They could even make that registration database searchable so that people can decide for themselves whether or not they wish to form a contract by agreeing to the installation of a rootkit.
1. Bitcoin is an unrecognized currency, built on wooly, geek idealism that could get legislated away with the stroke of a pen.
2. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, but to create these digital puffs of smoke, one has to destroy very real, very costly, finite resources.
3. The proposed method is sleezy. There is no mutual benefit. While the App author gets "his" Bitcoins for the cost of writing and distributing an App, his customers pay through the nose in utility bills and wear and tear on their equipment. This App better have the same impact as Lotus 123 had in the 80's, otherwise this reeks of simple exploitation.
4. Bitcoins are finite and increasingly difficult to mine per the design of the scheme. So as time progresses, fewer and fewer Bitcoins will be uncovered and the resource use to get them will only grow and grow. Is it ethical to agree to use a highly inefficient method to create Bitcoins, while increasing carbon emmissions and burdoning this planet, just so you can use an App "for free" and put a little chump change in the pocket of the developer?
Fine piece of invective, but your third point is FUD itself. Secure Boot only verifies the boot process, not if malware is running on a system. As long as malware doesn't alter the boot-sequence and manages to hide from malware detectors, then then all of your horrid scenario still takes place (on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD, the type of OS doesn't matter), while Secure Boot will never tell you that anything is amiss.
Secure Boot is just one tiny security measure in a whole arsenal and it isn't even the most crucial one. Bootsector-based malware is rare. The vast majority of malware out there uses holes in the OS or applications or just plain makes use of the weakest link in the system and tricks the user with social engineering.
Yep, another typer thinking he is the shiznit because he is keyboard addicted. No, you are not the second coming because you use a keyboard. People proficient with a mouse and a UI that isn't braindead are just as fast (if not faster) than a typer. TIFKAM is just deficient in the mouse department and that only leaves the keyboard as a means to control it halfway decent.
Votes for the wrong don't matter with bitcoin. We are that much closer to real independence, and power over ourselves. Anyone who wants power over others is irrelevant.
Oh how oblivious the naive are. The powers that be are just letting you play in your little sandbox because you don't pose a real threat to them at this time. May be they are even slightly intrigued by BitCoin and are musing over ways to (ab)use it for their own ends.
Don't think for a moment that you will gain true independence when BitCoin threatens the status quo. The big cogs in the machine will just come to grind up the little cogs and that will be the end of independence through BitCoin.
I'm going to get vegetarians and vegans up in arms, but we already treat cows as an industrial product. Why bother trying to get them to defecate with external stimuli. Just go all the way and solve it technically. Just attach a tube to the rectum and pump the manure away to a storage area. Neat and clean.
Don't want the product to suffer? Alter the brain chemistry with pharmaceuticals, so the product is unaware of its condition.
I don't think you can be liable for damages, if those damages arise from using un-licenced software that the plaintiff copied in violation of copyright law.
No license is NO RIGHT TO USE whatsoever.
*** It depends about whether you give a flying fuck about the long-term success of Linux. If you don't, sure, switch to KDE, MATE, XFCE or whatever, or just switch distro. ***
Do you suggest that people use (and keep using) something they detest, so they help make the thing they detest the biggest success in Linux out there, because Linux needs to gain somewhere and Canonical with its harebrained ideas was at some point in time the most popular? Even when you yourself lambast them for their UI-cide?
Xubuntu and Kubuntu are community respins. It is laudable that Canonical lets these projects exist in the same repo's as its flagship product Ubuntu, but Canonical is not actively involved in these respins.
I know that god hates me and wants to burn me forever.
You could of course stop believing God hates you. Your notion of God hating you stems from giving credence to an ancient "holy book". (Nevermind the religious fundamentalists pounding leviticus, all the while treading these laws with their feet themselves.) Truth is that that book is an odd mix of historical facts, plain old fantasy and selective editing over multiple centuries. Most of all, that book is a product of man. It didn't fall out of the sky in its final form.
God doesn't hate you. People do because of their own small minded fears/insecurities and their desire to be better than the rest in the hope to get a spot in heaven (whatever and where ever that may be). Stop hating yourself, start loving yourself and start listening. God tells you a lot, but you need to listen and you need to get used to his/her humor.
You are unable to see the obvious selfishness in your claimed selfless actions. Suffering for future gain, be it on earth or the afterlife, is banking on future gratification and is thus selfish.
Donating money to a cause, and getting no direct benefit from it, is probably motivated by the idea of having done good, so giving begets gratification. Even people doing long term detrimental stuff are chasing short term gratification.
Fulfilling a want or desire is the human motivator. I don't think it matters when the sought gratification comes to pass. Now or in the future or even after death. The motivator is getting the gratification.
In the extreme case of flaggelants, they are seeking religious fulfillment. Even if the Deities would have said they liked the flaggelants actions, but despite doing good, flaggelants were to go to Hades, I suspect flaggelants would still do it, because they receive gratification from knowing they please the Deities.
Oh fuck off, you oversensitive dyke. Just because you happen to have a vagina, doesn't make you entitled to live in a politically correct dystopia. You are a bald monkey, who will live, die and rot away. Just like the rest of us.
Before you label me as a mysoginistic piece of straight, male scum, just out to denigrate you and tranform you into a sexual object, I have to tell you, you're wrong. I'm a gay, a sissy, a faggot, a fudgepacker, a queer. I'm light on my feet.
What to do if you don't want systems with an Intel processor? Care to point out a discrete graphics cards that is not Nvidia or AMD and comes with fully open drivers?
The 'Bicentennial Man' got his 'human' rights because he had a positronic brain, with as I recall was similar to organic in design.
No, the "Bicentennial Man" got human rights, because he made himself mortal. Before he arranged his own lethal "aging", he was considered to be a mere self-aware machine.
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They could even make that registration database searchable so that people can decide for themselves whether or not they wish to form a contract by agreeing to the installation of a rootkit.
How long have you been in Room 101?
Life is about balance and no single part of it should define who you are.
In other words, only bland people are acceptable...
I'm not a brony, but I have "unhealthy" interests in computers, Linux, and I probably enjoy animated movies from Disney/Pixar and DreamWorks too much.
MLP doesn't float my boat, but I see no harm in having people enjoying the show and identifying with the (I assume) positive message in that show.
Witches to the stake, gays to hell and bronies are creepy. Yeah, that sums up the sorry state of our society.
Wiccans have it right: An it harm none, do what ye will.
Hell no!
1. Bitcoin is an unrecognized currency, built on wooly, geek idealism that could get legislated away with the stroke of a pen.
2. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, but to create these digital puffs of smoke, one has to destroy very real, very costly, finite resources.
3. The proposed method is sleezy. There is no mutual benefit. While the App author gets "his" Bitcoins for the cost of writing and distributing an App, his customers pay through the nose in utility bills and wear and tear on their equipment. This App better have the same impact as Lotus 123 had in the 80's, otherwise this reeks of simple exploitation.
4. Bitcoins are finite and increasingly difficult to mine per the design of the scheme. So as time progresses, fewer and fewer Bitcoins will be uncovered and the resource use to get them will only grow and grow. Is it ethical to agree to use a highly inefficient method to create Bitcoins, while increasing carbon emmissions and burdoning this planet, just so you can use an App "for free" and put a little chump change in the pocket of the developer?
You really think 18 year olds and up don't do stuff with their hands that you wouldn't want to touch?
Gnome WAS the standard for Linux desktops.
FTFY.
Doesn't matter. A fundamental religionist will just (to paraphrase Adam Savage) "reject your reality and substitute his own".
Fine piece of invective, but your third point is FUD itself. Secure Boot only verifies the boot process, not if malware is running on a system. As long as malware doesn't alter the boot-sequence and manages to hide from malware detectors, then then all of your horrid scenario still takes place (on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD, the type of OS doesn't matter), while Secure Boot will never tell you that anything is amiss.
Secure Boot is just one tiny security measure in a whole arsenal and it isn't even the most crucial one. Bootsector-based malware is rare. The vast majority of malware out there uses holes in the OS or applications or just plain makes use of the weakest link in the system and tricks the user with social engineering.
Yep, another typer thinking he is the shiznit because he is keyboard addicted. No, you are not the second coming because you use a keyboard. People proficient with a mouse and a UI that isn't braindead are just as fast (if not faster) than a typer. TIFKAM is just deficient in the mouse department and that only leaves the keyboard as a means to control it halfway decent.
For your reading pleasure: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/
You sound like the classic BOfH.
Votes for the wrong don't matter with bitcoin. We are that much closer to real independence, and power over ourselves. Anyone who wants power over others is irrelevant.
Oh how oblivious the naive are. The powers that be are just letting you play in your little sandbox because you don't pose a real threat to them at this time. May be they are even slightly intrigued by BitCoin and are musing over ways to (ab)use it for their own ends.
Don't think for a moment that you will gain true independence when BitCoin threatens the status quo. The big cogs in the machine will just come to grind up the little cogs and that will be the end of independence through BitCoin.
So you still try to adhere to the "caveman" pattern, even if that mindset and behavioral pattern is all but useless in modern human life.
You have a y chromosome, so you are a biological male (congratulations). With that out of the way, now go and learn to be a modern human.
Waking up two minutes before the alarm goes off? Not for us evening and night people.
I'm glad it "rudely awakens" me. If it didn't, I would be obscenely late for work.
I'm going to get vegetarians and vegans up in arms, but we already treat cows as an industrial product. Why bother trying to get them to defecate with external stimuli. Just go all the way and solve it technically. Just attach a tube to the rectum and pump the manure away to a storage area. Neat and clean.
Don't want the product to suffer? Alter the brain chemistry with pharmaceuticals, so the product is unaware of its condition.
I don't think you can be liable for damages, if those damages arise from using un-licenced software that the plaintiff copied in violation of copyright law. No license is NO RIGHT TO USE whatsoever.
*** It depends about whether you give a flying fuck about the long-term success of Linux. If you don't, sure, switch to KDE, MATE, XFCE or whatever, or just switch distro. ***
Do you suggest that people use (and keep using) something they detest, so they help make the thing they detest the biggest success in Linux out there, because Linux needs to gain somewhere and Canonical with its harebrained ideas was at some point in time the most popular? Even when you yourself lambast them for their UI-cide?
Xubuntu and Kubuntu are community respins. It is laudable that Canonical lets these projects exist in the same repo's as its flagship product Ubuntu, but Canonical is not actively involved in these respins.
And let all that scary fresh air in?!
I know that god hates me and wants to burn me forever.
You could of course stop believing God hates you. Your notion of God hating you stems from giving credence to an ancient "holy book". (Nevermind the religious fundamentalists pounding leviticus, all the while treading these laws with their feet themselves.) Truth is that that book is an odd mix of historical facts, plain old fantasy and selective editing over multiple centuries. Most of all, that book is a product of man. It didn't fall out of the sky in its final form.
God doesn't hate you. People do because of their own small minded fears/insecurities and their desire to be better than the rest in the hope to get a spot in heaven (whatever and where ever that may be). Stop hating yourself, start loving yourself and start listening. God tells you a lot, but you need to listen and you need to get used to his/her humor.
You are unable to see the obvious selfishness in your claimed selfless actions. Suffering for future gain, be it on earth or the afterlife, is banking on future gratification and is thus selfish.
Donating money to a cause, and getting no direct benefit from it, is probably motivated by the idea of having done good, so giving begets gratification. Even people doing long term detrimental stuff are chasing short term gratification.
Fulfilling a want or desire is the human motivator. I don't think it matters when the sought gratification comes to pass. Now or in the future or even after death. The motivator is getting the gratification.
In the extreme case of flaggelants, they are seeking religious fulfillment. Even if the Deities would have said they liked the flaggelants actions, but despite doing good, flaggelants were to go to Hades, I suspect flaggelants would still do it, because they receive gratification from knowing they please the Deities.
Oh fuck off, you oversensitive dyke. Just because you happen to have a vagina, doesn't make you entitled to live in a politically correct dystopia. You are a bald monkey, who will live, die and rot away. Just like the rest of us.
Before you label me as a mysoginistic piece of straight, male scum, just out to denigrate you and tranform you into a sexual object, I have to tell you, you're wrong. I'm a gay, a sissy, a faggot, a fudgepacker, a queer. I'm light on my feet.
The ones against "enhancements" are trying to kill the dystopia before they are forced to join or worse, be relegated to the non-meds, pariah class.
The average European is a vicious, rabid dog.
Oh come on, don't flatter us! We'd almost asume you think we are actually human.
What to do if you don't want systems with an Intel processor? Care to point out a discrete graphics cards that is not Nvidia or AMD and comes with fully open drivers?
Crimethink (democracy) is blackwhite. It is doubleplus good and doubleplus ungood. Crimethink needs change on the doubleplus ungood.
The 'Bicentennial Man' got his 'human' rights because he had a positronic brain, with as I recall was similar to organic in design.
No, the "Bicentennial Man" got human rights, because he made himself mortal. Before he arranged his own lethal "aging", he was considered to be a mere self-aware machine.