Why should children be "protected" from seeing sex?
Because uptight, prude city folk like to believe that their precious little angels are sexless creatures, at least till they are 18 or 21 and turn their sexuality on, three minutes before they are geting married. The fear seems to be that children will become damaged by seeing a boob or a cock prematurely. What if they become rapists, paedophiles or, God forbid, How-mow-seg-shu-als when they see online porn.
Then the major motion picture studios can choose not to sell or rent their works to you if you choose to use only a general-purpose machine.
Wrong way around. If the major motion picture studios want to sell or rent their works to someone to get money for it, they better sell what the market wants, not whatever kind of spyware fantasies they themselves entertain.
It is simple. Make a good product at fair prices and you hit the optimum between sales and copyright infringement. Treat your paying customers as criminals and all you will breed is copyright infringers. The product of copyright infringement, a DRM free copy, has vastly higher use quality than the DRM-ed version.
No matter what scheme is being dreamt up, if one group is able to lock something, another group is able to unlock it. All it takes is time and determination. DRM is a failed concept. No matter how obscured, the recipient gets both the lock and the key. If this wasn't the case, the customer wouldn't be able to watch the content. All that needs to be done is find out how to emulate the key.
Look at CSS, AACS, SecuROM, StarForce, XCP, SafeDisc (etc.) as examples of DRM not working.
Well, hey, a boot loader and some Bash scripts sure sound like a valid reason to prefix everything with "GNU."
Ah, the shortsightedness when it comes to looking at history.
If RMS hadn't started GNU in the early eighties, then Linus Torvalds wouldn't have had the free and rich operating system tools with which he complemented his Linux kernel.
If Linus wouldn't have made the combination of Linux and the GNU toolchain, then KDE and Gnome wouldn't have had Linux to start their ascent upon.
If the whole Linux + GNU + DE thing hadn't materialized then most of the big corporations wouldn't have gotten interested and poored in so much resources. Which would have led to much of the current applications not being developed in the first place.
So I'd say it is more than deserved that staid old GNU gets some kudos. If that needs to be done by calling a distro GNU/Linux, I don't know, but GNU is a very important part of what makes up a modern Linux distro.
And if you find a person who doesn't play a team sport, doesn't play group games... well smile a lot and get the interview over as quickly as possible because you got yourself a psycho.
Nice way of labeling people you know nothing about. Under your "reign" of short sightedness, I would be relegated to the curb. I don't think your notion of people being psycho's if they aren't all in the spot light, leading and extrovert is a realistic one.
I don't like amateur teamsports. More often than not it is individual ego boosting under the guise of working together. Never mind that I'm equiped with the couch potato gene. I don't like group games (except board games) like MMORPG's, because gaming to me is entertainment. I don't want to be herding cats when I want to wind down. Also, I'm not overly competitive. I don't need to needlessly prove my worth continually to others. I know what I'm worth.
I have been in a marching band and I liked the group effort of doing a good show, but I absolutely abhorred the pointless Machiavellian politics that came with the day to day business of that band. Strangely enough, it were the people who claimed to be all for the team effort the most, who created a poisonous atmosphere where working together was all but impossible. I've seen enough examples elsewhere of the same misconduct to not want to be a part of "something group" anymore.
I'm introvert, awkward around larger groups of strangers, a bit too brainy and not involved in group sports or gaming. Yet People, once they get to know me, describe me as knowledgeable, helpful, likeable and good in group efforts (at least when thinking is needed). Not bad for a psycho with ADD and functioning autism, hmm?
That may well be true - however, the fact of the matter is that most of my hardware has problems functioning under Linux.
Funny how many times I've read that on the net. Yes, your hardware has problems with Linux. Why? Probably because when you bought the machine, you selected it with Windows in mind. Your machine contains hardware selected for optimum compatibilty with Windows. That means that Linux compatibility was an afterthought or not even on the radar. So there are probably more than a few pieces of hardware that lack reliable Linux support.
Strangely, when I plug in hardware it doesn't have problems with Linux. Then again I select it with using Linux in mind. My hardware has good support in Linux. Windows is another thing, but I accept that, because I selected the machine to run Linux and if it can run windows, well, that is just a bonus.
Morale of the story: Hardware Compatibility Lists are still valuable tools to make sure your machine works for the intended OS.
Your probably telling the horrible truth here. Producing and selling stuff is not about excellence, but doing the minimum necessary to make a buck. Accessible hardware is not a priority as it doesn't make enough money.
When you extrapolate this mentality to society as a whole, you see that we have stopped being human and devolved into being wallets that can and will be sucked dry.
---Moving from "Barely Positive Windows User" to "Trapped Windows User looking for the chance to switch".
Go to http://distrowatch.com/. Pick a Distribution that captures your fancy, be it GNU/Linux, *BSD or Solaris. Download it. Install it. Learn how to use it, which means being a worthless noob for over 12 months. After that your MS detox is complete.
That's your chance right now. Any objections to it are excuses to keep using Windows, in which case you simply want what you say you want to ditch.
No. Absolutely beautiful! This technology will most probably enable amputees to overcome the stigma of having a prosthetic limb. This technique allows to tightly integrate the artificial body part seemlessly. That certainly is not gross, but a Godsend.
OK....first off....she's your MOM. You owe her alot.
Yes, we all owe our mothers gratitude. It doesn't mean we should let them suffer inferior OSes.
Second, Linux....WTF were you thinking?? I know I can use it and you know you can use it but your Mom?? Sorry.....
Well, it is exactly how I treated my mom. If I'm the support guy, you use what I prescribe you to use, else you are on your own. At first she grudgingly accepted my "you can't refuse this" offer, but now she has thanked me several times for getting her on Ubuntu. She doesn't have spy- and malware nor virusses and she feels safe using her PC.
I forced it on her, but I made her a solid promise. You will be practically on your own, but you can click anywhere you want, you can try out anything and if you break the system, just call and I'll be there ASAP to rebuild it. It worked, in less than a year she went from "never used a computer before" to being proficient in doing day to day tasks in Ubuntu Gnome. (I setup multimedia, e-mail accounts, internet connection and programs).
Third, the first thing I would have done was purchase some computer classes at the local CompUSA for her. She's your MOM! Be nice to her....
I didn't buy her useless computerbooks about Windows. She bought her own Internet guide and said to me how similar Firefox was to Internet Explorer described in the booklet. I let her find out on her own. She became knowledgable out of experience, which is priceless. I only patiently helped her with the trickier stuff.
Newbies are going to want to have the most popular thing....regardless of how sucky it is. Look how VHS won over Betamax. Betamax was a better format however VHS was good enough. For 90 percent of the people, Windows IS good enough.
Newbies want the most popular thing because they don't know any better. Every noob uses Windows, despite the "proverb" Friends don't let friends use Windows. Why propagate bad practises? Get them on better systems. Be it *BSD, GNU/Linux or Mac OS X. Anything beats Windows.
Binary releases are proprietary. Proprietary software defeats the purpose of a Free OS. My OS is Free, I don't have binary problems. Source compiles practically everywhere...
Forget the wholesome ideas your founding fathers had, America. They have been squandered as a ritual sacrifice for the God Mammon.
Your rights, right now is to ensure the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. The US constitution is already breached by the DMCA and the PATRIOT act. You have no Freedom left, but the "freedom" to serve the GREED of the rich.
I have empathy for you over there. Europe is on the same course of civil destruction.
So if/when a large portion of the Internet requires DRM will you simple no longer participate?
That is a valid option. If most of cyberspace has become a corporate prison, why go for involuntary slavery? Freedom can than be obtained by leaving cyberspace.
But not today, the last battle hasn't been fought. When my blood stains the earth and my body lies limp, only then will I give up the Internet.
Besides, there are things like Freenet. When greed and lust for control wins, the brave will provide Freedom through "Samizdat" (self-publishing).
For all practical purposes: If I have it on my harddrive, given that THEY (from the tinfoil hat chapter) don't know about it and I can manipulate it, then I own it.
Not that I really need anything that is not Free Software.
Before espousing the solution, perhaps you should have asked the problem.
Well, the problem seems to become clear. You are maintaining the status quo, because it is part of your livelyhood. You don't suggest an alternative to the people you "help", you just put some band-aids on their systems (for $$$).
It is the same as MS selling "anti-spyware". They only remove what they deem unprofitable, the rest is negotiable. It is the perfect example of why the whole Windows universe is so extremely absurd.
People put up with all the crap floating around, because they are made to believe that this is the ground state of computing.
It is amazing to see at what length people will go to protect the holy cashcow. They will even protect it when it is absolutely clear that the poor animal is severely suffering from Mad Cow Disease.
Computers are about reading e-mail, and surfing for porn.
It's just ironic that the above activities are the things that will get a Windows box to its knees within days (hours, minutes?), if the user is not maintaining an arsenal of anti-everthing software.
GNU/Linux will not make you live the life of 007, but it certainly brings down the maintenance time significantly. When you are just checking e-mail and surfing porn, this simply is the unbending truth.
Ofcourse you are free to choose using Windows with a big arsenal of band-aids to keep it running. I'm just glad that I have the choice not to go down the same route.
Actually, this time John C. makes sense. Should I get arressted, just because some hundred (possibly bad) decisions made by other people (AP owners and OS developers) make my machine connect to open AP's actively and automatically?
(As I use GNU/Linux, this doesn't happen that easily, but you get the drift for all those proprietary OS owners).
Does one need Nukes to be utterly deadly? Some nice little germs would do the trick just fine.
I know, highly illegal, but very effective. Anyway, who's to complain when everybodie's dead.
Ok, Australia seems like the place to be to get that awsome Playstation 2 deal;-)
First reason. Sex involves people. I really, really, really hate people...
The rest of the 1999 reasons are irrelevant, my first one makes them obsolete....
Copyleft isn't irrelavant, It's a system that ensures that a high quality product can be made without using billions of Dollars in actual research costs and silly anti-copying schemes.
The GPL exists to prevent hijacking of the code by a less then moral commercial entity and them reaping all the benifits and not contributing back.
I am not motivated by "it's free, I dont have to pay for this". I already ordered SuSE GNU/Linux in advance without knowing the actual retail price, because I value the system for it's technological merrit and the adherence to a social philosophy.
SuSE GNu/Linux costs about 99 Euro's and that is not exactly free, but I don't see that as a hurdle to use it.
I use it purely as a Desktop System, so your it's only for servers tome, doesn't compute here.
Fudding won't help. GNU/Linux has carved it's own space in the world and it's here to stay, most likely in unison with the cold hard cash.
(Last remark: GNU/Linux is cold hard cash! Maybe even more than all of MS Windows versions combined...)
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Why should children be "protected" from seeing sex?
Because uptight, prude city folk like to believe that their precious little angels are sexless creatures, at least till they are 18 or 21 and turn their sexuality on, three minutes before they are geting married. The fear seems to be that children will become damaged by seeing a boob or a cock prematurely. What if they become rapists, paedophiles or, God forbid, How-mow-seg-shu-als when they see online porn.
Then the major motion picture studios can choose not to sell or rent their works to you if you choose to use only a general-purpose machine.
Wrong way around. If the major motion picture studios want to sell or rent their works to someone to get money for it, they better sell what the market wants, not whatever kind of spyware fantasies they themselves entertain.
It is simple. Make a good product at fair prices and you hit the optimum between sales and copyright infringement. Treat your paying customers as criminals and all you will breed is copyright infringers. The product of copyright infringement, a DRM free copy, has vastly higher use quality than the DRM-ed version.
No matter what scheme is being dreamt up, if one group is able to lock something, another group is able to unlock it. All it takes is time and determination. DRM is a failed concept. No matter how obscured, the recipient gets both the lock and the key. If this wasn't the case, the customer wouldn't be able to watch the content. All that needs to be done is find out how to emulate the key.
Look at CSS, AACS, SecuROM, StarForce, XCP, SafeDisc (etc.) as examples of DRM not working.
What point is using NAND flaws for ID, if they already have an encrypted key on your device in the TPM to which they hold the private key.
It's a bit like using minoxidil against male hairloss when your testicles have already been surgically removed.
TPM is currently a very hard to spoof ID mechanism. No need for NAND flaws.
Well, hey, a boot loader and some Bash scripts sure sound like a valid reason to prefix everything with "GNU."
Ah, the shortsightedness when it comes to looking at history.
If RMS hadn't started GNU in the early eighties, then Linus Torvalds wouldn't have had the free and rich operating system tools with which he complemented his Linux kernel.
If Linus wouldn't have made the combination of Linux and the GNU toolchain, then KDE and Gnome wouldn't have had Linux to start their ascent upon.
If the whole Linux + GNU + DE thing hadn't materialized then most of the big corporations wouldn't have gotten interested and poored in so much resources. Which would have led to much of the current applications not being developed in the first place.
So I'd say it is more than deserved that staid old GNU gets some kudos. If that needs to be done by calling a distro GNU/Linux, I don't know, but GNU is a very important part of what makes up a modern Linux distro.
And if you find a person who doesn't play a team sport, doesn't play group games... well smile a lot and get the interview over as quickly as possible because you got yourself a psycho.
Nice way of labeling people you know nothing about. Under your "reign" of short sightedness, I would be relegated to the curb. I don't think your notion of people being psycho's if they aren't all in the spot light, leading and extrovert is a realistic one.
I don't like amateur teamsports. More often than not it is individual ego boosting under the guise of working together. Never mind that I'm equiped with the couch potato gene. I don't like group games (except board games) like MMORPG's, because gaming to me is entertainment. I don't want to be herding cats when I want to wind down. Also, I'm not overly competitive. I don't need to needlessly prove my worth continually to others. I know what I'm worth.
I have been in a marching band and I liked the group effort of doing a good show, but I absolutely abhorred the pointless Machiavellian politics that came with the day to day business of that band. Strangely enough, it were the people who claimed to be all for the team effort the most, who created a poisonous atmosphere where working together was all but impossible. I've seen enough examples elsewhere of the same misconduct to not want to be a part of "something group" anymore.
I'm introvert, awkward around larger groups of strangers, a bit too brainy and not involved in group sports or gaming. Yet People, once they get to know me, describe me as knowledgeable, helpful, likeable and good in group efforts (at least when thinking is needed). Not bad for a psycho with ADD and functioning autism, hmm?
That may well be true - however, the fact of the matter is that most of my hardware has problems functioning under Linux.
Funny how many times I've read that on the net. Yes, your hardware has problems with Linux. Why? Probably because when you bought the machine, you selected it with Windows in mind. Your machine contains hardware selected for optimum compatibilty with Windows. That means that Linux compatibility was an afterthought or not even on the radar. So there are probably more than a few pieces of hardware that lack reliable Linux support.
Strangely, when I plug in hardware it doesn't have problems with Linux. Then again I select it with using Linux in mind. My hardware has good support in Linux. Windows is another thing, but I accept that, because I selected the machine to run Linux and if it can run windows, well, that is just a bonus.
Morale of the story: Hardware Compatibility Lists are still valuable tools to make sure your machine works for the intended OS.
Your probably telling the horrible truth here. Producing and selling stuff is not about excellence, but doing the minimum necessary to make a buck. Accessible hardware is not a priority as it doesn't make enough money.
When you extrapolate this mentality to society as a whole, you see that we have stopped being human and devolved into being wallets that can and will be sucked dry.
---Moving from "Barely Positive Windows User" to "Trapped Windows User looking for the chance to switch".
Go to http://distrowatch.com/. Pick a Distribution that captures your fancy, be it GNU/Linux, *BSD or Solaris. Download it. Install it. Learn how to use it, which means being a worthless noob for over 12 months. After that your MS detox is complete.
That's your chance right now. Any objections to it are excuses to keep using Windows, in which case you simply want what you say you want to ditch.
That's 2 pages and 1 click too many. Stop making apologies for MS' inexcusable behavior.
Customers are supposed to be King, not presumed suspect until conviction can commence.
No. Absolutely beautiful! This technology will most probably enable amputees to overcome the stigma of having a prosthetic limb. This technique allows to tightly integrate the artificial body part seemlessly. That certainly is not gross, but a Godsend.
OK....first off....she's your MOM. You owe her alot.
Yes, we all owe our mothers gratitude. It doesn't mean we should let them suffer inferior OSes.
Second, Linux....WTF were you thinking?? I know I can use it and you know you can use it but your Mom?? Sorry.....
Well, it is exactly how I treated my mom. If I'm the support guy, you use what I prescribe you to use, else you are on your own. At first she grudgingly accepted my "you can't refuse this" offer, but now she has thanked me several times for getting her on Ubuntu. She doesn't have spy- and malware nor virusses and she feels safe using her PC.
I forced it on her, but I made her a solid promise. You will be practically on your own, but you can click anywhere you want, you can try out anything and if you break the system, just call and I'll be there ASAP to rebuild it. It worked, in less than a year she went from "never used a computer before" to being proficient in doing day to day tasks in Ubuntu Gnome. (I setup multimedia, e-mail accounts, internet connection and programs).
Third, the first thing I would have done was purchase some computer classes at the local CompUSA for her. She's your MOM! Be nice to her....
I didn't buy her useless computerbooks about Windows. She bought her own Internet guide and said to me how similar Firefox was to Internet Explorer described in the booklet. I let her find out on her own. She became knowledgable out of experience, which is priceless. I only patiently helped her with the trickier stuff.
Newbies are going to want to have the most popular thing....regardless of how sucky it is. Look how VHS won over Betamax. Betamax was a better format however VHS was good enough. For 90 percent of the people, Windows IS good enough.
Newbies want the most popular thing because they don't know any better. Every noob uses Windows, despite the "proverb" Friends don't let friends use Windows. Why propagate bad practises? Get them on better systems. Be it *BSD, GNU/Linux or Mac OS X. Anything beats Windows.
Being against very strong beliefs per default, is being fanatical about being moderate.
Rationalism and Compromise might be good in certain circumstances, but there are others in which it makes people collaborators and war criminals.
Binary releases are proprietary. Proprietary software defeats the purpose of a Free OS. My OS is Free, I don't have binary problems. Source compiles practically everywhere...
Forget the wholesome ideas your founding fathers had, America. They have been squandered as a ritual sacrifice for the God Mammon.
Your rights, right now is to ensure the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. The US constitution is already breached by the DMCA and the PATRIOT act. You have no Freedom left, but the "freedom" to serve the GREED of the rich.
I have empathy for you over there. Europe is on the same course of civil destruction.
So if/when a large portion of the Internet requires DRM will you simple no longer participate?
That is a valid option. If most of cyberspace has become a corporate prison, why go for involuntary slavery? Freedom can than be obtained by leaving cyberspace.
But not today, the last battle hasn't been fought. When my blood stains the earth and my body lies limp, only then will I give up the Internet.
Besides, there are things like Freenet. When greed and lust for control wins, the brave will provide Freedom through "Samizdat" (self-publishing).
No, he is Free to take that computer and bash in someones skull. Anyone is.
Only problem is that society feels Free to take you into custody afterwards, so that you cannot pursue your "hobby" anymore.
That is because most members of society don't deem it to be fun to get their heads smashed in.
For all practical purposes: If I have it on my harddrive, given that THEY (from the tinfoil hat chapter) don't know about it and I can manipulate it, then I own it.
Not that I really need anything that is not Free Software.
Before espousing the solution, perhaps you should have asked the problem.
Well, the problem seems to become clear. You are maintaining the status quo, because it is part of your livelyhood. You don't suggest an alternative to the people you "help", you just put some band-aids on their systems (for $$$).
It is the same as MS selling "anti-spyware". They only remove what they deem unprofitable, the rest is negotiable. It is the perfect example of why the whole Windows universe is so extremely absurd.
People put up with all the crap floating around, because they are made to believe that this is the ground state of computing.
It is amazing to see at what length people will go to protect the holy cashcow. They will even protect it when it is absolutely clear that the poor animal is severely suffering from Mad Cow Disease.
Computers are about reading e-mail, and surfing for porn.
It's just ironic that the above activities are the things that will get a Windows box to its knees within days (hours, minutes?), if the user is not maintaining an arsenal of anti-everthing software.
GNU/Linux will not make you live the life of 007, but it certainly brings down the maintenance time significantly. When you are just checking e-mail and surfing porn, this simply is the unbending truth.
Ofcourse you are free to choose using Windows with a big arsenal of band-aids to keep it running. I'm just glad that I have the choice not to go down the same route.
Actually, this time John C. makes sense. Should I get arressted, just because some hundred (possibly bad) decisions made by other people (AP owners and OS developers) make my machine connect to open AP's actively and automatically?
(As I use GNU/Linux, this doesn't happen that easily, but you get the drift for all those proprietary OS owners).
Does one need Nukes to be utterly deadly? Some nice little germs would do the trick just fine. I know, highly illegal, but very effective. Anyway, who's to complain when everybodie's dead. Ok, Australia seems like the place to be to get that awsome Playstation 2 deal ;-)
First reason. Sex involves people. I really, really, really hate people... The rest of the 1999 reasons are irrelevant, my first one makes them obsolete....
Copyleft isn't irrelavant, It's a system that ensures that a high quality product can be made without using billions of Dollars in actual research costs and silly anti-copying schemes. The GPL exists to prevent hijacking of the code by a less then moral commercial entity and them reaping all the benifits and not contributing back. I am not motivated by "it's free, I dont have to pay for this". I already ordered SuSE GNU/Linux in advance without knowing the actual retail price, because I value the system for it's technological merrit and the adherence to a social philosophy. SuSE GNu/Linux costs about 99 Euro's and that is not exactly free, but I don't see that as a hurdle to use it. I use it purely as a Desktop System, so your it's only for servers tome, doesn't compute here. Fudding won't help. GNU/Linux has carved it's own space in the world and it's here to stay, most likely in unison with the cold hard cash. (Last remark: GNU/Linux is cold hard cash! Maybe even more than all of MS Windows versions combined...)