oh you mean like alcohol killing brain cells?
What does it matter if somebody else does drugs? how does that effect you?
also, you cant regulate a black market.
and in response to the drugged out loosers with power tools. I agree, i also think that people that drink within a month of an accident should be fired also. Testing positive for drugs doesnt mean you were ON drugs at the time. And NO it doesnt have lasting effects.
atleast its a little better than throwing 1.5 million people in prison, not to mention the DEA budget, and wasted time by every police officer in the country
actually it wouldnt be drug dealers, it would be commercial farms owned by large companies, which in theory would pay taxes on that. better than illegal funds.
serious? wow, you know 300,000 people die from bad diets every year. compare that to the 26000 total deaths related to drugs. (half from murders due to gangs) HMMM I think we need a war on obesity, and start locking up those overweight people.
If drugs were legal, drug dealers would be out of business.
thanks for the insult, it makes it easier to disregard everything after it. someone who makes comments like that, well its doubtful they have studied the subject
so by your logic, since some democratic countries are corrupt, all must be. um no. (well maybe yes, but corruption is not a part of democracy, just like it isnt a part of communism)
You show me an actual communist country. Hint, china and russia are definately not.
You call me a commie like its an insult. Guess what, despite 50 years of government rhetoric communism != bad. I can just hear mr garrison, "communism is bad, mmkay."
oh you mean like when the Black Chamber got Western Union to hand over any telegraphs that were asked for, in complete secrecy.
The processing power? You don't know what is classified. Quantum computing COULD be already in use, who knows. Although i doubt it, you cannot know for sure.
If someone even thought about leaking it, dont you think they would just charge him with some treason/drug/ whatever the current scare in the US is. Look at John Walker, the vast majority in the US believe he is guilty because they have been told that. How many people know more than A) His name, B) That he is a traitor.
Although he most likely is guilty, the facts dont come into play of people's opins.
And first off, it wasnt langely, the CIA would screw up a coffee let alone a global survalence system. It would be the NSA, or the new version of the NSA that no one knows about. How many years went by since the birth of the NSA (in 1952 i believe) before it was known they in fact exist. The NSA is barely common knowledge today. If i go and ask 10 people about the CIA, everyone has an answer. If i ask 10 people about the NSA, most of the replies are "who?"
how are they screwing developers? to my knowledge, and please inform me nicely if i am mistaken on this. That any REDISTRIBUTED changes made to GPLed software needs to inclue source and such. China wouldnt really be redistributing it, they'd be using it. It would be a really large example of me producing a modified version for internal use at my company. I dont think i have to release that to the public. That is exactly what china is doing. It just gets a little trickier because they are a government.
this is not a method of communism, This is a method of ruling over the people. Those two are seperate. in an actual communist society, there would be no place for this, and no need for it
im not a real programmer, still in training i suppose. I am just saying i get sick of the attitude of people. They are getting something that someone else put their hard work into, and in the case of linux, for free (generally).
I dont expect people to do it themselves, but i definately do not expect them to criticize me without taking step one. If you dont like something, help in anyway you can, and no that doesnt mean writing code. Make suggestions, do something instead of the standard "oh that code is really bad, that application is shitty" blah blah blah
ahh yes, but linux is not designed, its evolving in a better sense. at a much more rapid pace. MS/apple/palm release a new OS every couple of years whereas linux has distros being continually released due to the activity. enough of that now.
Linux is a standard package. One distro CAN be and is getting there, designed for Aunt Tillie. a different distro can be impossible for her.
palm os not designed to have the underlying os/ui changed. Thats key, linux IS designed for that type. WHat do you mean by LET?, if you mean make easy thats great. but everyone should be allowed to configure everything. So why not make it as easy as possible?
you wouldnt be sitting in a cell, you'd be sitting briefly in the back of a police car, or if you are a prick about it, in the police station.
and even if you were in a cell, the knowledge that you would be shortly released due to the fact that you didnt actually commit a crime. i dont think it's to unfair, it could be abused
looking through my spam, there is no way to contact the vast majority of them. they hid themselves so well, that i couldnt buy their product if i wanted to;)
and at that staples, there dont seem to be any linux preloads, and in fact, that is impossible to get at staples, or at any large retailer (where most machines are bought).
so i can get linux, but i have to pay for windows first on that new computer.
and why cant i get it preloaded, because MS has the computer mfg's by the balls
I can get a computer without windows, but it wont be at Best Buy, Compusa, Circut city, etc etc etc.
there is a real simple solution, USE WINDOWS. if you dont want to deal with these problems dont use linux. no one said you cant use windows. i am so sick of people complaining about the lack of docs and "shitty software" . if its that "shitty" dont use it. go back to windows and stop bitching
then choose not to. run a win2k server if you want (i cant believe i recommended that). dont deal with it, you are not required to do all this. sometimes problems arise, so they need to be addressed, but mostly that isnt a problem, i run a lot of computers and most have no problems.
if you want to deal with the sysadmin stuff, go for it, tweek everything out. otherwise dont bother, as it is NOT required.
what would be really cool, unfortunately very hard for dimitry. would be to tell them to stick the deal where the sun dont shine and press ahead. that could be interesting. but unfortunately it would create a large hardship for dimitry.
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oh you mean like alcohol killing brain cells?
What does it matter if somebody else does drugs? how does that effect you?
also, you cant regulate a black market.
and in response to the drugged out loosers with power tools. I agree, i also think that people that drink within a month of an accident should be fired also. Testing positive for drugs doesnt mean you were ON drugs at the time. And NO it doesnt have lasting effects.
atleast its a little better than throwing 1.5 million people in prison, not to mention the DEA budget, and wasted time by every police officer in the country
actually it wouldnt be drug dealers, it would be commercial farms owned by large companies, which in theory would pay taxes on that. better than illegal funds.
serious? wow, you know 300,000 people die from bad diets every year. compare that to the 26000 total deaths related to drugs. (half from murders due to gangs) HMMM I think we need a war on obesity, and start locking up those overweight people.
If drugs were legal, drug dealers would be out of business.
thanks for the insult, it makes it easier to disregard everything after it. someone who makes comments like that, well its doubtful they have studied the subject
those people violated the law, what does that have to do with slashdot? They clicked on a website, they broke a law.
This is a court case about parody use of IP, forget that its porn/starwars. Slashdot has a history of news relating to parody work and IP.
I was not making any statement on the oppresiveness of china's action. I was strictly discussing the GPL and china's action.
so by your logic, since some democratic countries are corrupt, all must be. um no. (well maybe yes, but corruption is not a part of democracy, just like it isnt a part of communism)
You show me an actual communist country. Hint, china and russia are definately not.
You call me a commie like its an insult. Guess what, despite 50 years of government rhetoric communism != bad. I can just hear mr garrison, "communism is bad, mmkay."
oh you mean like when the Black Chamber got Western Union to hand over any telegraphs that were asked for, in complete secrecy.
The processing power? You don't know what is classified. Quantum computing COULD be already in use, who knows. Although i doubt it, you cannot know for sure.
If someone even thought about leaking it, dont you think they would just charge him with some treason/drug/ whatever the current scare in the US is. Look at John Walker, the vast majority in the US believe he is guilty because they have been told that. How many people know more than A) His name, B) That he is a traitor.
Although he most likely is guilty, the facts dont come into play of people's opins.
And first off, it wasnt langely, the CIA would screw up a coffee let alone a global survalence system. It would be the NSA, or the new version of the NSA that no one knows about. How many years went by since the birth of the NSA (in 1952 i believe) before it was known they in fact exist. The NSA is barely common knowledge today. If i go and ask 10 people about the CIA, everyone has an answer. If i ask 10 people about the NSA, most of the replies are "who?"
how are they screwing developers? to my knowledge, and please inform me nicely if i am mistaken on this. That any REDISTRIBUTED changes made to GPLed software needs to inclue source and such. China wouldnt really be redistributing it, they'd be using it. It would be a really large example of me producing a modified version for internal use at my company. I dont think i have to release that to the public. That is exactly what china is doing. It just gets a little trickier because they are a government.
this is not a method of communism, This is a method of ruling over the people. Those two are seperate. in an actual communist society, there would be no place for this, and no need for it
im not a real programmer, still in training i suppose. I am just saying i get sick of the attitude of people. They are getting something that someone else put their hard work into, and in the case of linux, for free (generally).
I dont expect people to do it themselves, but i definately do not expect them to criticize me without taking step one. If you dont like something, help in anyway you can, and no that doesnt mean writing code. Make suggestions, do something instead of the standard "oh that code is really bad, that application is shitty" blah blah blah
ahh yes, but linux is not designed, its evolving in a better sense. at a much more rapid pace. MS/apple/palm release a new OS every couple of years whereas linux has distros being continually released due to the activity. enough of that now.
Linux is a standard package. One distro CAN be and is getting there, designed for Aunt Tillie. a different distro can be impossible for her.
palm os not designed to have the underlying os/ui changed. Thats key, linux IS designed for that type. WHat do you mean by LET?, if you mean make easy thats great. but everyone should be allowed to configure everything. So why not make it as easy as possible?
im gonna take a guess that you in no way contribute to the kernel development, if you do my apologies.
I love how people will criticize others work, but never contribute.
Quite bitching and do something about it
yeah, cause no judge ive ever heard of stamps those wire taps as a formality.
you wouldnt be sitting in a cell, you'd be sitting briefly in the back of a police car, or if you are a prick about it, in the police station.
and even if you were in a cell, the knowledge that you would be shortly released due to the fact that you didnt actually commit a crime. i dont think it's to unfair, it could be abused
looking through my spam, there is no way to contact the vast majority of them. they hid themselves so well, that i couldnt buy their product if i wanted to ;)
and at that staples, there dont seem to be any linux preloads, and in fact, that is impossible to get at staples, or at any large retailer (where most machines are bought).
so i can get linux, but i have to pay for windows first on that new computer.
and why cant i get it preloaded, because MS has the computer mfg's by the balls
I can get a computer without windows, but it wont be at Best Buy, Compusa, Circut city, etc etc etc.
???? um as far as i know the /etc/shadow is hashes, ONE WAY. (well in theory it can go back but thats some really tricky math ;)
actually he cant arrest you, he can detain you until they figure out who you are. and arresting = crime, detain = info gather.
there is a real simple solution, USE WINDOWS. if you dont want to deal with these problems dont use linux. no one said you cant use windows. i am so sick of people complaining about the lack of docs and "shitty software" . if its that "shitty" dont use it. go back to windows and stop bitching
if every windows system got destroyed on the internet. WOOOHOO. i would be smiling for hte rest of my life.
then choose not to. run a win2k server if you want (i cant believe i recommended that). dont deal with it, you are not required to do all this. sometimes problems arise, so they need to be addressed, but mostly that isnt a problem, i run a lot of computers and most have no problems.
if you want to deal with the sysadmin stuff, go for it, tweek everything out. otherwise dont bother, as it is NOT required.
what would be really cool, unfortunately very hard for dimitry. would be to tell them to stick the deal where the sun dont shine and press ahead. that could be interesting. but unfortunately it would create a large hardship for dimitry.