Blame the American Corporations. After all, who you vote for has little or no impact on what is going to happen. All your voting for is who the Corporations pay to do the exact same thing.
Oh, you also vote for the manner in which they will candy coat the exact same bullshit. The only issues changed are non-issues. They get people all hyped up over the insignificant crap so they won't notice when the REAL policy is implemented.
Examples of bullshit issues they'll distract you with:
These are all bullshit issues, yes they need decided or already have been. But at the end of the day it really makes no great impact which way these things go.
At the end of the day there may or may not be legal abortion, but your rights such as free speech WILL be eroded. Each day you lose a little more freedom, government and law enforcement gain a little more power and you have a little less. Each day corporate entities grow a little stronger.
I wouldn't. Apple may have some darwin code out there but that is about the extent of it. Based on their past and continued behavior if Apple had been in a position to ride the x86 as Microsoft was we would have a far far wore dictator at the helm.
I wouldn't trust apple for a second with this patent.
Yes, actually going back and finding the source of the error, and doing it again and again and again until there are no errors and the books balance. The same way you SHOULD be handling your checkbook;)
"If they are saying, teaching, doing anything contrary to the Bible, there not christians."
If you'd read the Bible you'd have discovered that it says the only one who DIDN'T fall in this category was Jesus himself. Further there is a strong argument for the case that humanity was saved by Jesus only by his sin of doubting the father at the last, proving even God himself could not hold up the standard you claim defines a Christian.
The bible also teaches that works are NOT the way to heaven. Being good has little or nothing to do with being a real Christian.
I don't believe in that Religious nonsense but I've studied the doctrine, and the doctrine actually says that truely believing your failure to adhere to teachings of the bible have been forgiven by Christ is what makes you a true christian.
I'd suspect he said many rather than most because 10's of millions do. However 10's of millions is not most of the billions of supposed christians. It is however a rather significant chunk of the 50-100million which actually believe in the religion rather than merely being members of it.
What has me suprised is the large number of extremely low UID's appearing all the sudden.
Mine is 600,000+ and I've been registered for 2yrs+ and reading a couple years longer (not old really, but hardly a slashdot newbie).
As little as 3 months ago it was few and far between to see a UID as low as mine (most were at least 700,000+). Now almost all are, and most are extremely low. Either slashdot is dying and it's just the old hardcore slashdotters remaining, all the old farts came out of the woodwork at once, or someone figured out how to hack their UID's. I'm voting on the hack theory;)
Well yeah I suppose, after all they say Paul wrote most of it and was crucified upside down. I sure hope you didn't mean Jesus... after all he didn't write a single word of it by it's own account;)
Or have you not read the bible? I find it to be interesting reading, almost to compare to 1001 Arabian nights. Or some of the tales of the ancient greek gods. Of course you can't really take it anymore seriously than that.
Some highlights for you (Warning Spoilers ahead):
Early family tree:
First you had adam and eve, the only humans on earth. They had two children, Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel and then took off, got married and founded a city. Just where the wife came from is left unsaid.
Johnahh (sp) and the Whale, you see this guy, according to the bible, actually lived inside the Whales belly for awhile.
Leviathan (sp) the giant sea monster, really good stuff.
Joeb, he was the most devote of all God's followers. So of course, God and Satan hooked up and made a bet. God believed Joeb was so loyal he'd eat shit all day and still be loyal. Satan said your on. So God chucked meteors at Joeb, killed off his family, send boils and so forth, destroyed his lands and wealth, etc etc. This is an example of the love this story teaches, the same one evidenced in the witch trials and the crusades.
And of course, my personal favorite is when God stopped the Sun (in those days they believed that the Sun revolved around the earth). Of course to stop the sun would really mean stopping the Earth, which kill all life on the planet and destroy Earth as we know it.
Can someone explain to me how any of this is more believable than Zeus in the heavens throwing lightning bolts?
Honestly, for most of it I prefer to read the Egyptian mythologies the Hebrews adapted it from (most of it can be traced fairly directly, and they were exposed to it for hundreds of years as Egyptian slaves).
The bible summed up:
Creation: God created adam, and then made eve out of one of adams ribs. Eve had a chat with a snake and ate an apple, this pissed God off and all pain and suffering on earth to this day is the result.
Old Testament: Everyone had sex with their relatives again and again, like rabits. God is has immense awesome power, and rules, if you don't follow the rules he'll do one of a few things, turn you into a pillar of salt, starve you to death, chuck a meteor at you, send giants to slay you, send plagues and suffering etc. And afterward he'll send you to a pit of fire and immense suffering for all eternity.
If you DO follow the rules, read Joeb above.
New Testament: God loves you. See old testement for evidence of his eternal unconditional love.
Revealations: God unleashes hell on earth, Jesus comes and reigns in peace for awhile, and then god sets Satan loose on earth.
General guide to the rules:
If it's at all enjoyable, it's against the rules, the rules are flexible enough to allow for anything which is not explicitly forbidden but is enjoyable to also be against the rules.
Sorry if I missed your favorite fable, it is a big collection of texts (there were plenty of other "holy" texts from the period which the church didn't chose to include in this compiliation) and this is just a slashdot post after all.
In our school at least I believe it was 3rd I first heard about basic. Although it was extracurricular. I don't believe it became an actual during school class per say until 5th grade (basic and C/C++), of course in all fairness we didn't have CLASSES before 5th grade, we had A classroom and A teacher.
My original point however was that we generally don't need to be working with anything as large as AA and AAA batteries anymore. There are certainly more efficient shapes in terms of device design and now devices are often oversized to match the design of the battery or forced to use proprietary non-standard battery sizes.
I still believe a drastically smaller square shaped standard battery, which is linkable/stackable (meaning you could clip several together on any edge, or stack on top of one another so that needing 5 batteries, still only means one connection interface to the device) would be far superior.
I don't know about you but I really don't encounter battery life issues much anymore (portable dvd and laptops maybe?). My mp3 player, my cell phone, my pda. All of them will carry a charge for... well despite frequent use all day every day and forgetting to charge them constantly (often up to 3 days before 30 min charging) none of the devices has ever been fully drained.
"The fear is that this system will somehow take away the ability to compile one's own drivers. Whether or not you think that this could happen, you must respect this sentiment."
Why? This is an open source project, for an open system. If it were to do so then we'd simply change it. If the original maintainer goes in a different direction we just fork it and declare a new official release.
Yeah, I imagine in laptops this is still a painful experience. Hell they don't even work with windows versions they weren't shipped with half the time.
For instance we just had a customer with a toshiba laptop we sold him last year. It shipped with XP but he wanted 2000 (per his corporate requirements) so we loaded it and all worked for a year. And then recently they did a windows update and bam, thing won't boot in normal or safe. Repair install does no good (and neither did 2 days of everything else). Reloading the OS clean and then updating produces the same result.
Using windows without updates, not an option, for anyone really. So he bought a new computer for the office and is using the laptop with XP at home now.
On the desktop it's different. Generally the drivers can be had if not supported right out of the box. But still with windows the drivers can be had, period. With linux you won't need to look for any drivers at all 90% of the time, if you do it's 50/50.
With windows you'll need to download (or install from CD/floppy) drivers 100% of the time, but those drivers are findable 100% of the time as well.
Have you consulted with your local lug? One of the most annoying things I've seen has been that linux driver modules often group the past 5yrs of functionally similar hardware under a module named after a 10yr old piece of hardware. Alot of the time the guru's at your local lug will know where the driver you need is hidden.
Despite the fact that you and I have debated on the linux versus windows issue a half dozen times in the past. I'd be happy to work with you to get your laptop up and running if your nearby...
First, you'll need the distro's working with you on this. But develop first, the distro's will ignore you until you actually have something.
Develop this with support for local module configuration as well. If the module is already there, great, this should pick up on it and configure the module (this resolves the issue of there being a single module for 200 different pieces are hardware which are functionally similar but different model numbers, vendors, etc and all called under the module name which mirrors some ancient piece of hardware nobody has anymore). It also resolves the "nic and the egg" issue.
Make sure it handles simple autoconfiguration of X-Windows. As a technician, I can say of the big barriers to linux on the desktop is that I can't usually take someone elses system grab it, and stick it onto my keyboard, monitor and mouse and load the gui without making a single adjustment, and then when it's done give them their tower back knowing they will be able to plug it in and go.
X is great, it's just missing the part that checks for a new monitor on every boot, it sounds like that would be part of this utilitie's forte even if it would require code that strays a bit from the main body of the app.
Get the distro's in on it, redhat will be against it, because they have kudzu, but once every other distro ships it that won't matter anymore. Right now Kudzu is the best hardware detection out there and gives i386 plug and play a whole new meaning.
Give it a good solid flexible and easy to use interface, make sure it has few dependencies to run local, this way distro's will add it to the installer.
A watch battery will last longer than your AA or AAA. It won't run for years, but it will certainly beat the 2hrs playtime you get with conventional batteries, and you will of course need to use an equal number of batteries.
Watch batteries last for 5+ yrs because they use little current, a AA would last a couple months.
Obviously we must use it for something constructive, like calculating the next few hundred billion digits of pie or processing random white noise in space on the extremely unlikely chance we'll be listening to the exact right piece of the sky at the exact right moment and recognize the completely alien transmission as being something other than noise.
Nah, seriously though, we'll use it to support the largest growing industry. That industry which powers and drives the human imagination and recognizes our greatest achievements. Obviously this is going to be used as a streaming pr0n server.
And the reason why this old article obsoletes these newly unveiled magic technology (specifically talked about within) is in this quote:
"The future of lithium battery technology lies in Li/MnO2, a solid-cathode chemistry. Unlike both Lithium/Sulphur Dioxide (Li/SO2) and Lithium/Thionyl Chloride (Li/SOCl2), which are liquid-cathode chemistries, Li/MnO2 does not suffer from the effects of passivation, which causes liquid-cathode batteries to suffer from a voltage delay phenomenon causing the cell voltage to be depressed when a load is applied, particularly after extended periods of storage with no use. This condition is exacerbated at low temperatures resulting in the possibility that a liquid cathode battery may not start up when called into use. Li/MnO2 batteries, which are inherently safer than the other types of lithium batteries, do not suffer from the voltage delay phenomenon."
"AA and AAA are pretty small. Any smaller and I know a lot of people (including myself) will be complaining about battery life"
Why? Lithium watch batteries already output aprox the same juice, come in orders of magnitude smaller sizes and last phenominally longer?
Even those nicads your getting are made artifically larger nowdays to be AAA or especially AA.
Your somewhat right on the form factor change, they should be flat and thin (square or rectangular rather than round like lithium). Of course batteries should incorporate a stackable design allowing arrays to be formed by attaching them side by side and/or on top of each other (both should be possible with the same battery of course). And really we are looking more along the lines of 1 or 2 centimeter squares tops.
After all these aren't the prehistoric days where the walkman and discman can be called portable devices. Hell those big clunky things might as well have portable generators;)
What we need to do is update the standard sizes, AAA and AA and C and D and so forth are obsolete and huge. They aren't at all relevant to current technology and devices.
Sorry buddy, standards are good, but backwards compatibility is only good so long as you don't make significant sacrifices for it.
Are these the same professionals who claim that one form of digital connection is superior to another?
When working at Sony I discovered that Audio professionals were still caught in the analog days, and would for instance insist on say, fiber optic, over another purely digital data link between connections claiming something was lost in the sound and they could "hear" it.
Of course that's ridiculous, once converted to digital either all the ones and zero's get from one piece of equiptment to the next or not.
Using visual graphing and statistics makes a HELL of alot more sense than having people listen, people imagine what they here, they don't imagine digital analysis. The Audiophile who argues with the computer is wrong everytime.
What cracks me up is that copyright law grants rights to authors, everything NOT specified as granted to the author remains with the owner of the work (that'd be the public).
The MPAA and RIAA have been working hard to flip this around.
Copying in itself isn't even within their control (pre-dmca, now anything they can forbid via technical measure, no matter how pathetic, is within their control), it's Distribution that copyright grants control over. Copying or anything other action for your personal use (yes that includes installing a program on 12 pc's, you can't be licensed rights you already have).
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Blame the American Corporations. After all, who you vote for has little or no impact on what is going to happen. All your voting for is who the Corporations pay to do the exact same thing.
Oh, you also vote for the manner in which they will candy coat the exact same bullshit. The only issues changed are non-issues. They get people all hyped up over the insignificant crap so they won't notice when the REAL policy is implemented.
Examples of bullshit issues they'll distract you with:
Tobacco laws (either side)
Abortion (either side)
Environmental Protections (either side)
Equal Opportunity (again, either side)
Legal Marijuana
etc
These are all bullshit issues, yes they need decided or already have been. But at the end of the day it really makes no great impact which way these things go.
At the end of the day there may or may not be legal abortion, but your rights such as free speech WILL be eroded. Each day you lose a little more freedom, government and law enforcement gain a little more power and you have a little less. Each day corporate entities grow a little stronger.
I wouldn't. Apple may have some darwin code out there but that is about the extent of it. Based on their past and continued behavior if Apple had been in a position to ride the x86 as Microsoft was we would have a far far wore dictator at the helm.
I wouldn't trust apple for a second with this patent.
"Just because it can't happen doesn't mean that people won't be afraid that it will."
I'm not saying people won't be afraid it will. I'm saying that since it cannot happen there is no reason to RESPECT the sentiment, only to dispel it.
Yes, actually going back and finding the source of the error, and doing it again and again and again until there are no errors and the books balance. The same way you SHOULD be handling your checkbook ;)
"If they are saying, teaching, doing anything contrary to the Bible, there not christians."
If you'd read the Bible you'd have discovered that it says the only one who DIDN'T fall in this category was Jesus himself. Further there is a strong argument for the case that humanity was saved by Jesus only by his sin of doubting the father at the last, proving even God himself could not hold up the standard you claim defines a Christian.
The bible also teaches that works are NOT the way to heaven. Being good has little or nothing to do with being a real Christian.
I don't believe in that Religious nonsense but I've studied the doctrine, and the doctrine actually says that truely believing your failure to adhere to teachings of the bible have been forgiven by Christ is what makes you a true christian.
I'd suspect he said many rather than most because 10's of millions do. However 10's of millions is not most of the billions of supposed christians. It is however a rather significant chunk of the 50-100million which actually believe in the religion rather than merely being members of it.
What has me suprised is the large number of extremely low UID's appearing all the sudden.
;)
Mine is 600,000+ and I've been registered for 2yrs+ and reading a couple years longer (not old really, but hardly a slashdot newbie).
As little as 3 months ago it was few and far between to see a UID as low as mine (most were at least 700,000+). Now almost all are, and most are extremely low. Either slashdot is dying and it's just the old hardcore slashdotters remaining, all the old farts came out of the woodwork at once, or someone figured out how to hack their UID's. I'm voting on the hack theory
Well yeah I suppose, after all they say Paul wrote most of it and was crucified upside down. I sure hope you didn't mean Jesus... after all he didn't write a single word of it by it's own account ;)
Or have you not read the bible? I find it to be interesting reading, almost to compare to 1001 Arabian nights. Or some of the tales of the ancient greek gods. Of course you can't really take it anymore seriously than that.
Some highlights for you (Warning Spoilers ahead):
Early family tree:
First you had adam and eve, the only humans on earth. They had two children, Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel and then took off, got married and founded a city. Just where the wife came from is left unsaid.
Johnahh (sp) and the Whale, you see this guy, according to the bible, actually lived inside the Whales belly for awhile.
Leviathan (sp) the giant sea monster, really good stuff.
Joeb, he was the most devote of all God's followers. So of course, God and Satan hooked up and made a bet. God believed Joeb was so loyal he'd eat shit all day and still be loyal. Satan said your on. So God chucked meteors at Joeb, killed off his family, send boils and so forth, destroyed his lands and wealth, etc etc. This is an example of the love this story teaches, the same one evidenced in the witch trials and the crusades.
And of course, my personal favorite is when God stopped the Sun (in those days they believed that the Sun revolved around the earth). Of course to stop the sun would really mean stopping the Earth, which kill all life on the planet and destroy Earth as we know it.
Can someone explain to me how any of this is more believable than Zeus in the heavens throwing lightning bolts?
Honestly, for most of it I prefer to read the Egyptian mythologies the Hebrews adapted it from (most of it can be traced fairly directly, and they were exposed to it for hundreds of years as Egyptian slaves).
The bible summed up:
Creation:
God created adam, and then made eve out of one of adams ribs. Eve had a chat with a snake and ate an apple, this pissed God off and all pain and suffering on earth to this day is the result.
Old Testament:
Everyone had sex with their relatives again and again, like rabits. God is has immense awesome power, and rules, if you don't follow the rules he'll do one of a few things, turn you into a pillar of salt, starve you to death, chuck a meteor at you, send giants to slay you, send plagues and suffering etc. And afterward he'll send you to a pit of fire and immense suffering for all eternity.
If you DO follow the rules, read Joeb above.
New Testament:
God loves you. See old testement for evidence of his eternal unconditional love.
Revealations:
God unleashes hell on earth, Jesus comes and reigns in peace for awhile, and then god sets Satan loose on earth.
General guide to the rules:
If it's at all enjoyable, it's against the rules, the rules are flexible enough to allow for anything which is not explicitly forbidden but is enjoyable to also be against the rules.
Sorry if I missed your favorite fable, it is a big collection of texts (there were plenty of other "holy" texts from the period which the church didn't chose to include in this compiliation) and this is just a slashdot post after all.
mmmmhmmm I just linked the first article from a google search which happened to be from the company itself.
Perhaps the company was just tooting their own horn, but DARPA and the US Army Concurred. You draw your own conclusions.
The most significant thing I intended to point out however is that the technology company B is claiming as new isn't new at all.
So get rid of the HDTV, problem solved.
In our school at least I believe it was 3rd I first heard about basic. Although it was extracurricular. I don't believe it became an actual during school class per say until 5th grade (basic and C/C++), of course in all fairness we didn't have CLASSES before 5th grade, we had A classroom and A teacher.
Well certainly, I wouldn't dispute that at all.
My original point however was that we generally don't need to be working with anything as large as AA and AAA batteries anymore. There are certainly more efficient shapes in terms of device design and now devices are often oversized to match the design of the battery or forced to use proprietary non-standard battery sizes.
I still believe a drastically smaller square shaped standard battery, which is linkable/stackable (meaning you could clip several together on any edge, or stack on top of one another so that needing 5 batteries, still only means one connection interface to the device) would be far superior.
I don't know about you but I really don't encounter battery life issues much anymore (portable dvd and laptops maybe?). My mp3 player, my cell phone, my pda. All of them will carry a charge for... well despite frequent use all day every day and forgetting to charge them constantly (often up to 3 days before 30 min charging) none of the devices has ever been fully drained.
"The fear is that this system will somehow take away the ability to compile one's own drivers. Whether or not you think that this could happen, you must respect this sentiment."
Why? This is an open source project, for an open system. If it were to do so then we'd simply change it. If the original maintainer goes in a different direction we just fork it and declare a new official release.
Yeah, I imagine in laptops this is still a painful experience. Hell they don't even work with windows versions they weren't shipped with half the time.
For instance we just had a customer with a toshiba laptop we sold him last year. It shipped with XP but he wanted 2000 (per his corporate requirements) so we loaded it and all worked for a year. And then recently they did a windows update and bam, thing won't boot in normal or safe. Repair install does no good (and neither did 2 days of everything else). Reloading the OS clean and then updating produces the same result.
Using windows without updates, not an option, for anyone really. So he bought a new computer for the office and is using the laptop with XP at home now.
On the desktop it's different. Generally the drivers can be had if not supported right out of the box. But still with windows the drivers can be had, period. With linux you won't need to look for any drivers at all 90% of the time, if you do it's 50/50.
With windows you'll need to download (or install from CD/floppy) drivers 100% of the time, but those drivers are findable 100% of the time as well.
Have you consulted with your local lug? One of the most annoying things I've seen has been that linux driver modules often group the past 5yrs of functionally similar hardware under a module named after a 10yr old piece of hardware. Alot of the time the guru's at your local lug will know where the driver you need is hidden.
Despite the fact that you and I have debated on the linux versus windows issue a half dozen times in the past. I'd be happy to work with you to get your laptop up and running if your nearby...
Just a few suggestions however.
First, you'll need the distro's working with you on this. But develop first, the distro's will ignore you until you actually have something.
Develop this with support for local module configuration as well. If the module is already there, great, this should pick up on it and configure the module (this resolves the issue of there being a single module for 200 different pieces are hardware which are functionally similar but different model numbers, vendors, etc and all called under the module name which mirrors some ancient piece of hardware nobody has anymore). It also resolves the "nic and the egg" issue.
Make sure it handles simple autoconfiguration of X-Windows. As a technician, I can say of the big barriers to linux on the desktop is that I can't usually take someone elses system grab it, and stick it onto my keyboard, monitor and mouse and load the gui without making a single adjustment, and then when it's done give them their tower back knowing they will be able to plug it in and go.
X is great, it's just missing the part that checks for a new monitor on every boot, it sounds like that would be part of this utilitie's forte even if it would require code that strays a bit from the main body of the app.
Get the distro's in on it, redhat will be against it, because they have kudzu, but once every other distro ships it that won't matter anymore. Right now Kudzu is the best hardware detection out there and gives i386 plug and play a whole new meaning.
Give it a good solid flexible and easy to use interface, make sure it has few dependencies to run local, this way distro's will add it to the installer.
Oh, that should you do it thing, DUH.
A watch battery will last longer than your AA or AAA. It won't run for years, but it will certainly beat the 2hrs playtime you get with conventional batteries, and you will of course need to use an equal number of batteries.
Watch batteries last for 5+ yrs because they use little current, a AA would last a couple months.
Obviously we must use it for something constructive, like calculating the next few hundred billion digits of pie or processing random white noise in space on the extremely unlikely chance we'll be listening to the exact right piece of the sky at the exact right moment and recognize the completely alien transmission as being something other than noise.
Nah, seriously though, we'll use it to support the largest growing industry. That industry which powers and drives the human imagination and recognizes our greatest achievements. Obviously this is going to be used as a streaming pr0n server.
lol ok by extraordinarily popular demand, here it is, in proper link form!
Ultralife
And the reason why this old article obsoletes these newly unveiled magic technology (specifically talked about within) is in this quote:
"The future of lithium battery technology lies in Li/MnO2, a solid-cathode chemistry. Unlike both Lithium/Sulphur Dioxide (Li/SO2) and Lithium/Thionyl Chloride (Li/SOCl2), which are liquid-cathode chemistries, Li/MnO2 does not suffer from the effects of passivation, which causes liquid-cathode batteries to suffer from a voltage delay phenomenon causing the cell voltage to be depressed when a load is applied, particularly after extended periods of storage with no use. This condition is exacerbated at low temperatures resulting in the possibility that a liquid cathode battery may not start up when called into use. Li/MnO2 batteries, which are inherently safer than the other types of lithium batteries, do not suffer from the voltage delay phenomenon."
"AA and AAA are pretty small. Any smaller and I know a lot of people (including myself) will be complaining about battery life"
;)
Why? Lithium watch batteries already output aprox the same juice, come in orders of magnitude smaller sizes and last phenominally longer?
Even those nicads your getting are made artifically larger nowdays to be AAA or especially AA.
Your somewhat right on the form factor change, they should be flat and thin (square or rectangular rather than round like lithium). Of course batteries should incorporate a stackable design allowing arrays to be formed by attaching them side by side and/or on top of each other (both should be possible with the same battery of course). And really we are looking more along the lines of 1 or 2 centimeter squares tops.
After all these aren't the prehistoric days where the walkman and discman can be called portable devices. Hell those big clunky things might as well have portable generators
I wouldn't even worry about this, Microsoft already reniged on the deal anyway. They ARE going to try to block pirated XP from installing SP2.
What we need to do is update the standard sizes, AAA and AA and C and D and so forth are obsolete and huge. They aren't at all relevant to current technology and devices.
Sorry buddy, standards are good, but backwards compatibility is only good so long as you don't make significant sacrifices for it.
http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/electri cal/ultralife/
Are these the same professionals who claim that one form of digital connection is superior to another?
When working at Sony I discovered that Audio professionals were still caught in the analog days, and would for instance insist on say, fiber optic, over another purely digital data link between connections claiming something was lost in the sound and they could "hear" it.
Of course that's ridiculous, once converted to digital either all the ones and zero's get from one piece of equiptment to the next or not.
Using visual graphing and statistics makes a HELL of alot more sense than having people listen, people imagine what they here, they don't imagine digital analysis. The Audiophile who argues with the computer is wrong everytime.
What cracks me up is that copyright law grants rights to authors, everything NOT specified as granted to the author remains with the owner of the work (that'd be the public).
The MPAA and RIAA have been working hard to flip this around.
Copying in itself isn't even within their control (pre-dmca, now anything they can forbid via technical measure, no matter how pathetic, is within their control), it's Distribution that copyright grants control over. Copying or anything other action for your personal use (yes that includes installing a program on 12 pc's, you can't be licensed rights you already have).
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Is it different only because it runs on open source software? Hell google does that successfully already.