they didn't remove infringing material when put on notice
1) This was a New Zealand company, not subjected to US law, however much you'd like US law to apply world-wide.
2) The company did actually comply to DMCA requests as a courtesy and was actually asked by the FBI to retain certain copyright infringing material. These FBI requested files, are now being used to prove that copyright was being infringed. Even though this was only retained at the behest of the FBI.
OMG the RUSSIANS are coming. Are we back in the 50s? The best way to unite a population is to give the a bogeyman, real or imagined.
Apparently McCarthyism is so far in the past that nobody seem to recognise it for what it is anymore.
Been out of the Netherlands for some time; when did 'ausweiss bitte?' become the norm?
It's clear that the generation that actually witnessed the second world war first-hand and have experienced where these things can lead to are almost gone.
What happened to you Netherlands, you used to be cool
Who's fault is it that you have to work 16 hours to provide for your family?
Maybe you should start voting for people who favour labour laws that make sure that you're able to survive on 8 hour shifts, instead of people who feel that people are replaceable cogs in a machine that can be burnt out and replaced at will.
The person getting 'free money' is the opportunist paying you peanuts for your time (the only real resource you have that can never be replenished).
The government should be like the OS of a computer - a microkernel, if you will. Just do what's basic - protect the citizens from both internal and external threats, and do nothing else.
Instead, governments are starting to become like systemd. Encroaching on functionality that it should not be touching, until we have systemDOS.
Since the root cause of the whole problem of terrorism is extremism from two sides and you're on one extreme end of the spectrum, I would suggest that you'd put yourself in that 25% as well and let all the (non-religious) moderates inherit the earth...
Don't care about the crops being modified themselves. I am concerned about crop that contains more than just trace amounts of weed-killers like round-up, because the crop has been made resistant when you buy it in the shop.
Crop that altered to be more resistant to disease or grows better in dry regions, seems to be quite different and not objectionable.
It's obvious you didn't work for HP when Carly Fiorina came on board.
A single person can destroy a company (or at least set all the triggers in motion so the organisation destroys itself).
So that means that as long as you make loads of profit in other markets, you're able to screw over one market with little risk.
A company that has so much clout that it can control a market, screw up that market and essentially get away with a slap on the wrist (when considering overall profits) will still not have any incentive to change its behaviour.
I would rather choose to work for an asshole who knows what he's doing than for a nice bumbling idiot.
Also from what I've seen, Linus seems to be focused on delivering quality and only slagging off people who try to weasel in poor quality code and/or have a consistent record of delivering poor code.
I am very sure that if Linus would be more accepting of poor quality code and behaviour that Linux would have died off long ago
Yes and the cost of insurance for citizens has gone through the roof since then, while the insurance companies have been making record profits year after year, while at the same time every year that same insurance gets you less and less coverage.
Obviously the market at work.
Capitalism should provide competition in a free market (which itself is a fiction, so the whole concept is flawed to begin with), on top of that it assumes that sellers will provide the least amount of service/product for the maximum amount of money.
See how that works out when healthcare is the service.
You tinfoil hatters disgust me. When something bad happens, it's always a Emperial plot here, Bene Gesserit there. Why don't you just accept that the most plausible reason for this can be explained with short term greed and house rivalry.
voting only changes something when the electorate is educated and voters take their voting duty seriously
A good first step towards achieving this is ensuring that higher education is available for everyone with the required aptitude in a society. Increase in the cost of education coupled with stagnant wages has ensured that a good education is only viable for a relatively small elite and people willing to live a life of indentured servitude after finishing up your degree.
Though I'll probably be branded a commie or socialist for even suggesting this by some.
Those bits of software were completely modular and could be fixed separately from anything else running on the host. The point was that with Systemd you don't have that luxury, you have to replace the whole kitchen sink.
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they didn't remove infringing material when put on notice
1) This was a New Zealand company, not subjected to US law, however much you'd like US law to apply world-wide.
2) The company did actually comply to DMCA requests as a courtesy and was actually asked by the FBI to retain certain copyright infringing material. These FBI requested files, are now being used to prove that copyright was being infringed. Even though this was only retained at the behest of the FBI.
Ireland and Apple entered into a voluntary agreement
And apparently an agreement that Ireland, being part of the EU was not allowed to make.
OMG the RUSSIANS are coming. Are we back in the 50s? The best way to unite a population is to give the a bogeyman, real or imagined. Apparently McCarthyism is so far in the past that nobody seem to recognise it for what it is anymore.
This is just as inane as someone telling you that 'you're free to walk under a bus anytime. Nobody is stopping you.'
Been out of the Netherlands for some time; when did 'ausweiss bitte?' become the norm?
It's clear that the generation that actually witnessed the second world war first-hand and have experienced where these things can lead to are almost gone.
What happened to you Netherlands, you used to be cool
Please stop confusing people by using logic.
Who's fault is it that you have to work 16 hours to provide for your family? Maybe you should start voting for people who favour labour laws that make sure that you're able to survive on 8 hour shifts, instead of people who feel that people are replaceable cogs in a machine that can be burnt out and replaced at will. The person getting 'free money' is the opportunist paying you peanuts for your time (the only real resource you have that can never be replenished).
The government should be like the OS of a computer - a microkernel, if you will. Just do what's basic - protect the citizens from both internal and external threats, and do nothing else.
Instead, governments are starting to become like systemd. Encroaching on functionality that it should not be touching, until we have systemDOS.
Since the root cause of the whole problem of terrorism is extremism from two sides and you're on one extreme end of the spectrum, I would suggest that you'd put yourself in that 25% as well and let all the (non-religious) moderates inherit the earth...
Don't care about the crops being modified themselves. I am concerned about crop that contains more than just trace amounts of weed-killers like round-up, because the crop has been made resistant when you buy it in the shop. Crop that altered to be more resistant to disease or grows better in dry regions, seems to be quite different and not objectionable.
It's obvious you didn't work for HP when Carly Fiorina came on board. A single person can destroy a company (or at least set all the triggers in motion so the organisation destroys itself).
I thought it was the promise of pensions to all and retirement at 50
You might want to check your facts before posting, current retirement age in Greece is 67 already (though implemented in 2012)
So that means that as long as you make loads of profit in other markets, you're able to screw over one market with little risk.
A company that has so much clout that it can control a market, screw up that market and essentially get away with a slap on the wrist (when considering overall profits) will still not have any incentive to change its behaviour.
100% Correct, this isn't a punishment that will prevent Apple from doing exactly the same thing further down the road.
Damages should be punitive, like what's happening in Sweden, where fines are directly linked to income. http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
I would rather choose to work for an asshole who knows what he's doing than for a nice bumbling idiot.
Also from what I've seen, Linus seems to be focused on delivering quality and only slagging off people who try to weasel in poor quality code and/or have a consistent record of delivering poor code.
I am very sure that if Linus would be more accepting of poor quality code and behaviour that Linux would have died off long ago
Yes and the cost of insurance for citizens has gone through the roof since then, while the insurance companies have been making record profits year after year, while at the same time every year that same insurance gets you less and less coverage.
Obviously the market at work.
Capitalism should provide competition in a free market (which itself is a fiction, so the whole concept is flawed to begin with), on top of that it assumes that sellers will provide the least amount of service/product for the maximum amount of money.
See how that works out when healthcare is the service.
You tinfoil hatters disgust me. When something bad happens, it's always a Emperial plot here, Bene Gesserit there. Why don't you just accept that the most plausible reason for this can be explained with short term greed and house rivalry.
voting only changes something when the electorate is educated and voters take their voting duty seriously
A good first step towards achieving this is ensuring that higher education is available for everyone with the required aptitude in a society. Increase in the cost of education coupled with stagnant wages has ensured that a good education is only viable for a relatively small elite and people willing to live a life of indentured servitude after finishing up your degree.
Though I'll probably be branded a commie or socialist for even suggesting this by some.
FTL travel, or even FTL communication, is forbidden by the laws of physics
That should be:
FTL travel, or even FTL communication, is forbidden by our current understanding of the laws of physics
Yes, looking up error codes in in a manual. That brings be back to the 90s.
Those bits of software were completely modular and could be fixed separately from anything else running on the host. The point was that with Systemd you don't have that luxury, you have to replace the whole kitchen sink.
I saw this changeover first in Solaris
Indeed, and see how Solaris is doing now. Those changes were the main reason a lot of shops replaced their Solaris kit with Linux in the first place
I know that I am not the only sysadmin who refuses to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Right here with you!
This is indeed how the game is played...
If I even have to explain this, then you really don't have a clue what's really going on in board rooms.