Considering attitudes like this are so prevalent in the Linux community, it's no wonder that Linux has come to dominate to the desktop market. Oh, wait..
Wow, I always wonder all the greatest minds in business decide to spend all of their time reading slashdot. And you don't even work in business! What a horrible waste. You could revolutionize the gaming industry.
Oh wait, maybe not. Maybe you just over simplified the situation and assumed everyone else is an idiot. Hey, you think if they dropped the price for games, then maybe people would start selling used games cheaper so it really wouldn't help their sales that much? No... that's crazy talk. Or gee, maybe they've done a little marketing research that suggests they wouldn't be able to double sales by cutting the price in half. Nah, "business-types" are colossoly stupid as you so aptly put it. They must have just not thought of it because they aren't smart like you.
If I had any mod points I would definitely mod you down, mainly because you preemptively insulted anyone who does. Either even you dont' think your post is good, you think everyone is out to get you, that you're better than everyone else, or that you can get people to not mod you down by saying if they do they don't have a sense of humor.
One thing that bugs me about some pay for download software is that they will only let you download the software for a certain period of time, sometimes as short as two weeks, so if you should lose the original copy due to hardware failure or something like that you're screwed. It's made me wary about buying software online.
In fact, most people would probably argue against it.
I always find comments like this amusing. Most people don't give a shit. Even if you changed it to most geeks, I still would find the comment doubtful. Unless you go with most OSS evangelists, I don't think your ocmment holds up. The average computer user would be completely disinterested in any argument about whether proprietary codecs should be allowed. Unless they happen to be pro-capitalism, in which case there's a good chance they would think it was a ridiculous question.
Wow, thanks for posting a rational comment. That's so rare on slashdot nowadays.
Anyway, I can understand why people don't want their medical records or reading habits or whatever available to others. Privacy is great. But why don't people want them to know that someone is watching the shows they watch? TiVo doesn't even keep track of who is watching the shows.
I'm sorry, but despite what the original poster says, I think he or she does in fact need a tin-foil hat. Possibly glued to his or her head.
You're at least as much of a jackass for assuming that because it worked for you, the other person must've fucked something up, unless anyone who has a system in which any conditions differ from yours have "messed up something."
So you're saying if you're not a hardcore gamer, then fuck you, if I understand it correctly? I"m sure game companies will back you up there, because I know they certainly don't care about getting any money by selling their game to more people. You're so right though about renting your own server. I know everyone who buys a game and doesn't rent their own server to play it on is a worthless human being. In fact, I think not only should they not be able to play the game without a bunch of mods, but I think we should have them beaten up and have their computer taken away, just to show them who's boss. Internet gaming isn't a democracy after all, right?
Who cares whose fault it is? The fact is that it's a problem with Linux, and Linux advocates can't just sweep problems like these under the rug and say Linux is just as good on the desktop, when there are quite clearly major problems.
And bitch about hardware companies not releasing drivers or specifications all you want, but if they're willing to lose potential Linux business, which is at this point a pretty small market for things like sound cards, then it's their right to do so. Don't blame the hardware companies that Linux hasn't gotten enough marketshare for it to always be economically beneficial for them to write Linux drivers.
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All the arguments in the post you link to are dependant on the dominance of free software in the Linux operating system. Do you really think that if Linux ever became the dominating operating system that there wouldn't be commercial developers competing with every open source project? Unless you indoctrinate everyone with FSF bullshit, then they're going to install commercial software for some of their needs, and the average user doesn't know how to avoid spyware, trojans, etcetera.
Your first point in the post you referenced is very weak because almost all Linux users still have the super user account enabled and I don't see any major trends in the direction of that changing yet. It is possible that that will be changed, but right now it's only a hypothetical, and even if it is changed, there will still be accounts with heightened privileges that can be broken into, so it will be more difficult to gain control of a system perhaps, but not impossible.
Your seconnd point in the linked-to post also seems pretty weak, because users can acquire malicious code through email or downloaded software which will severely harm them, as well as possibly other users by way of the network, such as by sending out mass emails, causing excess network traffic, and son.
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Anti-virus software will be needed if Linux goes mainstream because a lot of security problems aren't the result of a software vulnerability. Trivial passwords, socially engineered virus emails, trojan horses, etc. Patch your code all you want but an uninformed or careless user can still let all sorts of malicious code in.
I've never had the problem you describe for FTP. The problem you describe about JPEGs is a terrible example, because who in their right mind would put 1000s of JPEGs in one folder anyway? That's a shining example of a lack of organizational skills and I can't imagine anyone actually doing it unless it was to try and find a problem like that. And your example of a USB flash disk is also terrible, because it's obviously something that would only occur when someone was trying to make their system crash, since you can unmount disks by simply dragging the icon onto the trash, which is what I, and every other OS X user I know, always does.
I have a pretty high end PC, and Konqueror is much less responsive than Finder is on my 867 mhz powerbook. Nautilus is good in my opinion - certainly a much better choice to try and compare the finder to than Konqueror, though I still think it falls a bit short (though I haven't played with it much in 2.6 yet).
Were you high when you wrote this? Almost all contracts involve signing away some right or another. Whether it's the right to certain property (sales contracts), the right to free speech (NDAs), all sorts of rights in your average EULA..
You can't sell yourself into slavery because slavery is illegal. There's nothing illegal about you NOT decrypting or making extra copies of songs you've purchased.
(c) The issue of whether clicking "I Agree" confers a contractual obligation is currently very unclear indeed.
Can you site any precedent for your statement that clicking I Agree is not necessarily a valid way to establish a contractual obligation? There is a statement of terms, a way to accept or reject those terms, and a transfer of value by each party.
You mean the number of macs you can share to are limited in number? If that's your problem, I'm fairly sure that fair use doesn't allow you to use a file or piece of media in as many different places at once as you want.
Besides which, contract law supercedes copyright law, so if the license agreement limits your fair use, you have no legal argument from copyright law.
This is the kind of post that makes me think slashdot must lower peoples' IQs. For one thing, your last line is a thinly veiled "if you don't like me you're stupid" argument. If you weren't in it for the karma you wouldn't have included that, but you wanted to try and make people feel bad if they modded you down, which they shouldn't. Because your post is bad.
But to the actual substance of your argument, offering people money to get them to do something that they otherwise wouldn't want to do is in no way extortion. Buy a damn dictionary. It might be bribery if the action that the person the US is paying is unethical or illegal, but if you were trying to make such a claim about this case, you failed miserably.
Have you ever actually paid attention to US media? Except for Fox News, which is terrible, almost nothing positive ever gets said about G.W.. Oh, and I guess Rush Limbaugh probably likes him too. I seriously doubt that you've ever spent much time observing American media, instead of just making generalizations about it.
Hey, interesting point about Noriega, except that the victims of 9/11 were all civilians. None of them died as a result of trying to defend a drug lord.
These atrocities you're talkign about that are "on par" with the holocaust aren't even close. Exaggerating slightly is one thing, but comparing the US government to the Nazis on account of the fact that bad things have happened which wouldn't have if we didn't give out aid is ridiculous. I'm perfectly fine with giving out aid to nobody, but unfortunately, most Americans think our country should be humanitarian, so we lend money to other countries, and yes, we expect it to be paid back. If you think that's a crime then why don't we just start tossing anyone who lends out money in jail?
I can't tell if you're serious or going for funny, but a tariff is a type of tax. It's still collected from the tax payers, just not in a way as direct as deducting it from their pay checks.
You make an interesting point, but the addition of netsky to the mix, which if I'm understanding things correctly disables the other two viruses and prevents the computer from being used for spam seems counter productive. That certainly doesn't rule out the possibility of the comments as a distraction, but it makes it seem a little less probable to me.
Communist ideology has had an unfortunately large influence on the American political climate. Without them a lot of "progressive" ideas would not have taken hold as well as they did, and I might actually be able to keep almost all of my pay check. But apart from that, communists want to rob me of any meaningful property rights. So fuck 'em.
Sure, it might make quite a few people rabid microsoft haters. But it's still only a tiny percentage of the population who gives a shit. In fact, outside of slashdot and linux/mac specific forums, not much of anyone seems to have any righteous indignation over Microsoft (unless they hate the rich in general). I don't hate Microsoft that much. I just hate all their products. I'm become less and less willing to get infuriated about their business practices, except maybe them bank rolling SCO to attack Linux, but now I'm rambling...
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Considering attitudes like this are so prevalent in the Linux community, it's no wonder that Linux has come to dominate to the desktop market. Oh, wait..
Does that make Wine anti-anti-spyware? And by the way. Even though this is slashdot, not every thread is about Linux.
Oh wait, maybe not. Maybe you just over simplified the situation and assumed everyone else is an idiot. Hey, you think if they dropped the price for games, then maybe people would start selling used games cheaper so it really wouldn't help their sales that much? No... that's crazy talk. Or gee, maybe they've done a little marketing research that suggests they wouldn't be able to double sales by cutting the price in half. Nah, "business-types" are colossoly stupid as you so aptly put it. They must have just not thought of it because they aren't smart like you.
What incentive? Hmm... you think their advertisers might be a bit annoyed if they start telling people not to buy things from them?
If I had any mod points I would definitely mod you down, mainly because you preemptively insulted anyone who does. Either even you dont' think your post is good, you think everyone is out to get you, that you're better than everyone else, or that you can get people to not mod you down by saying if they do they don't have a sense of humor.
One thing that bugs me about some pay for download software is that they will only let you download the software for a certain period of time, sometimes as short as two weeks, so if you should lose the original copy due to hardware failure or something like that you're screwed. It's made me wary about buying software online.
If this is, as you say, not a troll, then I've never seen anyone more deserving of a tinfoil hat prize.
I always find comments like this amusing. Most people don't give a shit. Even if you changed it to most geeks, I still would find the comment doubtful. Unless you go with most OSS evangelists, I don't think your ocmment holds up. The average computer user would be completely disinterested in any argument about whether proprietary codecs should be allowed. Unless they happen to be pro-capitalism, in which case there's a good chance they would think it was a ridiculous question.
Anyway, I can understand why people don't want their medical records or reading habits or whatever available to others. Privacy is great. But why don't people want them to know that someone is watching the shows they watch? TiVo doesn't even keep track of who is watching the shows.
I'm sorry, but despite what the original poster says, I think he or she does in fact need a tin-foil hat. Possibly glued to his or her head.
You're at least as much of a jackass for assuming that because it worked for you, the other person must've fucked something up, unless anyone who has a system in which any conditions differ from yours have "messed up something."
So you're saying if you're not a hardcore gamer, then fuck you, if I understand it correctly? I"m sure game companies will back you up there, because I know they certainly don't care about getting any money by selling their game to more people. You're so right though about renting your own server. I know everyone who buys a game and doesn't rent their own server to play it on is a worthless human being. In fact, I think not only should they not be able to play the game without a bunch of mods, but I think we should have them beaten up and have their computer taken away, just to show them who's boss. Internet gaming isn't a democracy after all, right?
And bitch about hardware companies not releasing drivers or specifications all you want, but if they're willing to lose potential Linux business, which is at this point a pretty small market for things like sound cards, then it's their right to do so. Don't blame the hardware companies that Linux hasn't gotten enough marketshare for it to always be economically beneficial for them to write Linux drivers.
Your first point in the post you referenced is very weak because almost all Linux users still have the super user account enabled and I don't see any major trends in the direction of that changing yet. It is possible that that will be changed, but right now it's only a hypothetical, and even if it is changed, there will still be accounts with heightened privileges that can be broken into, so it will be more difficult to gain control of a system perhaps, but not impossible.
Your seconnd point in the linked-to post also seems pretty weak, because users can acquire malicious code through email or downloaded software which will severely harm them, as well as possibly other users by way of the network, such as by sending out mass emails, causing excess network traffic, and son.
Anti-virus software will be needed if Linux goes mainstream because a lot of security problems aren't the result of a software vulnerability. Trivial passwords, socially engineered virus emails, trojan horses, etc. Patch your code all you want but an uninformed or careless user can still let all sorts of malicious code in.
I have a pretty high end PC, and Konqueror is much less responsive than Finder is on my 867 mhz powerbook. Nautilus is good in my opinion - certainly a much better choice to try and compare the finder to than Konqueror, though I still think it falls a bit short (though I haven't played with it much in 2.6 yet).
Were you high when you wrote this? Almost all contracts involve signing away some right or another. Whether it's the right to certain property (sales contracts), the right to free speech (NDAs), all sorts of rights in your average EULA..
You can't sell yourself into slavery because slavery is illegal. There's nothing illegal about you NOT decrypting or making extra copies of songs you've purchased.
(c) The issue of whether clicking "I Agree" confers a contractual obligation is currently very unclear indeed.
Can you site any precedent for your statement that clicking I Agree is not necessarily a valid way to establish a contractual obligation? There is a statement of terms, a way to accept or reject those terms, and a transfer of value by each party.
Besides which, contract law supercedes copyright law, so if the license agreement limits your fair use, you have no legal argument from copyright law.
"Gimp is as good as Photoshop" isn't true. "The Gimp is good enough for most people' is true.
But to the actual substance of your argument, offering people money to get them to do something that they otherwise wouldn't want to do is in no way extortion. Buy a damn dictionary. It might be bribery if the action that the person the US is paying is unethical or illegal, but if you were trying to make such a claim about this case, you failed miserably.
Have you ever actually paid attention to US media? Except for Fox News, which is terrible, almost nothing positive ever gets said about G.W.. Oh, and I guess Rush Limbaugh probably likes him too. I seriously doubt that you've ever spent much time observing American media, instead of just making generalizations about it.
Hey, interesting point about Noriega, except that the victims of 9/11 were all civilians. None of them died as a result of trying to defend a drug lord.
These atrocities you're talkign about that are "on par" with the holocaust aren't even close. Exaggerating slightly is one thing, but comparing the US government to the Nazis on account of the fact that bad things have happened which wouldn't have if we didn't give out aid is ridiculous. I'm perfectly fine with giving out aid to nobody, but unfortunately, most Americans think our country should be humanitarian, so we lend money to other countries, and yes, we expect it to be paid back. If you think that's a crime then why don't we just start tossing anyone who lends out money in jail?
I can't tell if you're serious or going for funny, but a tariff is a type of tax. It's still collected from the tax payers, just not in a way as direct as deducting it from their pay checks.
Have you ever actually checked to see how much porn is on p2p systems? Trust me. Porn is a lot of peoples' favorite content.
You make an interesting point, but the addition of netsky to the mix, which if I'm understanding things correctly disables the other two viruses and prevents the computer from being used for spam seems counter productive. That certainly doesn't rule out the possibility of the comments as a distraction, but it makes it seem a little less probable to me.
Communist ideology has had an unfortunately large influence on the American political climate. Without them a lot of "progressive" ideas would not have taken hold as well as they did, and I might actually be able to keep almost all of my pay check. But apart from that, communists want to rob me of any meaningful property rights. So fuck 'em.
Sure, it might make quite a few people rabid microsoft haters. But it's still only a tiny percentage of the population who gives a shit. In fact, outside of slashdot and linux/mac specific forums, not much of anyone seems to have any righteous indignation over Microsoft (unless they hate the rich in general). I don't hate Microsoft that much. I just hate all their products. I'm become less and less willing to get infuriated about their business practices, except maybe them bank rolling SCO to attack Linux, but now I'm rambling...
This is one of the stupidest posts I've ever read. All I have to say is this.