"If Microsoft's defenders think free software is the road to socialism..."
The lunatic fringe does. The "road to socialism" (a play on "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek) is not paved by people making their own choices on whether to put time and effort into developing software, and then deciding what prices (none to infinity) to sell it at. The free market recognizes the rights of property owners (such as people that create software) to dispose of their property as they see fit. This includes giving it away for free, or more commonly, being paid by others to develop software, which is then given away for free by the employers. There's no socialism here, only the free market at work. I think reasonable people, either pro or anti-MS products, are aware of this.
Here's what I've found when you respect freedom of speech; either you have people debating other people's (sometimes by name) ideas, or you have people attacking other people. The audience will naturally lean one way or the other, and it is very difficult if not impossible to change things from a forum of personal attacks to a forum of ideas if that's already been lost. A forum cannot choose its audience before it arrives; they are stuck with whatever comes along. So if the law forum is using people's names when naming ideas and positions, that's fine. If it's naming names to destroy people's character and reputation, it can only be ignored by people of good will, until a new law forum pops up with a better audience.
French Constitutional Council = France. Rodney King = Los Angeles, California. It's not necessary to mention Rodney King in the uber-parent, this will only activate flame-wars.
Oh. Slashdot isn't a blog. Or at least I don't think it is. It's supposed to give us news, not unsupported opinions that are only tangentially related to the uber-parent's cited articles.
What blog are you talking about? The uber-parent has two links to the BBC and CNN, neither of which are blogs, and neither of which support Coryoth's random commentary.
Idle chatter on a stock board is noise. It can be tuned out and ignored. AMD is down 3.95% for the day, btw. DJIA had an awful day after the China sell-off. That's the real news, a possible recession, not pump and dumps on Yahoo.
I'd toss out the conviction of the judge based on an illegal search and seizure, prosecute the hacker through the DCMCA and general wire-tapping laws, and allow the judge to file a civil suit for property invasion. You can't spy on everyone possible where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy to see if they might be doing something illegal. You need a search warrant when American citizens are involved. So while breaking and entering into the judge's computer and finding data contraband, who knows what personal details of other people's lives, financial data, credit card numbers, etc. that this criminal has gathered while repeatedly breaking and entering into other people's property. I can't trespass into your home to see if you have drugs or child porn or what have you. Even if I find something illegal, I've already broken into your home and searched it top from bottom, without your knowledge, consent, or a search warrant, and I've broken into thousands of other houses and found nothing. This is the same thing; the hacker is a one-man brownshirt, with no respect for the rule of law or due process.
"Environmental groups have given this plan a lukewarm reception. They feel Australia should sign on to the Kyoto protocol first."
This slap is unsourced and is not present in the linked article. Not all environmental groups support the Kyoto protocol; this makes the vague implied assertion, that all environmental groups are giving a plan to replace incandescents with alternative lighting technologies "lukewarm" support, suspect.
" The Senator said he wanted to free America from 'the tyranny of oil' and went on to promote alternative energy sources such as ethanol -- a popular stance in the Midwest where he announced, because of all the corn farmers."
Hurray for corporate welfare and self-destructive policy.
I think the Humane Society does itself no favors by ripping apart the 1st, 9th and 14th Amendment in pursuit of its own goals. Maybe it should try convincing people not to sell or buy animal fight magazines, and cease and desist its self-serving attacks against the US Constitution.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Inflation Calculator (http://minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/) , $33.86 1996 would be $44.35 in 2007 dollars.
Maybe the RIAA doesn't believe in free-market economics, but the price of a product follows the S-curve, and should drop from its introduction price, not stay there forever. Lunacy to expect or whine that a product should remain in the "early adopter" phase of the S-curve for the life of the product.
I'm sorry, but a dream job isn't shoving a crippled laptop in front of people's faces who are in far greater need of basic necessities. My dream job is something that creates, um, jobs, and is a major contributor to increased wealth and freedom. OLPC, eh, that's just muddled and not so interesting.
Of course, completely ignored are the bribes given to those pushing climate change hysteria and draconian government responses, such as government funding, mainstream media adoration, and cash from liberal and progressive pressure groups. I'd feel a lot happier if government wasn't funding either side. Government funding politicizes and distorts anything it touches. That science has become twisted and partisan should be not be a surprising result.
Verizon has been aggressively rolling out FiOS in southern New Hampshire, for months. I don't think that will all evaporate as soon as FairPoint takes ownership. Disposing of value added infrastructure would just be dumb.
"Neither article quite says that some responsibility must fall to the administration's footdragging on global warming."
Inappropriate ideological sniping. That is a stated opinion on a highly disputed theory among experts in the field, not science.
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Actually, the Pentium is CISC, x86 internally. The Pentium Pro is RISC, non-x86 internally. As is the AMD K5 and up. For some reason, Cyrix stuck with x86 internal. See sandpile.org.
If as the parent implied, Wikipedia is being overrun by Al Jazeerites from Qatar (Gutter), I don't see what the problem is. In fact, Wikipedia may have actually successfully fixed one, for once.
You never brought up any errors in journalism until now, and without a description of what the error actually is. Your statements are not even coherent anymore. It's also rather petty of you to snipe that you're going off to focus on "more interesting and important things," when I tried to end the thread awhile back. You also seem to have a problem with Slashdot. The problem isn't Slashdot and I (Slashdot managment doesn't even like me), it's with you.
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The lunatic fringe does. The "road to socialism" (a play on "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek) is not paved by people making their own choices on whether to put time and effort into developing software, and then deciding what prices (none to infinity) to sell it at. The free market recognizes the rights of property owners (such as people that create software) to dispose of their property as they see fit. This includes giving it away for free, or more commonly, being paid by others to develop software, which is then given away for free by the employers. There's no socialism here, only the free market at work. I think reasonable people, either pro or anti-MS products, are aware of this.
Here's what I've found when you respect freedom of speech; either you have people debating other people's (sometimes by name) ideas, or you have people attacking other people. The audience will naturally lean one way or the other, and it is very difficult if not impossible to change things from a forum of personal attacks to a forum of ideas if that's already been lost. A forum cannot choose its audience before it arrives; they are stuck with whatever comes along. So if the law forum is using people's names when naming ideas and positions, that's fine. If it's naming names to destroy people's character and reputation, it can only be ignored by people of good will, until a new law forum pops up with a better audience.
French Constitutional Council = France. Rodney King = Los Angeles, California. It's not necessary to mention Rodney King in the uber-parent, this will only activate flame-wars.
Jimbo Wales should force "Essjay" to resign and ban him from future work on Wikipedia. If Jimbo Wales had any sense of ethics. Or a soul.
Oh. Slashdot isn't a blog. Or at least I don't think it is. It's supposed to give us news, not unsupported opinions that are only tangentially related to the uber-parent's cited articles.
What blog are you talking about? The uber-parent has two links to the BBC and CNN, neither of which are blogs, and neither of which support Coryoth's random commentary.
Way to shameless editorialize, without even bothering to think of an argument in support of your apparently thoughtless position.
Idle chatter on a stock board is noise. It can be tuned out and ignored. AMD is down 3.95% for the day, btw. DJIA had an awful day after the China sell-off. That's the real news, a possible recession, not pump and dumps on Yahoo.
Eh, this is true. I'm so used to the actual article diverging so wildly from the summary, I just end up selecting one or the other to respond to.
I'd toss out the conviction of the judge based on an illegal search and seizure, prosecute the hacker through the DCMCA and general wire-tapping laws, and allow the judge to file a civil suit for property invasion. You can't spy on everyone possible where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy to see if they might be doing something illegal. You need a search warrant when American citizens are involved. So while breaking and entering into the judge's computer and finding data contraband, who knows what personal details of other people's lives, financial data, credit card numbers, etc. that this criminal has gathered while repeatedly breaking and entering into other people's property. I can't trespass into your home to see if you have drugs or child porn or what have you. Even if I find something illegal, I've already broken into your home and searched it top from bottom, without your knowledge, consent, or a search warrant, and I've broken into thousands of other houses and found nothing. This is the same thing; the hacker is a one-man brownshirt, with no respect for the rule of law or due process.
This slap is unsourced and is not present in the linked article. Not all environmental groups support the Kyoto protocol; this makes the vague implied assertion, that all environmental groups are giving a plan to replace incandescents with alternative lighting technologies "lukewarm" support, suspect.
Hurray for corporate welfare and self-destructive policy.
I think the Humane Society does itself no favors by ripping apart the 1st, 9th and 14th Amendment in pursuit of its own goals. Maybe it should try convincing people not to sell or buy animal fight magazines, and cease and desist its self-serving attacks against the US Constitution.
Sounds like most of my prior bosses.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Inflation Calculator (http://minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/) , $33.86 1996 would be $44.35 in 2007 dollars.
Maybe the RIAA doesn't believe in free-market economics, but the price of a product follows the S-curve, and should drop from its introduction price, not stay there forever. Lunacy to expect or whine that a product should remain in the "early adopter" phase of the S-curve for the life of the product.
I'm sorry, but a dream job isn't shoving a crippled laptop in front of people's faces who are in far greater need of basic necessities. My dream job is something that creates, um, jobs, and is a major contributor to increased wealth and freedom. OLPC, eh, that's just muddled and not so interesting.
Eh, so much for free software. It's only free until the open-source zealots go nutty over any of their pet peeves, such as Microsoft.
Of course, completely ignored are the bribes given to those pushing climate change hysteria and draconian government responses, such as government funding, mainstream media adoration, and cash from liberal and progressive pressure groups. I'd feel a lot happier if government wasn't funding either side. Government funding politicizes and distorts anything it touches. That science has become twisted and partisan should be not be a surprising result.
Sounds like the Koreans had no concern for security, and went bonkers on worst security practices.
Verizon has been aggressively rolling out FiOS in southern New Hampshire, for months. I don't think that will all evaporate as soon as FairPoint takes ownership. Disposing of value added infrastructure would just be dumb.
Inappropriate ideological sniping. That is a stated opinion on a highly disputed theory among experts in the field, not science.
Actually, the Pentium is CISC, x86 internally. The Pentium Pro is RISC, non-x86 internally. As is the AMD K5 and up. For some reason, Cyrix stuck with x86 internal. See sandpile.org.
If as the parent implied, Wikipedia is being overrun by Al Jazeerites from Qatar (Gutter), I don't see what the problem is. In fact, Wikipedia may have actually successfully fixed one, for once.
You never brought up any errors in journalism until now, and without a description of what the error actually is. Your statements are not even coherent anymore. It's also rather petty of you to snipe that you're going off to focus on "more interesting and important things," when I tried to end the thread awhile back. You also seem to have a problem with Slashdot. The problem isn't Slashdot and I (Slashdot managment doesn't even like me), it's with you.