It's bad for a business because it may invalidate their business model. (i.e. How they make money.)
And OSS developers should weep why? If you don't like the rules, don't use it. That is part of the point, after all. If you profit from the software, you should probably contribute back to that software. The GPL (and to a lesser extend the LGPL) prevent mooching, which is bad for any software project. Heard of the tragedy of the commons?.
Microsoft is becoming irrelevent in the same way that IBM is irrelevent. They've both got a lot of money and power, yes, but their drive in the market has falled behind: they've got no ability to really innovate like the newer players in the game.
Not that I'm saying this is a unique thing: it's cyclic. Early on, MS was a power-player too.
Anyways, doing s/(\w*)/\1 fuck/g on all your commments (or conversation sentences, whichever) is going to make you look like an idiot, or at least a backwater hick.
someone with access to medical records finds info on a person they don't like and publish it. Now it's on the web, i.e. for everyone to see. This is serious. Serious enough that the offended person can have recourse to full strength of laws about privacy and god knows what else (IANAL).
There's a big difference between posting my mailing address online (which can probably be considered publically available information) and posting my medical records online, both legally and ethically.
Now your solution. "'checked' censorship". Checked by whom?! "Who watches the watchers" isn't a new question - it's as old as sin. The Romans even knew about it. As you have pointed out, the censorship is difficult. Read: unenforceable. How in the world are you going to do this: hire more federal employees to check every online forum and post? Have the Department of Online Blogging? Only blogs hosted by the Feds are legal? Signing up to their account?
Censorship is never checked. That's the problem. If you try to object, you get censored yourself.
What are you talking about? This is about as rational as Argentina requiring IP records for 10 years on all connections. It's beyond delusional.
Unfortunately, if the good ol' U-S-of-A sets up a special 'Office of Censorship' (probably having a somewhat more orwellian name, however) in order to approve bloggers' posts for placement on the web, what else besides posts containing personal information will be censored. The primary problem is that censorship has a tendency to be abused. Plus, aren't the existing privacy laws sufficient to protect people from bloggers (and others) maliciously posting personal information like street addresses and phone numbers? And why is it focused on bloggers specifically? Any dumbfool can put up a webpage on geocities...how is that any different?
I ran through a number of distros before I settled on debian... I do recall a 'what do you want this computer to do' question coming up during RH7.3's install process though.
Maybe we don't want popularity. Maybe we just want software that doesn't crash or fuck up all the time. And maybe we realize that "the idiot is *not* always right". In fact, when the average user knows very little about software in general.
Why should you expect that they should have anything valuable to contribute, when they don't even take the time to put punctuation in their communication, have spelling and grammar even half-correct, or refer to every module, icon and screen in a program as 'that thing'?
Regardless of what one might think about freedom and all that, for the most part, people need to have lots of things decided for them, at least in the area of computer software.
Don't forget the whole 'p2p should be illegal because h4x0rz use it to steal muzak' thing, regardless of whether it has any other uses. Oh, and 'let's allow people to patent trivial software constructs that have been in use for 25 years' too.
Maybe I'm just a bit jaded because in all this crap, nowhere is there a need for 1) responsibility or 2) accountability on the part of the copyright cartels. But of course, we all know that anything shared via bittorrent, or in.iso format, or in a zip archive must be warez...
So for spam, until you provide a spammer with reasonable notice to not spam you further, you're considered to be allowing it.
And how, good sir, would you propose that I contact said spammers and ask that they stop spamming me?
All the while, microsoft licensing contracts are leaching money away from charities and other NGO's. Beautiful..... I wonder what more budget such organizations would have if they weren't slaves to microsoft's bottom line. It's hardly a black and white issue as you make it out to be.
That being said, at least billg is somewhat generous.
Slashdot Mirror
s/weep/care/
Then read my post again.
I had thought that people would be more liberal when interpreting my language. Apparently not.
Now I'm going to get flamed because I'm trying to tell people to be 'Liberals'...
I realize there is an argument that can be made on both sides. But realize that it is a public welfare system.
As opposed to the bagillions of dollars spent on roadways because the existing ones are too crowded for the cars that people want to put on them?
It's bad for a business because it may invalidate their business model. (i.e. How they make money.)
And OSS developers should weep why? If you don't like the rules, don't use it. That is part of the point, after all. If you profit from the software, you should probably contribute back to that software. The GPL (and to a lesser extend the LGPL) prevent mooching, which is bad for any software project. Heard of the tragedy of the commons?.
So finding out how to do something and remembering how to do it by reading instructions isn't learning?
There's that slashdot math again....
... the difference being that the CEO of the United States of America *has* hair...
Microsoft is becoming irrelevent in the same way that IBM is irrelevent. They've both got a lot of money and power, yes, but their drive in the market has falled behind: they've got no ability to really innovate like the newer players in the game.
Not that I'm saying this is a unique thing: it's cyclic. Early on, MS was a power-player too.
Geez, I thought the only way to keep a windows system completely secure was to leave it off....
Anonymous Coward a professional... beautiful.
Anyways, doing s/(\w*)/\1 fuck/g on all your commments (or conversation sentences, whichever) is going to make you look like an idiot, or at least a backwater hick.
Um, sir, you're looking in the mirror again...
If it's blank, then what does it matter what layout the keyboard uses?
No, that one will be 'we've locked up your files and you'll have to pay $1000 to get them back'.
Though this could be the bill for the beta test...
Nope, because (at least for the BSA and its ilk):
NumberOfPiratedApps == (NumberOfComputersSold * ExpectedAppsPerMachine) - NumberOfAppsLicensesSold
Since OSS apps tend not to be sold, or recorded in some other manner, the 'expected' piracy will go up.
Might we ask what's on that webserver, and what's so significant about it to the USPTO?
someone with access to medical records finds info on a person they don't like and publish it. Now it's on the web, i.e. for everyone to see. This is serious. Serious enough that the offended person can have recourse to full strength of laws about privacy and god knows what else (IANAL).
There's a big difference between posting my mailing address online (which can probably be considered publically available information) and posting my medical records online, both legally and ethically.
Now your solution. "'checked' censorship". Checked by whom?! "Who watches the watchers" isn't a new question - it's as old as sin. The Romans even knew about it. As you have pointed out, the censorship is difficult. Read: unenforceable. How in the world are you going to do this: hire more federal employees to check every online forum and post? Have the Department of Online Blogging? Only blogs hosted by the Feds are legal? Signing up to their account?
Censorship is never checked. That's the problem. If you try to object, you get censored yourself.
What are you talking about? This is about as rational as Argentina requiring IP records for 10 years on all connections. It's beyond delusional.
That seems simple enough
maybe so, maybe not
Unfortunately, if the good ol' U-S-of-A sets up a special 'Office of Censorship' (probably having a somewhat more orwellian name, however) in order to approve bloggers' posts for placement on the web, what else besides posts containing personal information will be censored. The primary problem is that censorship has a tendency to be abused. Plus, aren't the existing privacy laws sufficient to protect people from bloggers (and others) maliciously posting personal information like street addresses and phone numbers? And why is it focused on bloggers specifically? Any dumbfool can put up a webpage on geocities...how is that any different?
Great... the future of user feedback is now:
User: "Mwaah mwa mwa mwha wa"
Dev: "what's that you say?"
User: "Mwa wa wa wa wha wa wha!!"
I tend to prefer user input that's intelligible...
I ran through a number of distros before I settled on debian... I do recall a 'what do you want this computer to do' question coming up during RH7.3's install process though.
Maybe we don't want popularity. Maybe we just want software that doesn't crash or fuck up all the time. And maybe we realize that "the idiot is *not* always right". In fact, when the average user knows very little about software in general.
Why should you expect that they should have anything valuable to contribute, when they don't even take the time to put punctuation in their communication, have spelling and grammar even half-correct, or refer to every module, icon and screen in a program as 'that thing'?
Regardless of what one might think about freedom and all that, for the most part, people need to have lots of things decided for them, at least in the area of computer software.
Debian
tasksel
It's just that simple.
In fact, it's even simpler, seeing as how *debian runs tasksel as part of the setup process*.
Don't forget the whole 'p2p should be illegal because h4x0rz use it to steal muzak' thing, regardless of whether it has any other uses. Oh, and 'let's allow people to patent trivial software constructs that have been in use for 25 years' too.
.iso format, or in a zip archive must be warez...
Maybe I'm just a bit jaded because in all this crap, nowhere is there a need for 1) responsibility or 2) accountability on the part of the copyright cartels. But of course, we all know that anything shared via bittorrent, or in
So for spam, until you provide a spammer with reasonable notice to not spam you further, you're considered to be allowing it. And how, good sir, would you propose that I contact said spammers and ask that they stop spamming me?
All the while, microsoft licensing contracts are leaching money away from charities and other NGO's. Beautiful..... I wonder what more budget such organizations would have if they weren't slaves to microsoft's bottom line. It's hardly a black and white issue as you make it out to be.
That being said, at least billg is somewhat generous.
Ah, but with high compression, 100GB can be the equivalent of 250 000 songs, all thanks to your friends at the RIAA...
really? All the attacks I get on my webserver are IIS-based ones. On a slow day, 70% of my log files were from IIS exploit attempts.