You are confusing copyright and patents, a patent on a mechanical device carries no stipulation that only manufacturers or distributors are liable. It is the device itself that is patented, using the device without a patent license (usually sublicensed) is infringement. Microsoft are cutting of their nose to spite their face with this one, they indemnify customers upto the retail value of their software and that is one huge jackpot.
That little thing of most windows users having administrator rights by default does not need a rerun on other platforms that are more secure by default.
You don't need to be root to install software for the current user, even on Windows.
there should only be one way how software gets installed on a linux system, and that is through it's package manager.
XULRunner is a package manager of sorts.
Does anybody know if there are any plans for (eg) gentoo devs hook it into portage's build system?
I'm not sure I understand. Are you suggesting that there is some inconsistancy between computer security and letting random corporations have total control over your computing enviroment?
Google uses custom hardware, custom kernels, custom drivers, and custom everything else (web servers, filesystems, etc).
Aside from the custom filesystem, you just described our setup wonderfully and we're a manufacturer with less than 10 employees. We do all our IT in-house.
Points 1 and 2 are all that should be needed to mod submitter imbercile. People who don't understand something like 'information wants to be free' need to go back to elementary school.
I'm not sure I agree with 3, being pro-life and pro-death seems pretty fucking contradictory to me. If you have the intelligence to form your own views, you probably have the intelligence to mod parent post up;-)
Although what is the world coming to when the govornment has the right to control what you see, hear, think, what you speak to other people about. I personally can only see bad things happening.
Yeah, the Bush administration sucks, I'm moving to China.
It's signed with an IE only rights management plugin. So where's the freely availiable source code to their garbage browser and rights plugin that will make this document freely availiable as per the terms of the court order?
Data mining! They set up a fake SMTP server that dosn't drop the connection until AFTER they have the 'FROM' address. There partners in this sitefinder are overture, how is this FUD?
My sentiments exactly. Software can only be patented as part of a genuine invention. Let's see them try and stop patents on everything else that is traditionally protected by copyright but can now be patented if hidden away as part of a patentable invention.
I guess the loophole they have created paves the way for a hack in the same way the GPL uses copyright. If only I was smart enough to figure it out.
How many playwriters censor their own work? You wouldn't get the chance to censor something that you didn't do because you had an ethical objection to it! All of us censor ourselves daily according to the way our brains are wired, you wouldn't mull over moral or ethical arguments according to this kind of censorship though. Here's a dictionary definition;
censor (noun):
A person authorised to examine publications, films, theatrical presentations etc., in order to supress in whole or in part those considered obscene, politically unacceptable etc.
Any person who controls or suppreses the behaviour of others, usually on moral grounds.
The postulated factor responsable for regulating the translation of ideas and desires from the unconscious to the conscious mind.
My analogy still stands, merely by walking down the street you can effect somebody elses life for the better or worse. I had a SPECIFIC INCIDENT in mind when I made my analogy, yet you accuse me of piss poor form instead of asking me to explain myself?
NGSCB also requires secure channels between a keyboard and main memory and between a display interface and a graphics chip and its frame buffer.
Which means it will only work on approved hardware - guess who profits from approving the hardware and drivers? Why would I need a secure framebuffer exactly when I'm already in full control of the code executed on my machine?
So nobody else ever walks down the street and growing up in a dangerous neighborhood is a lifestyle choice? If my favourite sex object sucked as much as your reasoning, you think I'd be posting to \. ?
I also know the differences between moral decisions, ethical guidelines and censorship.
We take a calculated risk everytime we walk down the street, so would it be a moral decision, an ethical choice or self-censorship if I become a recluse and sit here for the rest of my life? Oh that's right it would just be stupid!
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You are confusing copyright and patents, a patent on a mechanical device carries no stipulation that only manufacturers or distributors are liable. It is the device itself that is patented, using the device without a patent license (usually sublicensed) is infringement. Microsoft are cutting of their nose to spite their face with this one, they indemnify customers upto the retail value of their software and that is one huge jackpot.
From patent law, you may want to read up on patent litigation before commenting further!
XULRunner is a package manager of sorts.
Does anybody know if there are any plans for (eg) gentoo devs hook it into portage's build system?
How many rounds would you go, one on one, against Steve Ballmer in an auditorium full of chairs?
I'm not sure I understand. Are you suggesting that there is some inconsistancy between computer security and letting random corporations have total control over your computing enviroment?
Sorry, Firefox doesn't execute script from within CSS files.
EULA's are not copyright licenses, a copyright license covers redistribution.
Aside from the custom filesystem, you just described our setup wonderfully and we're a manufacturer with less than 10 employees. We do all our IT in-house.
All the time!
It also gives them a big user base to help foist their patent encumbered PRA baloney on the world.
I can't wait for google to drop these parasites from their index.
man ntpdate
use vim
Points 1 and 2 are all that should be needed to mod submitter imbercile. People who don't understand something like 'information wants to be free' need to go back to elementary school.
;-)
I'm not sure I agree with 3, being pro-life and pro-death seems pretty fucking contradictory to me. If you have the intelligence to form your own views, you probably have the intelligence to mod parent post up
Yeah, the Bush administration sucks, I'm moving to China.
Except that you should be using 301 when your URI scheme changes.
It's signed with an IE only rights management plugin. So where's the freely availiable source code to their garbage browser and rights plugin that will make this document freely availiable as per the terms of the court order?
What's wrong with text/plain or text/html anyway?
Also it bothers me less, what does that tell you?
Data mining! They set up a fake SMTP server that dosn't drop the connection until AFTER they have the 'FROM' address. There partners in this sitefinder are overture, how is this FUD?
My sentiments exactly. Software can only be patented as part of a genuine invention. Let's see them try and stop patents on everything else that is traditionally protected by copyright but can now be patented if hidden away as part of a patentable invention.
I guess the loophole they have created paves the way for a hack in the same way the GPL uses copyright. If only I was smart enough to figure it out.
Which means it will only work on approved hardware - guess who profits from approving the hardware and drivers? Why would I need a secure framebuffer exactly when I'm already in full control of the code executed on my machine?
:The calculated risk is to you alone.
So nobody else ever walks down the street and growing up in a dangerous neighborhood is a lifestyle choice? If my favourite sex object sucked as much as your reasoning, you think I'd be posting to \. ?
I know what the article is about!
I also know the differences between moral decisions, ethical guidelines and censorship.
We take a calculated risk everytime we walk down the street, so would it be a moral decision, an ethical choice or self-censorship if I become a recluse and sit here for the rest of my life? Oh that's right it would just be stupid!
What to do with censoring information? Not telling somebody something is not the same as preventing them from hearing it.