Right. And *that* is why the name requires something which you apparently do not have: Humor. While the philosophy has nothing at all to do with pirates. So ships, so stealing, no killing. In fact we're quite the opposite of pirates. Landlubbers with computers.
Can you imagine a real pirate sitting in front of a *computer*? In front of a pink subnotebook?
Woah! Experiences can re-wire neurons! OMGWTFBBQ. Teh unpossiblesxorz! ^^
What do you think how you remembered what you wrote in your comment? ^^ (Hint: Simply said, memorizing works by changing the wiring between neurons.)
It's just that some "scientists" now "discover", that this is not only a thing of "I remember this", but actually is working on a much lower level, and in all neurons all over the body.
You can totally bet, that if you will remember that movie/illusion, something in your brain will have changed. Because it's the same thing. And it's the whole point of why you go to movies too. ^^
That wouldn't work. As soon as you'd start watching it, you would feel the urge to aggresivery vomit and shit your pants, until all the intestinal distress is gone. And then you would wake up, thinking "WTF am I watching?" *click*
I think the point is, that you would not look at a boring desk, but at something that you would normally never see in reality, but start confusing it with reality, thereby shocking you into insanity. ^^
I don't know if it it, but it sounds much like the arguments some people make against games. You know, the "I think people are too stupid to know that this is not reality, and will go on the streets, killing everyone, *because of it*." kind.
I feel very confident that I can distinguish that stuff. And I really hope it triggers some memory creation. I wouldn't want to pay for it, and remember nothing. I am also the kind of person, who really *really* loves getting sucked into a movie or game. You know. The moments when you come out of the cinema... and somehow, the whole world looks different. You may have experienced it with Matrix. And with Fight Club. I certainly did. And I totally love it.
Because no matter what horrors and just plain weird events you might remember very realistically afterwards, in the end you get some beautiful new views, grow a bit wiser, and will always know that it was just a movie.
Except of course, if you were a retard in the first place. ^^ (= the exception)
Because I bet it looks different if you add anything that can run Linux. (Which mostly can't run Windows at all.) Like network devices, small gadgets, phones, car systems and pretty much every other advanced hardware. Plus all the servers out there, where the share looks very different.
Additionally, what again is *the point* of having it wireless?
Some cable lying around?
Oh teh horrorxorz!
I will keep my cables the way they are, until cheap modular bus systems come out to reduce the amount of cabling. I don't think I will ever need wireless anything at home or at work, except for a normal IR remote control.
If I'm at the park, listening to Internet radios, or in some bar/café, I can use my mobile phone's Internet flatrate for 10€ a month.
Have cheap USB stick, and put the key for your encrypted stuff on it. But encrypt *that* key with your password. Then make a second one, using a different password, and store it somewhere really far away and really safe. (Something like burying it in a box at a specific location.)
Now get a giant hammer or melting pot of acid or something, and as soon as the cops kick your door is, destroy that stick completely with it. Then tell them, that this was your key, and that your password is useless without it. Tell them "Heck, I will even give you the password right now.". Make it clear that fixing that pulverized or liquefied stick is the only way to ever get to that data. (Except for brute-force of course.)
Now the only problem is, that they could beat you until you reveal that there is a second stick. (You could read anti-torture manuals of the CIA to fight it a bit.) But the chance that this happens is much smaller.
About the jail: Tell them you have 1. AIDS, and 2. some really nasty STD with pox and crap all over. And hope they'd not hit that anyway.:P
Way to gain sympathy from them by calling them thieves? You know... they will not buy stuff from people they don't like.
Especially if 1. they would/could not buy it anyway, and 2. you still have that game, so it was not stolen, and they are no thieves. (Stealing = Original owner does not have it anymore.)
I agree that it's unfortunate and stupid of those users, to come knocking on your servers, so they can use them without actually paying for anything. And this part really would be something close to stealing. (I don't know how it's called in US law, when you obtain something by fraud.)
But this way, you just pissed them off in addition. Good luck selling future games to them.
Implying things that nobody said (that it would be ok to actually make money off of copying stuff of others) is no part of a meaningful discussion, but either a strong misunderstanding, or just a **AA-worthy troll. So if it's moderated partially troll, and partially offtopic, it's moderated correctly.
It is your failure to imply this. Because nobody here said this would be right. If someone is making money off it, I think everybody here agrees that it is wrong.
What isn't wrong, is making copies for people that would not (be able to) buy it anyway, and not expecting anything in return. Why do I always have to mention the difference between real goods and digital data even here on Slashdot? I mean I seems as if half of/. does not get what digital data or a copy of such data is. I also noticed that a big part of/. already completely bought into the bullshit that the **AA spreads. Sometimes they even use their exact pseudo-arguments.:(
Seems as if the plan of the **AA works well, and in some years, there is nobody left to know how things are in reality.:(
How is the resource consumption? Comparable to XP and the average Ubuntu system?
Is the DRM/total-encryption insanity any better than with Vista?
Can it beat Linux, console-/scripting-wise?
Is there a real package manager for applications?
And finally: Why in the world would it need it at all? ^^
Mind you that we're talking about considering to pull it via Torrent, as a secondary OS for the games and maybe some professional music software. Not about actually buying it. I could not imagine ever doing that, after what Microsoft has done to others (eg. Borland, Netscape, Sun, etc.).
Have you never seen any "hacker" movies? First they stutter, jitter and flicker. Then they freeze for a second, or show Dennis Nedry, rickrolling you with his own image and "haa-haa" laughter. And finally all the displays explode with large waves of high-power current sparks, burning the whole place, making ceilings come down, and throw the fleeing people out through the door with a large ball of flames.
I have seen it a thousand times, so it must be entirely realistic!
That's why he said "even if it's only potential teeth right now".
And if it becomes a real fine, you can be sure that the EU will enforce payment. Because if intel does not pay, the will be some hefty fine of X million € per day.
Oh. By the way: It is your fglrx messing things up. I know this, because it happened to me. Hint: Do not buy ATi cards if you have a Linux system. EVER. ^^
What? Please tell me they implemented Radeon HD 48xx support for the open-source xorg! Because I'm waiting for this for *ages* (Well, since the card came out.)
About the Gentoo part: Gentoo works fine, if you got the brains for it.;) Yes it is a system, made by tinkerers, for tinkerers. But if you happen to be such a person, it is the best thing there is. Try finding anything like Portage somewhere else. Ports is far away from it. And don't get me started about the dependency hell of RPMs, or the DLL hell of Windows.
Hint: We tinkerers have fun doing the things that you dislike. But this does not make anyone of us wrong. It's just a matter of taste. I still would recommend you Ubuntu, and me Gentoo. Nothing wrong with both of them, if you're the person for it.:)
...when you give something away for free, and people don't want it anyway. ^^
(Ignore their obviously coming "OMFG! It sells like crazy!!1!one(lim x->0 ((sin x)/x))" messages. They did that with Vista too. And look how it turned out.)
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Right. And *that* is why the name requires something which you apparently do not have: Humor.
While the philosophy has nothing at all to do with pirates. So ships, so stealing, no killing.
In fact we're quite the opposite of pirates. Landlubbers with computers.
Can you imagine a real pirate sitting in front of a *computer*?
In front of a pink subnotebook?
I can't.
Because there are already several other groups, I think more popped up, aand: Before this, was in none of them. Now I am in all of them. :D
Woah! Experiences can re-wire neurons! OMGWTFBBQ. Teh unpossiblesxorz! ^^
What do you think how you remembered what you wrote in your comment? ^^
(Hint: Simply said, memorizing works by changing the wiring between neurons.)
It's just that some "scientists" now "discover", that this is not only a thing of "I remember this", but actually is working on a much lower level, and in all neurons all over the body.
You can totally bet, that if you will remember that movie/illusion, something in your brain will have changed. Because it's the same thing.
And it's the whole point of why you go to movies too. ^^
That wouldn't work. As soon as you'd start watching it, you would feel the urge to aggresivery vomit and shit your pants, until all the intestinal distress is gone.
And then you would wake up, thinking "WTF am I watching?" *click*
I think the point is, that you would not look at a boring desk, but at something that you would normally never see in reality, but start confusing it with reality, thereby shocking you into insanity. ^^
I don't know if it it, but it sounds much like the arguments some people make against games. You know, the "I think people are too stupid to know that this is not reality, and will go on the streets, killing everyone, *because of it*." kind.
I feel very confident that I can distinguish that stuff. And I really hope it triggers some memory creation. I wouldn't want to pay for it, and remember nothing.
I am also the kind of person, who really *really* loves getting sucked into a movie or game.
You know. The moments when you come out of the cinema... and somehow, the whole world looks different.
You may have experienced it with Matrix. And with Fight Club. I certainly did.
And I totally love it.
Because no matter what horrors and just plain weird events you might remember very realistically afterwards, in the end you get some beautiful new views, grow a bit wiser, and will always know that it was just a movie.
Except of course, if you were a retard in the first place. ^^ (= the exception)
Wouldn't that make it a "in Soviet Russia" joke?
Home users' PCs?
Because I bet it looks different if you add anything that can run Linux. (Which mostly can't run Windows at all.)
Like network devices, small gadgets, phones, car systems and pretty much every other advanced hardware.
Plus all the servers out there, where the share looks very different.
I think what you meant was "NeoCons". The are easily confused these days...
How about the Jack "CarrotTop-RickRoller" Tompson flu.
Hey, this reminds me of, how in Civilization II, a disease was given your name, if your game went badly. ^^
The Dick Cheney flu? Sounds fitting. ^^
Additionally, what again is *the point* of having it wireless?
Some cable lying around?
Oh teh horrorxorz!
I will keep my cables the way they are, until cheap modular bus systems come out to reduce the amount of cabling.
I don't think I will ever need wireless anything at home or at work, except for a normal IR remote control.
If I'm at the park, listening to Internet radios, or in some bar/café, I can use my mobile phone's Internet flatrate for 10€ a month.
Don't worry. They will be so gay, that the only thing they'll throw at you will be balls of cotton wool. Until you bleed. :P
That's what 2-factor authentication is for.
Have cheap USB stick, and put the key for your encrypted stuff on it. But encrypt *that* key with your password. Then make a second one, using a different password, and store it somewhere really far away and really safe. (Something like burying it in a box at a specific location.)
Now get a giant hammer or melting pot of acid or something, and as soon as the cops kick your door is, destroy that stick completely with it.
Then tell them, that this was your key, and that your password is useless without it. Tell them "Heck, I will even give you the password right now.". Make it clear that fixing that pulverized or liquefied stick is the only way to ever get to that data. (Except for brute-force of course.)
Now the only problem is, that they could beat you until you reveal that there is a second stick. (You could read anti-torture manuals of the CIA to fight it a bit.)
But the chance that this happens is much smaller.
About the jail: Tell them you have 1. AIDS, and 2. some really nasty STD with pox and crap all over. And hope they'd not hit that anyway. :P
Way to gain sympathy from them by calling them thieves?
You know... they will not buy stuff from people they don't like.
Especially if 1. they would/could not buy it anyway, and 2. you still have that game, so it was not stolen, and they are no thieves. (Stealing = Original owner does not have it anymore.)
I agree that it's unfortunate and stupid of those users, to come knocking on your servers, so they can use them without actually paying for anything. And this part really would be something close to stealing. (I don't know how it's called in US law, when you obtain something by fraud.)
But this way, you just pissed them off in addition. Good luck selling future games to them.
Implying things that nobody said (that it would be ok to actually make money off of copying stuff of others) is no part of a meaningful discussion, but either a strong misunderstanding, or just a **AA-worthy troll. So if it's moderated partially troll, and partially offtopic, it's moderated correctly.
It is your failure to imply this. Because nobody here said this would be right.
If someone is making money off it, I think everybody here agrees that it is wrong.
What isn't wrong, is making copies for people that would not (be able to) buy it anyway, and not expecting anything in return. /. does not get what digital data or a copy of such data is. /. already completely bought into the bullshit that the **AA spreads. Sometimes they even use their exact pseudo-arguments. :(
Why do I always have to mention the difference between real goods and digital data even here on Slashdot? I mean I seems as if half of
I also noticed that a big part of
Seems as if the plan of the **AA works well, and in some years, there is nobody left to know how things are in reality. :(
How is the resource consumption? Comparable to XP and the average Ubuntu system?
Is the DRM/total-encryption insanity any better than with Vista?
Can it beat Linux, console-/scripting-wise?
Is there a real package manager for applications?
And finally: Why in the world would it need it at all? ^^
Mind you that we're talking about considering to pull it via Torrent, as a secondary OS for the games and maybe some professional music software.
Not about actually buying it. I could not imagine ever doing that, after what Microsoft has done to others (eg. Borland, Netscape, Sun, etc.).
Yes, in fact, I do like Linux. As does nearly everyone on this site. :P
Have you never seen any "hacker" movies?
First they stutter, jitter and flicker. Then they freeze for a second, or show Dennis Nedry, rickrolling you with his own image and "haa-haa" laughter.
And finally all the displays explode with large waves of high-power current sparks, burning the whole place, making ceilings come down, and throw the fleeing people out through the door with a large ball of flames.
I have seen it a thousand times, so it must be entirely realistic!
That's why he said "even if it's only potential teeth right now".
And if it becomes a real fine, you can be sure that the EU will enforce payment. Because if intel does not pay, the will be some hefty fine of X million € per day.
Oh. By the way: It is your fglrx messing things up. I know this, because it happened to me.
Hint: Do not buy ATi cards if you have a Linux system. EVER. ^^
What? Please tell me they implemented Radeon HD 48xx support for the open-source xorg! Because I'm waiting for this for *ages* (Well, since the card came out.)
About the Gentoo part: Gentoo works fine, if you got the brains for it. ;)
Yes it is a system, made by tinkerers, for tinkerers. But if you happen to be such a person, it is the best thing there is. Try finding anything like Portage somewhere else. Ports is far away from it. And don't get me started about the dependency hell of RPMs, or the DLL hell of Windows.
Hint: We tinkerers have fun doing the things that you dislike. But this does not make anyone of us wrong. It's just a matter of taste. :)
I still would recommend you Ubuntu, and me Gentoo. Nothing wrong with both of them, if you're the person for it.
and oh god xorg.conf,
What about it? I liked it. It's clean and well structured. Of course I wrote it myself.
xorg-server-1.5.3 isn't really stable yet
What are you talking about? I'm running it since it was available for Gentoo. And it did not give me any problems. I'm using it right now.
You can have that now. Just kill the Blue Man Group. ^^
...when you give something away for free, and people don't want it anyway. ^^
(Ignore their obviously coming "OMFG! It sells like crazy!!1!one(lim x->0 ((sin x)/x))" messages. They did that with Vista too. And look how it turned out.)