I was referring to the criminal act of driving a car which is not road-worthy (comparing it to the not-criminal act of putting a not net-worthy server on the 'net). It is dangerous to drive an unsafe car, because other people could die when your brakes fail. By a similar token, it is dangerous to put an insecure box on a major Internet backbone (highway?) because of the damage it could cause when it is easily rooted.
I wholeheartedly disagree. If Jefferson
were alive today, he'd want every single last citizen to own an M16 and a bullet proof vest. Not for hunting, not for shooting sports. No, the reason he
laid out was simple: To shoot police and soldiers. To fight a revolution. To defend ourselves from the State.
My friend, I was having an argument with someone the other day, and you virtually quoted me to the letter. Wish I had mod points.
I'm tired of having to listen to people who have to defend the ignorant. You know what? Let the ignorant defend themselves. This would thin the gene
pool out nicely.
We'd end up in a scene from The Stand.. a few lonely souls wandering from town to town looking for someone to talk to.:)
Nope. I dont agree. If I want to run an insecure, crappy box, thats my right. Just like if I have a house, and want to leave the door swinging in the wind
wide open, its my peroggative.
Hrm. Bad analogy.
More like if you decided to drive an unsafe car on the road. And no, you don't have that right (at least not in North America).
Therefore, it looks like _anything_ you write to disk will need to be signed before the controller accepts it, so effectively you won't be able to store data
you generate yourself.
While I doubt it, I certainly hope that's the case. Beauty would be all of the Windows users getting sucked into the trap, only to lose all of their data and investments again, when something goes wrong. Sometimes it takes a few iterations before the cost of proprietary solutions becomes evident.
The internet is for the poor man to talk to the world, if we lost amazon.com, ebay and whatever things will be fine.
I think this is a very important point. I didn't help build the Internet these last 15 years so that some asshole could come along, trademark his way into my domain name, and get rich off it. I miss the old days.
First of all, what rights are you refering to? The right to use copyrighted material for your own cause, without permission from the owner of the copyright?
Oh yeah, I forgot about that right. Regardless of the money factor, Apple does have a right to things that originated from them. I don't care if it aligns them
with open source or not - the fact remains, you don't (nor does anyone else) have a RIGHT to their material. If they decide to let you use it/have it, that is
ther prerogative, but for the time being, they are not letting that happen.
Strong words, and passionately written; you should be a lawyer. At first glance, everything seems in check.. but wait! I have discovered a flaw in your logic!
While I do not have the right to use their copyrighted material (unless they assign me that right), I do (according to a United States case precedent) have the right to create a desktop environment that looks and feels like theirs. Hence, your point is moot.
After seeing garbage like this again.. and again.. and again.. and again.. and again.. and again.. and...
It seems quite obvious to me that the members of the RIAA are not interested in "playing by the rules." In fact, if they could end my life (without anyone ever knowing) - someone who buys blank CDs, plays DVDs with tstdvd and css-cat, and someone who records MP3s of his own band - I'm sure they would.
So, fuck it. If they get to cheat, so do I. RIAA folks, you have lost my respect for your intellectual property. You will never receive money from me, for your work again.
When will the governments figure out
that, from an economics standpoint, trying to cut the supply of an item in demand only increases demand?
They know it'll increase / not decrease demand; that's why they're doing it!
You think the taxmakers give a fuck about who lives and who dies because of shmokes and guns? They're in this game for one reason: to make money for the government. When they run across an item which has a demand curve unresponsive (or less responsive) to price increase through taxation, they tax it.
The only thing that really worries me about this, is that the new system gives Microsoft the ability to price-on-demand.
It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft keeps its prices relatively consistent for customers. It wouldn't surprise me if suddenly the renewal fee went up for companies that started doing well, were in direct competition to Microsoft, etc.
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I was referring to the criminal act of driving a car which is not road-worthy (comparing it to the not-criminal act of putting a not net-worthy server on the 'net). It is dangerous to drive an unsafe car, because other people could die when your brakes fail. By a similar token, it is dangerous to put an insecure box on a major Internet backbone (highway?) because of the damage it could cause when it is easily rooted.
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My friend, I was having an argument with someone the other day, and you virtually quoted me to the letter. Wish I had mod points.
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before declaring war
We'd end up in a scene from The Stand.. a few lonely souls wandering from town to town looking for someone to talk to. :)
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Hrm. Bad analogy.
More like if you decided to drive an unsafe car on the road. And no, you don't have that right (at least not in North America).
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While I doubt it, I certainly hope that's the case. Beauty would be all of the Windows users getting sucked into the trap, only to lose all of their data and investments again, when something goes wrong. Sometimes it takes a few iterations before the cost of proprietary solutions becomes evident.
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Um. Have you considered the irony of posting something like this to slashdot?
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I think this is a very important point. I didn't help build the Internet these last 15 years so that some asshole could come along, trademark his way into my domain name, and get rich off it. I miss the old days.
Sigh.
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Hmm. Posting a 2.4.0 kernel link on slashdot eh? That's not really your site is it? ;)
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Well put. That's a great quotation.
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Strong words, and passionately written; you should be a lawyer. At first glance, everything seems in check.. but wait! I have discovered a flaw in your logic!
While I do not have the right to use their copyrighted material (unless they assign me that right), I do (according to a United States case precedent) have the right to create a desktop environment that looks and feels like theirs. Hence, your point is moot.
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before declaring war
I don't know about you, but I'd take the jail sentence. :)
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Techie: Oh.. god.. no.
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Well, now it will become visible to the other 90% of slashdot readers, whose eyes have long since been burned out by our noble CRTs. :)
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That would make a great Microsoft promotional ad. :)
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"We've got five different opportunities to get hammered," said forecaster Bill Murtagh of the Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo.
I'd say they're already pretty hammered.--
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It seems quite obvious to me that the members of the RIAA are not interested in "playing by the rules." In fact, if they could end my life (without anyone ever knowing) - someone who buys blank CDs, plays DVDs with tstdvd and css-cat, and someone who records MP3s of his own band - I'm sure they would.
So, fuck it. If they get to cheat, so do I. RIAA folks, you have lost my respect for your intellectual property. You will never receive money from me, for your work again.
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They know it'll increase / not decrease demand; that's why they're doing it!
You think the taxmakers give a fuck about who lives and who dies because of shmokes and guns? They're in this game for one reason: to make money for the government. When they run across an item which has a demand curve unresponsive (or less responsive) to price increase through taxation, they tax it.
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I'm sorry... that was awful. :)
We'll all end up there eventually.
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It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft keeps its prices relatively consistent for customers. It wouldn't surprise me if suddenly the renewal fee went up for companies that started doing well, were in direct competition to Microsoft, etc.
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All men are great
before declaring war