Being citizen of the United States != being born in the United states. Of course, being born in the United States is probably the easiest way to gain citizenship.
You do NOT have the right to squat in public spaces until the world does things your way
You think the same about the protesters on Tahrir Square in Cairo? Or can you please educate me about the difference?
I'm pretty sure the regime didn't give that right to them. Which doesn't mean they didn't do the right thing.
To have a right is a legal thing. To be right in doing something is a moral thing. Of course you are right in doing something you don't have the right to do only if not having the right to do it is not right.
The point is that the censoring of the net is not done on your computer. It is done on computers others own. And they can do what they want (or what the government wants) on those computers even if those computers run free software.
Do you think using free software on his routers would e.g. hinder an ISP from cutting your Internet connection due to regulations like HADOPI? Or do you believe that it would allow you to inspect your ISP's routers on whether they do any destination-dependent or protocol-dependent throttling?
It's not BASIC, it's FORTRAN. The 10 is a label, and the star tells to print to the standard output (instead,. there could have been a file number). That's why I cared about the P being on the 7th column.:-)
Actually copyright is about making copies (and derived works as "generalized copies"). Think of a book: If you get a book, you are allowed to read it (at least as far as copyright is concerned). You don't need permission to do it. It's only if you are making a copy that copyright comes into effect.
Indeed, as long as you don't distribute the result (and don't violate any proprietary EULA in the process) you can even legally combine GPLed and proprietary code into one program.
Yes, every software has bugs. And every human makes errors. The question is: It it more likely to crash due to a bug in the software, of due to a pilot error?
It is well possible that the Airbus engineers were avoiding Airbus flight because they were too familiar with the ways software can fail. But then, I could imagine that at the same time pilots tried to use Airbus for their flights as much as possible because they were too familiar with the ways pilots can fail.
I'd expect the communication between the ATM and the bank to use both strong encryption and authentication of the ATM (with a method vastly more secure than a four-digit PIN). Of course in principle someone might hack the ATM (althouzgh I'd hope there are good countermeasures against that, too), but if someone manages to do that, probably the more profitable hack is to get the ATM to just output all the stored money.
In that case, if I were using such a service I'd make sure that my database name and tables are generated from the real ones with a salted hash (where the salt never leaves my system). Therefore the DBA would not see a database "patientData" but a database "A3FE5653A554ADEC" or similar. Of course if the customer is a hospital, they could guess that it contains patient data. But then, it also could contain staff information, financial data, data about contracts with suppliers of medical equipment,...
Maybe the solution is to bribe politicians back. Let's band together and pay for their hookers and fine meals. I mean, if the United States has become a near-naked kleptocracy where the only thing that drives legislation is big wads of cash, why not eliminate any notion of democracy and admit it is a corrupt nation run by vile repugnant people and start buying them off to make right decisions?
Because you'll never have the amount of cash the big corporations have.
The problem with email privacy is that once you send it to me, I can do anything with it I want, and I should be able to.
I hope you tell this position of yours to all your email contacts in advance, so they know to never write you anything they wouldn't also have no problem to tell to the local newspaper.
What I don't understand is why Canonical doesn't do for Java what SuSE did for the NVidia drivers (I don't know if Ubuntu does or did the same; I've never used Ubuntu on an NVidia system): Make a package which does not contain the actual code, but an installer which downloads it from the official web site and installs it. That way you both obey the license (download to install only from original source web page) and give the benefits of package management.
I don't use Linux because of the security (my computer is behind a firewall with zero open ports; I'm not browsing from a server anyway, and the data I care about is in my user account). I use Linux because of the usability (yes, for me Linux is more usable than Windows). For security on browsing, I use Firefox with appropriate extensions (esp. NoScript and RequestPolicy).
Oh, and all your lists are not Linux breaches anyway. If you run insecure software, it will be a security risk on any operating system. For example an SQL exploit is completely system agnostic (and even web server agnostic). Next you'll tell that Linux causes spelling errors because people writing on Linux machines make spelling errors.
From the FAQ page (BTW, this actually belongs on the home page): Waterfox is basically a 64-Bit version of Firefox. The Firefox source code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-Bit Windows computers. So it's Windows only. I don't need to read further.
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Being citizen of the United States != being born in the United states.
Of course, being born in the United States is probably the easiest way to gain citizenship.
You think the same about the protesters on Tahrir Square in Cairo? Or can you please educate me about the difference?
I'm pretty sure the regime didn't give that right to them. Which doesn't mean they didn't do the right thing.
To have a right is a legal thing. To be right in doing something is a moral thing.
Of course you are right in doing something you don't have the right to do only if not having the right to do it is not right.
Look at their behavior, you don't shoot PEACEFUL UNARMED CIVILIANS and put them in the fucking hospital.
So shooting peaceful unarmed civilians without putting them in the hospital is fine, then? :-)
The point is that the censoring of the net is not done on your computer. It is done on computers others own. And they can do what they want (or what the government wants) on those computers even if those computers run free software.
Do you think using free software on his routers would e.g. hinder an ISP from cutting your Internet connection due to regulations like HADOPI? Or do you believe that it would allow you to inspect your ISP's routers on whether they do any destination-dependent or protocol-dependent throttling?
Yeah, and your bug was to submit a BASIC program to a very old computer, which of course only had FORTRAN, not BASIC.
Or in short: Whoosh
It's not BASIC, it's FORTRAN. The 10 is a label, and the star tells to print to the standard output (instead,. there could have been a file number). That's why I cared about the P being on the 7th column. :-)
I swear when I entered it, the P was in the seventh column!
Ah, but then your program is buggy as well. It should read:
10 PRINT *, "HELLO WORLD"
Actually copyright is about making copies (and derived works as "generalized copies"). Think of a book: If you get a book, you are allowed to read it (at least as far as copyright is concerned). You don't need permission to do it. It's only if you are making a copy that copyright comes into effect.
Indeed, as long as you don't distribute the result (and don't violate any proprietary EULA in the process) you can even legally combine GPLed and proprietary code into one program.
However, avoid the bed. Statistics shows that most people die in their bed. Which clearly makes the bed the most dangerous place to be in.
But the point of the story was that all software has bugs
Are you sure of that?
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
Your program is buggy. It doesn't correctly use uppercase/lowercase in the output string. :-)
Yes, every software has bugs. And every human makes errors. The question is: It it more likely to crash due to a bug in the software, of due to a pilot error?
It is well possible that the Airbus engineers were avoiding Airbus flight because they were too familiar with the ways software can fail. But then, I could imagine that at the same time pilots tried to use Airbus for their flights as much as possible because they were too familiar with the ways pilots can fail.
I'd expect the communication between the ATM and the bank to use both strong encryption and authentication of the ATM (with a method vastly more secure than a four-digit PIN). Of course in principle someone might hack the ATM (althouzgh I'd hope there are good countermeasures against that, too), but if someone manages to do that, probably the more profitable hack is to get the ATM to just output all the stored money.
Five digits? That's too hard to remember!
In that case, if I were using such a service I'd make sure that my database name and tables are generated from the real ones with a salted hash (where the salt never leaves my system). Therefore the DBA would not see a database "patientData" but a database "A3FE5653A554ADEC" or similar. Of course if the customer is a hospital, they could guess that it contains patient data. But then, it also could contain staff information, financial data, data about contracts with suppliers of medical equipment, ...
Can you even formulate a query if you don't have the key?
Maybe the solution is to bribe politicians back. Let's band together and pay for their hookers and fine meals. I mean, if the United States has become a near-naked kleptocracy where the only thing that drives legislation is big wads of cash, why not eliminate any notion of democracy and admit it is a corrupt nation run by vile repugnant people and start buying them off to make right decisions?
Because you'll never have the amount of cash the big corporations have.
I hope you tell this position of yours to all your email contacts in advance, so they know to never write you anything they wouldn't also have no problem to tell to the local newspaper.
That question is as irrelevant as the question whether you are writing your posts from a Windows computer is to your awful post formatting.
What I don't understand is why Canonical doesn't do for Java what SuSE did for the NVidia drivers (I don't know if Ubuntu does or did the same; I've never used Ubuntu on an NVidia system): Make a package which does not contain the actual code, but an installer which downloads it from the official web site and installs it. That way you both obey the license (download to install only from original source web page) and give the benefits of package management.
I don't use Linux because of the security (my computer is behind a firewall with zero open ports; I'm not browsing from a server anyway, and the data I care about is in my user account). I use Linux because of the usability (yes, for me Linux is more usable than Windows). For security on browsing, I use Firefox with appropriate extensions (esp. NoScript and RequestPolicy).
Oh, and all your lists are not Linux breaches anyway. If you run insecure software, it will be a security risk on any operating system. For example an SQL exploit is completely system agnostic (and even web server agnostic). Next you'll tell that Linux causes spelling errors because people writing on Linux machines make spelling errors.
But it is susceptible to falcon-in-the-middle attacks.
No, it didn't go at Warp speed.
1.) A BETTER VERSION OF IT (faster) -> http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/
From the FAQ page (BTW, this actually belongs on the home page):
Waterfox is basically a 64-Bit version of Firefox. The Firefox source code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-Bit Windows computers.
So it's Windows only. I don't need to read further.