Don't mean to beat a dead horse here or anything (maybe I do actually)... But the decision to use Bitkeeper in the first place was a bad one. So was the decision to reinvent the wheel. SVN works fine.
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If I contribute to Linux, I don't have to assign the copyright to Linus.
Hackers are people who love to play with technology, who *MAY* also like to cause carnage and destruction.
That applies to any group of people. A better example of this than the gay/homosexual analogy, is the misconception that to be a faithful Moslem neccessarily means that you are anti American, or a terrorist or whatever. Again, some are... But there are a great many Christian and Jewish terrorists out there too. Same as there are many hackers who are not terrorists.
Anyone who takes hacking or religion too seriously (I.E. uses it to harm others) is probably suffering from some kind of delusion.
I could imagine a dark situation which is already kind of here where enormous databases of personal info and customer billing information can never be challenged or queried by joe public in the interests of 'keeping it safe'.
I don't think Joe Public has any right to query that information unless it's his own either. But short of police investigations I can't imagine many types of data that JP shouldn't have a right to query about his own data.
We already have a law like this in Canada.
I'm curious why it doesn't apply to Equifax though. It seems to me that negligence should be treated in the same way as just giving it out to anyone that asks for it.
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I think we all have to worry anyway. This kind of shit happens all the time. They're going to find the people responsible for these, and the corporations that allow it to happen will get off with only a bit of bad publicity. That's the real tragedy. There ought to be a law that if you are going to retain someone's personal information then you are responsible for keeping it safe. Same as I'm responsible for keeping my PIN number safe.
Even on Slashdot hackers get a bad name. Hackers are people who love to play with technology, not cause carnage and destruction. This guy is a "criminal".
Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.
The whole point is that even though Microsoft is following the letter of the law, they shouldn't be. In Rwanda, the letter of the law was 'Kill all the Tutsi's'. Are you saying anyone was justified in doing so?
Are you saying that if people came to the U.S. from Rwanda looking for Tutsi's to kill, they should be able to because thats how things were in the Rwanda?
Your bottom line is based on flawed logic. You have no right to decide what is morally right and wrong for others. Only yourself.
why not by other things that are against US law too?
China is not governed by the U.S. you realize that right? Corporations are subject to the laws of the countries that they do business in. You would scream bloody murder if foreign corporations were conducting business in the U.S. according to their laws back home.
Microsoft chose the option that "screw the first ammendment, we want cash".
Do the Chinese even have a first ammendment? Thankfuly the U.S. doesn't govern the world yet.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft or China, but I am deeply offended every time U.S. tries to impose its idealistic values on the rest of the world. Lead by example, otherwise you're just tyrannical hypocrites.
Call your MP and tell him why you want it to stay that way. The Liberals can't afford to introduce any controversial legislation these days. They'll buckle if we yell loud enough.
When the movement dies, it will be because it acheived its goals. At a time when people will laugh at the notion of paying for closed source software, and agreeing to licenses that make them criminals if they share with friends.
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the core linux developers switched their cms?
Don't mean to beat a dead horse here or anything (maybe I do actually)... But the decision to use Bitkeeper in the first place was a bad one. So was the decision to reinvent the wheel. SVN works fine.
Bullshit.
There you have it.. Clearly he's in the right.
Too bad they fucked up the Sun Contributor Agreement
If I contribute to Linux, I don't have to assign the copyright to Linus.
Hackers are people who love to play with technology, who *MAY* also like to cause carnage and destruction.
That applies to any group of people. A better example of this than the gay/homosexual analogy, is the misconception that to be a faithful Moslem neccessarily means that you are anti American, or a terrorist or whatever. Again, some are... But there are a great many Christian and Jewish terrorists out there too. Same as there are many hackers who are not terrorists.
Anyone who takes hacking or religion too seriously (I.E. uses it to harm others) is probably suffering from some kind of delusion.
I don't think Joe Public has any right to query that information unless it's his own either. But short of police investigations I can't imagine many types of data that JP shouldn't have a right to query about his own data.
We already have a law like this in Canada. I'm curious why it doesn't apply to Equifax though. It seems to me that negligence should be treated in the same way as just giving it out to anyone that asks for it.
From the Fact Sheet: I knew it sounded too good to be true.
Yes and gay people walk around happy all day
That would be a good analogy if only there was a culture of straight gay people that was upset about being associated with homosexuals.
I think we all have to worry anyway. This kind of shit happens all the time. They're going to find the people responsible for these, and the corporations that allow it to happen will get off with only a bit of bad publicity. That's the real tragedy. There ought to be a law that if you are going to retain someone's personal information then you are responsible for keeping it safe. Same as I'm responsible for keeping my PIN number safe.
Even on Slashdot hackers get a bad name. Hackers are people who love to play with technology, not cause carnage and destruction. This guy is a "criminal".
I think we all know what Bill was thinking...
PS: has this ever been posted on Slashdot?
:)
I'm not sure. I got it from Google News last year, and its been in my bookmarks ever since. Still makes me laugh.
The whole point is that even though Microsoft is following the letter of the law, they shouldn't be. In Rwanda, the letter of the law was 'Kill all the Tutsi's'. Are you saying anyone was justified in doing so?
Are you saying that if people came to the U.S. from Rwanda looking for Tutsi's to kill, they should be able to because thats how things were in the Rwanda?
Your bottom line is based on flawed logic. You have no right to decide what is morally right and wrong for others. Only yourself.
why not by other things that are against US law too?
China is not governed by the U.S. you realize that right? Corporations are subject to the laws of the countries that they do business in. You would scream bloody murder if foreign corporations were conducting business in the U.S. according to their laws back home.
sounds like you want to trade freedom for convenience
If it's delusional freedom, then sure.
Do the Chinese even have a first ammendment? Thankfuly the U.S. doesn't govern the world yet.
I'm not a fan of Microsoft or China, but I am deeply offended every time U.S. tries to impose its idealistic values on the rest of the world. Lead by example, otherwise you're just tyrannical hypocrites.
Amen to that. Toss a disc in and hit play.
applies most places(even here in Canada)
Call your MP and tell him why you want it to stay that way. The Liberals can't afford to introduce any controversial legislation these days. They'll buckle if we yell loud enough.
Freevo is just a front end to MPlayer, which would let you skip the commercials anyway.
Fuck that. Rip it, decess it, tear that commercial shit out, and watch your burned DVD. Throw out the real one and keep the case.
Hooray! You've just spent hours to save yourself a few minutes of commercials. Well done.
When the movement dies, it will be because it acheived its goals. At a time when people will laugh at the notion of paying for closed source software, and agreeing to licenses that make them criminals if they share with friends.
Solaris now includes its own agpgart driver
Damn you. I was sure I was going to get something productive done this week. Looks like it's just been reclassified Solaris playtime.
why I said you are only
I'm not handling any mail, and it wasn't my sentence. I understood it though, and apparently you had trouble with it. I was just helping you out.
You:
Uhhh.. No. You're just handling mail.