I can't imagine any Communist voters who would have found something wrong enough w/ Jill Stein to go for Communist Workers.
Typically, Libertarians are an asterisk, but this time, they were expected to do well due to the perception that both parties were fielding their weakest candidates (turned out later that the Republicans were not!) They got quite a bit of coverage from John Stossel, and McAfee was a regular in the Libertarian primary debates, which they broadcast. Also, in the general, the Libertarians were expected to do well since 2 ex Republican governors - Johnson & Weld - were on the ticket. However, turned out that the undecideds switched for Trump at the end.
At any rate, I was describing McAfee as a serious candidate for the Libertarians. Whether Libertarians themselves are a serious factor or not is another discussion altogether.
I stated what it officially stands for. Whether it actually represents that or not is open to debate, and one can accept the FSF's premise without misstating what the acronym means. As for the PATRIOT Act, PATRIOT is an acronym -Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism. It's very much patriotic, unless one's loyalties are to Islam!
I lived in Milpitas in the 90s - was caught in the El Nino storms of 1997, where my new car was washed out weeks after I had bought it. It was built on a landfill - if one drove West off the Nimitz to Dixon Landing Road, one would end at the landfill, or could take McCarthy Blvd southbound.
More precisely, is there a company or game player like Xbox that is DRM free? First that would have to exist, and they'd have to make enough money just selling games and players so that they don't require DRM.
Incidentally, does Steam fall within DRM? Like I play Civ VI on my laptop, but if I had a Steam player, or played it under PlaywithBSD, would I have to buy it again? From what I understand, that single purchase would work on any Steam console that I was logged into, regardless of where I played.
No, you don't like the stories, but you can always go watch Fox. Nancy Pelosi is a coke dealer in the basement of a pizza shop.... welcome to Fox News. Roger Aisles is dead but his ghost still writes the news copy. Perhaps that's more to your tastes?
One can't have the discussions like here on Fox, unless one is watching on YouTube live and in a permanent chat mode w/ some people & some bots.
You are right about the blockquote, but as Tepples noted, it would have been useful to see 'Digital Rights Management' - the real expansion of that acronym - spelt out somewhere in the summary. Instead, since the only expansion of DRM was provided in the cited space, anybody coming across this acronym for the first time would be left w/ the impression that DRM indeed stands for 'Digital Restrictions Management'. While that may well be what it practically is, it's certainly not what it stands for.
Whether you believe it's a misnomer or not, DRM usually refers to "digital rights management" instead of "digital restrictions management" like what's in the summary. The summary reads like propaganda and is full of rhetoric. Slashdot used to actually be a news site, hence the former motto of news for nerds, stuff that matters. Now, it's run by terrible editors and spews propaganda. Slashdot loses credibility with nonsense like that. The management and editors are doing a wonderful job of running this site into the ground.
To be fair to EditorDavid, the 'digital restrictions management' was from the cited passage, and not something that he himself inserted. It's been one of those acronyms deliberately distorted by RMS (Really Mean Socialist?) to suit his screed
I agree that Slashdot has been losing credibility for a while now w/ too many stories on politics or climate, rather than sticking to computer technology. But last couple of days have been an improvement, w/ discussions like Intel's IoT business, OpenBSD unique kernels, Stream ripping, today Multics and now this story.
Unix was supposed to be a simplified version of Multics, so it would be interesting to see what the original Multics was capable of, and in what ways would upgrades of Unix have occured had Multics developed on parallel tracks
Precisely. I was on the original Windows 10 Beta program when my laptop had Windows 8: it was so unusable that I downloaded Windows 10 beta and used it. But the continuous automatic updates the first few days made it a pain, although the UI was far better. But this time, I'm not waiting for anything new, and really don't care. All my data is backed up both on OneDrive, as well as on USB sticks. So if Microsoft wants to force upgrades on me, go ahead. I'm just waiting to be able to update my TrueOS, since I've been stuck at a particular version, and haven't felt inclined to order the latest DVD.
I used to laugh @ emojis, but I realized their value once I got into using Twitter. I often use flags & symbols in place of words to cramp my message within the 140 characters.
Ironically, there are few apps worth writing about in the Windows store itself. One can get good apps in the Apple Store or the Play Store, but hardly any on the Microsoft Store. And some apps, like Messaging, have fallen into disuse.
For the first time ever, I've stopped looking forward to a Windows upgrade. Windows 8 would have been fine had they just changed the kernel and the Window logo, and the only thing I looked forward to there was better memory optimization & stability. Windows 10 - I preferred the UI fix, which is far better than Windows 8, particularly w/ ClassicShell. But other than that, I'm done w/ Windows, so they can take as long as HURD on their next upgrade, don't really care.
The day Windows goes to a subscription model, I'll switch to Apple. Yeah, it'll bite in the wallet, but I'm already somewhat used to iOS, having had an iPhone, iPad & iPod.
No, the reason that HURD failed was that the whole project was treated as an open-ended computer science experiment, rather than a task that needed to be completed by time X, and improved periodically thereafter, like everything else - Linux, BSD, Minix, et al. Instead, they kept experimenting w/ different obscure microkernels, and never got complete. They'd have done better had they taken Minix 3, relicensed their fork under GPL3, and then built on that. In fact, all they would have needed would have been emacs, and they'd have been off to the races.
There were online music sites you could buy individual songs from most major record companies before Apple had one. Let's not rewrite history.
I wasn't trying to claim that Apple started it: yeah, a lot of us did go through the Napster saga. But this was before internet access was fast or cheap, or computers were commonplace. The main ways to get music was buying CDs, and I for one would be bombarded w/ mail from BMG or Columbia House. On the rare occasion that there was a feature CD w/ just 1 or 2 songs, it certainly didn't cost
The reason they tour is that they make a pittance from music sales. It was bad enough when record companies sold CDs, which were lose-lose propositions for both artists & customers: one had to sink something like $20 for a CD w/ just 1 song worth listening, while the record company took the biggest cut and the artists were left w/ crumbs. It didn't help that most songs were quickly in & out of favor w/ the public.
Once Apple entered, they introduced granularity by allowing people to buy 1 song at a time, which enabled one to buy exactly what s/he liked and nothing more. Which made things better for consumers, but didn't resolve the issue from the artists' end. Which is why they still tour.
People don't care about anything but 'FREE'. So who cares about paying for the product any longer.
Then their favorite artist stops touring and producing music and they complain because "They were my favorite band".
I downloaded a bunch of music videos from YouTube. Despite that, I went on to buy some of them on iTunes, since I needed that on my iPod, which is the only way I can organize them into playlists and play them in the car, w/o paying too much attention to them while driving
Problem is that not all of them were available on iTunes as music videos, and I didn't wanna buy any audio only songs. Vevo at one point used to sell music, but that seems to have stopped, or else, many of the missings songs I mentioned above are certainly available there. But aside from those, there are some others that are just available on YouTube from random people, but which happen to be the official music videos of groups from the late 80s-early 90s. I'd want to be able to get those on my player, not b'cos I don't wanna buy them from Apple, but simply b'cos they're just not available there.
I have a bunch of YouTube music videos that I downloaded, but can't figure out for the life of me how to get it on my iPod playlist. iTunes won't work w/ that. Any other options?
The problem is not that the terrorists would specifically target you. The problem is that while you are in a mall, an allahu-akbar jihadist would suddenly draw a knife & stab you at random - just b'cos you happened to be the first person he could get. Or that you are walking on a sidewalk, and a Muzzie, who's not yet been banned from driving a car due to his religion, could just switch lanes from the road to the sidewalk and try running over you. That's the threat being considered here, not whether you've been nice to Islam and would thereby get a pass
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I can't imagine any Communist voters who would have found something wrong enough w/ Jill Stein to go for Communist Workers.
Typically, Libertarians are an asterisk, but this time, they were expected to do well due to the perception that both parties were fielding their weakest candidates (turned out later that the Republicans were not!) They got quite a bit of coverage from John Stossel, and McAfee was a regular in the Libertarian primary debates, which they broadcast. Also, in the general, the Libertarians were expected to do well since 2 ex Republican governors - Johnson & Weld - were on the ticket. However, turned out that the undecideds switched for Trump at the end.
At any rate, I was describing McAfee as a serious candidate for the Libertarians. Whether Libertarians themselves are a serious factor or not is another discussion altogether.
I stated what it officially stands for. Whether it actually represents that or not is open to debate, and one can accept the FSF's premise without misstating what the acronym means. As for the PATRIOT Act, PATRIOT is an acronym -Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism. It's very much patriotic, unless one's loyalties are to Islam!
I lived in Milpitas in the 90s - was caught in the El Nino storms of 1997, where my new car was washed out weeks after I had bought it. It was built on a landfill - if one drove West off the Nimitz to Dixon Landing Road, one would end at the landfill, or could take McCarthy Blvd southbound.
More precisely, is there a company or game player like Xbox that is DRM free? First that would have to exist, and they'd have to make enough money just selling games and players so that they don't require DRM.
Incidentally, does Steam fall within DRM? Like I play Civ VI on my laptop, but if I had a Steam player, or played it under PlaywithBSD, would I have to buy it again? From what I understand, that single purchase would work on any Steam console that I was logged into, regardless of where I played.
No, you don't like the stories, but you can always go watch Fox. Nancy Pelosi is a coke dealer in the basement of a pizza shop.... welcome to Fox News. Roger Aisles is dead but his ghost still writes the news copy. Perhaps that's more to your tastes?
One can't have the discussions like here on Fox, unless one is watching on YouTube live and in a permanent chat mode w/ some people & some bots.
You are right about the blockquote, but as Tepples noted, it would have been useful to see 'Digital Rights Management' - the real expansion of that acronym - spelt out somewhere in the summary. Instead, since the only expansion of DRM was provided in the cited space, anybody coming across this acronym for the first time would be left w/ the impression that DRM indeed stands for 'Digital Restrictions Management'. While that may well be what it practically is, it's certainly not what it stands for.
Whether you believe it's a misnomer or not, DRM usually refers to "digital rights management" instead of "digital restrictions management" like what's in the summary. The summary reads like propaganda and is full of rhetoric. Slashdot used to actually be a news site, hence the former motto of news for nerds, stuff that matters. Now, it's run by terrible editors and spews propaganda. Slashdot loses credibility with nonsense like that. The management and editors are doing a wonderful job of running this site into the ground.
To be fair to EditorDavid, the 'digital restrictions management' was from the cited passage, and not something that he himself inserted. It's been one of those acronyms deliberately distorted by RMS (Really Mean Socialist?) to suit his screed
I agree that Slashdot has been losing credibility for a while now w/ too many stories on politics or climate, rather than sticking to computer technology. But last couple of days have been an improvement, w/ discussions like Intel's IoT business, OpenBSD unique kernels, Stream ripping, today Multics and now this story.
Unix was supposed to be a simplified version of Multics, so it would be interesting to see what the original Multics was capable of, and in what ways would upgrades of Unix have occured had Multics developed on parallel tracks
I'm not a creator, so is there anything worth looking forward to in Creator's edition?
#include what exactly?
Precisely. I was on the original Windows 10 Beta program when my laptop had Windows 8: it was so unusable that I downloaded Windows 10 beta and used it. But the continuous automatic updates the first few days made it a pain, although the UI was far better. But this time, I'm not waiting for anything new, and really don't care. All my data is backed up both on OneDrive, as well as on USB sticks. So if Microsoft wants to force upgrades on me, go ahead. I'm just waiting to be able to update my TrueOS, since I've been stuck at a particular version, and haven't felt inclined to order the latest DVD.
I used to laugh @ emojis, but I realized their value once I got into using Twitter. I often use flags & symbols in place of words to cramp my message within the 140 characters.
Ironically, there are few apps worth writing about in the Windows store itself. One can get good apps in the Apple Store or the Play Store, but hardly any on the Microsoft Store. And some apps, like Messaging, have fallen into disuse.
For the first time ever, I've stopped looking forward to a Windows upgrade. Windows 8 would have been fine had they just changed the kernel and the Window logo, and the only thing I looked forward to there was better memory optimization & stability. Windows 10 - I preferred the UI fix, which is far better than Windows 8, particularly w/ ClassicShell. But other than that, I'm done w/ Windows, so they can take as long as HURD on their next upgrade, don't really care.
The day Windows goes to a subscription model, I'll switch to Apple. Yeah, it'll bite in the wallet, but I'm already somewhat used to iOS, having had an iPhone, iPad & iPod.
If yeah, how did he run as a serious presidential candidate for the Libertarians 2 years ago?
Watch Jonny Depp's movie to find out
Didn't Intel change the name of his package to Intel AntiVirus? Why are they still after his name?
No, the reason that HURD failed was that the whole project was treated as an open-ended computer science experiment, rather than a task that needed to be completed by time X, and improved periodically thereafter, like everything else - Linux, BSD, Minix, et al. Instead, they kept experimenting w/ different obscure microkernels, and never got complete. They'd have done better had they taken Minix 3, relicensed their fork under GPL3, and then built on that. In fact, all they would have needed would have been emacs, and they'd have been off to the races.
There were online music sites you could buy individual songs from most major record companies before Apple had one. Let's not rewrite history.
I wasn't trying to claim that Apple started it: yeah, a lot of us did go through the Napster saga. But this was before internet access was fast or cheap, or computers were commonplace. The main ways to get music was buying CDs, and I for one would be bombarded w/ mail from BMG or Columbia House. On the rare occasion that there was a feature CD w/ just 1 or 2 songs, it certainly didn't cost
The reason they tour is that they make a pittance from music sales. It was bad enough when record companies sold CDs, which were lose-lose propositions for both artists & customers: one had to sink something like $20 for a CD w/ just 1 song worth listening, while the record company took the biggest cut and the artists were left w/ crumbs. It didn't help that most songs were quickly in & out of favor w/ the public.
Once Apple entered, they introduced granularity by allowing people to buy 1 song at a time, which enabled one to buy exactly what s/he liked and nothing more. Which made things better for consumers, but didn't resolve the issue from the artists' end. Which is why they still tour.
People don't care about anything but 'FREE'. So who cares about paying for the product any longer. Then their favorite artist stops touring and producing music and they complain because "They were my favorite band".
I downloaded a bunch of music videos from YouTube. Despite that, I went on to buy some of them on iTunes, since I needed that on my iPod, which is the only way I can organize them into playlists and play them in the car, w/o paying too much attention to them while driving
Problem is that not all of them were available on iTunes as music videos, and I didn't wanna buy any audio only songs. Vevo at one point used to sell music, but that seems to have stopped, or else, many of the missings songs I mentioned above are certainly available there. But aside from those, there are some others that are just available on YouTube from random people, but which happen to be the official music videos of groups from the late 80s-early 90s. I'd want to be able to get those on my player, not b'cos I don't wanna buy them from Apple, but simply b'cos they're just not available there.
I have a bunch of YouTube music videos that I downloaded, but can't figure out for the life of me how to get it on my iPod playlist. iTunes won't work w/ that. Any other options?
Is RED the same company as Blu? Just branding about a different color now?
He has the gorgeous Pamela Anderson now, so why should he care?
The problem is not that the terrorists would specifically target you. The problem is that while you are in a mall, an allahu-akbar jihadist would suddenly draw a knife & stab you at random - just b'cos you happened to be the first person he could get. Or that you are walking on a sidewalk, and a Muzzie, who's not yet been banned from driving a car due to his religion, could just switch lanes from the road to the sidewalk and try running over you. That's the threat being considered here, not whether you've been nice to Islam and would thereby get a pass
San Jose? I thought that the highest Indian population was in NJ. Last I looked, Silicon Valley was split b/w Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese & Koreans.