But if you hadn't given anyone with hands guns in the first place, the criminals you want to defend yourself against, may not have had guns now. And you wouldn't need yours.
/me knows about illegal arms-aquasition, yes, but point still stands.
People so coward that they will rather kill another human being, than taking a punch themselves, shows a good correlation between cowardness and bad ethics. That's my opinion at least.
Only if there's a driving force to adopt the new standard.
Excuse me if I am wrong, I may be mistaken, but wouldn't the BBC adopting a new standard for it's entire program catalogue be a driving force to adapt in itself?!?
Just asking, because as far as I am concerned the BBC har produced a lot of quality television.
these lobbying groups should be putting pressure on Diebold to release a product that doesn't suck.
As I am sure we all know, Diebold's machines were designed to be tampered with.
So to rephrase your sentance a little bit "pressure on Diebold to release a product that isn't customized for election fraud, and hasn't the abillity to deliver a negative amount of votes".
I still call election-fraud on these assholes. This system doesn't "suck", it's specificly designed to be this weak and to be tampered with.
And thus they cannot add a paper-trail, as this would only prove our claims. That more or less goes without a saying, at least I thought so.
Apparently trezor does not care about things such as security, privacy, bug fixes, introduced bugs, backwards compatibility, new features, performance, etc...
When was the last time you patched your kernel source, and didn't have to reboot?
If you didn't reboot, then you're not running the new kernel.
If you didn't get my point, it was that on Linux the only time you have to reboot in order to make changes effective, is if you update the kernel.
In Windows, even though things have gotten slightly better in XP, you'll almost have reboot for every minor change you can imagine.
For instance, a update in your Webbrowser or Mediaplayer. Now that makes sense doesn't it? That was my point.
Maybe my bad for not being clear enough, but I feel kinda insulted when people think I'm that ignorant.
From your logic, I guess sites like this is ok. The difference is that I search first, filter, then I go on a "P2P" net. So that makes the whole site more legit, right?
No. But I guess you didn't bother to read my post with your contacts on either. What I said was that BitTorrent was more suited for legitemate transfers, since the initiation of the download and the seed could be directly tied to a specific website or company.
Thus making the P2P-transfer as trusted as we care to trust the website we are visiting. We can actually trust that what we are downloading is orriginating from the specific website, and that the file is not a hoax. Not to mention that the download is directly tied into the whole web-thingy-experience.
That, to me at least, makes it rather different from other P2P-applications in my eyes.
But that it is more suited for legit use, does not in any way exclude illegal use. Or do you think I'm retarded enough to make such a stupid claim?
I feel compelled to ask, because of the attitude in your post:
Exactly where in my post did you read that I said warez-sites was legitemate?
I for once, if I had moderator points that is, would just mod him troll.
I have never ever seen anyone use the XiB-units in a proffessional manner.
I have, however, noticed how manufactorers of harddrives (not RAM) use this artificially generated confusion as an excuse for delivering smaller drives than their advertising/labeling says.
The faster the XiBs get sent back to hell (where they came from), the faster we can get our this false adveritsing banned.
Someone please mod mister XiB troll! /I'll probably get burn't for that
This is not as much bugfixing as it is improving the kernel.
Like writing better code, better memoryhandling, adding new features, improved hardwaresupport and the like.
And unlike Windows Update, you don't have to update the kernel if you don't want to. Very little software do require specific kernel-versions, as opposed to Microsoft where almost everything seems to have kernel tie-ins.
Denying what's actually the truth really gets you nowhere, and yes most P2P-nets are currently used almost exclusivly for warez.
With the exception being BitTorrent. And I can tell you why that is. BitTorrent can be integrated into your webbrowser so that it's almost like downloading and ordinary file via FTP/HTTP. This makes it hell more likely you get what you ask for and gets what you've been told. And it even makes sense. Want something from Blizzard? Go to blizzard.com.
Going on a random P2P-net, requirering you to specificly start a P2P-app and then searching for stuff, filtering the trash, makes it less usefull for legeitemate purposes.
For legitemate P2P-uses to catch on, they'll need browser-integration. That'll actually make things so easy your average "stupid" Joe won't even notice he's using P2P. That's why commercial vendors who have chosen to use P2P have chosen BitTorrent.
He should be arrested as well. I mean c'mon! Who haven't had a private FTP-account long before the P2P-concept were even thought of? Or Gopher? I am sure some copyrighted literature has been made availble by gopher!
If creating technology that allows material to be pirated is a crime, I suggest all manufaturers of CD-R(W)s, DVD+-R(W) with associated burnes, harddisks, floppys, floppydrives, tapes, tapeplayers, dats, lossy as well as non-lossy data-compression technologies, not to mention microphones and every single net-capable electronic device be arrested pronto.
After all they're facilitating copyright infringement. Even digitally one might add for most of them!
/think's more and more these days that law-enforcements agencies are wankers.
As we can trust a politician never to know anything about what the consequences of their actions are (a broad overstatement, yes, but you get the idea), we can almost certainly count on that if this directive get's implemented, there will be no reasonable bounderies for what is patentable.
So what might work, is that the patentability is so ridiculesly absolute, that even the clueless guy down on the street takes notice and realises it's stupidity.
For instance, when his favorite netshop gauges prices 150% to pay patentfees.
For this to get banned, which is really what is needed (as big business will keep on pushing until they get it), things need to get really ugly first.
If they vote against software patents, the Big Business(TM) will lobby for another directive, and another directive and another directive. Basicly as many as it takes.
These greedy filthpigs won't stop until they have gotten what they want. And then they'll want more. What that is, we'll just have to wait and see.
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You have put yourself in a kinky position, yes.
But if you hadn't given anyone with hands guns in the first place, the criminals you want to defend yourself against, may not have had guns now. And you wouldn't need yours.
People so coward that they will rather kill another human being, than taking a punch themselves, shows a good correlation between cowardness and bad ethics. That's my opinion at least.
I take it you mean people insulting the allmighty Mozilla? :)
Seriously. If the punishments are this hard, and it's easy as "the touch of a button" getting people convicted, you guys have a problem.
People getting killed for such abuse of the legalsystem might set the balance more straight, though.
Excuse me if I am wrong, I may be mistaken, but wouldn't the BBC adopting a new standard for it's entire program catalogue be a driving force to adapt in itself?!?
Just asking, because as far as I am concerned the BBC har produced a lot of quality television.
As I am sure we all know, Diebold's machines were designed to be tampered with.
So to rephrase your sentance a little bit "pressure on Diebold to release a product that isn't customized for election fraud, and hasn't the abillity to deliver a negative amount of votes".
I still call election-fraud on these assholes. This system doesn't "suck", it's specificly designed to be this weak and to be tampered with.
And thus they cannot add a paper-trail, as this would only prove our claims. That more or less goes without a saying, at least I thought so.
If you didn't get my point, it was that on Linux the only time you have to reboot in order to make changes effective, is if you update the kernel.
In Windows, even though things have gotten slightly better in XP, you'll almost have reboot for every minor change you can imagine.
For instance, a update in your Webbrowser or Mediaplayer. Now that makes sense doesn't it? That was my point.
Maybe my bad for not being clear enough, but I feel kinda insulted when people think I'm that ignorant.
No. But I guess you didn't bother to read my post with your contacts on either. What I said was that BitTorrent was more suited for legitemate transfers, since the initiation of the download and the seed could be directly tied to a specific website or company.
Thus making the P2P-transfer as trusted as we care to trust the website we are visiting. We can actually trust that what we are downloading is orriginating from the specific website, and that the file is not a hoax. Not to mention that the download is directly tied into the whole web-thingy-experience.
That, to me at least, makes it rather different from other P2P-applications in my eyes.
But that it is more suited for legit use, does not in any way exclude illegal use. Or do you think I'm retarded enough to make such a stupid claim?
I feel compelled to ask, because of the attitude in your post:
Exactly where in my post did you read that I said warez-sites was legitemate?
It may be ring3 or whatever. I just have one question: Do I need to reboot after installing these updates?
That's really what I consider important. I rest my case.
Regarding buxfixes, I didn't say there weren't any, if people read it that way...
And, if I may ask, are any of these bugs that are getting fixed remotely exploitable? *a genuine question*
And to counter some other guy in this thread... Buxfixes are good regardless.
OK. Adding him as a foe might be a bit extreme.
I for once, if I had moderator points that is, would just mod him troll.
I have never ever seen anyone use the XiB-units in a proffessional manner.
I have, however, noticed how manufactorers of harddrives (not RAM) use this artificially generated confusion as an excuse for delivering smaller drives than their advertising/labeling says.
The faster the XiBs get sent back to hell (where they came from), the faster we can get our this false adveritsing banned.
Someone please mod mister XiB troll!
/I'll probably get burn't for that
This is not as much bugfixing as it is improving the kernel.
Like writing better code, better memoryhandling, adding new features, improved hardwaresupport and the like.
And unlike Windows Update, you don't have to update the kernel if you don't want to. Very little software do require specific kernel-versions, as opposed to Microsoft where almost everything seems to have kernel tie-ins.
Hope this answers your question.
Denying what's actually the truth really gets you nowhere, and yes most P2P-nets are currently used almost exclusivly for warez.
With the exception being BitTorrent. And I can tell you why that is. BitTorrent can be integrated into your webbrowser so that it's almost like downloading and ordinary file via FTP/HTTP. This makes it hell more likely you get what you ask for and gets what you've been told. And it even makes sense. Want something from Blizzard? Go to blizzard.com.
Going on a random P2P-net, requirering you to specificly start a P2P-app and then searching for stuff, filtering the trash, makes it less usefull for legeitemate purposes.
For legitemate P2P-uses to catch on, they'll need browser-integration. That'll actually make things so easy your average "stupid" Joe won't even notice he's using P2P. That's why commercial vendors who have chosen to use P2P have chosen BitTorrent.
At least that's my guess and my opinion.
That sounds to me like the European RIA get's a free lunch, another free lunch and to deny everyone else the lunch they've allready paid for.
Is there btw any possible way I can cease to be an individual and become a corporation? Seems benefitial these days...
IANAL but I think that a very common form of punishment in Japan is to force people to sign up for japanese gameshows.
Anyone who has seen just glimpse of those should get my point...
He should be arrested as well. I mean c'mon! Who haven't had a private FTP-account long before the P2P-concept were even thought of? Or Gopher? I am sure some copyrighted literature has been made availble by gopher!
If creating technology that allows material to be pirated is a crime, I suggest all manufaturers of CD-R(W)s, DVD+-R(W) with associated burnes, harddisks, floppys, floppydrives, tapes, tapeplayers, dats, lossy as well as non-lossy data-compression technologies, not to mention microphones and every single net-capable electronic device be arrested pronto.
After all they're facilitating copyright infringement. Even digitally one might add for most of them!
Whatwhatwhat? Next you'll be saying you don't buy v1agra from people advertising by e-mail!
Me neither, but I am sure Microsoft can think up a way to do this.
After all useless "features required running" is more or less most prominent the Windows-slogan these days.
You bet Longhorn won't make that any better either.
As we can trust a politician never to know anything about what the consequences of their actions are (a broad overstatement, yes, but you get the idea), we can almost certainly count on that if this directive get's implemented, there will be no reasonable bounderies for what is patentable.
So what might work, is that the patentability is so ridiculesly absolute, that even the clueless guy down on the street takes notice and realises it's stupidity.
For instance, when his favorite netshop gauges prices 150% to pay patentfees.
For this to get banned, which is really what is needed (as big business will keep on pushing until they get it), things need to get really ugly first.
Lets just hope it doesn't stay ugly.
If they vote against software patents, the Big Business(TM) will lobby for another directive, and another directive and another directive. Basicly as many as it takes.
These greedy filthpigs won't stop until they have gotten what they want. And then they'll want more. What that is, we'll just have to wait and see.
That was pure genius, I must admit. But for anyone who can generate such an accurate Eliza conversation... I just have to ask:
Have you by any chance tried to hit on an Eliza-bot in your earlier days? :) *grin*
This applies to Windows HOW?
Does Ignoble Linux withstand /.ing in any admirable manner, though? *grin*
As Mr. Bush would probably agree, he didn't mean "bad". He ment "evil".
Now, we don't support evildoers do we?
So is anyone watching Mister G. W. Bush and making sure he is ruling the US truthfully?
You would think subversion, lieing and starting groundless wars based on false intelligence was some sort of offence?
Last I heard, there were some kind of commitee set up to do some sort of investigation, but I really haven't heard anything more.
NRA: Not only loonies with guns, but also evil, insensitive code-infringinging clods.
They'd shoot their way out of this case. So it would'a been a good thing.