Umm, the "fanatical" left is still complaining plenty. Just the mainstream (center-right) Democratic partisans have stopped, because they only care about what party is in power. Please don't confuse the two. (For details, just look at how much the Obama administration derides "professional leftists")
Any chance you can provide some citations on this? I am honestly curious because this goes against everything I know about public domain, I could not find any references to the concept you refer to (except that Congress can re-copyright expired copyrights), and also no reference to the empire game issue you referred to. About the closest thing I found was RMS stating that there would be an empire game for GNU is his manifesto, but with no indication that it was in response to some lawsuits (and mentioned in parallel with X, lisp, text editors, etc.)
You're thinking of plagiarism. Copyright infringement is infringing someone's copyright, which is their legal right to control distribution of their works. When you distribute a work in a manner that the copyright owner does not allow, you are committing copyright infringement. You should use the proper terminology instead of trying to redefine things to what you want them to mean, and then saying that those who don't agree with your redefined terms need to "learn english".
It's disturbing to me how little this has been publicized, to the point that even comments on this article don't mention it. It's an unusually decent class action settlement too, with damages around $25/screen (and not in coupons). The filing deadline is tomorrow, so get to it quick!
But that fact is inconvenient for those that support this slow intrusion into control of our hardware, so they will conveniently neglect to mention it (or the fact that this concession meant to spur adoption will almost certainly disappear once secure boot is fully entrenched)
[1] This actually provides a fairly simple loophole if you're willing to wait three years: take some GPL code, modify it, and give it to a third party. They then sit on it for three years and then sell it as a binary-only product. They pass on your (now expired) offer, and no one has the right to demand the source code from you.
There's nothing I can see in the GPL (v3 is the one I looked at) that actually lets you pass along any offer, let alone an expired one.
I know you're making a joke about the person, but I've had many corruption issues with ReiserFS. Granted, this was in its earlier days, but after it had been declared stable for use. I gave up on it after the problems, so no idea if later versions improved.
About a year and a half ago, their signal was great around my house. Then around the time the AT&T merger was announced it became completely unreliable and has been since. They keep alternating between admitting the problem, saying it's been fixed (when it hasn't), and saying there's no problem at all. It's quite frustrating and as much as I love TMo it's going to be hard for me to stay with them when my contract is up unless they get their act together.
The only reason the ARM based tablets will have a locked boot loader is that they will be sold through telco's that demand the lockdown in order to sell or support the devices.
I had a lot of programs (none Java-based though) taking up an inordinate amount of CPU, and high system CPU usage. Couldn't figure out the cause, and a reboot fixed it. In retrospect, I think it was around midnight UTC.
And how long before Microsoft and/or the OEMs start saying you can't do that?
Not very. And I don't have much hope given the hordes of people on the last article that honestly believed that Microsoft was being altruistic in this and that anyone questioning their motives was a conspiracy theorist/had a low IQ.
I've always hated how consoles have this killer hardware that is so locked down i can't do a damned thing with it that isn't approved by the corps without breaking out a soldering iron and a modchip. But that doesn't change reality and that is reality. Don't take my word for it, talk to the people in front of you in line somewhere and see what THEY say, they'll tell you "Its a phone" or "Its a tablet" which to them means its a device NOT a computer.
And you honestly don't think Microsoft (and Apple and Red Hat and Canonical for that matter) are trying to take computers in EXACTLY that same direction with app stores, Windows 8 apps, Unity, TPM, etc.? Mark my words, if we don't stop the movement in this direction, computers WILL be "just an appliance". The lack of foresight burns.
That option has to stay around because otherwise kernel developers can't debug their work (not even Microsoft).
You keep saying this. Do you not realize that development platforms exist that are independent from consumer platforms? Do you think I can run anything I want on a gaming console because after all otherwise game studios couldn't debug their work?
Yep, they're trying to make slow inroads by making it seem innocuous at first. "Oh look, Microsoft is protecting us by mandating we can switch the feature off". It's so blatantly obvious that they're only doing this to overcome initial resistance to the feature and gain acceptance, and will eventually flip-flop. I don't understand how so many presumably intelligent people fail to see that and are defending this horrible intrusion.
If userspace software can know if it's running under "trusted" mode, you can be guaranteed that it will be used at least for media DRM (must be running Windows under secure mode to play this file so we know you didn't hack it to bypass the DRM), and likely eventually for things like banking websites so they can claim to be more secure (you can only bank online if we have a guarantee that your kernel isn't "hacked"/unapproved)
If you really want to play around with the kernel you will just disable secure boot, which is guaranteed to be available on all motherboards.
Source?
I also can't imagine how motherboard manufacturers would require you to pay more for this since it is just a simple software tweak that they likely have to have for debugging anyway (all the secure boot infrastructure and hardware are already in place, you just need a UI gadget to be able to change the certificates.
They already do this all the time for price discrimination (like enabling VT). You seem to assume that just because a feature is easy, manufacturers (in any industry) will provide it for free? Especially when they can extract a premium from those who want they feature?
The point of open-source is to be able to run any code you want
That's a good point. I wonder if this violates the GPL or at least RMS's interpretation of it along the same lines people were claiming that iPhone apps couldn't use GPL code because you can't actually modify and run them without paying an extra fee. RedHat will now be giving you an "open source" kernel that on some of the platforms you can run RedHat's binary on, you can't actually run your own modified version of it.
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I believe it's GAN-Lite. Not 100% sure.
Umm, the "fanatical" left is still complaining plenty. Just the mainstream (center-right) Democratic partisans have stopped, because they only care about what party is in power. Please don't confuse the two. (For details, just look at how much the Obama administration derides "professional leftists")
hundreds or thousands
The fixed maximum number will not lead to a deflationary spiral as you think
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as each coin is divisible by 99,999,999 , over time as value goes up, less amounts are used, the coins are continually split up.
And what, exactly, do you think deflation is?
It's back up to lifetime protection as of a few months ago.
Any chance you can provide some citations on this? I am honestly curious because this goes against everything I know about public domain, I could not find any references to the concept you refer to (except that Congress can re-copyright expired copyrights), and also no reference to the empire game issue you referred to. About the closest thing I found was RMS stating that there would be an empire game for GNU is his manifesto, but with no indication that it was in response to some lawsuits (and mentioned in parallel with X, lisp, text editors, etc.)
You're thinking of plagiarism. Copyright infringement is infringing someone's copyright, which is their legal right to control distribution of their works. When you distribute a work in a manner that the copyright owner does not allow, you are committing copyright infringement. You should use the proper terminology instead of trying to redefine things to what you want them to mean, and then saying that those who don't agree with your redefined terms need to "learn english".
If anything, these companies should be forced to pay a class action settlements to anyone who bought their products at artificially high prices.
Here you go: https://lcdclass.com/
It's disturbing to me how little this has been publicized, to the point that even comments on this article don't mention it. It's an unusually decent class action settlement too, with damages around $25/screen (and not in coupons). The filing deadline is tomorrow, so get to it quick!
I wasn't going for a strong reference to the movie quote. More the fact that credible literally means believable :)
Incredible. Although completely believable.
That word, I don't think you know what it means. :-D (Yes, I get your point, just found that humorous and had to point it out)
But that fact is inconvenient for those that support this slow intrusion into control of our hardware, so they will conveniently neglect to mention it (or the fact that this concession meant to spur adoption will almost certainly disappear once secure boot is fully entrenched)
[1] This actually provides a fairly simple loophole if you're willing to wait three years: take some GPL code, modify it, and give it to a third party. They then sit on it for three years and then sell it as a binary-only product. They pass on your (now expired) offer, and no one has the right to demand the source code from you.
There's nothing I can see in the GPL (v3 is the one I looked at) that actually lets you pass along any offer, let alone an expired one.
I know you're making a joke about the person, but I've had many corruption issues with ReiserFS. Granted, this was in its earlier days, but after it had been declared stable for use. I gave up on it after the problems, so no idea if later versions improved.
About a year and a half ago, their signal was great around my house. Then around the time the AT&T merger was announced it became completely unreliable and has been since. They keep alternating between admitting the problem, saying it's been fixed (when it hasn't), and saying there's no problem at all. It's quite frustrating and as much as I love TMo it's going to be hard for me to stay with them when my contract is up unless they get their act together.
The only reason the ARM based tablets will have a locked boot loader is that they will be sold through telco's that demand the lockdown in order to sell or support the devices.
Umm, no, _Microsoft_ is demanding this. http://www.phonenews.com/microsoft-demanding-arm-oem-linux-windows-8-19713/
I had a lot of programs (none Java-based though) taking up an inordinate amount of CPU, and high system CPU usage. Couldn't figure out the cause, and a reboot fixed it. In retrospect, I think it was around midnight UTC.
And how long before Microsoft and/or the OEMs start saying you can't do that?
Not very. And I don't have much hope given the hordes of people on the last article that honestly believed that Microsoft was being altruistic in this and that anyone questioning their motives was a conspiracy theorist/had a low IQ.
It's not expensive for them if they get OEMs to make them that way for them.
I've always hated how consoles have this killer hardware that is so locked down i can't do a damned thing with it that isn't approved by the corps without breaking out a soldering iron and a modchip. But that doesn't change reality and that is reality. Don't take my word for it, talk to the people in front of you in line somewhere and see what THEY say, they'll tell you "Its a phone" or "Its a tablet" which to them means its a device NOT a computer.
And you honestly don't think Microsoft (and Apple and Red Hat and Canonical for that matter) are trying to take computers in EXACTLY that same direction with app stores, Windows 8 apps, Unity, TPM, etc.? Mark my words, if we don't stop the movement in this direction, computers WILL be "just an appliance". The lack of foresight burns.
And there's nothing preventing them from extending this to other platforms like they're mandating it on ARM. You try to keep up.
That option has to stay around because otherwise kernel developers can't debug their work (not even Microsoft).
You keep saying this. Do you not realize that development platforms exist that are independent from consumer platforms? Do you think I can run anything I want on a gaming console because after all otherwise game studios couldn't debug their work?
Yep, they're trying to make slow inroads by making it seem innocuous at first. "Oh look, Microsoft is protecting us by mandating we can switch the feature off". It's so blatantly obvious that they're only doing this to overcome initial resistance to the feature and gain acceptance, and will eventually flip-flop. I don't understand how so many presumably intelligent people fail to see that and are defending this horrible intrusion.
If userspace software can know if it's running under "trusted" mode, you can be guaranteed that it will be used at least for media DRM (must be running Windows under secure mode to play this file so we know you didn't hack it to bypass the DRM), and likely eventually for things like banking websites so they can claim to be more secure (you can only bank online if we have a guarantee that your kernel isn't "hacked"/unapproved)
If you really want to play around with the kernel you will just disable secure boot, which is guaranteed to be available on all motherboards.
Source?
I also can't imagine how motherboard manufacturers would require you to pay more for this since it is just a simple software tweak that they likely have to have for debugging anyway (all the secure boot infrastructure and hardware are already in place, you just need a UI gadget to be able to change the certificates.
They already do this all the time for price discrimination (like enabling VT). You seem to assume that just because a feature is easy, manufacturers (in any industry) will provide it for free? Especially when they can extract a premium from those who want they feature?
The point of open-source is to be able to run any code you want
That's a good point. I wonder if this violates the GPL or at least RMS's interpretation of it along the same lines people were claiming that iPhone apps couldn't use GPL code because you can't actually modify and run them without paying an extra fee. RedHat will now be giving you an "open source" kernel that on some of the platforms you can run RedHat's binary on, you can't actually run your own modified version of it.