I don't necessarily agree that we Americans should be spilling our blood to protect and/or defend other countries or their populations. Personally, I think the US should butt out and let rest of the world should live or die by their own strength and weaknesses. Luckily for millions of people, some in the US don't feel the same way and so we continue to spend billions (or trillions) and thousands of lives saving their asses from their own tyrants while we get spit in the face, called "imperialists" or "terrorists" or any number of other slurs.
Accidentaly you "save" only those coutries with oil resources or where your political interests lie.
I do not trust NFC for different reasons. I worry about similar attacks like those against keyless cars. Basically high gain antennas extending range of operation from near-field to hundre-meters-field.
It has. It moves towards features better suited to survive. So for example Homo Sapiens is "better" than Homo Neanderlthaltis because it has better survivability.
You are right. There is no such thing like absolute ethical good or absolute ethical evil. In some cultures cannibalism was ethical and normal. In others paedophilia was accepted as normal behaviour. Ethics is closely connected with society.
I have a dream about society where copying information would be ethical. And I still think that removing copyright will not remove incentive for content producers. It will just change the way they earn money.
As far as I know DOWNLOADING is legal even in USA (and Europe of course). What is illegal is DISTRIBUTING (sharing with others). That's why it's safer to use bitlocker sites to download movies than bittorrent. When using bittorrent you download and upload at the same time.
Well, the Christian doctrines are pretty strong on the whole "no killing except in self defense" thing (if even that provision is allowed), so I fail to see how someone believing strongly in such a faith is more likely to commit murders.
I am allergic to political correctness. I also don't think that women and men are completely equal (I think women should have more rights because they give birth and by that risk more). It's just that with children stupidity of this licence is more obvious.
If not equal rights than... what kind of equality author has in mind?
PS. I don't care about this book. I won't read it even without any licence at all. I commented strictly about licence.
So how you define equality? Equal rights? Children don't have equal rights.
My point is: children are limited physically and mentally. They are not equal to adults. They are different in almost every way. Demanding equality between children and adults is pure stupidity.
If I remember correctly Microsoft tried to trademark "Internet Explorer" but they failed. So you can name your web browser "YetAnother Internet Explorer" or simply "Internet Explorer" as long as you stay away from "Microsoft Internet Explorer".
Blindly asserting that "you don't need those features, do without them" is not a reasonable answer.
Why not? Feature set of LibreOffice is enough for me. Why should I pay for more features of MSO? Additionally I stated that MSO is less stable than LO. At least in my tests. In my case LO is better than MSO even if I ignore price simply because of better quality of LO.
I agree that in some situations MSO will be better choice (you gave an example of it). But in others LO will be better. It's not black and white choice.
What software, in your opinion, is "better" than MS Office that's available today? It may not be the "best of all possible software packages," but it certainly seems to be the "best office package available on the market today."
LibreOffice is better. 1) It's cheaper 2) More stable (I often has problems with formatting in MSO never in Libre) You make a mistake ignoring price and reducing quality of product to one value (one dimension).
Interesting how I've seen this news on so many sites, and they all report it with overwhelmingly positive headlines... except Slashdot. Slashdot is the only site I've seen that somehow seems to wrangle this into a NEGATIVE sounding headling. Is it just me or is/. turning into the grumpy old man that likes to complain about everything and is constantly trying to push their agenda onto other people...
It's because it's bad decision. It introduces new punishment: denial of communication. As someone already mentioned it: why not cut people's electric power or ban computer use at all?
Internet is so important today that you can't just disconnect people. Infringements should go to regular civil trials and money punishments.
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At least we can peacefully protest and say what we want without fear that our cops would or could kick our heads in then get away with it.
Unless you live in UK:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beanfield
And what is there to blackmail about? Porn? Everybody watches it. You tell it like it's something wrong.
According to Wikipedia tinfoil is enough.
Copyright was introduced to fight competition. Read about history of copyright. It had nothing to do with "promoting" or "enriching society".
There were times without copyright and there were plenty of music and other arts.
They would make a bit about how secure their information system is.
I don't necessarily agree that we Americans should be spilling our blood to protect and/or defend other countries or their populations. Personally, I think the US should butt out and let rest of the world should live or die by their own strength and weaknesses. Luckily for millions of people, some in the US don't feel the same way and so we continue to spend billions (or trillions) and thousands of lives saving their asses from their own tyrants while we get spit in the face, called "imperialists" or "terrorists" or any number of other slurs.
Accidentaly you "save" only those coutries with oil resources or where your political interests lie.
I do not trust NFC for different reasons. I worry about similar attacks like those against keyless cars. Basically high gain antennas extending range of operation from near-field to hundre-meters-field.
I prefer to accept payments with PIN.
It has. It moves towards features better suited to survive. So for example Homo Sapiens is "better" than Homo Neanderlthaltis because it has better survivability.
Only if you live in US, Netflix and Pandora are not available in Poland. I ended buying upscaling DVD player.
You are right. There is no such thing like absolute ethical good or absolute ethical evil. In some cultures cannibalism was ethical and normal. In others paedophilia was accepted as normal behaviour. Ethics is closely connected with society.
I have a dream about society where copying information would be ethical. And I still think that removing copyright will not remove incentive for content producers. It will just change the way they earn money.
Because it allows for tracking. And to track someone usually the warrant from a judge is required.
Monitoring licence plates across whole city is equal to tracking every car without warrant.
As far as I know DOWNLOADING is legal even in USA (and Europe of course). What is illegal is DISTRIBUTING (sharing with others). That's why it's safer to use bitlocker sites to download movies than bittorrent. When using bittorrent you download and upload at the same time.
In Windows (from Win95 to Win7) you can move task bar to every side of the screen. You can also autohide it.
Well, the Christian doctrines are pretty strong on the whole "no killing except in self defense" thing (if even that provision is allowed), so I fail to see how someone believing strongly in such a faith is more likely to commit murders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades - Christians don't do this anymore because they don't give a shit. Unless you count Irish guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast#The_Troubles
If you convince someone to take some facts at faith you can't expect logic behaviour from him.
And what about horses? Are they allowed? What is an average carbon emission of a horse? Don't like horses on streets? Maybe rikshaws than.
In Poland it's even worse. We can't use Pandora or Spotify. I'm pretty sure music industry think Europe equals: UK, France and Germany.
I am allergic to political correctness. I also don't think that women and men are completely equal (I think women should have more rights because they give birth and by that risk more). It's just that with children stupidity of this licence is more obvious.
If not equal rights than... what kind of equality author has in mind?
PS. I don't care about this book. I won't read it even without any licence at all. I commented strictly about licence.
So how you define equality? Equal rights? Children don't have equal rights.
My point is: children are limited physically and mentally. They are not equal to adults. They are different in almost every way. Demanding equality between children and adults is pure stupidity.
If I remember correctly Microsoft tried to trademark "Internet Explorer" but they failed. So you can name your web browser "YetAnother Internet Explorer" or simply "Internet Explorer" as long as you stay away from "Microsoft Internet Explorer".
His terms are outright stupid:
"That every man, woman and child has the right to be here and is equal regardless of race, creed or color."
Children can't vote! How is that for equality?
Blindly asserting that "you don't need those features, do without them" is not a reasonable answer.
Why not? Feature set of LibreOffice is enough for me. Why should I pay for more features of MSO? Additionally I stated that MSO is less stable than LO. At least in my tests. In my case LO is better than MSO even if I ignore price simply because of better quality of LO.
I agree that in some situations MSO will be better choice (you gave an example of it). But in others LO will be better. It's not black and white choice.
What software, in your opinion, is "better" than MS Office that's available today? It may not be the "best of all possible software packages," but it certainly seems to be the "best office package available on the market today."
LibreOffice is better.
1) It's cheaper
2) More stable (I often has problems with formatting in MSO never in Libre)
You make a mistake ignoring price and reducing quality of product to one value (one dimension).
What are you talking about? You can remove ethernet plug, can't you?
Interesting how I've seen this news on so many sites, and they all report it with overwhelmingly positive headlines ... except Slashdot. Slashdot is the only site I've seen that somehow seems to wrangle this into a NEGATIVE sounding headling. Is it just me or is /. turning into the grumpy old man that likes to complain about everything and is constantly trying to push their agenda onto other people...
It's because it's bad decision. It introduces new punishment: denial of communication. As someone already mentioned it: why not cut people's electric power or ban computer use at all?
Internet is so important today that you can't just disconnect people. Infringements should go to regular civil trials and money punishments.
Why is even "first African American in space" a category of achievements? Is it harder to get black people into space or what?