No, it doesn't get rid of bad laws at all because the law enforcers will investigate themselves and find that they did nothing wrong, plus it is very difficult to have a law repealed once it's been passed. In a strict sense, you're correct: if the enforcers got ticketed for breaking laws and couldn't get out of it, you'd see some action, but that ain't happening anywhere. For the photo/video thing, I would hope some forensic analysis went into it (editing of real images is not generally hard to detect unless someone's a freaking wizard at it and can reproduce the exact noise and artifacts and file specs and metadata with great accuracy) but laziness is also a hallmark of nearly every law enforcement organization due to constantly being understaffed and under-funded.
Executive Summary: You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and
you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and
you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also
get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel
tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature
operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first place.
You just listed off a couple of decades worth of Intel CPUs asking "why so many names so fast?" and none of those have the flaws being discussed nor are in common use today. What are you even talking about? I don't think you have a clue what you're saying. Every different chip has a different model number and that's a problem? What?
The registrar handed the domain over. They could have said "no, we're not a French company and it's not a French TLD, kick rocks" but they didn't. The actual hand-over probably has nothing to do with French law.
4:3 was a sort of "golden ratio" for computing. It's not just controls, either; ask anyone that does a lot of work in Excel or with databases or anything in a terminal where more viewable vertical lines makes life a lot easier. Ever since the transition from 4:3 to 16:9-ish screens as the standard I have been very unhappy. The diagonal on a widescreen has to be bigger than on a normal screen for the same surface area and the pixel counts on widescreen are generally lower due to the ratio. I love my 2560x1080 ultra-widescreen for Premiere and After Effects but the truth is that a taller screen would have been better than a wider one and rotating the widescreen 90 degrees just isn't a good option. When 1920x1080 started to get cheap I thought it was a really nice development...until I realized that I was sitting in front of an IBM 21-inch LCD monitor that did 1600x1200. Yes, there are 1920x1200 monitors out there (I owned one and loved it) but all the remotely cheap stuff is 1920x1080 at best, and if 4:3 monitors evolved the way widescreens have, we'd have 1920x1440 and 2560x1920 screens. That's a lot of pixel real estate, and while your 16:9 movie will have black bars, so what? If the monitor is the same width, the image will be the same size.
This is why us widescreen detractors like to call them "shortscreens."
You're right about the stability; that's just the nature of the beast. When they refer to supporting the 68000, they're probably using a NOMMU system which is a quirky thing but within its several limits it DOES work. As you noted, some features of modern CPUs and MMUs such as memory protection are not available. uClinux's kernel work was folded into the Kernel during the 2.5.x series. As of 2016 they were still alive and kicking.
Stuff where JavaScript blocks things like copying text are also easily defeated. Holding SHIFT while right-clicking in Firefox seems to override most of the blocking stuff. If that won't work, the developer console is happy to help.
The cloud integration into everything drives me insane. I don't want Pocket in Firefox, OneDrive in Explorer, iCloud on Apple EVERYTHING, or whatever trash can privacy violating thing Ubuntu has decided is a good idea to force in the OS and turn on by default this week. Why does every music player need to have a remote control HTTP server inside of it? Why do TORRENT CLIENTS have remote control HTTP servers in them?! Even worse are the so-called "IoT" devices that are all "normal object except Bluetooth-connected" that will stop receiving firmware updates and will never even be opened up, sometimes rendering them merely insecure while other times rendering them 100% non-functional. I can understand some of the functionality but it seems like we're rapidly moving towards a future where our toilet paper will have Bluetooth and report on the fiber content of your freshly wiped ass butter in real time.
When I explain to non-technical people that "cloud means you store it on someone else's computer and trust them to not lose it" and tell them about the T-Mobile Sidekick data loss disaster they tend to agree with my rationale for having a local backup on an external hard drive and not just shoving everything into Dropbox or Carbonite like they're magic bullet backup solutions. Hell, even Carbonite has a built-in "do a local backup too" function.
You not understanding something doesn't make it less valid. Perhaps if you took the time to understand fundamental concepts you would have something to say other than the textual equivalent of stamping your feet like an angry child who isn't getting their way. This conversation is over.
Since your answers stem from a complete and possibly willful ignorance of why the public domain is important, I'll just leave this here instead of wasting my time arguing with the brick wall that is yourself. As for Tolkien and other authors whose books only become popular long after they are made, they are a rare exception rather than the rule. Hating on the United States is irrelevant and pointless, so have fun with your anti-U.S. babble if you must, but I won't dignify it with a response.
In your restaurant examples, the money comes in because you're constantly doing new work providing new products and services on a constant basis. Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about, because once you write the book and publish it, you get to sit on your fat ass and write nothing else while the checks come pouring in. You don't do anything of value after the book is done that justifies 120+ years of making money off of it existing. You're not even printing the damned thing, you're just sitting on your ass watching said ass grow larger. Meanwhile, the guy in the restaurant example is cooking food, ordering items, stocking, cleaning the facilities, paying employees, and generally participating in the local economy and society every single day.
Reserve your commentary for subjects you actually understand.
Why would I restrict an eBook author to 20 years of selling? Well, I wouldn't. I'd restrict them to 20 years of copyright monopoly. They can still sell to anyone who will buy after the eBook is in the public domain, they just can't stop others from using the content as they please. Of all the media to pick as an example for justifying unethically long copyright terms, eBooks may be the worst way to go. Most eBooks are junk books hastily assembled to make a buck and don't have much in the way of literary or artistic value.
If you can't make money off of an artistic work within 20 years, there's a strong chance that your work simply sucks or you suck at marketing it. Neither of those are good justifications for long copyright terms; if anything, they're a good justification for shorter terms since you'll be further compelled to make something that's newer and better instead of trying to sell your sucky eBook for your entire life.
"A god given right to your money no matter if you desire their precious work of art or not" like the media tax in some countries that increases the price of blank drives, discs, or tapes, and goes to major rightsholder corporations to "compensate" them for personal copying of their works that MIGHT be done with said blank drives? I always thought those media taxes were total bullshit.
No, we need to use the same thing as for patents. 10 years, then a single optional 10-year extension if filed for. There is no reason or excuse for copyright ever being longer than that. Copyright is supposed to encourage creation of works which doesn't happen if you can milk your existing works for decades or (as is the case for many works as it stands today) well over a century.
A rich public domain is a critical component of society. Don't believe me? Most of Disney's most popular works are ripped off from old novels that fell into the public domain a long time ago. Without the public domain, there would be no Disney, now one of the biggest media companies on the entire planet. Ironic that Disney now wants us to never be able to do the same thing with Disney's works even though their entire business was derived from the works of others.
Export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv to a reg file, delete it, reboot. No more updates. When you need updates, import that reg file, reboot, run updates, and delete again. I caught Win10 Pro force-updating despite the group policy being set to not reboot when a user was logged on, so I did this instead and have been free of cancerous MS updates ever since. The Spectre wrecker update missed me completely.
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No, it doesn't get rid of bad laws at all because the law enforcers will investigate themselves and find that they did nothing wrong, plus it is very difficult to have a law repealed once it's been passed. In a strict sense, you're correct: if the enforcers got ticketed for breaking laws and couldn't get out of it, you'd see some action, but that ain't happening anywhere. For the photo/video thing, I would hope some forensic analysis went into it (editing of real images is not generally hard to detect unless someone's a freaking wizard at it and can reproduce the exact noise and artifacts and file specs and metadata with great accuracy) but laziness is also a hallmark of nearly every law enforcement organization due to constantly being understaffed and under-funded.
Don't forget possession of a short lobster.
Internet of Simple Home Invasion Tactics. That's what we need to start calling this. "IoSHIT."
Nominative* use.
I'll see myself out.
https://www.mjmwired.net/kerne...
Executive Summary: You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first place.
You just listed off a couple of decades worth of Intel CPUs asking "why so many names so fast?" and none of those have the flaws being discussed nor are in common use today. What are you even talking about? I don't think you have a clue what you're saying. Every different chip has a different model number and that's a problem? What?
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The registrar handed the domain over. They could have said "no, we're not a French company and it's not a French TLD, kick rocks" but they didn't. The actual hand-over probably has nothing to do with French law.
I am being charged an extra fee for only having internet. Seriously, they have a $10 fee on my bill every month for NOT having a service.
4:3 was a sort of "golden ratio" for computing. It's not just controls, either; ask anyone that does a lot of work in Excel or with databases or anything in a terminal where more viewable vertical lines makes life a lot easier. Ever since the transition from 4:3 to 16:9-ish screens as the standard I have been very unhappy. The diagonal on a widescreen has to be bigger than on a normal screen for the same surface area and the pixel counts on widescreen are generally lower due to the ratio. I love my 2560x1080 ultra-widescreen for Premiere and After Effects but the truth is that a taller screen would have been better than a wider one and rotating the widescreen 90 degrees just isn't a good option. When 1920x1080 started to get cheap I thought it was a really nice development...until I realized that I was sitting in front of an IBM 21-inch LCD monitor that did 1600x1200. Yes, there are 1920x1200 monitors out there (I owned one and loved it) but all the remotely cheap stuff is 1920x1080 at best, and if 4:3 monitors evolved the way widescreens have, we'd have 1920x1440 and 2560x1920 screens. That's a lot of pixel real estate, and while your 16:9 movie will have black bars, so what? If the monitor is the same width, the image will be the same size.
This is why us widescreen detractors like to call them "shortscreens."
You're right about the stability; that's just the nature of the beast. When they refer to supporting the 68000, they're probably using a NOMMU system which is a quirky thing but within its several limits it DOES work. As you noted, some features of modern CPUs and MMUs such as memory protection are not available. uClinux's kernel work was folded into the Kernel during the 2.5.x series. As of 2016 they were still alive and kicking.
Mr. Serling would like a word with you.
Stuff where JavaScript blocks things like copying text are also easily defeated. Holding SHIFT while right-clicking in Firefox seems to override most of the blocking stuff. If that won't work, the developer console is happy to help.
It's Snapchat for email. Snapchat is stupid. This is stupid. *takes screenshot*
The cloud integration into everything drives me insane. I don't want Pocket in Firefox, OneDrive in Explorer, iCloud on Apple EVERYTHING, or whatever trash can privacy violating thing Ubuntu has decided is a good idea to force in the OS and turn on by default this week. Why does every music player need to have a remote control HTTP server inside of it? Why do TORRENT CLIENTS have remote control HTTP servers in them?! Even worse are the so-called "IoT" devices that are all "normal object except Bluetooth-connected" that will stop receiving firmware updates and will never even be opened up, sometimes rendering them merely insecure while other times rendering them 100% non-functional. I can understand some of the functionality but it seems like we're rapidly moving towards a future where our toilet paper will have Bluetooth and report on the fiber content of your freshly wiped ass butter in real time.
When I explain to non-technical people that "cloud means you store it on someone else's computer and trust them to not lose it" and tell them about the T-Mobile Sidekick data loss disaster they tend to agree with my rationale for having a local backup on an external hard drive and not just shoving everything into Dropbox or Carbonite like they're magic bullet backup solutions. Hell, even Carbonite has a built-in "do a local backup too" function.
You not understanding something doesn't make it less valid. Perhaps if you took the time to understand fundamental concepts you would have something to say other than the textual equivalent of stamping your feet like an angry child who isn't getting their way. This conversation is over.
All about engagement...and that's how you end up with Logan Paul in a suicide forest showing off dead people for clicks.
You did not read the link and do not understand what you are trolling about, so have fun arguing into the ether.
Nope. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. The ravings of a lunatic, nothing more.
Since your answers stem from a complete and possibly willful ignorance of why the public domain is important, I'll just leave this here instead of wasting my time arguing with the brick wall that is yourself. As for Tolkien and other authors whose books only become popular long after they are made, they are a rare exception rather than the rule. Hating on the United States is irrelevant and pointless, so have fun with your anti-U.S. babble if you must, but I won't dignify it with a response.
In your restaurant examples, the money comes in because you're constantly doing new work providing new products and services on a constant basis. Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about, because once you write the book and publish it, you get to sit on your fat ass and write nothing else while the checks come pouring in. You don't do anything of value after the book is done that justifies 120+ years of making money off of it existing. You're not even printing the damned thing, you're just sitting on your ass watching said ass grow larger. Meanwhile, the guy in the restaurant example is cooking food, ordering items, stocking, cleaning the facilities, paying employees, and generally participating in the local economy and society every single day.
Reserve your commentary for subjects you actually understand.
Musicians who don't make money off their music within 20 years have that problem because they partner with major labels that spend all the album revenue for them, or they simply don't get paid in the first place while their money goes back into labels' pockets.
Why would I restrict an eBook author to 20 years of selling? Well, I wouldn't. I'd restrict them to 20 years of copyright monopoly. They can still sell to anyone who will buy after the eBook is in the public domain, they just can't stop others from using the content as they please. Of all the media to pick as an example for justifying unethically long copyright terms, eBooks may be the worst way to go. Most eBooks are junk books hastily assembled to make a buck and don't have much in the way of literary or artistic value.
If you can't make money off of an artistic work within 20 years, there's a strong chance that your work simply sucks or you suck at marketing it. Neither of those are good justifications for long copyright terms; if anything, they're a good justification for shorter terms since you'll be further compelled to make something that's newer and better instead of trying to sell your sucky eBook for your entire life.
"A god given right to your money no matter if you desire their precious work of art or not" like the media tax in some countries that increases the price of blank drives, discs, or tapes, and goes to major rightsholder corporations to "compensate" them for personal copying of their works that MIGHT be done with said blank drives? I always thought those media taxes were total bullshit.
No, we need to use the same thing as for patents. 10 years, then a single optional 10-year extension if filed for. There is no reason or excuse for copyright ever being longer than that. Copyright is supposed to encourage creation of works which doesn't happen if you can milk your existing works for decades or (as is the case for many works as it stands today) well over a century.
A rich public domain is a critical component of society. Don't believe me? Most of Disney's most popular works are ripped off from old novels that fell into the public domain a long time ago. Without the public domain, there would be no Disney, now one of the biggest media companies on the entire planet. Ironic that Disney now wants us to never be able to do the same thing with Disney's works even though their entire business was derived from the works of others.
Export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv to a reg file, delete it, reboot. No more updates. When you need updates, import that reg file, reboot, run updates, and delete again. I caught Win10 Pro force-updating despite the group policy being set to not reboot when a user was logged on, so I did this instead and have been free of cancerous MS updates ever since. The Spectre wrecker update missed me completely.