But you'd still need enough machines and enough space to hold those machines. Depending on where you locate it, warehousing costs aren't as big as you'd think.
Have you ever sat down and read a book on a computer? It's a pain in the ass, quite literally. For reference purposes, ebooks are great. But for magazines and novels they're not all that great.
Nice way to be really fucking vague. Care to point us to anything that actually states what the patent was about, and what the method in question is? Neither of the articles you linked mentions anything about it.
He's doing the same "OMG!!!1 MS USED BSD CODE!!!! OPEN SOURCE!!!!1" bullshit that gets mentioned every fucking time anything regarding MS comes up. At one time, and no longer, MS used the BSD TCP/IP stack. That's it. That's what he's trying to bitch about. Fucking lame, isn't it?
You are aware that not even te GPL requires anonymous people to be given the code, right? That the only requirement is that the code be given to whoever binaries are distributed to. Freely available source is not mandatory.
Care to be a bit less of a biased paranoid dumbass next time? This is like using the question "Would you prefer being stabbed in the balls with a hot iron or drinking a small amount of gasoline?" to prove that people like to drink gasoline.
Yeah, I think you are. Those two statements live in perfect harmony with me. The system serving the people is cameras cutting down crime. The people serving the system is... well... 1984.
Damn, I have to ignore my own post now.:\
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You expect nobody is following you with a camcorder, but it is perfectly legal for them to do so. You're correct that the streetlamp shouldn't be recording your conversation, but we're not talking about listening to people here. We're talking about doing something that sticking a cop on a pole could do, namely basic surveillance of a large area. Cameras are far cheaper than police officers, and it frees up officers to do other, more important, work.
While your bag may be in public, it is a PRIVATE belonging. Check your 'illegal seach and seizure' Constitutional amendments for more information.
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I can't imagine a place where cameras would actually be voted in by a majority of the population
I can. Quite easily. Most people are SANE and realize that they have no right to anonymity in PUBLIC, and would rather have that extra feeling of safety than the assurance that nobody sees them buying toilet paper.
You know what, paranoid dumbass, cameras have been everywhere for decades. People complained about it when they were installed in banks, in convenience stores. "OMG!!!!11 1984!!!1" Was the only partly coherent thing these morons could get out of their stupid faces. Is the goverment entitled to putting an all-seeing electronic eye in public?
Well, yeah. And so are you.
It's PUBLIC. Nobody owns PUBLIC. Everyone is free to do what they wish as long as it's lawful. Do you have a problem with having news broadcast in front of a window? OMG!!! CAMERA!!!!1 POINTING AT ME! Of course not. Why not? The potential for abuse is there. The reason is quite simple. IT IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT.
One important point you're missing is that you can't use videotape taken of someone in public without their permission. So, no Funniest Home Videos for you.
No, because Macintosh computers and Macintosh apples are two completely different areas of business. A better analog is Apple suing someone for buying up applemacintosh.com and distributing viral software through it.
Although I do detect a bit of humor in your post...
True enough. When I make posts like this in the future I'll be sure to add "Don't know about it" to the list of reasons a company doesn't GPL every damn piece of software they come up with.
I know the feeling. The only reason I'm still using Linux is because I have a crapload of things I need to backup before I can reinstall Windows. Around 20 gigs worth of stuff, and all of it goes on CD's (no DVD burner). Fun.
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Boo fucking hoo fucking whiny goddamned Slashdot fucking pussy. You ever think they DON'T FUCKING CARE about your fucking geek ass? You ever think they're more worried about getting their fucking job done than masturbating over the latest Stallman article? You ever think that maybe, just maybe, not everyone is some stupid fucking zealot that needs to turn software into a fucking religion because they're such inept social retards that their computer is the only thing that keeps them sane? Fucking moron.
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But you'd still need enough machines and enough space to hold those machines. Depending on where you locate it, warehousing costs aren't as big as you'd think.
Have you ever sat down and read a book on a computer? It's a pain in the ass, quite literally. For reference purposes, ebooks are great. But for magazines and novels they're not all that great.
Nice way to be really fucking vague. Care to point us to anything that actually states what the patent was about, and what the method in question is? Neither of the articles you linked mentions anything about it.
He's doing the same "OMG!!!1 MS USED BSD CODE!!!! OPEN SOURCE!!!!1" bullshit that gets mentioned every fucking time anything regarding MS comes up. At one time, and no longer, MS used the BSD TCP/IP stack. That's it. That's what he's trying to bitch about. Fucking lame, isn't it?
Like I can't learn that from KDE or Mozilla already.
You are aware that not even te GPL requires anonymous people to be given the code, right? That the only requirement is that the code be given to whoever binaries are distributed to. Freely available source is not mandatory.
He's implying COMPUTER network, dumbass.
It just means I ignore my own post. What was I talking about, anyway?
C) A random mugger
Care to be a bit less of a biased paranoid dumbass next time? This is like using the question "Would you prefer being stabbed in the balls with a hot iron or drinking a small amount of gasoline?" to prove that people like to drink gasoline.
Yeah, I think you are. Those two statements live in perfect harmony with me. The system serving the people is cameras cutting down crime. The people serving the system is... well... 1984.
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Damn, I have to ignore my own post now.
You expect nobody is following you with a camcorder, but it is perfectly legal for them to do so. You're correct that the streetlamp shouldn't be recording your conversation, but we're not talking about listening to people here. We're talking about doing something that sticking a cop on a pole could do, namely basic surveillance of a large area. Cameras are far cheaper than police officers, and it frees up officers to do other, more important, work.
While your bag may be in public, it is a PRIVATE belonging. Check your 'illegal seach and seizure' Constitutional amendments for more information.
So fucking what? It's still a violation of your 'privacy' isn't it?
You know what, paranoid dumbass, cameras have been everywhere for decades. People complained about it when they were installed in banks, in convenience stores. "OMG!!!!11 1984!!!1" Was the only partly coherent thing these morons could get out of their stupid faces. Is the goverment entitled to putting an all-seeing electronic eye in public?
Well, yeah. And so are you.
It's PUBLIC. Nobody owns PUBLIC. Everyone is free to do what they wish as long as it's lawful. Do you have a problem with having news broadcast in front of a window? OMG!!! CAMERA!!!!1 POINTING AT ME! Of course not. Why not? The potential for abuse is there. The reason is quite simple. IT IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT.
One important point you're missing is that you can't use videotape taken of someone in public without their permission. So, no Funniest Home Videos for you.
That never existed. Hop in a time machine and try fucking someone in a park each of the last 10 decades and see what happens.
Why? The phrase works either way. Complaining about it smacks of 'whiny grammar bitch'.
Sounds like someone had a nerve poked. Lighten the fuck up, dude. It was a lameass analogy that didn't deserve as much time as you gave it.
It probably would if Brazil had anything to do with it.
No, because Macintosh computers and Macintosh apples are two completely different areas of business. A better analog is Apple suing someone for buying up applemacintosh.com and distributing viral software through it.
Although I do detect a bit of humor in your post...
Flying WAY THE HELL offtopic here, but how would you go about doing that when you're backing the files up on a Linux system for future use on Windows?
True enough. When I make posts like this in the future I'll be sure to add "Don't know about it" to the list of reasons a company doesn't GPL every damn piece of software they come up with.
I know the feeling. The only reason I'm still using Linux is because I have a crapload of things I need to backup before I can reinstall Windows. Around 20 gigs worth of stuff, and all of it goes on CD's (no DVD burner). Fun.
Boo fucking hoo fucking whiny goddamned Slashdot fucking pussy. You ever think they DON'T FUCKING CARE about your fucking geek ass? You ever think they're more worried about getting their fucking job done than masturbating over the latest Stallman article? You ever think that maybe, just maybe, not everyone is some stupid fucking zealot that needs to turn software into a fucking religion because they're such inept social retards that their computer is the only thing that keeps them sane? Fucking moron.