understand that. So Mint will not be on the bleeding edge
By "based" in this case you mean "It directly uses the stable version of Ubuntu as a base". And by "stable" version I assume you mean "LTS" which doesn't mean "stable", at least, not in a meaningful way that applies here.
Essentially the current configuration places Mint users at the mercy of Canonical. If they change something that breaks the packages Mint is supplying, then we're in trouble. And Canonical can and most importantly does change things. That/etc/issue thing happened. It was minor, it was amusing but nothing more, but it demonstrates the principle that Mint is playing with fire by using Ubuntu as a base rather than maintaining their own fork.
This is not a sane strategy. And to be honest, until today I was a (mostly) happy Mint user, and hadn't really thought about the consequences of the/etc/issue nonsense earlier this week. But now I've been forced to think about it, and now I'm reading MintBros determined to pretend the status quo is fine, I'm... kinda wondering if I should step away from this distribution.
I keep reading this claim, I'm not sure what's being referred to. Ubuntu most certainly does play movies and music out of the box. It seems to have at the very least the same multimedia support that, say, Windows does.
(I just checked, Rhythmbox and "Videos" installed by default on the Ubuntu system I'm using now.)
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I'm 99% sure that a notice generated by a bot is not a valid DMCA notice. YouTube takes them seriously because of agreements with the content providers, not because of the DMCA itself.
Of course they're irrational. They've based their decision not on logic and facts, but on either a complete lack of facts, or a complete lack of logic, or both.
Self driving cars don't exist yet. Virtually all proposals for self driving cars require that the cars be better than the vast majority of human beings before they're set loose on the world, with that requirement being tested repeatedly before we go ahead and launch them using real world accident rates.
To assume you would be more safe in a human driven car means one of three things:
1. You assume the driver would be better than the vast majority of human beings. That's almost certainly a delusional position, and therefore irrational.
2. You're unaware that the requirement that the cars be proven safer exists. That's ignoring or being unaware of the facts, which again makes your position irrational.
3. You're of the opinion that a transportation system that has less accidents than another comparable transportation system, in this case, self driving cars vs human driven cars, is less safe. That is the reverse of the facts, and thus illogical, and thus irrational.
What's the non-irrational scenario here? I'm not seeing it.
Why did they become popular in the first place? There have been numerous times in the last 20-30 years when PC gaming was the place to be. Yet we've swung back to consoles just as frequently, long before the number of games vs number of PC games justified the choice.
I suspect the reason is that your PC is something you have in your study/office/bedroom, hooked up to a 24" monitor, frequently needed for other tasks, whereas your console is something you can have in the living room hooked up to the 50" TV, ready to play games at a moment's notice for you and for everyone else.
It won't make them disappear, but it'll make them not my problem. One of the things that makes train travel so wonderful is that it seriously doesn't matter (outside of stress about being late) if the scenery outside the window pauses for a little bit. You've got a book and some headphones, you don't need to care.
On Slashdot, "almost all" and "all" are actually synonyms, which is why you'll get flamed if you say something like "Almost all Foobar widgets cost over $10" by people complaining that they found a single Foobar widget for $9.
I think it's talking about gut bacteria and using highly resistant beneficial bacteria to prevent harmful bacteria moving in if someone is on anti-biotics (or something vaguely like that anyway.) But what is a "Poop transplant"?
Just bought a half terabyte laptop SSD for about $150, which was roughly what a 2.5" magnetic drive with equivalent capacity cost me three or four years ago, and only about twice the current 2.5" magnetic drive cost. I know, I know, still not comparable to 3.5" costs, but it gives you some idea of how quickly the prices are plummetting.
It would be if he'd ever said anything of the sort, which he hasn't. His only objections to licenses like the MIT license is they open the potential for someone to produce a closed fork of your work, he has absolutely no moral objection to it, and the statement he thinks it restricts your freedom is 100% false.
Is he Stallman, or Strawman? Because half the stuff posted here about what he supposedly believes seems to fit the latter.
Yes, but just because you didn't say it doesn't mean the GP can't have a rant at you as if you mentioned speech and set up an entire straw man arguing with you about fires in theaters!
No, because his percentage across the entire country has barely budged. Trump is likely to sweep Florida too, but that was also likely six months ago.
Trump's been fairly consistent in having 25-35% (varying wildly) support throughout the country as a whole for the last six months or so.
Alas "The Man" will probably be fine with that. The entire point of Blu-Ray's access control features (vs DVDs) is that they can be constantly changing. AnyDVD in the public domain might cause a temporary blip in copying, but over time would become irrelevant.
I'd still like them to do it though. F--- Blu-ray.
If the entire point is to make it easy for end users, then yeah, it's worth it for them to have a separate .ISO that has everything configured from the get go, rather than say "You want a user friendly version of Ubuntu with a traditional desktop? Sure, just download the ISO, install it, and now follow the following list of instructions. 1. Log in. 2. Go to the Ubuntu logo, click on it, and wait for the menu to appear. Now type "Terminal" in the search box and press return. Now select the Terminal icon. Now, in the terminal type 'sudo apt-get...'"...
The aim here is to make it simple for end users. A simple alternative ISO isn't going to be hard to make. It's not as if the ISO will need to be maintained after making it, beyond making new versions for each major Ubuntu release.
Well, no, that's exactly it, Trump's support has been pretty much consistently 25-35% (25 when he's low, 35 when he's high) throughout the entire campaign.
There's a theory circulating at the moment that Trump actually isn't going to climb higher, based upon the fact numerous candidates have dropped out thus far, but Trump's figures have barely budged.
I'm not sure how true it is, I suspect someone like Cruz is probably the wildcard there as he has a potent mix of Tea Partiers and Theocrats as his base, and it's not certain any of them would be natural Rubio voters.
Looking at how HuffPo came to that conclusion I'm going to agree with RCP here. Only one of the seven polls taken in February shows a Clinton lead, and that poll is ridiculously out of whack with the rest.
HuffPo's final result seems also to be skewed by a January poll (again, an outlier) showing a 29 point lead for Clinton over Rubio (the other two in January show +5 Clinton, +3 Rubio respectively)
I'd say it's more likely than not that Rubio would win, which makes sense, his main opposition is from Tea Party types, who'll grudgingly vote for him anyway in November. He's not hated by Democrats, whereas Clinton most certainly is hated by Republicans (and some Democrats!)
Are the Kochs really donating to Cruz? They've sounded pretty ambivalent about the choices at this election. I've actually read (one them) show more positivity towards Bernie Sanders (no, they're supporting Sanders!) than the Republican candidates.
There's a world of difference between adding a repo to add some extra applications, and distributing an operating system where the majority of core components are coming in via a repo you don't have control over. That's why I think the word kludge is appropriate here.
Because I have nothing against Ubuntu, and the issue is relying on other repos beyond the control of the distribution, not Canonical per-se.
One thing I hate about discussions of distributions sometimes is that it descends to people feeling they need to pick sides and teams and be "Team Mint" or "Team Canonical". I'm not that way, and even if I were on Team Mint, I'd at least have the courage to acknowledge that Team Canonical made my operating system possible (just as Team Canonical member should acknowledge their debt to Team Debian.)
I don't use Mint because I hate Canonical. I like Canonical. I use Mint because it's the recommended Cinnamon distribution, and I like Cinnamon.
Sure, that would be another option. That said, Ubuntu has nailed the "Install it and it just works" aspect of distributions in a way virtually nobody else has, and they're already set up and have a proven track record in the distribution spins ("our distribution with these modifications to create a different user experience") department. So if it were up to me, and partnering was the only option on the table I'd pick Canonical over Debian.
As far as security goes, I mostly agree in that I don't think Ubuntu/Canonical and its integration would be the principle problem with security holes. But the team doesn't appear to have a security focus and probably doesn't have the expertise required to have that focus. It's too small a group, and probably needs the (appropriate) people posting enthusiastically about it to start involving themselves in its development. Otherwise it's destined to become a Ron Paul of operating systems, loved enthusiastically by those who are attached to it, but too small to actually make a difference.
I'm a Mint user myself, but after 20 years or so of using GNU/Linux, Slackware, RedHat (pre-RHEL), RHEL/CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and now Mint, I've learned not to attach myself emotionally to any particular system. Originally I thought that sharing repositories with Ubuntu was a great thing given Ubuntu is a great operating system marred only by a relatively poor UI, but I'm not as inclined to agree right now.
They already do ship cinnamon packages apparently. But here we're essentially talking about a "You install the operating system and it comes with everything set up more or less how Mint would do it" type experience, hence the talk of a Cinnamon Ubuntu spin.
I've not tried it, but I can't imagine it would avoid the same problems. The issue isn't Ubuntu, it's that a third party controls, directly, 90% of the software that makes up a Mint distribution.
They wouldn't replace Unity with Cinnamon in the primary version of Ubuntu, but given they have no problems distributing versions of Ubuntu with KDE, GNOME 3, XFCE, LXDE, and even MATE (the other thing that came out of the Unity sucks movement), I don't see why they wouldn't do a Cinnamon version if there was a community willing to maintain it.
I know you're making a joke, but FWIW both Mac OS X and Windowses 8 through 10 come with app stores now.
Who said they are? We wouldn't be having this discussion if they were.
By "based" in this case you mean "It directly uses the stable version of Ubuntu as a base". And by "stable" version I assume you mean "LTS" which doesn't mean "stable", at least, not in a meaningful way that applies here.
Essentially the current configuration places Mint users at the mercy of Canonical. If they change something that breaks the packages Mint is supplying, then we're in trouble. And Canonical can and most importantly does change things. That /etc/issue thing happened. It was minor, it was amusing but nothing more, but it demonstrates the principle that Mint is playing with fire by using Ubuntu as a base rather than maintaining their own fork.
This is not a sane strategy. And to be honest, until today I was a (mostly) happy Mint user, and hadn't really thought about the consequences of the /etc/issue nonsense earlier this week. But now I've been forced to think about it, and now I'm reading MintBros determined to pretend the status quo is fine, I'm... kinda wondering if I should step away from this distribution.
I keep reading this claim, I'm not sure what's being referred to. Ubuntu most certainly does play movies and music out of the box. It seems to have at the very least the same multimedia support that, say, Windows does.
(I just checked, Rhythmbox and "Videos" installed by default on the Ubuntu system I'm using now.)