Imagine if you are next told in your end-user license agreement that you can never resell the software you have purchased!
Your problem is that you still think you bought the software. You didn't. You bought a license to use that software. A non-transferable license. You're screwed.
I don't have to imagine your example, because I ran into it in 1983, with my Zenith Z-100 (not the PC clone, the original Z-100, with the S-100 bus). All their software, including MS-DOS (they called it Z-DOS), was non-transferable. If I sold the hardware the buyer would have to go to Zenith for a new copy of DOS! What a bunch of crap, right? Perfectly legal, as I did not own the software, just a license to use it. I argued that the computer was useless without the operating system, but they claimed that it was not useless, since I could write my own code from scratch and get the BIOS to load it, just like it loads MS-DOS. I never bought another Zenith product again -- any Zenith product.
I have this nice desk and ergonomic chair in my office, but I -never- sit there because I can sit on the La-Z-Boy with my wireless laptop.
Why is this moderated "Offtopic"? Michael said "I suspect that laptops with wireless cards are filling the role that web appliances were supposed to fill." frknfrk responded directly to that statement, and some bozo calls it "Offtopic." Sheesh! I was going to say much the same thing, that my wife and I are using 266MHz PIII IBM laptops that we got for about $500 each on eBay to do anything we could do with an eVilla, but I guess I'd better not or I might get flamed! <asbestos suit> OK, flame away!
No one has yet to tell me I can't post on my shittly little website.. Just because no one reads it doesn't mean my rights are being trampled, it just means I really don't have anything compelling to say.
Not necessisarily. It could mean you can't afford a fatter pipe/faster server/more storage and don't want more visitors. I'd hate to have my page Slashdotted. But it could also mean that you don't have the leverage to get the publicity you need to attract visitors.
You do raise a good point. However, I think the Internet will grow like TV did. First there were the early adopters, then pretty much anyone with a radio station got a TV station, then those little stations needed content, so they formed networks. Things settled down to a few choices -- the Big Three. Then Cable TV appeared, offering more variety. At first the broadcast networks continuted to dominate viewers, but after a few years (like about 20) the cable alternatives reached critical mass and suddenly we have cable channels dedicated to single subjects like Science Fiction, Cooking, History, and News that the Big 3 previously limited to as little as one hour a week (if they offered them at all).
The Internet -- specifically web pages -- will be much the same. A few big guns that capture most of the general interest folks, and a lot of specialty places where you can get in-depth information about single topics. Gee, sounds like what I see today! The big difference between TV and the Web is that if I go to UPN and watch Star Trek they won't advise me to try the SciFi Network if I want more, but if I go to Yahoo! or MSN or AOL and look for Science Fiction they all provide links to specialty web sites.
The issue for the little guy is how to get listed on the Big Four. That's the one point your arguement overlooks. Those who have the gold make the rules. You talk of force, and say that nobody is forcing you to take down your web site, but by not listing you the Big 4 are arguably forcing half of the world's Web surfers to never hear of you.
Most mobos now-a-days dont require any jumpers to be set. They auto-detect the CPU speed.
I've been favoring quantity over quality (several trailing-edge PCs rather than one leading-edge), so this is news to me. Just curious, how do you overclock one? Can you change settings in the BIOS or something? And what do you do if your motherboard still has jumpers? Will AMD document the actual clock setting somewhere?
Dual-booting wouldn't help. I didn't get into details, but his PC is on the 2nd floor, and I wanted to use it to host the 802.11b card, which would require Linux on that box, full-time. The only other Linux boxes are in the basement, and my laptop, but the laptop can't act as the 802.11b access point! Don't even think about suggesting Windows is good enough for that application -- I'm not stupid enough to allow anyone in the neighborhood onto our LAN.
After reading the comments here it looks like I'll need two PCs on the 2nd floor, one with Windows for my son, and one with Linux for the 802.11b card.
Meanwhile, I've discovered this site, which encourages me to give him Linux as well as Windows. So I'll run one of the several suggested X-terminals on his PC and host his Linux stuff on another box.
What hardware? There is no such thing as 400MHz Duron, 600MHz was the first and slowest sold and these things cannot even be "underclocked" to anything less than 500MHz.
The computer is a hand-me-down from one of my nephews. He upgraded the motherboard and found the new one wouldn't take all his old cards, and when they were done they had enough left over to make a decent PC, so they offered it to us. I've not yet seen it, but they told me it's a 400MHz Duron. I don't doubt that they got that wrong; maybe it's a K6-2 or something.
You have a good reason to use Windows, so just use it; don't make your poor son suffer just because you have a personal problem with it.
LOL! My wife works at Microsoft; I interviewed there (twice). I use Windows 2000, NT4, ME, 98, and 95 just about every day. I have an advance copy of XP I'm going to load on my laptop after Labor Day weekend (know your enemy and all that:-) I also use Linux, our firewall runs Linux, and when I get it re-built our server will run Linux (currently it runs NT Server). I don't have a problem using Windows, and my wife doesn't have a problem with me and the servers using Linux. She's not likely to ask for an account on the Linux side, but she's all in favor of our boy learning and using both systems. My sister has a Mac, and if our boy learns that as well that's OK by us. I've got a Sinclair (not a Timex) in the basement that he's welcome to play with if he ever shows the interest.
after all, dual booting is the best option for your son's needs.
Actually, a pure Windows PC is the best option for my son's needs. But for the family's needs I wanted him to run a Linux PC (I didn't get into details, but his PC is on the 2nd floor, and I wanted to use it to host the 802.11b card, which would require Linux on that box, full-time. The only other Linux boxes are in the basement, and my laptop, but the laptop can't act as the 802.11b access point! Don't even think about suggesting Windows is good enough for that application -- I'm not stupid enough to allow anyone in the neighborhood onto our LAN.)
After reading the comments here it looks like I'll need two PCs on the 2nd floor, one with Windows for my son, and one with Linux for the 802.11b card.
Meanwhile, I've discovered this site, which encourages me to give him Linux as well as Windows. So I'll run one of the several suggested X-terminals on his PC and host his Linux stuff on another box.
This is a nice look at five options, but there are no conclusions -- no "Editor's Choice".
I have a real-world problem and I was hoping this article had a possible solution. I want to move my home PCs to Linux where possible, but my 5 year old has lots of Windows games. I recognize that these reviews are targeted to corporations trying to save bucks by using Linux, and for them the bottom line is Word and Excel, but for the majority of/.ers I'd guess the bottom line is games. This series was thin on games, other than to mention that Win4Lin doesn't do DirectX and VMWare is slow.
I'm not talking about Monster Truck Madness, I'm talking about Freddie Fish and Winnie the Pooh and Reader Rabbit. How do those fare under these emulators? I'm ready to dig into the configuration settings, create shell scripts, or whatever, so that he never knows he's on Linux -- he logs on and the emulator presents him Windows in full-screen -- but which emulator? Looks like none of them is up to it on our modest (400 MHz Duron) hardware.
Which leads me to the next question (but since this is the first post I doubt many will see, let alone answer): What's the best free/open X Terminal for Windows? If I have to run Windows then at least give me a reasonable way to reach Linux on another box (VNC is nice but the lag time hurts).
Another option is to run Windows and use VMWare to run Linux. This seems like the backward approach, but it could work. Has anyone tried it? Is it worth the trouble, or would dual-boot be better? (it's certainly cheaper, but reboots are annoyingly slow).
The ultimate solution would be to get Linux apps for my boy. Is there any educational/entertainment Linux software for kids? (commercial is OK, I'm not opposed to buying my software).
If you want privacy, go get some acreage of land in the mountains and stay out of civilization.
I don't know about that. Pick an address. Any address. Let's try this one: 30 Highway Construction Route, Lincoln, MT (it's Ted Kaczynski's address). Plug it into Mapquest, pick the Aerial Photo tab, and you get this. OK, so you can't see the cabin in this photo; the FBI carted it away. But Mapquest still has a picture of his acreage in the mountains.
IANAL either, but what you say makes sense. Still, I think I'll carefully re-read my @Home agreement tonight! This sucks, and they may well be doing it here in the U. S. of A. if their agreement says they can...
You know you're screwed when the only internet access available to you is from Ma Bell, because the other Ma Bell refuses to serve you. That's me, screwed! And Teledesic won't be available for years...
Read this. It contains links to other articles that will answer your question.
Basically, Code Red somehow affected USQwest's Cisco DSL modems, which all stopped working and had to be reset. That's how they lost service: the USQwest equipment located in the customer's premisis failed, and USQwest left it up to the customer to fix it. The sooner you figured out what was wrong, learned how to fix it, and successfully performed the repair, the sooner you were back on-line. Since the delay in fixing USQwest's equipment was entirely due to the cusomer's inaction, ignorance, and/or technical inexperience, USQwest feel they don't need to offer any refunds.
And since the Explorer wouldn't have rolled over and killed Uncle Fred if he wasn't driving it, it's Uncle Fred's fault, not Firestone or Ford's. Ain't Republ^h^h^h^h^h^hCorporate Logic wonderful?
The real story is not in the articles about the State pressing USQwest for refunds, but the earlier ones describing how USQwest basically ignored the problem for as long as possible, then gave people like your Aunt Mildred complex instructions on how to patch their computers and DSL modems, which were broken by Code Red even though the affected customers were not running NT and ISS! Naturally, the Aunt Mildred's of the world had, shall we say, difficulty following the instructions, and if you didn't follow them exactly you only made it worse. It was USQwest's Cisco DSL modems that got hosed, not their customer's PCs, and the customers were first demanding that USQwest fix it and now are rightly demanding a refund for the DSL service they paid for and did not receive.
As the excite.com article said, this is the same as not getting your newspaper or cable TV -- if a customer pays for a service they did not get, they deserve a refund. Unfortunately the outcome in this case will be less than optimal, because it won't result in USQwest leaving Washington State for good!
Then where's the Parent to this comment (#2204931)? What's its number, so we can all read it? If you check the "Parent" link in that comment, you'll see it points to comment zero (0). Either the parent has been deleted, or the "Parent" link has been altered. Now, who can make changes like that around here...? Can you? I sure can't!
Apparantly, the new numbering scheme is intentional to prevent "First Post!" bandwidth wasters. Therefore it's not a bug to fix when the lads have free time, it's a feature for the rest of us to live with.
Apparantly there are a lot of/. readers who are not geeks and do not know how to turn on MSIE's Status Bar (clue for the clueless: it's under "View"). Therefore it's a feature for the rest of us to turn off (it's under Preferences: Comments, at the bottom).
To the/. staff: You could have mentioned this "feature", and how to turn it off, when you dumped 2.2 on us. Thanks to whoever pointed out how to disable it (in the referenced discussion, but search is down so I can't find the post).
Now, if there were only a way to hide the embeded domain names when people quote... Clue for the clueless: It flags you as a dweeb -- moreso than an aol.com email address. Not only do you not know why you don't need it (or at least how to turn it off), you don't preview your posts and thus didn't notice the embeded domain name in your quote.
(note to bendude: the above "you" didn't mean you!)
If you'd read my "first post" you would see that I was posting a comment that happened to be the first post, which I remarked upon because that was a new experience for me. Usually "first post"s are by the "First Post!"ers who get there, well, first. My post was not "foiled" by the new numbering scheme, and I don't understand why you think it should have been.
If you'd read my next post, the one you replied to, you'd have seen that I was talking about meta moderation, not moderation. Do you really read the entire discussion when you meta-moderate? You do? When deciding of one moderation of one post is fair or unfair, you read the entire discussion? Really? Wow! That's dedication, and I bow to you, sir. However, I don't think that's necessary to "do it right" and I will continue to only read the relevant posts when I meta-moderate, not the entire discussion. If you disagree then you're free to hunt me down and spend your 5 moderation points trying to erase my karma to prevent my poor meta-moderation.
I still think that the new numbering system will make it harder to meta-moderate "redundant" moderation. Of course, if you really read the entire discussion when you meta-moderate then you would disagree. Show of hands: how many/.ers read the entire discussion when meta-moderating? how many read the whole thing when moderating?
I'm getting tired of repeating myself:-) (my previous posts are somehow lost in the/. upgrade)
I disagree that BOA is limited. The "deftag" tag lets you define your own tags, and how they behave. "xoptions" allows you to add libraries of 3rd-party tags. Any language this extensible is not limited.
What happened to #1? What happened to my "first post"? I finally get a first post, and it's #2200142?
This is gonna make it difficult to meta-moderate those "redundant" moderations. Usually if post #284 is "redundant" you can believe them, and if post #2 is "redundant" you gotta wonder what the moderator is smoking. How am I supposed to judge the merit of calling post #2200142 "redundant"? Hmmm, I guess we gotta read the entire discussion to meta-moderate now. Maybe I just won't meta-moderate the "redundant" posts...
Geeze, you take "older stuff" offline and the trolls vanish! "First Post" has never been this easy! Anyway, I just wanted to thank Dmitry Dvoinikov and timothy for telling me about this, and I hope to find time to read more (maybe over Christmas break:-)
(is there an award for "1st First Post"? Do I lose karma instantly, or will it take someone actually reading this and modding me down?)
For those who want to call it Linux, I'd just suggest this: try running your favorite distro after subtracting all of the GNU system. Have fun.
By your logic, I don't drive a Saturn, I should say I drive a "USS/Saturn" since most of it by weight probably comes from USS. Geeze, I wonder if Andy Grove reads RMS, it might explain all the "Intel Inside" stickers I see on Dells, Compaqs, etc.
Just today for example I saw someone from conservative.com call Gary Condit a "mass murderer" on Fox News (of course it being fox news the host did not ask him to actually clarify that statement but just let it stand).
Wow. What a flaming liberal! There was no need for the Fox news host to clarify an obviously true statement: Abortion is murder. Thousands of babies are aborted each year, therefore abortion is mass murder. Democrats support abortion rights, therefore Democrats are mass murderers. Gary Condit is a Democrat, therefore Gary Condit is a mass murderer. Simple. Why any need to "clarify" that simple statement of fact?
Of course, George W. Bush is a mass murderer, too. No need to clarify that statement, either.;-)
Let's choose our real battles, everyone here, and RMS too... What's more important? GNU/Linux or Skylarov and DMCA and DeCSS and tyrany?
RMS has a carefully crafted public image. Unfortunately, he's painted himself in a corner with it, and the answer to your question is that RMS leaves me with this impression: His real battle is for "free software" over all else, so to him the most important battle on your list is Linux vs Hurd. The DeCSS and Skylarov cases have nothing to do with free software, and thus are not worth discussion, let alone action.
[my reasoning: DMCA is all about "intellectual property", which RMS does not like, but even without "intellectual property" as a legal concept you could have non-open software, and with the elimination of all non-open software "intellectual property" ceases to be a threat (and is, in fact, an ally -- try calling your company "GNU" without RMS sueing you for trademark infringement), therefore fighting the DMCA is a waste of (RMS's) time.]
[yes, I presume to speak for RMS. If he wishes to refute my impression of his theoretical response to your hypothetical situation, he can log in here like we all did. If I'm wrong, then he needs to polish his image, because this is the impression I get.]
Virtually every "largest ever built" "state of the art" telescope has been superceded, and virtually all of them are still in use, despite light polution from encroaching civilization. The Yerkes Observatory, for example, is over 100 years old and still in use. Astronomers at Palomar, home of the 200 inch Hale telescope, complain about light polution, but they're still in business. Why should Hubble be any different? At least it won't suffer from the light polution problem (well, not until the U.S. Air Force deploys their space-based lasers)
My wife's cell phone account (AT&T Wireless) kept getting the same voicemail message as this guy: "It is very important that you contact our business office about your account." We don't have any Verizon accounts, and when I tried (repeatedly) to call the number they left, I got a Verizon Wireless voicemail system that refused to connect me to a human being untill I entered my cell phone number, but when I entered my wife's AWS number, surprise surprise, the computer didn't recognize it. I then tried calling the Verizon Wireless office but the drone who answered the phone refused to connect me to anyone (but I could leave a message). Bah! As much as I hate USQwest, if I ever move I'm going to be sure not to move to an area served by Verizon!
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Your problem is that you still think you bought the software. You didn't. You bought a license to use that software. A non-transferable license. You're screwed.
I don't have to imagine your example, because I ran into it in 1983, with my Zenith Z-100 (not the PC clone, the original Z-100, with the S-100 bus). All their software, including MS-DOS (they called it Z-DOS), was non-transferable. If I sold the hardware the buyer would have to go to Zenith for a new copy of DOS! What a bunch of crap, right? Perfectly legal, as I did not own the software, just a license to use it. I argued that the computer was useless without the operating system, but they claimed that it was not useless, since I could write my own code from scratch and get the BIOS to load it, just like it loads MS-DOS. I never bought another Zenith product again -- any Zenith product.
Why is this moderated "Offtopic"? Michael said "I suspect that laptops with wireless cards are filling the role that web appliances were supposed to fill." frknfrk responded directly to that statement, and some bozo calls it "Offtopic." Sheesh! I was going to say much the same thing, that my wife and I are using 266MHz PIII IBM laptops that we got for about $500 each on eBay to do anything we could do with an eVilla, but I guess I'd better not or I might get flamed! <asbestos suit> OK, flame away!
Not necessisarily. It could mean you can't afford a fatter pipe/faster server/more storage and don't want more visitors. I'd hate to have my page Slashdotted. But it could also mean that you don't have the leverage to get the publicity you need to attract visitors.
You do raise a good point. However, I think the Internet will grow like TV did. First there were the early adopters, then pretty much anyone with a radio station got a TV station, then those little stations needed content, so they formed networks. Things settled down to a few choices -- the Big Three. Then Cable TV appeared, offering more variety. At first the broadcast networks continuted to dominate viewers, but after a few years (like about 20) the cable alternatives reached critical mass and suddenly we have cable channels dedicated to single subjects like Science Fiction, Cooking, History, and News that the Big 3 previously limited to as little as one hour a week (if they offered them at all).
The Internet -- specifically web pages -- will be much the same. A few big guns that capture most of the general interest folks, and a lot of specialty places where you can get in-depth information about single topics. Gee, sounds like what I see today! The big difference between TV and the Web is that if I go to UPN and watch Star Trek they won't advise me to try the SciFi Network if I want more, but if I go to Yahoo! or MSN or AOL and look for Science Fiction they all provide links to specialty web sites.
The issue for the little guy is how to get listed on the Big Four. That's the one point your arguement overlooks. Those who have the gold make the rules. You talk of force, and say that nobody is forcing you to take down your web site, but by not listing you the Big 4 are arguably forcing half of the world's Web surfers to never hear of you.
I've been favoring quantity over quality (several trailing-edge PCs rather than one leading-edge), so this is news to me. Just curious, how do you overclock one? Can you change settings in the BIOS or something? And what do you do if your motherboard still has jumpers? Will AMD document the actual clock setting somewhere?
After reading the comments here it looks like I'll need two PCs on the 2nd floor, one with Windows for my son, and one with Linux for the 802.11b card.
Meanwhile, I've discovered this site, which encourages me to give him Linux as well as Windows. So I'll run one of the several suggested X-terminals on his PC and host his Linux stuff on another box.
The computer is a hand-me-down from one of my nephews. He upgraded the motherboard and found the new one wouldn't take all his old cards, and when they were done they had enough left over to make a decent PC, so they offered it to us. I've not yet seen it, but they told me it's a 400MHz Duron. I don't doubt that they got that wrong; maybe it's a K6-2 or something.
LOL! My wife works at Microsoft; I interviewed there (twice). I use Windows 2000, NT4, ME, 98, and 95 just about every day. I have an advance copy of XP I'm going to load on my laptop after Labor Day weekend (know your enemy and all that
Actually, a pure Windows PC is the best option for my son's needs. But for the family's needs I wanted him to run a Linux PC (I didn't get into details, but his PC is on the 2nd floor, and I wanted to use it to host the 802.11b card, which would require Linux on that box, full-time. The only other Linux boxes are in the basement, and my laptop, but the laptop can't act as the 802.11b access point! Don't even think about suggesting Windows is good enough for that application -- I'm not stupid enough to allow anyone in the neighborhood onto our LAN.)
After reading the comments here it looks like I'll need two PCs on the 2nd floor, one with Windows for my son, and one with Linux for the 802.11b card.
Meanwhile, I've discovered this site, which encourages me to give him Linux as well as Windows. So I'll run one of the several suggested X-terminals on his PC and host his Linux stuff on another box.
I have a real-world problem and I was hoping this article had a possible solution. I want to move my home PCs to Linux where possible, but my 5 year old has lots of Windows games. I recognize that these reviews are targeted to corporations trying to save bucks by using Linux, and for them the bottom line is Word and Excel, but for the majority of
I'm not talking about Monster Truck Madness, I'm talking about Freddie Fish and Winnie the Pooh and Reader Rabbit. How do those fare under these emulators? I'm ready to dig into the configuration settings, create shell scripts, or whatever, so that he never knows he's on Linux -- he logs on and the emulator presents him Windows in full-screen -- but which emulator? Looks like none of them is up to it on our modest (400 MHz Duron) hardware.
Which leads me to the next question (but since this is the first post I doubt many will see, let alone answer): What's the best free/open X Terminal for Windows? If I have to run Windows then at least give me a reasonable way to reach Linux on another box (VNC is nice but the lag time hurts).
Another option is to run Windows and use VMWare to run Linux. This seems like the backward approach, but it could work. Has anyone tried it? Is it worth the trouble, or would dual-boot be better? (it's certainly cheaper, but reboots are annoyingly slow).
The ultimate solution would be to get Linux apps for my boy. Is there any educational/entertainment Linux software for kids? (commercial is OK, I'm not opposed to buying my software).
Thanks to all who answer
I don't know about that. Pick an address. Any address. Let's try this one: 30 Highway Construction Route, Lincoln, MT (it's Ted Kaczynski's address). Plug it into Mapquest, pick the Aerial Photo tab, and you get this. OK, so you can't see the cabin in this photo; the FBI carted it away. But Mapquest still has a picture of his acreage in the mountains.
You know you're screwed when the only internet access available to you is from Ma Bell, because the other Ma Bell refuses to serve you. That's me, screwed! And Teledesic won't be available for years...
Basically, Code Red somehow affected USQwest's Cisco DSL modems, which all stopped working and had to be reset. That's how they lost service: the USQwest equipment located in the customer's premisis failed, and USQwest left it up to the customer to fix it. The sooner you figured out what was wrong, learned how to fix it, and successfully performed the repair, the sooner you were back on-line. Since the delay in fixing USQwest's equipment was entirely due to the cusomer's inaction, ignorance, and/or technical inexperience, USQwest feel they don't need to offer any refunds.
And since the Explorer wouldn't have rolled over and killed Uncle Fred if he wasn't driving it, it's Uncle Fred's fault, not Firestone or Ford's. Ain't Republ^h^h^h^h^h^hCorporate Logic wonderful?
Times:
Qwest refuses refunds to DSL customers for Code Red outages
Qwest falls short tackling Code Red worm, but other DSL customers appear to fare better
'Code Red' wrigglings put users in knots
PI:
State pressing Qwest for refunds after 'Code Red II' DSL breakdowns
Worm has Qwest DSL customers seeing red
The real story is not in the articles about the State pressing USQwest for refunds, but the earlier ones describing how USQwest basically ignored the problem for as long as possible, then gave people like your Aunt Mildred complex instructions on how to patch their computers and DSL modems, which were broken by Code Red even though the affected customers were not running NT and ISS! Naturally, the Aunt Mildred's of the world had, shall we say, difficulty following the instructions, and if you didn't follow them exactly you only made it worse. It was USQwest's Cisco DSL modems that got hosed, not their customer's PCs, and the customers were first demanding that USQwest fix it and now are rightly demanding a refund for the DSL service they paid for and did not receive.
As the excite.com article said, this is the same as not getting your newspaper or cable TV -- if a customer pays for a service they did not get, they deserve a refund. Unfortunately the outcome in this case will be less than optimal, because it won't result in USQwest leaving Washington State for good!
Apparantly there are a lot of
To the
Now, if there were only a way to hide the embeded domain names when people quote... Clue for the clueless: It flags you as a dweeb -- moreso than an aol.com email address. Not only do you not know why you don't need it (or at least how to turn it off), you don't preview your posts and thus didn't notice the embeded domain name in your quote.
(note to bendude: the above "you" didn't mean you!)
If you'd read my next post, the one you replied to, you'd have seen that I was talking about meta moderation, not moderation. Do you really read the entire discussion when you meta-moderate? You do? When deciding of one moderation of one post is fair or unfair, you read the entire discussion? Really? Wow! That's dedication, and I bow to you, sir. However, I don't think that's necessary to "do it right" and I will continue to only read the relevant posts when I meta-moderate, not the entire discussion. If you disagree then you're free to hunt me down and spend your 5 moderation points trying to erase my karma to prevent my poor meta-moderation.
I still think that the new numbering system will make it harder to meta-moderate "redundant" moderation. Of course, if you really read the entire discussion when you meta-moderate then you would disagree. Show of hands: how many
I disagree that BOA is limited. The "deftag" tag lets you define your own tags, and how they behave. "xoptions" allows you to add libraries of 3rd-party tags. Any language this extensible is not limited.
This is gonna make it difficult to meta-moderate those "redundant" moderations. Usually if post #284 is "redundant" you can believe them, and if post #2 is "redundant" you gotta wonder what the moderator is smoking. How am I supposed to judge the merit of calling post #2200142 "redundant"? Hmmm, I guess we gotta read the entire discussion to meta-moderate now. Maybe I just won't meta-moderate the "redundant" posts...
Don't you read? It works like this: You report the probing and infection to the ISP, they contact the FBI, and you're arrested.
(is there an award for "1st First Post"? Do I lose karma instantly, or will it take someone actually reading this and modding me down?)
By your logic, I don't drive a Saturn, I should say I drive a "USS/Saturn" since most of it by weight probably comes from USS. Geeze, I wonder if Andy Grove reads RMS, it might explain all the "Intel Inside" stickers I see on Dells, Compaqs, etc.
Wow. What a flaming liberal! There was no need for the Fox news host to clarify an obviously true statement: Abortion is murder. Thousands of babies are aborted each year, therefore abortion is mass murder. Democrats support abortion rights, therefore Democrats are mass murderers. Gary Condit is a Democrat, therefore Gary Condit is a mass murderer. Simple. Why any need to "clarify" that simple statement of fact?
Of course, George W. Bush is a mass murderer, too. No need to clarify that statement, either.
RMS has a carefully crafted public image. Unfortunately, he's painted himself in a corner with it, and the answer to your question is that RMS leaves me with this impression: His real battle is for "free software" over all else, so to him the most important battle on your list is Linux vs Hurd. The DeCSS and Skylarov cases have nothing to do with free software, and thus are not worth discussion, let alone action.
[my reasoning: DMCA is all about "intellectual property", which RMS does not like, but even without "intellectual property" as a legal concept you could have non-open software, and with the elimination of all non-open software "intellectual property" ceases to be a threat (and is, in fact, an ally -- try calling your company "GNU" without RMS sueing you for trademark infringement), therefore fighting the DMCA is a waste of (RMS's) time.]
[yes, I presume to speak for RMS. If he wishes to refute my impression of his theoretical response to your hypothetical situation, he can log in here like we all did. If I'm wrong, then he needs to polish his image, because this is the impression I get.]
Thanks for letting me vent.
You're a moron. His .sig makes perfect sense. Remember, nobody on the entire planet has ever bought any Microsoft software.
(for those who missed it, his .sig reads:
Don't buy what you can't pay for. But when it comes to software, don't pay for what you can't buy.