There's more to it than that. For instance, like all UNIX distributions, Mac OS X spawns background system processes, called daemons, to handle various tasks. When a user logs into Mac OS X, a special security context is created for that user. Any applications that user launches are started under that user's credentials. Background processes can respond to requests from user-level applications, but they can not initiate any contact with the user, nor present any graphical interface, because they operate in a separate security context.
This is an important security measure that is missing in Windows, which allows for "interactive services." Allowing system processes running as root ("Services running as LocalSystem" in Windows-speak) to present a graphic UI to a logged in user ("become interactive with the desktop") is, to quote an MSDN blogger, a "spectacularly bad idea that should never have been added to the system."
Window's casual mix of security contexts makes it easy for malicious code to jump from the user's limited access realm into the root context, making it easy for a basic exploit to take over the entire machine. Exploiting this Windows-only flaw is called a Shatter Attack.
For you to claim "EVERY other problem is created by the user" is ludicrous.
And if MS released Vista WITH the fixes, thus rendering antivirus sw/anti-malware sw obsolete, people on here would complain about "WHY do I have to pay for this upgrade to fix the problems they didn't in previous versions?!?"
Uh...no, they wouldn't. In fact, Microsoft finally fixing Windows and making it a truly secure system would be something Slashdot would post a front page article about and (most) people would praise. Yes, there would be complaints that it took them this long, which would be warranted.
I think you're inventing a "damned if they do/don't" scenario here where there isn't one.
Is this the kind of fanatical "free software" trolling that gets upmodded these days? For those who are unaware, Twitter is a well-known anti-"M$" troll.
Everyone knows that most free software, by virtue of peer review, has fewer bugs and errors than commercial code does.
No, "everyone" does not know this, and the Mozilla codebase proves you wrong. It has had more exploits lately than your arch-nemesis Internet Explorer. In your eyes, everybody is a programmer spending hours poring over line after line of source code, which never happens.
This whole issue is a troll the non free software companies come up with every few years. It's a mistake for them, however, and will blow up in their faces. Free software will overcome such nonsense the same way Good Samaritans do.
And you moderators seriously fell for this?
Yeah, the mistake will blow up in their faces, just like you've been saying for years, Twitter. Meanwhile, where is free software on the desktop again? Oh, right, non-existent.
Now we see the reason for all the endless pro-MySQL articles on Slashdot. They've been using it since the site's inception, despite superior alternatives like PostgreSQL.
If MySQL hooking up with SCO wasn't enough to steer people away, this probably won't either.
Reading Digg is like becoming a time traveller and finding out which cool stories Slashdot might eventually post in the future, and all the other incredibly cool ones they'll ignore (like the Nintendo Revolution possibly costing only $99!).
Now that you've replaced Michael, we've had Michael's inflammatory articles replaced with dupes and game advertisements (notice you always just repeat Gamestop's score). I was just wondering, how is it you actually apply for position of "Slashdot's Most Hated Editor?" Is there an application to fill out? I think I could do a better job, and at the least save on some Slashdot bandwidth by actually firing up a web browser and reading the front page now and then to avoid dupes. Also, I'd post these gratuitious, near-daily game reviews in the Games section where they belong.
I mean, what's happening? Is OSTG pulling a TechTV and telling its employees to make Slashdot more "gamer-focused" or something while abandoning the hard technical stories (you know, the stuff Slashdot used to post on a daily basis years ago instead of the "Google-Microsoft-MySQL-Game review-random Apple rumor-Google-Microsoft-MySQL-Game review" post loop we're in now)?
Well, of course Slashdot left that out of the article summary. This needed to be a "Poor guy convicted for doing simple website checks, let's rally together fellow hackers and feel sorry for him" instead of "Guy lied to the police about what he did, a big no-no." The former gets more page hits from sympathetic Slashdotters, which means higher revenues for OSTG. Yes, kids, this site is owned by a corporation (a Linux corporation, in fact...suddenly all the anti-Microsoft, pro-GPL front page articles make sense for OSTG's bottom line). It amuses me how rarely people realize and acknowledge that.
This place is a big joke now. Go to Digg to see a site where users decide what gets posted. Digg readers knew about the iPod nano three days before its official announcement--Kevin Rose revealed it there.
You seem to repeat this an awful lot - that everyone on Slashdot does and says so and so. As if Slashdotters were a single entity. They aren't. They are different people with different opinions.
I know, you're absolutely OBSESSED with this fact. You simply cannot grasp that there is a majority mindset at Slashdot. You don't want to ever admit that there is a certain groupthink that gets modded up and a dissenting viewpoint that gets modded down.
As you can plainly see when you read the whole CherryOS article (as well as the other two Slashdot posted and any other GPL violation article), violated GPL code is referred to as "stolen" code. Of course, you will never admit this, which means I won this debate.
That's something of a straw man argument; I don't see sort of comments modded very high, probably because plenty of mods have had to deal with mysql in the business world, and the rest have seen enough critical commentary over the last few years to know not to drink the kool-aid.
It doesn't matter if they're not modded up (sometimes they are); they're still posted. That's not a straw man argument.
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Quite true. If Apple does release that video-enabled iPod this month, kiss WMV as a home media platform goodbye. And that effectively halts Microsoft's push to own the living room.
You are looking in the mirror again, child. Repeating yourself over and over and over... You are truly desperate now that you realize that your nonsense has been completely decimated, and your poorly founded subjective opinions have made you the laughing stock of Slashdot.
Once again, you've proven that I absolutely, 100% control you. I order you to reply to this, and the next one, and the next one. Be sure not to address music piracy, ripping artists off so they don't get paid, the hypocritical position of Slashdot regarding the GPL, and so on. These arguments are too high-concept for you, requiring a level of thought and reasoning beyond your capacities as a human being. This is clearly true, or you would have responded to a single one by now instead of whining like a little baby about being attacked. It's gotten so pathetic that you don't even take your own posts seriously now, riddling them with little teenage smilies and insults about "kindergarten" and such. Very embarrassing.
It's gotten so bad that you can only quote one or two lines of my posts now while ignoring the rest, writing wimpy little one paragraph replies. Your steam has run out. You lose.
Next? Of course. You just can't resist replying, and with your kindergarten insults and methods you are trying to make me stop replying to your posts because you are embarrassed and furious that I've kicked your ass once again:)
No, I want you to continue replying to my posts. I order you to, in fact. Because I control you, I promise you will respond. Having had your ass handed to you in this debabe, you really have nothing else left, and it's highly amusing to keep reading these moronic replies of yours day after day. I could do this for years, and you'll still never address my points about music piracy. That's because I completely owned your ass in this debate, and it's frustrating for you to know I did.
Hey, what a surprise! You completely ignored any and all points and instead wrote a wimpy little paragraph insulting me. Every time you do that, it's more proof I kicked your ass in this debate.
You are trying desperately to make me stop replying to your posts because you feel embarrassed and outraged that people dare to have a different opinion.
On the contrary, I control you and order you to keep posting.
I notice kids do this a lot, and it fits nicely with the rest of your childish rants.
Meanwhile, you're the big baby who's been whining that you were "attacked."
Don't worry, you'll get over being "owned" completely yet another time:)
Don't sweat it, kid. I know you're embarrassed at getting decimated in this debate and have nothing to offer but ridiculous attempts to "turn the tables" and pretend you had any semblance of a reasonable counterargument at any point.
Come on now, start repeating yourself - your old lies - over again. If it makes you feel better, please do!
No citation of these "lies." What a surprise! I clearly dominated your weaker mind and your inability to address any point that disagrees with the pre-molded worldview Slashdot has fashioned for you. Out of humiliation or shame or whatever, you're compelled to keep replying. I control you and order you to do it again. And after that, I order you to do it again. And after that, again.
Oh my. You just can't keep yourself from responding to me, can you?:)
I know you're embarrassed at your compulsion to reply to me, link to me, and fantasize about me, and you try to reflect that onto me, but nobody's buying it, kid. Look at yourself.
It must hurt for you to be ridiculed and left powerless and exposed. At least you're anonymous and won't have to deal with your comments from Slashdot in real life. Seeing as you have no spine, that would be a problem.
Any comments on music piracy? Just more personal attacks and weird accusations about being "powerless and exposed" on a messageboard? Thought so.
Your points don't stand, since you haven't had any points.
1.) Bitching about GPL violations while encouraging piracy is a double-standard. 2.) Pirating music directly rips off real humans beings, the artists. 3.) Pirates scapegoat the RIAA for everything to justify what they do. "The RIAA made me do it!" 4.) Etc. etc. etc.
All you've done is to spew out venom in rage that someone dares to speak against you. On the other hand, you have failed to respond to my points
What points? Cite a single one. All you've done is follow the same pattern for two days:
1.) Disregard any point about music piracy I made in the previous post 2.) Dismiss my points as "personal opinion" as if that somehow refutes them 3.) Mention "straw man" at least once without citing an example and explaining it 4.) Whine like a little baby about getting "attacked" on a messageboard
and instead dismissing everything because you think everyone on Slasdot shares the exact same opinion. You are so mentally ill that you can't understand that Slashdot is a community with lots of people with different opinion.
You're obsessed with this "Slashdot is a community of differing opinions." No, it has a majority mindset that mods up what it agrees with and mods down what it disagrees with. Editors get in on the action by posting inflammatory articles skewed toward a particularly viewpoint. Piracy is good, GPL violations are bad. You don 't want to acknowledge that you're a member of the Slashdot groupthink or that I've accurately zeroed in on your transparent, predictable mindset as a good little Slashdot hive member.
And of course, you just can't let go of the fact that you started talking about this "GPL hypocrisy" nonsense, as if it is relevant in the least when you were responding to my post, not someone who has been talking about the GPL.
It was relevant as an illustration of the hypocrisy of Slashdot, all the more relevant beside your pointless diatribe about record companies. You took it personally and adopted it as a direct accusation toward yourself and have been obsessed with it ever since, going on and on about Slashdot's alleged differing opinions.
Yet again, you lose. And you are so furious that you are going to write yet another rant which doesn't make sense and which is full of lies. You just can't resist, seeing as you are now burning up inside because the truths I speak make you scream in rage.
What you "speak" makes me scream in laughter. I'm so "furious" over your obsessive-compulsive need to follow the same loop every day. I'm "full of lies" (which you don't cite, and you won't in your next response).
Just accept it, kid. I completely dominated your ass in the debate over music piracy. I control you and order you to reply. You can't not reply because you have mental issues that require you to reply, attacking me personally to make yourself feel better. Each time you do this, it proves once again that I won. I beat you, and you know it. It's eating you alive. And I'm grinning from ear to ear.
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Hence the existence of iTunes to do all the ripping and encoding for them, just like with CDs.
You are looking in the mirror again. This is you describing yourself! Remember that first post of yours again? Simply avoiding the issue, and throwing around straw man arguments and ad hominem attacks.
Ah, you hit your "straw man" quota for the day! Furiously refreshing my user page waiting for new replies from me, inventing fantasy scenarios in your head where I was "fired from a record company," I can just see you sweating and trembling with fury over the fact I owned your ass in this debate, frustrated that you can't let it go. Get help, please. You need it. A lot.
You are no one's father, and considering you have no balls you won't have any children either when you get out of kindergarten and grow up.
Once again, personal attacks instead of arguing the points. It's no wonder you're such a whiney baby who runs screaming from the topic--music piracy. You obsess over me instead, inventing fantasies and linking to me in your sig.
Why do you keep replying to my comments then?
Because you clearly have an obsessive-compulsive desire to reply to every one of my posts. You can't let it go that I outwitted, outsmarted, and outdebated you in every single way. And you're upset that I zeroed in on your mindset, so easily predictable.
Hilarious. You keep attacking me, but you don't realize that your furious attacks are actually accurate descriptions of you!
Wow! What a great argument! "You don't realize that what you say actually bounces back and applies to you! Zing, that magically means I addressed your points on music piracy!" Meanwhile, all of my points on GPL hypocrisy, ripping off artists, etc. still stand. You will never be able to address them. You lack the mental capacity to do it, and the fact you won't respond to them proves it.
Video is not portable in any successful manner. Cell phone providers can't get people interested; portable mini-LCD DVD players spend more time on family room shelves than in-use.
Apple has this tendency to invigorate the markets they enter, like MP3 players.
Music videos? Does MTV even play them anymore? Who watches videos?
Lots of people. So because MTV doesn't play them means we don't want them? MTV doesn't play videos because Viacom gets higher advertising rates running reality shows than music videos.
You're not thinking through this. Imagine being able to buy Family Guy episodes through iTunes and watching them on an iPod during a long trip.
My impression is that Apple is trying to make the market viable, yet the iPod's popularity rode on years of MP3 success from Napster-on. Who trades videos over P2P or buys video DVDs from Borders, Wal-Mart or Amazon?
Who trades videos over P2P?! Tons of people do!
I can't see why this is needed unless Apple foresees video Podcasts from independent video "bloggers" or DIY TV show sites, but even that is a stretch.
Video podcasts are already happening.
The iPod coasted on the coattails of a huge market without a user friendly portable player. Video iPod is trying to invent a market boom.
Yeah, I take predictions of Apple product successes on Slashdot with the same grain of salt as when the iPod came out ("No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame") and the iPod mini came out ("For a little more, you can get the bigger model with more space! Clearly the iPod mini will completely flop").
Aw, did it hurt when I turned your own childish nonsense against you yet another time?:)
On the contrary, I find it absolutely hysterical that you have nothing else to offer and feel compelled to reply to every single post I make. You even obsess over me in your sig! It's freaky.
Don't cry angry little tears little troll. You are clearly mentally ill, and I'm sure you will be able to find help. At least you can use Slashdot as a place to spread FUD and lies and feel better about yourself for being a complete failure and being fired from the record company you used to work for.
Hilarious! Fired from a record company? What kind of fantasies are you inventing your head, and why am I involved in them? Oh my god, this has gotten even weirder and more pathetic than I ever imagined it would.
There's a name for what you are doing: The Stockholm syndrome. They mistreated you and fired you, yet you defend them.
Yeah, you've figured it all out! All that endless whining and whining and avoiding of addressing my points, and now all you have left is to magically invent things to attack me with! I am actually laughing out loud as I type these words, kid.
You honestly are the most pathetic, ridiculous person I've come into contact with on Slashdot, by far. The staggering lengths you'll go to to avoid admitting you were outsmarted, you were wrong, and you can't address my points is amazing and frighteningly sad. Clearly you have an obsessive-compulsive desire to reply to every one of my posts and make an even bigger fool of yourself than the previous time. You were outwitted and tossed aside, and it has damaged your ego to the point of lashing out for attention. I can only assume it has something to do with lack of attention from your father growing up. Well, kid, I'm not your father, and you don't need my attention.
Uh, sure, Sun is going to integrate MSDE into their operating system.
Incidentally, Microsoft SQL Server holds the honor of being the host for the fastest distributed Internet worm.
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Replace "fragmentation" with "free market." If people don't like the version that doesn't release its fixes as source, they can start their own version, and if it's superior, it wins out. Or if it's not as good as the closed yet superior version, the closed one wins out. And of course, you can choose whichever floats your boat no matter what.
That's the freedom RMS and company don't want you to have.
Besides, it's not like fragmentation isn't a hugely rampant problem in the GPL-based world. Unusually, there's much more of it than in the BSD world.
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There's more to it than that. For instance, like all UNIX distributions, Mac OS X spawns background system processes, called daemons, to handle various tasks. When a user logs into Mac OS X, a special security context is created for that user. Any applications that user launches are started under that user's credentials. Background processes can respond to requests from user-level applications, but they can not initiate any contact with the user, nor present any graphical interface, because they operate in a separate security context.
This is an important security measure that is missing in Windows, which allows for "interactive services." Allowing system processes running as root ("Services running as LocalSystem" in Windows-speak) to present a graphic UI to a logged in user ("become interactive with the desktop") is, to quote an MSDN blogger, a "spectacularly bad idea that should never have been added to the system."
Window's casual mix of security contexts makes it easy for malicious code to jump from the user's limited access realm into the root context, making it easy for a basic exploit to take over the entire machine. Exploiting this Windows-only flaw is called a Shatter Attack.
For you to claim "EVERY other problem is created by the user" is ludicrous.
And if MS released Vista WITH the fixes, thus rendering antivirus sw/anti-malware sw obsolete, people on here would complain about "WHY do I have to pay for this upgrade to fix the problems they didn't in previous versions?!?"
Uh...no, they wouldn't. In fact, Microsoft finally fixing Windows and making it a truly secure system would be something Slashdot would post a front page article about and (most) people would praise. Yes, there would be complaints that it took them this long, which would be warranted.
I think you're inventing a "damned if they do/don't" scenario here where there isn't one.
Is this the kind of fanatical "free software" trolling that gets upmodded these days? For those who are unaware, Twitter is a well-known anti-"M$" troll.
Everyone knows that most free software, by virtue of peer review, has fewer bugs and errors than commercial code does.
No, "everyone" does not know this, and the Mozilla codebase proves you wrong. It has had more exploits lately than your arch-nemesis Internet Explorer. In your eyes, everybody is a programmer spending hours poring over line after line of source code, which never happens.
This whole issue is a troll the non free software companies come up with every few years. It's a mistake for them, however, and will blow up in their faces. Free software will overcome such nonsense the same way Good Samaritans do.
And you moderators seriously fell for this?
Yeah, the mistake will blow up in their faces, just like you've been saying for years, Twitter. Meanwhile, where is free software on the desktop again? Oh, right, non-existent.
Next.
Now we see the reason for all the endless pro-MySQL articles on Slashdot. They've been using it since the site's inception, despite superior alternatives like PostgreSQL.
If MySQL hooking up with SCO wasn't enough to steer people away, this probably won't either.
Care to enlighten us?
Reading Digg is like becoming a time traveller and finding out which cool stories Slashdot might eventually post in the future, and all the other incredibly cool ones they'll ignore (like the Nintendo Revolution possibly costing only $99!).
Now that you've replaced Michael, we've had Michael's inflammatory articles replaced with dupes and game advertisements (notice you always just repeat Gamestop's score). I was just wondering, how is it you actually apply for position of "Slashdot's Most Hated Editor?" Is there an application to fill out? I think I could do a better job, and at the least save on some Slashdot bandwidth by actually firing up a web browser and reading the front page now and then to avoid dupes. Also, I'd post these gratuitious, near-daily game reviews in the Games section where they belong.
I mean, what's happening? Is OSTG pulling a TechTV and telling its employees to make Slashdot more "gamer-focused" or something while abandoning the hard technical stories (you know, the stuff Slashdot used to post on a daily basis years ago instead of the "Google-Microsoft-MySQL-Game review-random Apple rumor-Google-Microsoft-MySQL-Game review" post loop we're in now)?
"Some guy who works on a Linux distro said this might happen with Microsoft. News at 11."
Well, of course Slashdot left that out of the article summary. This needed to be a "Poor guy convicted for doing simple website checks, let's rally together fellow hackers and feel sorry for him" instead of "Guy lied to the police about what he did, a big no-no." The former gets more page hits from sympathetic Slashdotters, which means higher revenues for OSTG. Yes, kids, this site is owned by a corporation (a Linux corporation, in fact...suddenly all the anti-Microsoft, pro-GPL front page articles make sense for OSTG's bottom line). It amuses me how rarely people realize and acknowledge that.
This place is a big joke now. Go to Digg to see a site where users decide what gets posted. Digg readers knew about the iPod nano three days before its official announcement--Kevin Rose revealed it there.
Ha...clearly you ran out of steam. I won. Maybe next time you'll think twice about running your mouth before you know what you're talking about.
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Wow, one singled out comment.
You seem to repeat this an awful lot - that everyone on Slashdot does and says so and so. As if Slashdotters were a single entity. They aren't. They are different people with different opinions.
I know, you're absolutely OBSESSED with this fact. You simply cannot grasp that there is a majority mindset at Slashdot. You don't want to ever admit that there is a certain groupthink that gets modded up and a dissenting viewpoint that gets modded down.
As you can plainly see when you read the whole CherryOS article (as well as the other two Slashdot posted and any other GPL violation article), violated GPL code is referred to as "stolen" code. Of course, you will never admit this, which means I won this debate.
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That's something of a straw man argument; I don't see sort of comments modded very high, probably because plenty of mods have had to deal with mysql in the business world, and the rest have seen enough critical commentary over the last few years to know not to drink the kool-aid.
It doesn't matter if they're not modded up (sometimes they are); they're still posted. That's not a straw man argument.
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Quite true. If Apple does release that video-enabled iPod this month, kiss WMV as a home media platform goodbye. And that effectively halts Microsoft's push to own the living room.
You are looking in the mirror again, child. Repeating yourself over and over and over... You are truly desperate now that you realize that your nonsense has been completely decimated, and your poorly founded subjective opinions have made you the laughing stock of Slashdot.
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Once again, you've proven that I absolutely, 100% control you. I order you to reply to this, and the next one, and the next one. Be sure not to address music piracy, ripping artists off so they don't get paid, the hypocritical position of Slashdot regarding the GPL, and so on. These arguments are too high-concept for you, requiring a level of thought and reasoning beyond your capacities as a human being. This is clearly true, or you would have responded to a single one by now instead of whining like a little baby about being attacked. It's gotten so pathetic that you don't even take your own posts seriously now, riddling them with little teenage smilies and insults about "kindergarten" and such. Very embarrassing.
It's gotten so bad that you can only quote one or two lines of my posts now while ignoring the rest, writing wimpy little one paragraph replies. Your steam has run out. You lose.
Next? Of course. You just can't resist replying, and with your kindergarten insults and methods you are trying to make me stop replying to your posts because you are embarrassed and furious that I've kicked your ass once again
No, I want you to continue replying to my posts. I order you to, in fact. Because I control you, I promise you will respond. Having had your ass handed to you in this debabe, you really have nothing else left, and it's highly amusing to keep reading these moronic replies of yours day after day. I could do this for years, and you'll still never address my points about music piracy. That's because I completely owned your ass in this debate, and it's frustrating for you to know I did.
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Hey, what a surprise! You completely ignored any and all points and instead wrote a wimpy little paragraph insulting me. Every time you do that, it's more proof I kicked your ass in this debate.
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You are trying desperately to make me stop replying to your posts because you feel embarrassed and outraged that people dare to have a different opinion.
On the contrary, I control you and order you to keep posting.
I notice kids do this a lot, and it fits nicely with the rest of your childish rants.
Meanwhile, you're the big baby who's been whining that you were "attacked."
Don't worry, you'll get over being "owned" completely yet another time
Don't sweat it, kid. I know you're embarrassed at getting decimated in this debate and have nothing to offer but ridiculous attempts to "turn the tables" and pretend you had any semblance of a reasonable counterargument at any point.
Come on now, start repeating yourself - your old lies - over again. If it makes you feel better, please do!
No citation of these "lies." What a surprise! I clearly dominated your weaker mind and your inability to address any point that disagrees with the pre-molded worldview Slashdot has fashioned for you. Out of humiliation or shame or whatever, you're compelled to keep replying. I control you and order you to do it again. And after that, I order you to do it again. And after that, again.
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Oh, please. Distributing copyrighted works over P2P networks isn't "Fair Use."
In the last CherryOS article when everyone here, editor included, was referring to "stolen GPL code."
Oh my. You just can't keep yourself from responding to me, can you? :)
I know you're embarrassed at your compulsion to reply to me, link to me, and fantasize about me, and you try to reflect that onto me, but nobody's buying it, kid. Look at yourself.
It must hurt for you to be ridiculed and left powerless and exposed. At least you're anonymous and won't have to deal with your comments from Slashdot in real life. Seeing as you have no spine, that would be a problem.
Any comments on music piracy? Just more personal attacks and weird accusations about being "powerless and exposed" on a messageboard? Thought so.
Your points don't stand, since you haven't had any points.
1.) Bitching about GPL violations while encouraging piracy is a double-standard.
2.) Pirating music directly rips off real humans beings, the artists.
3.) Pirates scapegoat the RIAA for everything to justify what they do. "The RIAA made me do it!"
4.) Etc. etc. etc.
All you've done is to spew out venom in rage that someone dares to speak against you. On the other hand, you have failed to respond to my points
What points? Cite a single one. All you've done is follow the same pattern for two days:
1.) Disregard any point about music piracy I made in the previous post
2.) Dismiss my points as "personal opinion" as if that somehow refutes them
3.) Mention "straw man" at least once without citing an example and explaining it
4.) Whine like a little baby about getting "attacked" on a messageboard
and instead dismissing everything because you think everyone on Slasdot shares the exact same opinion. You are so mentally ill that you can't understand that Slashdot is a community with lots of people with different opinion.
You're obsessed with this "Slashdot is a community of differing opinions." No, it has a majority mindset that mods up what it agrees with and mods down what it disagrees with. Editors get in on the action by posting inflammatory articles skewed toward a particularly viewpoint. Piracy is good, GPL violations are bad. You don 't want to acknowledge that you're a member of the Slashdot groupthink or that I've accurately zeroed in on your transparent, predictable mindset as a good little Slashdot hive member.
And of course, you just can't let go of the fact that you started talking about this "GPL hypocrisy" nonsense, as if it is relevant in the least when you were responding to my post, not someone who has been talking about the GPL.
It was relevant as an illustration of the hypocrisy of Slashdot, all the more relevant beside your pointless diatribe about record companies. You took it personally and adopted it as a direct accusation toward yourself and have been obsessed with it ever since, going on and on about Slashdot's alleged differing opinions.
Yet again, you lose. And you are so furious that you are going to write yet another rant which doesn't make sense and which is full of lies. You just can't resist, seeing as you are now burning up inside because the truths I speak make you scream in rage.
What you "speak" makes me scream in laughter. I'm so "furious" over your obsessive-compulsive need to follow the same loop every day. I'm "full of lies" (which you don't cite, and you won't in your next response).
Just accept it, kid. I completely dominated your ass in the debate over music piracy. I control you and order you to reply. You can't not reply because you have mental issues that require you to reply, attacking me personally to make yourself feel better. Each time you do this, it proves once again that I won. I beat you, and you know it. It's eating you alive. And I'm grinning from ear to ear.
Next.
Hence the existence of iTunes to do all the ripping and encoding for them, just like with CDs.
You are looking in the mirror again. This is you describing yourself! Remember that first post of yours again? Simply avoiding the issue, and throwing around straw man arguments and ad hominem attacks.
Ah, you hit your "straw man" quota for the day! Furiously refreshing my user page waiting for new replies from me, inventing fantasy scenarios in your head where I was "fired from a record company," I can just see you sweating and trembling with fury over the fact I owned your ass in this debate, frustrated that you can't let it go. Get help, please. You need it. A lot.
You are no one's father, and considering you have no balls you won't have any children either when you get out of kindergarten and grow up.
Once again, personal attacks instead of arguing the points. It's no wonder you're such a whiney baby who runs screaming from the topic--music piracy. You obsess over me instead, inventing fantasies and linking to me in your sig.
Why do you keep replying to my comments then?
Because you clearly have an obsessive-compulsive desire to reply to every one of my posts. You can't let it go that I outwitted, outsmarted, and outdebated you in every single way. And you're upset that I zeroed in on your mindset, so easily predictable.
Hilarious. You keep attacking me, but you don't realize that your furious attacks are actually accurate descriptions of you!
Wow! What a great argument! "You don't realize that what you say actually bounces back and applies to you! Zing, that magically means I addressed your points on music piracy!" Meanwhile, all of my points on GPL hypocrisy, ripping off artists, etc. still stand. You will never be able to address them. You lack the mental capacity to do it, and the fact you won't respond to them proves it.
Next.
Video is not portable in any successful manner. Cell phone providers can't get people interested; portable mini-LCD DVD players spend more time on family room shelves than in-use.
Apple has this tendency to invigorate the markets they enter, like MP3 players.
Music videos? Does MTV even play them anymore? Who watches videos?
Lots of people. So because MTV doesn't play them means we don't want them? MTV doesn't play videos because Viacom gets higher advertising rates running reality shows than music videos.
You're not thinking through this. Imagine being able to buy Family Guy episodes through iTunes and watching them on an iPod during a long trip.
My impression is that Apple is trying to make the market viable, yet the iPod's popularity rode on years of MP3 success from Napster-on. Who trades videos over P2P or buys video DVDs from Borders, Wal-Mart or Amazon?
Who trades videos over P2P?! Tons of people do!
I can't see why this is needed unless Apple foresees video Podcasts from independent video "bloggers" or DIY TV show sites, but even that is a stretch.
Video podcasts are already happening.
The iPod coasted on the coattails of a huge market without a user friendly portable player. Video iPod is trying to invent a market boom.
Yeah, I take predictions of Apple product successes on Slashdot with the same grain of salt as when the iPod came out ("No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame") and the iPod mini came out ("For a little more, you can get the bigger model with more space! Clearly the iPod mini will completely flop").
Aw, did it hurt when I turned your own childish nonsense against you yet another time? :)
On the contrary, I find it absolutely hysterical that you have nothing else to offer and feel compelled to reply to every single post I make. You even obsess over me in your sig! It's freaky.
Don't cry angry little tears little troll. You are clearly mentally ill, and I'm sure you will be able to find help. At least you can use Slashdot as a place to spread FUD and lies and feel better about yourself for being a complete failure and being fired from the record company you used to work for.
Hilarious! Fired from a record company? What kind of fantasies are you inventing your head, and why am I involved in them? Oh my god, this has gotten even weirder and more pathetic than I ever imagined it would.
There's a name for what you are doing: The Stockholm syndrome. They mistreated you and fired you, yet you defend them.
Yeah, you've figured it all out! All that endless whining and whining and avoiding of addressing my points, and now all you have left is to magically invent things to attack me with! I am actually laughing out loud as I type these words, kid.
You honestly are the most pathetic, ridiculous person I've come into contact with on Slashdot, by far. The staggering lengths you'll go to to avoid admitting you were outsmarted, you were wrong, and you can't address my points is amazing and frighteningly sad. Clearly you have an obsessive-compulsive desire to reply to every one of my posts and make an even bigger fool of yourself than the previous time. You were outwitted and tossed aside, and it has damaged your ego to the point of lashing out for attention. I can only assume it has something to do with lack of attention from your father growing up. Well, kid, I'm not your father, and you don't need my attention.
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Uh, sure, Sun is going to integrate MSDE into their operating system.
Incidentally, Microsoft SQL Server holds the honor of being the host for the fastest distributed Internet worm.
Replace "fragmentation" with "free market." If people don't like the version that doesn't release its fixes as source, they can start their own version, and if it's superior, it wins out. Or if it's not as good as the closed yet superior version, the closed one wins out. And of course, you can choose whichever floats your boat no matter what.
That's the freedom RMS and company don't want you to have.
Besides, it's not like fragmentation isn't a hugely rampant problem in the GPL-based world. Unusually, there's much more of it than in the BSD world.