Wrong. Shining attention on the cult keeps awareness high and ensures that their financial troubles continue on as the membership runs dry. It doesn't matter if some anonymous coward on Slashdot says he'll forget it in a week. That's not what's important. Somewhere in the world, a Scientologist will read this media coverage, have second thoughts, and leave the church.
Google cites its supposedly unbiased search results page as an argument against it being a monopoly. If Google is deciding what should go where, it's contradicting itself.
Calling it Safe Mode feels more like reaching out to non-nerds, because it makes no sense in the analogy the submitter was trying to make. People should leave the pseudo-scientific explanations to sites like Huffington Post.
The WebM patent pool is not just FUD. One of x.264's developers wrote a technical analysis of WebM and determined that WebM was similar enough to H.264 to step on its patents.
Bill Gates and Microsoft just got lucky with an IBM contract that put them on every commodity PC. It wasn't because Gates had some great product vision. His 90s book about the future originally mentioned nothing about the Internet.
Jobs is a designer. He's the kind of guy who took LSD, attended calligraphy classes, and preferred aesthetically-pleasing motherboard designs just for the sake of perfection. I think Microsoft needs more product designers and less engineers--they have so many APIs and product editions and lab experiments that engineering is quite well covered there, in my opinion.
Because it gives you the freedom to do just about anything you want, except take away the same level of freedom from others.
But that is not true freedom. A BSD-style license allows access to the original code while permitting commercial changes. Nothing has been taken away, because the original source still exists, and others are free to implement their own version of closed-source commercial changes in the open source version if they choose. That is a true, "maximized" freedom compared to the GPL.
The GPL "takes freedoms away" just as much as you claim the BSD-style license does. Furthermore, such a claim about the BSD license is inaccurate, because the original BSD-liences source code still exists no matter what some company chooses to do with it. Nothing has been taken away except access to the changes the company made, which could be replicated in the original source code by others if they so choose. True freedom.
"Collaborative governance" will never happen, and it would, in fact, be less efficient. Decision-by-committee is the slowest, most biased, most inflexible, and most ineffective form of decision-making there is. People elect representatives to handle the burden of governance just like people hire lawyers to handle the burden of understanding the law and pay doctors to handle the burden of knowing how to successfully perform heart surgery. Politicians posting tweets isn't exactly some sort of historic paradigm shift of governance. There were newsletters before Twitter.
Just like how not everyone is a programmer, not everyone wants to write legislation. There will always be some form of representative government. The article is a bunch of naive buzzwords with nothing substantive actually describing the specifics of this hypothetical form of government.
Submissions like this are an embarrassment. They make Slashdot feel so outdated, as if it's stuck in a 1999 time warp.
There are still neo-hippies out there who think "FOSS" is going to change everything and turn the world into a gigantic, collaborative effort. Today, FOSS is mostly used by capitalists like Google (an advertising company) to support some closed-source, proprietary business (Google's search and advertising engine). In the past, they would have had to write that software themselves. Now, they just use what other people wrote for free to keep the old system turning.
The linked wiki article is a haven of fuzzy, feel-good phrases like "Creates lasting solutions," "Transforms citizenship, " and the all-important "Openness" buzzword which don't actually describe how this theoretical government is supposed to function in practical terms. It feels a lot like slacktivism--that trend which permeates Facebook where users post links to causes on their wall to make themselves feel like they're activists while not actually accomplishing anything. Apparently, this "Metagovernment,"as they call themselves, assumes people will use Twitter to announce house fires and hope someone else shows up to put them out.
The multiple comparisons to FOSS programmers and code are goofy and naive, and there are baseless statements like, "FOSS tends to improve and evolve extremely rapidly, contrasting with privative or closed source software, which usually do not." There are countless examples of FOSS projects that stagnate, refuse to evolve, die off due to lack of commitment, and so forth.
The most damning counterargument is that, historically, decisions made by committee are notoriously slow and inflexible. Representative leaders are needed not only to handle the daily responsibilities of governance that a regular citizen couldn't handle due to having a real life to deal with, but also to enforce singular agendas. This article makes the same silly assumption that many FOSS fans do--that everyone is a programmer and wants to modify code.
It's cute how he calls it a "witch hunt." I've heard these kinds of arguments from Tetris clone makers before. If he had come up with a hugely successful and popular game of his own, you can bet he'd be sending letters to people cloning his game, because he'd want to protect his money-making creation like anyone else would.
Hey, look, another anonymous Apple basher shows up in an Apple article. It's cute how you use a worldwide sales figure.
I love how you claim it's a peak day of sales when this was just the first day of pre-orders for existing Verizon customers, and they ran out and had to stop taking orders by the end of the day. The phone becomes available to retail customers as well as those wanting to switch carriers later this week.
Over half a million sold blows away Verizon's previous one-day record of 100k for the DROID back in 2009.
Autorun is always a huge security risk. It was invented for lazy users that do not want to know how to use their computer properly.
Ah, another Slashdotter who doesn't understand that computers are appliances to the general public. Outside the little bubble here, people use computers to get a job done, not as a hobby to learn.
Everything in the universe is a trade-off. Make something more popular and accessible, and you lose security and stability. Lock down the software like Apple did to retain security and stability, and you gain the wrath of the online freedom warriors.
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Wrong. Shining attention on the cult keeps awareness high and ensures that their financial troubles continue on as the membership runs dry. It doesn't matter if some anonymous coward on Slashdot says he'll forget it in a week. That's not what's important. Somewhere in the world, a Scientologist will read this media coverage, have second thoughts, and leave the church.
Oh, yeah, let's suddenly start caring about content theft on pro-Piratebay Slashdot..
Google cites its supposedly unbiased search results page as an argument against it being a monopoly. If Google is deciding what should go where, it's contradicting itself.
Nobody cares about OGG or VP8, least of all Windows users.
Calling it Safe Mode feels more like reaching out to non-nerds, because it makes no sense in the analogy the submitter was trying to make. People should leave the pseudo-scientific explanations to sites like Huffington Post.
The WebM patent pool is not just FUD. One of x.264's developers wrote a technical analysis of WebM and determined that WebM was similar enough to H.264 to step on its patents.
Like Slashdot?
The so-called "death grip" also affected non-iPhones, as demonstrated by countless YouTube videos at the time. It was a non-story.
Bill Gates and Microsoft just got lucky with an IBM contract that put them on every commodity PC. It wasn't because Gates had some great product vision. His 90s book about the future originally mentioned nothing about the Internet.
Jobs is a designer. He's the kind of guy who took LSD, attended calligraphy classes, and preferred aesthetically-pleasing motherboard designs just for the sake of perfection. I think Microsoft needs more product designers and less engineers--they have so many APIs and product editions and lab experiments that engineering is quite well covered there, in my opinion.
Oh, great. Let's hear it for more Android fragmentation.
But that is not true freedom. A BSD-style license allows access to the original code while permitting commercial changes. Nothing has been taken away, because the original source still exists, and others are free to implement their own version of closed-source commercial changes in the open source version if they choose. That is a true, "maximized" freedom compared to the GPL.
The GPL "takes freedoms away" just as much as you claim the BSD-style license does. Furthermore, such a claim about the BSD license is inaccurate, because the original BSD-liences source code still exists no matter what some company chooses to do with it. Nothing has been taken away except access to the changes the company made, which could be replicated in the original source code by others if they so choose. True freedom.
You're tired of it because revealing the context of your beloved quote removes its fist-raising, anarchist impact.
"Collaborative governance" will never happen, and it would, in fact, be less efficient. Decision-by-committee is the slowest, most biased, most inflexible, and most ineffective form of decision-making there is. People elect representatives to handle the burden of governance just like people hire lawyers to handle the burden of understanding the law and pay doctors to handle the burden of knowing how to successfully perform heart surgery. Politicians posting tweets isn't exactly some sort of historic paradigm shift of governance. There were newsletters before Twitter.
Just like how not everyone is a programmer, not everyone wants to write legislation. There will always be some form of representative government. The article is a bunch of naive buzzwords with nothing substantive actually describing the specifics of this hypothetical form of government.
Submissions like this are an embarrassment. They make Slashdot feel so outdated, as if it's stuck in a 1999 time warp.
There are still neo-hippies out there who think "FOSS" is going to change everything and turn the world into a gigantic, collaborative effort. Today, FOSS is mostly used by capitalists like Google (an advertising company) to support some closed-source, proprietary business (Google's search and advertising engine). In the past, they would have had to write that software themselves. Now, they just use what other people wrote for free to keep the old system turning.
The linked wiki article is a haven of fuzzy, feel-good phrases like "Creates lasting solutions," "Transforms citizenship, " and the all-important "Openness" buzzword which don't actually describe how this theoretical government is supposed to function in practical terms. It feels a lot like slacktivism--that trend which permeates Facebook where users post links to causes on their wall to make themselves feel like they're activists while not actually accomplishing anything. Apparently, this "Metagovernment,"as they call themselves, assumes people will use Twitter to announce house fires and hope someone else shows up to put them out.
The multiple comparisons to FOSS programmers and code are goofy and naive, and there are baseless statements like, "FOSS tends to improve and evolve extremely rapidly, contrasting with privative or closed source software, which usually do not." There are countless examples of FOSS projects that stagnate, refuse to evolve, die off due to lack of commitment, and so forth.
The most damning counterargument is that, historically, decisions made by committee are notoriously slow and inflexible. Representative leaders are needed not only to handle the daily responsibilities of governance that a regular citizen couldn't handle due to having a real life to deal with, but also to enforce singular agendas. This article makes the same silly assumption that many FOSS fans do--that everyone is a programmer and wants to modify code.
It's cute how he calls it a "witch hunt." I've heard these kinds of arguments from Tetris clone makers before. If he had come up with a hugely successful and popular game of his own, you can bet he'd be sending letters to people cloning his game, because he'd want to protect his money-making creation like anyone else would.
Hey, look, another anonymous Apple basher shows up in an Apple article. It's cute how you use a worldwide sales figure.
I love how you claim it's a peak day of sales when this was just the first day of pre-orders for existing Verizon customers, and they ran out and had to stop taking orders by the end of the day. The phone becomes available to retail customers as well as those wanting to switch carriers later this week.
Over half a million sold blows away Verizon's previous one-day record of 100k for the DROID back in 2009.
Stick it to the man, brother. Business is evil. Pass the weed.
G4 Cube? iPod HiFi? Apple TV 1.0?
Because you dared to praise Apple on Slashdot, you have been rewarded with "Troll" moderation by the Android Army.
This is incorrect. There was a in-development Netscape 5 that was never released under that name. Version 6 was based on Mozilla.
Ah, another Slashdotter who doesn't understand that computers are appliances to the general public. Outside the little bubble here, people use computers to get a job done, not as a hobby to learn.
Why?
If that's true, then you'd better not use GNOME or KDE.
Everything in the universe is a trade-off. Make something more popular and accessible, and you lose security and stability. Lock down the software like Apple did to retain security and stability, and you gain the wrath of the online freedom warriors.
Yeah, and I'm sure it will have a long and successful future at a hip place like AOL. Or is it aol? Aol?