Actually it's a fork - the linux kernel devs didn't like the way some of the Android stuff was done, nor the way Google just dropped it at their doorstep as a fait-accomplis instead of trying to work with them to find a mutually beneficial solution.
So Google decided to maintain a fork, as is their right.
Europe has far more strict rules in a lot of advertising-related areas than the US. For instance there is no advertising of prescription medicine allowed in the UK.
This is because your doctor doesn't need to constantly be asked for the next version of valium or wellbutrin or whatever the hell it is.
I recognise entirely that this only solves the problem for me and not for the average user, and it's not even a full solution - occasionally I have to start up chrome because some or other site that I want to use in a more than read-only way won't work.
But I'd rather do this than have a slower, more annoying web experience and be tracked constantly. There is far, far too much active content on the web IMHO. The fact that the browsing experience is (for the majority of sites I care to visit) actually *better* tells me that something is rotten in the state of web development in the modern world.
Noscript, Adblock, Flashblock, Cookie Monster, Better Privacy. Flush browser cache on exit. New email address for every site I join. A few other tricks...
Makes the web a much nicer place and my habits much harder to correlate between different places.
I mean except panopticick type stuff browser fingerprinting, but then I'm not sure how much of that data can get back to the site without various forms of scripting.
'cos it's pretty cool, if you're travelling, to plug your phone into the hotel tv and run your genesis/SNES/MAME/whatever emulators, and have a neat little wireless controller, too.
Or at least it is on my N900 which has had thuis feature for over a year now.
Unlikely, that'll still be covered by the EUCD or other bullshit law.
This is just catching up to the state of the art of the mid 90s, when people started (perfectly reasonably) ripping unencrypted cds to their hard drives. These people are now no longer criminals.
Never let it be said that the UK is not at the forefront of technology!
There was a case of a (pretty high-end) product that copied cds to a drive so that they could be played in different rooms a little while back, that was made to carry a notice on the packaging saying that the intended use was illegal....
I actually agee with you pretty well. Who's shooting to be the desktop environment for the masses? Ubuntu? Mint perhaps?
debian and fedora are trying to be pretty bad-ass lynxes (to borrow your terminology) and do it well.
I don't necessarily see that linux couldn't ever be a great OS for the ordinary folk, but it's certianly not the direction most contributors are pulling in. They're making it ever more awesome for the likes of me (software dev).
Bad for the economy != bad for th individual Good for the economy != good gor the individual
Nobody out there in the business world is tryin to boost the economy, they're acting in their own best interests. If FOSS appeals on cost and functionality then companies will go for it. if they don't see the value they won't. "The Economy" is the result of individual and corporate actions, not the driver.
At 18 or 19, I would have found the situation quite intimidating, meaning I'm guessing that he will probably fold under a bit of pressure and give the cops what they want.
That's all I meant. Not "He's only 19 so he must be innocent", not "He's only 19 so he's not responsible for his actions", not whatever other image you've built of my argument, just that at his age he is probably susceptible to pressure and the police probably know it.
Well firstly - there's no danger of Lulzsec not calling it in, they love publicity. Secondly, no, I don't consider them a 'real' threat. They're not threatening lives.
Maybe the logic is that he knows *something* about the group, whatever it is, and the best way to get it out of him is haul him far from home and trump up a bunch of charges. He's only 19 after all.
Funny that, but prison rape isn't so much of a problem in the UK as it is in the great old US of A, where it seems to actually be encouraged as part of the punishment.
No, not everyone, they don't. Not everyone has much to invest. That's an unfortuante fact of life, we are not all mentally or physically equal.
Also, the IQ test being largely (IIRC) about language based reasoning and pattern matching, it seems to me that even if you think it's a terrible measure of intelligence it probably matches up quite well to computer-related thought.
No, but the fact that we've invested mental effort into getting to know computers puts us ahead of the population mean in terms of IQ.
Just like people who have invested mental effort in other areas. The key being that there was mental capacity and effort to invest, and comparing a group of people that do that against the mean for everyone.
I have no idea what a dilatory motion is, but if it's relevant - reasonable costs are assessed. You don't get to hire the ten most expensive lawyers in the business and pay them bonus money on top in the expectation the other guy will have to pay.
It creates more problems (as a buyer, I find chargeback to be a good feature of CC and paypal transactions in case I get ripped off), it can take several days to transfer other currencies in and out, transactions are not free as bitcoin fans like to claim, and it's really seriously unstable.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually it's a fork - the linux kernel devs didn't like the way some of the Android stuff was done, nor the way Google just dropped it at their doorstep as a fait-accomplis instead of trying to work with them to find a mutually beneficial solution.
So Google decided to maintain a fork, as is their right.
Europe has far more strict rules in a lot of advertising-related areas than the US. For instance there is no advertising of prescription medicine allowed in the UK.
This is because your doctor doesn't need to constantly be asked for the next version of valium or wellbutrin or whatever the hell it is.
Pretty much.
I recognise entirely that this only solves the problem for me and not for the average user, and it's not even a full solution - occasionally I have to start up chrome because some or other site that I want to use in a more than read-only way won't work.
But I'd rather do this than have a slower, more annoying web experience and be tracked constantly. There is far, far too much active content on the web IMHO. The fact that the browsing experience is (for the majority of sites I care to visit) actually *better* tells me that something is rotten in the state of web development in the modern world.
Noscript, Adblock, Flashblock, Cookie Monster, Better Privacy. Flush browser cache on exit. New email address for every site I join. A few other tricks...
Makes the web a much nicer place and my habits much harder to correlate between different places.
I mean except panopticick type stuff browser fingerprinting, but then I'm not sure how much of that data can get back to the site without various forms of scripting.
Anonymous original purpose? Which one were you thinking of -
Do it for the lulz?
Because none of us is as bad as all of us?
Internet hate machine?
Anonymous has always been about pissing people off and messing with their lives for fun.
Well, a bit more than copyright. If yours were sold as solid gold, and then the competitor sold theirs as gold, it could also be fraud.
But you're right, the counterfeiting laws are a lot stronger and a lot more enforced.
I used to think you Americans and your obsession with girlscout cookies were weird in a sort of cutesy way.
Then a few years ago my dad brought some thin mints back from a business trip to the US, a colleague had evidently been selling them in the office.
Now I understand.
Ummm, yeah, yeah it is.
No sex (or having to start a new relationship) is infinitely preferable to death.
Is that not the case in your mind?
'cos it's pretty cool, if you're travelling, to plug your phone into the hotel tv and run your genesis/SNES/MAME/whatever emulators, and have a neat little wireless controller, too.
Or at least it is on my N900 which has had thuis feature for over a year now.
Unlikely, that'll still be covered by the EUCD or other bullshit law.
This is just catching up to the state of the art of the mid 90s, when people started (perfectly reasonably) ripping unencrypted cds to their hard drives. These people are now no longer criminals.
Never let it be said that the UK is not at the forefront of technology!
There was a case of a (pretty high-end) product that copied cds to a drive so that they could be played in different rooms a little while back, that was made to carry a notice on the packaging saying that the intended use was illegal....
I make do with live emperor penguins embedded into the walls!
Sure, they're angry, they smell bad and they don't let in any light, but it makes attackers think twice!
I actually agee with you pretty well. Who's shooting to be the desktop environment for the masses? Ubuntu? Mint perhaps?
debian and fedora are trying to be pretty bad-ass lynxes (to borrow your terminology) and do it well.
I don't necessarily see that linux couldn't ever be a great OS for the ordinary folk, but it's certianly not the direction most contributors are pulling in. They're making it ever more awesome for the likes of me (software dev).
Bad for the economy != bad for th individual
Good for the economy != good gor the individual
Nobody out there in the business world is tryin to boost the economy, they're acting in their own best interests. If FOSS appeals on cost and functionality then companies will go for it. if they don't see the value they won't. "The Economy" is the result of individual and corporate actions, not the driver.
Hey, thanks for that link, it was an interesting read (even if I don't fully empathise with or agree with him in a bunch of places).
At 18 or 19, I would have found the situation quite intimidating, meaning I'm guessing that he will probably fold under a bit of pressure and give the cops what they want.
That's all I meant. Not "He's only 19 so he must be innocent", not "He's only 19 so he's not responsible for his actions", not whatever other image you've built of my argument, just that at his age he is probably susceptible to pressure and the police probably know it.
+1, how charmingly naive!
Well firstly - there's no danger of Lulzsec not calling it in, they love publicity.
Secondly, no, I don't consider them a 'real' threat. They're not threatening lives.
Maybe the logic is that he knows *something* about the group, whatever it is, and the best way to get it out of him is haul him far from home and trump up a bunch of charges. He's only 19 after all.
Funny that, but prison rape isn't so much of a problem in the UK as it is in the great old US of A, where it seems to actually be encouraged as part of the punishment.
No, not everyone, they don't. Not everyone has much to invest. That's an unfortuante fact of life, we are not all mentally or physically equal.
Also, the IQ test being largely (IIRC) about language based reasoning and pattern matching, it seems to me that even if you think it's a terrible measure of intelligence it probably matches up quite well to computer-related thought.
No, but the fact that we've invested mental effort into getting to know computers puts us ahead of the population mean in terms of IQ.
Just like people who have invested mental effort in other areas. The key being that there was mental capacity and effort to invest, and comparing a group of people that do that against the mean for everyone.
I have no idea what a dilatory motion is, but if it's relevant - reasonable costs are assessed. You don't get to hire the ten most expensive lawyers in the business and pay them bonus money on top in the expectation the other guy will have to pay.
Adblock Plus and Cookie Monster are on there too!
Adblock can help you with the loading of facebook stuff on other sites, if you want.
I have mine set up to only allow content of any sort to be loaded from facebook.com (or the fbcdn sites) if I'm actually browsing those sites.
Google, more difficult I guess, I may not want to block everything from them when it's not first party.
Yeah.... just no.
It creates more problems (as a buyer, I find chargeback to be a good feature of CC and paypal transactions in case I get ripped off), it can take several days to transfer other currencies in and out, transactions are not free as bitcoin fans like to claim, and it's really seriously unstable.