Once again (I've posted about this before), in Daniel Foesch's words:
"In the strings for CherryOS: "!!! Unflushed vector register invalidated!"
This is my string, which I wrote for certain, and it is inconsistant
with the PearPC debugging output (and thus, the non-vector CherryOS
outputs) The likelihood of someone "working" on CherryOS on the
vector implementation, and producing the exact same error warning, and
in the same format that I choose to use personally, which is in
violation of the standard reporting formats of the program, is quite
impossible.
Thank you CherryOS for including my AltiVec patch so that I have a leg
to stand on against you, and it's not just "Hey, Sebastian, come sue
these dorks, in a country that you don't live in."
I'll be contacting the EFF shortly concerning legal advice."
PearPC needs all the legal help it can get, especially considering that the *main* coder is in Germany, though the Altivec programmer is in the US.
But you can't reasonably expect the average Joe to buy dynamite, no? You can suffocate someone with a pillow, hit them with a book, electrocute them with a wire, throw a microwave at them, break a lightbulb on their face, bash their face with a CD spindle, or poke their eyes out with a screwdriver and yet none of these are illegal. P2P is a household application, not an expensive tool with highly specialized and specific uses.
Because BitMover will itself be a "real open alternative". Why bother with subversion, arch, and (your personal favorite) darcs? Surely it's because you have the power of choice, and the freedom of source?
This post probably won't be modded up, but for the sake of argument:
Your points would be valid if they weren't so automatically cynical.
* Slashdot is okay with copyright infringement and P2P piracy. But it is not okay with copyright infringement of GPL code.
No, Slashdot is for the freedom to do things without big corporations having the means or possible means down to breathe down everyone's back, or against laws that are contrary to fair use. Many slashdotters don't practice what they preach, but to treat all slashdotters as equally hypocritical is itself hypocritical, unless you yourself are hypocritical. In either case you are a hypocrite.
* Slashdot is okay with pursuing legal action against CherryOS on behalf of PearPC authors. But it is not okay with the RIAA pursuing legal action against infringers to protect its own property (and let's not forget Slashdot was suggesting they do this in 2000 during the Napster lawsuit).
Slashdot *would* be okay with the RIAA pursuing legal infringement if they weren't trying to sue for $150,000 per song (or something). Do you think that the PearPC would claim millions in damages to Maui X-Stream? Duh, no.
* P2P copyright infringment is not theft. But taking GPL code is "stealing" it.
P2P copyright infringement is not theft. Selling copyrighted materials is. Taking GPL code is not theft. Selling GPLed materials is.
You take three extreme examples and apply stereotypes to all three. BTW, saying "but it applies to the majority" and then talking about "ridiculous double standards" is also a double standard. Congrats on hanging yourself with your own rope, hypocrite.
Explain how, again, taxing the people who desire to make MORE MORE MORE money will keep them from trying to get it? Sorry, no. And trickle-down, as you clearly allude to, doesn't work. After a certain point you have enough money to keep your head above water, and enough money to invest to overcome the risks of making even more big money. Meanwhile, you have families that, due to health problems, family issues, language barriers, or otherwise struggle (i.e. like mine). Taxing "equally" is far from "equal".
The "stable" version of PearPC is G3-based, but CherryOS uses the Altivec patch, which has the nice side effect of making it FAR easier to sue the crap out of them in the US. In the words of Andrew Smith (on the PearPC mailing list):
"It say's G4, the cpu id is set to 0x000c0000. You can change it but every time you re-run the program it overwrites it again. (so you couldn't change it back to 0x0008wxyz, or whatever the G3 is).
I've tried using it an couldn't get my old PearPC images to boot at first. Then it finally did (although it took WAY longer to boot than PearPC does) although I was presented with a Logon screen (which i've never had with PearPC) and that failed to logon, crashed the emu and then Cherry refused to respond. I then had to spend 5 mins trying to close the damned thing since I wouldn't unlock the mouse.
Fullscreen is also very buggy, as in it takes a good 30 seconds to get into it and then i couldn't get out of it again (F5 and F6 didn't do anything, that's what they use for fullscreen and mouse grab). And the refresh rate was at 60Hz so it hurt like hell to look at it for more than 5 seconds.
There are quite a lot of other things I've found wrong with it (check out http://www.h80571.serverkompetenz.net/comments.php ?news_id=155 right at the bottom I've posted a little of what I found to make it crash).
When I get home I plan on playing around with it a bit more."
And in Daniel Foesch's words:
"In the strings for CherryOS: "!!! Unflushed vector register invalidated!"
This is my string, which I wrote for certain, and it is inconsistant with the PearPC debugging output (and thus, the non-vector CherryOS outputs) The likelihood of someone "working" on CherryOS on the vector implementation, and producing the exact same error warning, and in the same format that I choose to use personally, which is in violation of the standard reporting formats of the program, is quite impossible.
Thank you CherryOS for including my AltiVec patch so that I have a leg to stand on against you, and it's not just "Hey, Sebastian, come sue these dorks, in a country that you don't live in."
I'll be contacting the EFF shortly concerning legal advice."
...well, it is probably disgusting for most and probably nearly all straight people to think about. However, conscientious people are above judging others for their actions, since it would clearly be hypocritical otherwise. I don't think you want to associate with people who would make that judgement -- neither would I.
What about the machines in predominantly black communities that would quietly accept botched ballots, and the machines in predominantly white communities which would spit it back with an error? Hmm?
I read the article, and all I see is a bunch of text proving that humans really do possess intuition. What's so special about calling it a "sixth sense"?
"The new CELL processor is documented as having a DRM enforcment system embedded in the CPU itself. There's no details available on this "DRM enforcement system", but it is doubtless Trusted Computing."
I guess IBM will be crippling linux rather than protecting Sony's profits on the PS3? Hmm, no. Take off your tinfoil hat and realize that anything designed to take away our freedoms is at least slightly more insidious than giving Microsoft and Apple and Sun monopolies on the OS market.
But with an abundance of food, it becomes that much more evident that "corrupt government [is using] food as a weapon against [its] own population," and that much easier to shift public opinion into forcing the government to make changes. More injustice = more action. Most people don't care until it directly affects them in a self-evident, obvious way.
No, they'll remember it as a doubleplusgood day. We've always been at war with Eurasia. The only people who still think it's bad will be left in a nonexistent past.
Is it likely to bring 1984 crashing down around our ears?
I believe my, and much of slashdot's philosophy is: Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Many choose to fight the big fight, even on small issues. That's how it's perceived, and I for one agree.
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phew. for a moment there i thought they misspelled "death".
Jokes aside, what's so remarkable about documentation that everyone contributes that warrant s a news post? If I started a "all you need to know about open source" wiki and posted the link, would it be accepted? (if so, it's time to get some advertisers and start rehashing news)
Steam's never been perfect. One of my biggest peeves is how it inflates the download speeds of the caches by 8x -- it says Kb/s, fooling people into thinking it means KB/s, and that their speeds are much faster than they really are. Other complaints are with the Friends server, etc. My opinion is that Steam simply wasn't ready for widespread usage, and that they were stress-testing it on the general public in preparation for HL2.
Are slashdotters just waiting for their rights to be infringed to the point that the revolution will begin? Sorry, but geeks that care are in the minority. The people at large don't know enough about technology to realize there's another way.
That won't happen. Torrents will download directory, streaming content, if it works as you say it will, will most likely become heavily *AA regulated and restricted.
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But you can't reasonably expect the average Joe to buy dynamite, no? You can suffocate someone with a pillow, hit them with a book, electrocute them with a wire, throw a microwave at them, break a lightbulb on their face, bash their face with a CD spindle, or poke their eyes out with a screwdriver and yet none of these are illegal. P2P is a household application, not an expensive tool with highly specialized and specific uses.
Because BitMover will itself be a "real open alternative". Why bother with subversion, arch, and (your personal favorite) darcs? Surely it's because you have the power of choice, and the freedom of source?
The truth is out there. Or here: http://68.7.205.246:9500/googlex/Google.htm
Interesting how IBM's implicitly endorsing WASTE. Foolish AOL. Foolish, Foolish AOL.
Your points would be valid if they weren't so automatically cynical.
No, Slashdot is for the freedom to do things without big corporations having the means or possible means down to breathe down everyone's back, or against laws that are contrary to fair use. Many slashdotters don't practice what they preach, but to treat all slashdotters as equally hypocritical is itself hypocritical, unless you yourself are hypocritical. In either case you are a hypocrite. Slashdot *would* be okay with the RIAA pursuing legal infringement if they weren't trying to sue for $150,000 per song (or something). Do you think that the PearPC would claim millions in damages to Maui X-Stream? Duh, no. P2P copyright infringement is not theft. Selling copyrighted materials is. Taking GPL code is not theft. Selling GPLed materials is.
You take three extreme examples and apply stereotypes to all three. BTW, saying "but it applies to the majority" and then talking about "ridiculous double standards" is also a double standard. Congrats on hanging yourself with your own rope, hypocrite.
Explain how, again, taxing the people who desire to make MORE MORE MORE money will keep them from trying to get it? Sorry, no. And trickle-down, as you clearly allude to, doesn't work. After a certain point you have enough money to keep your head above water, and enough money to invest to overcome the risks of making even more big money. Meanwhile, you have families that, due to health problems, family issues, language barriers, or otherwise struggle (i.e. like mine). Taxing "equally" is far from "equal".
And in Daniel Foesch's words:
My father's a lawyer, and when I saw his workplace -- lots of WordPerfect installations.
...well, it is probably disgusting for most and probably nearly all straight people to think about. However, conscientious people are above judging others for their actions, since it would clearly be hypocritical otherwise. I don't think you want to associate with people who would make that judgement -- neither would I.
Didn't *Star Wars* derive inspiration *from* Battlestar Galactica?
What about the machines in predominantly black communities that would quietly accept botched ballots, and the machines in predominantly white communities which would spit it back with an error? Hmm?
I read the article, and all I see is a bunch of text proving that humans really do possess intuition. What's so special about calling it a "sixth sense"?
"The new CELL processor is documented as having a DRM enforcment system embedded in the CPU itself. There's no details available on this "DRM enforcement system", but it is doubtless Trusted Computing."
I guess IBM will be crippling linux rather than protecting Sony's profits on the PS3? Hmm, no. Take off your tinfoil hat and realize that anything designed to take away our freedoms is at least slightly more insidious than giving Microsoft and Apple and Sun monopolies on the OS market.
But with an abundance of food, it becomes that much more evident that "corrupt government [is using] food as a weapon against [its] own population," and that much easier to shift public opinion into forcing the government to make changes. More injustice = more action. Most people don't care until it directly affects them in a self-evident, obvious way.
No, they'll remember it as a doubleplusgood day. We've always been at war with Eurasia. The only people who still think it's bad will be left in a nonexistent past.
Is it likely to bring 1984 crashing down around our ears?
I believe my, and much of slashdot's philosophy is: Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Many choose to fight the big fight, even on small issues. That's how it's perceived, and I for one agree.
Great in principle, bad in implementation? They use cheaply soldered stuff and fail really easily -- it's happened to my friends, too. Comments?
i.e. massive archiving of video media. ahem.
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phew. for a moment there i thought they misspelled "death".
Jokes aside, what's so remarkable about documentation that everyone contributes that warrant s a news post? If I started a "all you need to know about open source" wiki and posted the link, would it be accepted? (if so, it's time to get some advertisers and start rehashing news)
dpkg -P ubuntu-desktop.
There you go.
Steam's never been perfect. One of my biggest peeves is how it inflates the download speeds of the caches by 8x -- it says Kb/s, fooling people into thinking it means KB/s, and that their speeds are much faster than they really are. Other complaints are with the Friends server, etc. My opinion is that Steam simply wasn't ready for widespread usage, and that they were stress-testing it on the general public in preparation for HL2.
Are slashdotters just waiting for their rights to be infringed to the point that the revolution will begin? Sorry, but geeks that care are in the minority. The people at large don't know enough about technology to realize there's another way.
There's a correlation between brain mass and size that doesn't necessarily correspond to smarts. The ratio is the important part.
That won't happen. Torrents will download directory, streaming content, if it works as you say it will, will most likely become heavily *AA regulated and restricted.