(The right to privacy is a person's) right to be left alone by the government... the right most valued by civilized men. - Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
If there is property, there is privacy.
If we're going to interpret rights as only those that we can protect against gov't infringement, there would be no rights at all.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of the way many 'justices' decide to interpret my rights. The Constutition was written in plain, clear English. I'll be the one telling them what my rights are, not the other way around, thank-you.
I think most of the kernel developers make more money than you or I do.
No one is having a 'hissy fit'.
We are just interested in ending Broadcom's idiotic refusal to release drivers for Linux.
I can't speak for kernel developers, but I for one am only interested in seeing Linux treated as the viable operating system that it is by hardware manufacturers, resellers, and even users.
Until that happens, expect us to use all means necessary, including expecting people to abide by the GPL, to achieve that goal.
I completely agree. I was just looking for a decent, cheap, Linux-based AP and nothing can compete with a Linksys. Hell, it's only $100. I really wish they would release source for this. They could still use the binary driver and just be able to tweak it to add new features, even if it's a module as you say.
I just hope that now they will wake up, straighten up the mess, and start helping the community with supporting 802.11g in Linux for their NIC's.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Although Linksys would probably release the source if they could, they can't. The driver was written by Broadcom. It's referenced in lots of their online literature. I'm sure they intend to continue to license it to companies like Linksys instead of releasing it under the GPL.
If you're talking about applications markets, then that's a vertical move, not a horizontal one. Applications enhance their primary product and are dependent upon it. Does no one remember Netscape?
And they can only do this because the Bush justice dept. has given them carte blanche to expand their monopoly in whatever direction they want. If that's what you meant by "because they are such a big company", then maybe I'm out of line; but I don't think it was.
There were people in the CIA who knew where the embassy was, but the people whose responsibility it was to identify targets for the bombing in question were using an old map.
Uhh, why weren't those the same people? And, really, an old map? I've seen the Saddam on Conan o'Brien come up with better excuses than that.
No, because if you're going to make the SCO-MS connection, you have to make it in the context of both the subject of the lawsuit and the only market MS really cares about nowadays: the huge-multi-processor-server market.
Intel and MS have been holding hands and petting for a while now, and with Linus' stated preference for the lower-cost Opteron, Linux represents real competition for Intel and MS in the only market that MS doesn't effectively own. The SCO lawsuit is about pushing IBM/Linux out of the large server market to make room for MS.
I could go on about eyeball-shaped corporate logos and satanic rituals but you'd obviously just become more confused.
Unfortunately, it probably has more to do with what the courts will accept as a signature than what the DoD requires. Court systems in the US are still horribly paper-dependent, even though private lawyers have been driving the development of paper-replacement technology for at least two decades.
No matter how much electronic preparation they do to a document, in the end lawyers still have to print out their filings, carry them to the courthouse, and watch as a clerk studies their signature and stamps the document with a rubber stamp dating from the 70's. Maybe in a few large jurisdictions that document is then immediately scanned into a court computer system, but mostly not.
The whole system is completely asinine when you consider the ease with which handwritten signatures can be forged versus digital signatures.
I wouldn't be suprised if, when Office finally is completely integrated into Windows, the price doesn't go up at all. If Microsoft is as scared of Linux as they seem to be, they'll get to the point of giving stuff away at cost before giving up their stranglehold on the market. There's a reason they've got $40 billion in the bank. A few more OS releases and a few more changes to the Word file format would keep Linux at bay for quite a while.
As for the white-box vendors, they're all being put out of business by Dell. No one can compete with a $500 computer with a 3 year warranty. Now, my personal theory is that Dell won't be around in 3 years to honor any of those warranties, but who knows?
You can use SFTP to transfer files between Linux and Windows. These Open Source folks are nice enough to write programs even for operating systems they hate, but you might be labeled a Troll if you mention any of them here.
You'll have to agree that, with the advent of the web, it's entirely possible for manufacturers to sell directly to consumers. Anyone between the two, including retailers, has to be considered extraneous, no matter how useful their services.
I knew that 2.5% figure was bunk, thank you for de-bunking. I just meant that, compared to a company like GE, Walmart couldn't 'set up shop' somewhere else and declare themselves a separate nation. They would have nothing to export, since their entire business relies on sitting between manufacturers and consumers and charging their 20%. Keeping all of their assets in the US and trying to export their profits to Wal-Mart-Land would just get them declared a 'terrorist' state by the US gov't and their stores would be sold to the highest bidder.
Maybe not on your island, but over here Dell has been essentially 'bundling' Office with Windows for a long time now.
If you buy Office with your computer, it's like $100. If you wait and find out you need it later, it's $400-$500 in the stores. And we all wonder why Dell suddenly became quiet about supporting Linux.
Also, with the latest bug pack from Microsoft, Word gets integrated into just about everything as the default text-entry interface whether you own Word or not. It's all just going to be one big program pretty soon.
Try using anything on XP. It's slow. It has nothing to do with Mozilla.
In fact, it has more to do with IE6 than anything else. Try *upgrading* a Windows 2000 box from IE5.5 to IE6, you'll notice the difference. Everything gets slower and crashes more often. Unless you want to give some examples of how great IE6 is, I'd say you're trolling.
Speaking of online game cheats, I used to have a foolproof strategy: create multiple users. I had quite a few accounts on a local BBS that I would use to play "Bordello". I would use the extra accounts to do my dirty work, attacking other players and such. All of the profits from the spare accounts were transferred to my main character. I'm sure it made the game less fun, and I'm sure other people did it, but you almost had to in order to get anywhere.
I don't like to think that property rights are granted by the government, since property exists regardless of whether government does. I can't decide whether property taxes are justified by government services or are, as you say, nothing more than rent to the government. I tend to think that the communist premise of shared land ownership is well exemplified by our system of land taxation based on value.
I think the separate nation analogy is apt, and that's in fact what I was thinking of. You can't really sue a foreigner in the US courts if you get swindled. Although, if you have especially influential friends, you can persuade the gov't to declare war on whomever has screwed you, a la Armand Hammer.
Doesn't Everquest have it's own currency? Maybe Sony should think about instituting a sales tax:)
I agree that shareholders really were the ones who lost out. The companies did seem to fit together perfectly, although I didn't realize there was so much overlap. I think HP & Compaq have done a great job of hashing out their relative strengths and weaknesses and I know that the new company will be better off without HP handhelds or Compaq desktops. Maybe AOL/TW just wasn't able to get rid of a lot of their worthless parts and combine their profit centers that could complement each other. It still stuns me that so many highly-paid, intelligent people could fail so horribly at that, though.
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- Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
If there is property, there is privacy.
If we're going to interpret rights as only those that we can protect against gov't infringement, there would be no rights at all.
Quite frankly, I'm sick of the way many 'justices' decide to interpret my rights. The Constutition was written in plain, clear English. I'll be the one telling them what my rights are, not the other way around, thank-you.
No one is having a 'hissy fit'.
We are just interested in ending Broadcom's idiotic refusal to release drivers for Linux.
I can't speak for kernel developers, but I for one am only interested in seeing Linux treated as the viable operating system that it is by hardware manufacturers, resellers, and even users.
Until that happens, expect us to use all means necessary, including expecting people to abide by the GPL, to achieve that goal.
I completely agree. I was just looking for a decent, cheap, Linux-based AP and nothing can compete with a Linksys. Hell, it's only $100. I really wish they would release source for this. They could still use the binary driver and just be able to tweak it to add new features, even if it's a module as you say.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Although Linksys would probably release the source if they could, they can't. The driver was written by Broadcom. It's referenced in lots of their online literature. I'm sure they intend to continue to license it to companies like Linksys instead of releasing it under the GPL.
It's actually pretty cool, probably almost as fast as a keyboard with practice too.
I'm still waiting for BSDm...
Don't worry, it only hurts once...
And they can only do this because the Bush justice dept. has given them carte blanche to expand their monopoly in whatever direction they want. If that's what you meant by "because they are such a big company", then maybe I'm out of line; but I don't think it was.
I said this two weeks ago and all I got was modded down :(
Uhh, why weren't those the same people? And, really, an old map? I've seen the Saddam on Conan o'Brien come up with better excuses than that.
Intel and MS have been holding hands and petting for a while now, and with Linus' stated preference for the lower-cost Opteron, Linux represents real competition for Intel and MS in the only market that MS doesn't effectively own. The SCO lawsuit is about pushing IBM/Linux out of the large server market to make room for MS.
I could go on about eyeball-shaped corporate logos and satanic rituals but you'd obviously just become more confused.
No matter how much electronic preparation they do to a document, in the end lawyers still have to print out their filings, carry them to the courthouse, and watch as a clerk studies their signature and stamps the document with a rubber stamp dating from the 70's. Maybe in a few large jurisdictions that document is then immediately scanned into a court computer system, but mostly not.
The whole system is completely asinine when you consider the ease with which handwritten signatures can be forged versus digital signatures.
As for the white-box vendors, they're all being put out of business by Dell. No one can compete with a $500 computer with a 3 year warranty. Now, my personal theory is that Dell won't be around in 3 years to honor any of those warranties, but who knows?
You can use SFTP to transfer files between Linux and Windows. These Open Source folks are nice enough to write programs even for operating systems they hate, but you might be labeled a Troll if you mention any of them here.
You'll have to agree that, with the advent of the web, it's entirely possible for manufacturers to sell directly to consumers. Anyone between the two, including retailers, has to be considered extraneous, no matter how useful their services.
I knew that 2.5% figure was bunk, thank you for de-bunking. I just meant that, compared to a company like GE, Walmart couldn't 'set up shop' somewhere else and declare themselves a separate nation. They would have nothing to export, since their entire business relies on sitting between manufacturers and consumers and charging their 20%. Keeping all of their assets in the US and trying to export their profits to Wal-Mart-Land would just get them declared a 'terrorist' state by the US gov't and their stores would be sold to the highest bidder.
What? Walmart doesn't 'make' anything. They don't account for squat. Walmart without the US would be pointless since they're just middlemen.
I'm voting for anarchy, too... as odd as that sounds.
If you buy Office with your computer, it's like $100. If you wait and find out you need it later, it's $400-$500 in the stores. And we all wonder why Dell suddenly became quiet about supporting Linux.
Also, with the latest bug pack from Microsoft, Word gets integrated into just about everything as the default text-entry interface whether you own Word or not. It's all just going to be one big program pretty soon.
In fact, it has more to do with IE6 than anything else. Try *upgrading* a Windows 2000 box from IE5.5 to IE6, you'll notice the difference. Everything gets slower and crashes more often. Unless you want to give some examples of how great IE6 is, I'd say you're trolling.
Speaking of online game cheats, I used to have a foolproof strategy: create multiple users. I had quite a few accounts on a local BBS that I would use to play "Bordello". I would use the extra accounts to do my dirty work, attacking other players and such. All of the profits from the spare accounts were transferred to my main character. I'm sure it made the game less fun, and I'm sure other people did it, but you almost had to in order to get anywhere.
I think the separate nation analogy is apt, and that's in fact what I was thinking of. You can't really sue a foreigner in the US courts if you get swindled. Although, if you have especially influential friends, you can persuade the gov't to declare war on whomever has screwed you, a la Armand Hammer.
Doesn't Everquest have it's own currency? Maybe Sony should think about instituting a sales tax :)
I agree that shareholders really were the ones who lost out. The companies did seem to fit together perfectly, although I didn't realize there was so much overlap. I think HP & Compaq have done a great job of hashing out their relative strengths and weaknesses and I know that the new company will be better off without HP handhelds or Compaq desktops. Maybe AOL/TW just wasn't able to get rid of a lot of their worthless parts and combine their profit centers that could complement each other. It still stuns me that so many highly-paid, intelligent people could fail so horribly at that, though.
Maybe they should have to. Who want's to put The History Channel on Gnutella?