... they believe the creator ought to be able to control his creation.
I agree with them. However, as long as I'm not ripping their creation and burning copies that would interfere with that creator's future sales, the creator's control of his/her creation ends once money's changed hands in a legal sale. That creator's got no moral or ethical right to tell us what we can do with what was purchased legally.
If the law says otherwise, the law's an ass, and I will happily ignore it.
No, unacceptable. That only encourages their behavior. One who lives upon others; a pertinacious and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger to the end.
FTFY. The honourable action to take is to boycott them, but that would require you to have a sense of honour and some self-control.
You mix an economic system with a political system and come up with capitalism.
No, you do. My (actually, textbook) definition of capitalism has to do only with the mode of property. It is completely orthogonal to political system.
Didn't I just tell you that, "You mix an economic system with a political system and come up with capitalism." AKA, you're blaming capitalism (the economic facet) for faults in the political system!
Geez. Reading comprehension these days.:-P Grrr...
"Capitalism != USA", ffs! Get over it. USA long ago forgot about Adam Smith.
He said nothing about a personal project, idiot! For all we know, he's looking around for something he can get the kids involved with, like a school project!
the greater the extent of government involvement in the economy, the less it represents true capitalism
That's not at all obvious, even from your definition.
I'm afraid your definitions are far worse.
After all, if government helps private parties to accumulate capital and extract profits from owning it, then clearly it is pro-capitalism.
No, it's not. Government picking favourites is interventionism, not capitalism. Read Bastiat. When the gov't went to a meeting of producers and asked what it could do for them, they replied "Leave us alone!" That's laissez faire.
You mix an economic system with a political system and come up with capitalism. Wrong. So called "True Capitalism" isn't cronyism or interventionist or corporatist.
Gov't is an insidious disease. It's exceedingly difficult to keep it out of economies, which is why there's been so few examples of laissez faire capitalism in action. To then blame atrocities like the US interventions in South American countries on capitalism is slandering capitalism instead of who should be blamed for them, namely the interventionist US gov't.
Fix your political system to keep gov't from taking bribes and picking favourites, and your capitalist economic system will work for everyone, except for those who'd prefer an unfair advantage over others, as it should be.
My community college does not have mandatory remedial classes for anyone. When you sign up you take aptitude tests and the results of those tests determines your starting levels in math and English. Don't all colleges employ a similar system?
The classroom lecture is the best method developed so far to teach students who can't read.
That in itself is a damning idictment on the teachers and the system within which they ply their craft. Why did students who can't/won't read graduate in the first place? Why does every Uni I've heard of have mandatory remedial English courses for incoming freshmen?
I'm mostly self-taught too. It's odd reading a post with so few grammatical errors as yours here. So, why do we want or need teachers again?
I view it as a continuation of the Arab Spring. I think it's exhilarating to see so many individuals the World over stand up on their hind feet demanding this stupidly broken situation be fixed.
This isn't making sense. The story so far is too illogical.
I think you need to get out more. Perhaps, go see a movie. I'd suggest that one that's based on a Tom Clancy novel about some Palestinians digging up an Israeli "Broken Arrow" nuke, who then sell it to a mercenary arms dealer, who then sells it to a megolomaniac Russian...
Get the idea? !@#$ like this doesn't make sense in the first place. Strapping Hellfire missiles onto UAVs whose comm channels are transmitted in the clear? Who comes up with !@#$ like that, outside Hollywood? Well, apparently, DoD contractors!
Honestly, I've seriously considered far less plausible courses of action in my time, even pulled off a couple. Thankfully, my stuff doesn't kill people.
Then again, I may be fixating a bit too much on that comment above mentioning something about morality. I don't think morality has anything to do with this discussion. Once you're strapping bombs to flying robots running unprotected software, that kind of goes out the window, no pun intended.
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Wow. Sorry, I'm just a little astonished that actually worked.
Have you heard of LinkedIn? Diaspora? Are you re-inventing the wheel?
... share your ideas on technology between your personal/professional network.
I think BestBuy seriously ripped me off selling me this HP Pavilion AMD Turion X2 laptop (dv4), and am currently attempting to make sense of C-50 Dual Core vs. Athlon 64 TF-20 vs. V105, V120, V140, V160 vs. E-240 X1/E-350 X2 vs. Athlon II Neo K125.
Any help? Other than "Never purchase from BestBuy", I mean.
Maybe they should just shorten it from "Facebook Timelines" to "FaceTime" and save themselves the hassle of a lawsuit:)
Thank you, that's about the most sensible post I've read in this thread. And, I'm a little concerned that I bother replying. Pretty much everyone posting here is clearly drunk (or something). Oh yeah, it's Saturday night, the [AN]LCS games are over for the day; what else is there to do but torment trolls on/.? Update FB "walls"? I think I'll go see haw badly LinkedIn's "Import Resume" feature mangled mine.
[I notice "haw" gets past the/. spellchecker. That should be looked into.]
No, I'm not a "pirate" and I don't steal stuff from "Rights Holders" and "Intellectual Property" evangelists. However, I do advocate boycotting them and everything they're selling for pushing draconian "legislation" such as ACTA. This sort of crap is not adding value to the world.
Nobody *needs* anything they're selling.
Don't buy it. Don't use it. Find other suppliers. There's plenty of them if you'd only look! Teach 'em how to rot in hell. Don't go there or play their game, and convince your friends not to as well.
They're slime, they're acting like slime, and you need not put up with actions such as theirs. They're also co-opting your government and legal system against you.
Just don't buy their !@#$. Watch 'em fade into history as they should.
I have always wondered why servers can't run anti-virus anti-spamware, etc.
I recognize that you're trying, so thanks for the effort on your part.
However, why should servers need to run "anti-virus anti-spamware, etc?" Perhaps because the operating system is deficient in allowing such malware to be installed and run in the first place?
You've been defrauded and ought to be demanding your money back. Operating Systems are supposed to protect the underlying system upon which they run. That's their point! Bill Gates slept through that part of the course, then dropped out when he saw a chance to get rich on your ignorance.
... For those who can't stomach Microsoft not being evil 100% of the time.
I haven't considered MS to be 100% evil for a long time. Even a decade ago, I didn't consider them even more than 10% evil.
Their level of incompetence has always been the sticking point for me. Damn, they do lousy work, blame their flaws on others, and EXPECT others to fix their mistakes. They've engendered entire clouds of business operations to clean up after their incompetencies. Anti-virus software?!?
Kaspersky labs and Symantec must wake up with a hardon every morning knowing MS is still out there doing its usual thing.
Marketers for some reason [think] the more obnoxious your ads are, the more people see them.
Why's that at all surprising? It's true.
I've sworn off buying stuff because of egregiously offensive ads many times. Slapping me in the face repeatedly with boneheaded marketroid pitches just makes me look harder for stuff I don't want and will never buy. I was just telling a friend last night why I'd never buy an HP laptop again, and why I won't buy Intel based boxes, and why I've not been inside a McDonalds in more than a decade. Their ads remind me repeatedly of all the things I hate about them!
Marketroids' pitches more often drive me away from (not toward) making a sale for their principals.
It's a fun game. I really wonder why they want to play it. They can't win that game, except they can (because there's a lot of morons who do buy !@#$, regardless of what I think of it).
Ignoring the fact that the N900 is out of production...
Easily fixed.
... and assuming the NSA would make their own software to allow for full-disk encryption...
Linux distros routinely offer full disk encryption installs. You want better crypto than Linux offers? There's the source.
... the N900 has no case intrusion detection and would be susceptible to a cold boot attack...
Oh, come on. Physical access has always meant vulnerable. Nothing new there. So don't store info locally if it's that important. It's a networked cell-phone, FFS!
Lange said that he wanted to see his secure smartphone reach beyond the NSA â" ultimately to reach every 'every employee in the Defense Department, intelligence community and across government.
Yeah, so the NSA has a backdoor into every government worker's phone.
I have no problem with that. That's already the situation in the private sector. You want privacy, buy your own phone/computer/...
I don't think there's anything inherently contradictory about wanting to keep the enemy's knowledge of you to a minimum while maximizing your knowledge of the enemy.
So, ordinary Americans are 'the enemy,' at least in the eyes of our own government?
Nah, that's overstating it. Instead, think of your least appreciated manager, the idiot who was always sticking his nose into your business when least wanted, the guy who never should have had the job (due to absence of skills) and never would understand what you were being paid to do for the employer. That's the "ordinary American" you're talking about. "Gahddamned Constitution, rasafrackin', jiggafriggen,... kroshnit!"
I agree with the poster above: Nokia N900. Lange is re-inventing the wheel.
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Andrew Ryan, didn't I put a golf club through your head?
Who the f*** is Andrew Ryan, and why should I care?
... they believe the creator ought to be able to control his creation.
I agree with them. However, as long as I'm not ripping their creation and burning copies that would interfere with that creator's future sales, the creator's control of his/her creation ends once money's changed hands in a legal sale. That creator's got no moral or ethical right to tell us what we can do with what was purchased legally.
If the law says otherwise, the law's an ass, and I will happily ignore it.
It's common decency to share what you have with other people.
It's also common decency to leave others' stuff alone.
No, unacceptable. That only encourages their behavior. One who lives upon others; a pertinacious and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger to the end.
FTFY. The honourable action to take is to boycott them, but that would require you to have a sense of honour and some self-control.
You mix an economic system with a political system and come up with capitalism.
No, you do. My (actually, textbook) definition of capitalism has to do only with the mode of property. It is completely orthogonal to political system.
Didn't I just tell you that, "You mix an economic system with a political system and come up with capitalism." AKA, you're blaming capitalism (the economic facet) for faults in the political system!
Geez. Reading comprehension these days. :-P Grrr ...
"Capitalism != USA", ffs! Get over it. USA long ago forgot about Adam Smith.
He said nothing about a personal project, idiot! For all we know, he's looking around for something he can get the kids involved with, like a school project!
Go learn to f-ing read!
the greater the extent of government involvement in the economy, the less it represents true capitalism
That's not at all obvious, even from your definition.
I'm afraid your definitions are far worse.
After all, if government helps private parties to accumulate capital and extract profits from owning it, then clearly it is pro-capitalism.
No, it's not. Government picking favourites is interventionism, not capitalism. Read Bastiat. When the gov't went to a meeting of producers and asked what it could do for them, they replied "Leave us alone!" That's laissez faire.
You mix an economic system with a political system and come up with capitalism. Wrong. So called "True Capitalism" isn't cronyism or interventionist or corporatist.
Gov't is an insidious disease. It's exceedingly difficult to keep it out of economies, which is why there's been so few examples of laissez faire capitalism in action. To then blame atrocities like the US interventions in South American countries on capitalism is slandering capitalism instead of who should be blamed for them, namely the interventionist US gov't.
Fix your political system to keep gov't from taking bribes and picking favourites, and your capitalist economic system will work for everyone, except for those who'd prefer an unfair advantage over others, as it should be.
My community college does not have mandatory remedial classes for anyone. When you sign up you take aptitude tests and the results of those tests determines your starting levels in math and English. Don't all colleges employ a similar system?
Not in my experience.
The classroom lecture is the best method developed so far to teach students who can't read.
That in itself is a damning idictment on the teachers and the system within which they ply their craft. Why did students who can't/won't read graduate in the first place? Why does every Uni I've heard of have mandatory remedial English courses for incoming freshmen?
I'm mostly self-taught too. It's odd reading a post with so few grammatical errors as yours here. So, why do we want or need teachers again?
I view it as a continuation of the Arab Spring. I think it's exhilarating to see so many individuals the World over stand up on their hind feet demanding this stupidly broken situation be fixed.
Democracy's death and rebirth?. Ignored, sadly. Damnit.
This isn't making sense. The story so far is too illogical.
I think you need to get out more. Perhaps, go see a movie. I'd suggest that one that's based on a Tom Clancy novel about some Palestinians digging up an Israeli "Broken Arrow" nuke, who then sell it to a mercenary arms dealer, who then sells it to a megolomaniac Russian ...
Get the idea? !@#$ like this doesn't make sense in the first place. Strapping Hellfire missiles onto UAVs whose comm channels are transmitted in the clear? Who comes up with !@#$ like that, outside Hollywood? Well, apparently, DoD contractors!
Honestly, I've seriously considered far less plausible courses of action in my time, even pulled off a couple. Thankfully, my stuff doesn't kill people.
Then again, I may be fixating a bit too much on that comment above mentioning something about morality. I don't think morality has anything to do with this discussion. Once you're strapping bombs to flying robots running unprotected software, that kind of goes out the window, no pun intended.
So is alcohol, yet I've seen quite a few drunk arabs in my life.
That's just the "terrists" way of blending into the background, trying to look like us infidels.
Based on that, the DHS can round up all the drunks and ship 'em all off to Gitmo. :-)
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Wow. Sorry, I'm just a little astonished that actually worked.
Have you heard of LinkedIn? Diaspora? Are you re-inventing the wheel?
... share your ideas on technology between your personal/professional network.
I think BestBuy seriously ripped me off selling me this HP Pavilion AMD Turion X2 laptop (dv4), and am currently attempting to make sense of C-50 Dual Core vs. Athlon 64 TF-20 vs. V105, V120, V140, V160 vs. E-240 X1/E-350 X2 vs. Athlon II Neo K125.
Any help? Other than "Never purchase from BestBuy", I mean.
Maybe they should just shorten it from "Facebook Timelines" to "FaceTime" and save themselves the hassle of a lawsuit :)
Thank you, that's about the most sensible post I've read in this thread. And, I'm a little concerned that I bother replying. Pretty much everyone posting here is clearly drunk (or something). Oh yeah, it's Saturday night, the [AN]LCS games are over for the day; what else is there to do but torment trolls on /.? Update FB "walls"? I think I'll go see haw badly LinkedIn's "Import Resume" feature mangled mine.
[I notice "haw" gets past the /. spellchecker. That should be looked into.]
Marvin the robot comes to mind for some reason.
The internet was better when engineers ran it, not politicians
Yes, you're right. It was much better when it was nothing but usenet chatter about Star Trek and ASCII-art versions of Playboy centerfolds.
Oh, fsck off!
"We believe in consensus and running code."
And besides, Vint Cerf hates your guts!
Okay, but in our defense hamburgers are really good.
No they're not.
On the other hand, World Series Baseball is (almost) always good.
Sorry about that Toronto Blowjobs blip.
Civil disobedience.
No, I'm not a "pirate" and I don't steal stuff from "Rights Holders" and "Intellectual Property" evangelists. However, I do advocate boycotting them and everything they're selling for pushing draconian "legislation" such as ACTA. This sort of crap is not adding value to the world.
Nobody *needs* anything they're selling.
Don't buy it. Don't use it. Find other suppliers. There's plenty of them if you'd only look! Teach 'em how to rot in hell. Don't go there or play their game, and convince your friends not to as well.
They're slime, they're acting like slime, and you need not put up with actions such as theirs. They're also co-opting your government and legal system against you.
Just don't buy their !@#$. Watch 'em fade into history as they should.
I have always wondered why servers can't run anti-virus anti-spamware, etc.
I recognize that you're trying, so thanks for the effort on your part.
However, why should servers need to run "anti-virus anti-spamware, etc?" Perhaps because the operating system is deficient in allowing such malware to be installed and run in the first place?
You've been defrauded and ought to be demanding your money back. Operating Systems are supposed to protect the underlying system upon which they run. That's their point! Bill Gates slept through that part of the course, then dropped out when he saw a chance to get rich on your ignorance.
No offence intended.
I haven't considered MS to be 100% evil for a long time. Even a decade ago, I didn't consider them even more than 10% evil.
Their level of incompetence has always been the sticking point for me. Damn, they do lousy work, blame their flaws on others, and EXPECT others to fix their mistakes. They've engendered entire clouds of business operations to clean up after their incompetencies. Anti-virus software?!?
Kaspersky labs and Symantec must wake up with a hardon every morning knowing MS is still out there doing its usual thing.
Marketers for some reason [think] the more obnoxious your ads are, the more people see them.
Why's that at all surprising? It's true.
I've sworn off buying stuff because of egregiously offensive ads many times. Slapping me in the face repeatedly with boneheaded marketroid pitches just makes me look harder for stuff I don't want and will never buy. I was just telling a friend last night why I'd never buy an HP laptop again, and why I won't buy Intel based boxes, and why I've not been inside a McDonalds in more than a decade. Their ads remind me repeatedly of all the things I hate about them!
Marketroids' pitches more often drive me away from (not toward) making a sale for their principals.
It's a fun game. I really wonder why they want to play it. They can't win that game, except they can (because there's a lot of morons who do buy !@#$, regardless of what I think of it).
Ignoring the fact that the N900 is out of production ...
Easily fixed.
... and assuming the NSA would make their own software to allow for full-disk encryption ...
Linux distros routinely offer full disk encryption installs. You want better crypto than Linux offers? There's the source.
... the N900 has no case intrusion detection and would be susceptible to a cold boot attack ...
Oh, come on. Physical access has always meant vulnerable. Nothing new there. So don't store info locally if it's that important. It's a networked cell-phone, FFS!
Pedestrians.
Uh.. the whole economy crashing thing was years ago now.
Uh, haven't you read the papers lately? Crashing repeatedly is apparently all it's capable of these days.
"Recession coming again."
"Really? I didn't even get to see the last one end. @#$"
Redhat dropped SPARC ages ago.
Fine. Slackware for Sparc
Lange said that he wanted to see his secure smartphone reach beyond the NSA â" ultimately to reach every 'every employee in the Defense Department, intelligence community and across government.
Yeah, so the NSA has a backdoor into every government worker's phone.
I have no problem with that. That's already the situation in the private sector. You want privacy, buy your own phone/computer/...
I don't think there's anything inherently contradictory about wanting to keep the enemy's knowledge of you to a minimum while maximizing your knowledge of the enemy.
So, ordinary Americans are 'the enemy,' at least in the eyes of our own government?
Nah, that's overstating it. Instead, think of your least appreciated manager, the idiot who was always sticking his nose into your business when least wanted, the guy who never should have had the job (due to absence of skills) and never would understand what you were being paid to do for the employer. That's the "ordinary American" you're talking about. "Gahddamned Constitution, rasafrackin', jiggafriggen, ... kroshnit!"
I agree with the poster above: Nokia N900. Lange is re-inventing the wheel.