And the instances of said acts by the government are well known, not secret acts, and the exception to the rule.
No, really, it's ludicrous to see the Trotskyites again harping on, and on, and on, and on about COINTELPRO, something from the 60s. The fact that that old shopworn evidence is all they can come up with is telling.
Ok, so what if I find a backdoor onto my own computer? Should I report it to the company? If I do and they do nothing to fix it what then?
Then a question arises about wether the company is at fault. It has nothing to do with wether someone intrudes into your computer through that 'backdoor' or not. If they do so, without your approval, they have done something wrong.
Actually, I can install X, in the form of eXceed, on my Windows NT box, and then I can install Interix (now being sold by Microsoft as 'Services for Unix', I think, after they badly crippled it) which lets me build X apps. I was somewhat amused the first time I shelled into my NT Box from my Solaris box and opened up a native Xterm on the NT side and got a shell prompt for the POSIX subsystem on the NT system, but that's what Interix is. Or what it was, as Microsoft pretty much put an end to that. Hell, I bought the good, full version of Interix and I even have the Motif libraries licensed (from before Motif was 'freed.')
'Tamper with their work' could be interpreted as: 'stopping the tape to go to the bathroom.'
And there are certainly interests out there who would like to prohibit viewers from stopping, or fast-forwarding (i.e. through the commercials at the beginning of the tape) content that they 'present' in a specific way for some manipulative reason.
Actually, it's fairly well established that when people in the movies stop using profanity, people in the real world will stop using it. At least, that's a certainty for impressionable younger folks, who wouldn't otherwise be exposed to said profanity.
Its quite amusing to see somebody blaming Microsoft for Apple not porting MacOS 10 (aka OS X, but I think of X as a graphical thing, not a proprietary product) to non-Apple hardware.
Apple won't do that port because they are a hardware company and there would be significantly reduced demand for their hardware if their OS would run on cheaper, multi-sourced hardware.
Blaming it on Microsoft is ludicrous. But I guess we blame everything on Microsoft, now, don't we?
I can install X on my Windows 2000 box if I want. (and I have- I couldn't be without pysol, run on my NetBSD box over in the corner and displayed on W2K with Exceed)
I anticpate a huge boom in the sale of used 35MM film cameras on eBay. Everybody will buy one to use to record copies of the new enhanced Digital versions of 'Friends'.
auctioning off every part of the broadcast spectrum it can instead of allocating it by merit
WTF is merit???
That sounds like some slippery word that only buearucrats, special interests, and politicial ideologues can love: they can sit in the big room talking and talking and talking, and when all the regular people get tired of listening and go away, they can cut up the pie the way they like and be done with it.
"That's fine and good, but I refuse to have paved roads and an automobile at the expense of not being able to slop my pigs in the mud in front of my house."
Better yet, we can advance an anti-West agenda, under the guise of protecting the global climate. The main thing is, we have to jump, and now, by agreeing to whatever a group of bueraucrats who've had no real life experience outside of academia and government predict.
And the Kinsey Institute performed sexual-response experiments on young boys that basically involved forced masturbation. In several instances of published 'experiment' reports, it's clear that crying young boys were 'manipulated' for hours.
And it gets published as 'science' every day. Liberals defend the Kinsey Institute virulently.
I'm not excusing what Bayer did during the Holocaust. I'm just saying 'look further, at what organizations closer to home have done.'
If Microsoft had raised the price on Windows 95 when they started bundling IE, the analogy would fit. However, they didn't, and the price didn't go up on Windows 98 either.
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And the instances of said acts by the government are well known, not secret acts, and the exception to the rule.
No, really, it's ludicrous to see the Trotskyites again harping on, and on, and on, and on about COINTELPRO, something from the 60s. The fact that that old shopworn evidence is all they can come up with is telling.
Then a question arises about wether the company is at fault. It has nothing to do with wether someone intrudes into your computer through that 'backdoor' or not. If they do so, without your approval, they have done something wrong.
Actually, I can install X, in the form of eXceed, on my Windows NT box, and then I can install Interix (now being sold by Microsoft as 'Services for Unix', I think, after they badly crippled it) which lets me build X apps. I was somewhat amused the first time I shelled into my NT Box from my Solaris box and opened up a native Xterm on the NT side and got a shell prompt for the POSIX subsystem on the NT system, but that's what Interix is. Or what it was, as Microsoft pretty much put an end to that. Hell, I bought the good, full version of Interix and I even have the Motif libraries licensed (from before Motif was 'freed.')
'Tamper with their work' could be interpreted as: 'stopping the tape to go to the bathroom.'
And there are certainly interests out there who would like to prohibit viewers from stopping, or fast-forwarding (i.e. through the commercials at the beginning of the tape) content that they 'present' in a specific way for some manipulative reason.
Actually, it's fairly well established that when people in the movies stop using profanity, people in the real world will stop using it. At least, that's a certainty for impressionable younger folks, who wouldn't otherwise be exposed to said profanity.
at the expense of not being able to drive where I want, when I want to
You forgot to specify what you want to drive, since it's apparent you want to dive your herd of goats.
I used to love the 'Wesley' fan-fiction. Particularly the ones feating Wesley in some homoerotic situation (and there were PLENTY of those stories).
Its quite amusing to see somebody blaming Microsoft for Apple not porting MacOS 10 (aka OS X, but I think of X as a graphical thing, not a proprietary product) to non-Apple hardware.
Apple won't do that port because they are a hardware company and there would be significantly reduced demand for their hardware if their OS would run on cheaper, multi-sourced hardware.
Blaming it on Microsoft is ludicrous. But I guess we blame everything on Microsoft, now, don't we?
I can install X on my Windows 2000 box if I want. (and I have- I couldn't be without pysol, run on my NetBSD box over in the corner and displayed on W2K with Exceed)
Yeah.
I anticpate a huge boom in the sale of used 35MM film cameras on eBay. Everybody will buy one to use to record copies of the new enhanced Digital versions of 'Friends'.
Yep.
auctioning off every part of the broadcast spectrum it can instead of allocating it by merit
WTF is merit ???
That sounds like some slippery word that only buearucrats, special interests, and politicial ideologues can love: they can sit in the big room talking and talking and talking, and when all the regular people get tired of listening and go away, they can cut up the pie the way they like and be done with it.
No, the GNU FUD is that no software released under a non-GNU license ever sees patches back from a company that uses the code.
I own copies of books that I don't expect to ever find in any library.
I'm not afraid to read them. Nobody prevents me from reading them.
I think it's ridiculous to pretend that libraries should have copies of them.
Devolved identity management, no single company holding identity information
That's even BETTER than Passport. Lots of organizations out there passing around my private information.
Better yet, we can advance an anti-West agenda, under the guise of protecting the global climate. The main thing is, we have to jump, and now, by agreeing to whatever a group of bueraucrats who've had no real life experience outside of academia and government predict.
And the Kinsey Institute performed sexual-response experiments on young boys that basically involved forced masturbation. In several instances of published 'experiment' reports, it's clear that crying young boys were 'manipulated' for hours.
And it gets published as 'science' every day. Liberals defend the Kinsey Institute virulently.
I'm not excusing what Bayer did during the Holocaust. I'm just saying 'look further, at what organizations closer to home have done.'
Unless they want to end up with an orphaned fork of PostgreSQL that they alone can maintain, they will contribute back.
It isn't that alien a concept. It's how things often go. The FUD from GNU advocates often isn't relevant.
Okay. Just so we're clear that Sun can 'support the Open Source community' while impeding Linux wherever they feel it competes with Solaris.
IE is also free.
So actually, the grandparent analogy falls apart.
If Microsoft had raised the price on Windows 95 when they started bundling IE, the analogy would fit. However, they didn't, and the price didn't go up on Windows 98 either.
How come Sun took forever to produce a native JVM for Linux? It seems to me it was a big problem up until fairly recently.
The stench from such a legal proceeding would completely and irrevocably kill Linux as a viable product in the marketplace.
So it's a game of chicken.
I don't think Red Hat wants Linux getting that kind of press at this point.
The developers are already planning on getting rid of XF86Config completely and go for hardware autodetection.
Wow, the convergence to a Microsoft worldview plows ever on forward.
They've abandoned older video hardware (what happened to S3 Trio64 support? Not supporting legacy hardware, eh?).
Now they want a plug-n-pray config....
Gack
I want to buy my copy from CheapBytes, but I don't see it there yet.
Screw mirrors of the screenshots.
.ISO that's downloadable.
I want a site with a mirror of the
Come on, guys. Where's the server?