> "Trisquel 4.5 Slaine... could be whatever. probably mature (see version minor #)
>...comes with a new boot manager for the live images, an improved installer which showcases the project highlights...
Something that boots live images and installs? it's an OS
>... and new programs like the Remmina remote desktop client, the social network client Gwibber or the backup tool Deja-dup. The web browser received several changes to improve attributes like speed by enabling http pipelining and other methods, privacy with blocking third party cookies and moving to Duck Duck Go search engine — both as default, and usability with the preinstalled FlashVideoReplacer plugin that allows watching videos from YouTube, Vimeo and many others.
never heard of any of those programs, but i know what a remote desktop client or a backup tool is...
> The main packages include: Linux-libre 2.6.35
so it's linux
> Xorg 7.5, GNOME 2.32, Mozilla based web browser 3.6.15 and OpenOffice.org 3.2. Slaine is based on Ubuntu 10.10, and as always with Trisquel, it contains just free software. Available are 32 and 64 bit flavors, and being an STS release it will be supported for a year. This release will be the "live" operating system included in the Free Software Foundation member cards from now on, in replacement of Trisquel 4.0.
so it's ubuntu based.STS reminds me of ubuntu LTS, so possibly S is for short. It is included in member cards, so the FSF gives it away to member (it would be cool if it did in card sized CDs. I recall about a 1gb usb drive that was shaped like a credit card, that would be cool too.
Driver support is spotty with windows too, in a different way: old hardware does not get updated drivers at the next iteration. So you either choose among less peripherals supported by FOSS drivers or keep throwing out perfectly working stuff because it becomes impractical to use.
I hate vista because I used it for 30 minutes on a new laptop and seen my old laptop with half cores and bus length (32bit 1 core) was noticeably faster. That vista became usable after more than a year under a different name is irrelevant, the thesis that one software house publishes what's in the interest of their customers is untenable. You want another? Oracle. You want a debatable third? Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is FOSS so you might switch to mint, aptosid, debian without big problems.
> When I'm buying software from lets say Microsoft, I know what I will get. I know how they make their money and it is in their best interest not to lose customers faith.
Do they sponsor the news network to say the truth or to orient people's opinion?
Nonetheless I have issues with xkcd analysis when it writes cellphones = no ionizing radiation therefore no cancer. No matter if cellphones are safe or not, this is an obvious fallacy, even if partially justified by the context. Speaking of context, does the poisonous effects of the fallout another risk or the stuff is not concentrated enough to matter?
Copyright works in theory, it's not insane per se. It is abused, ok, and patents on obvious things are even worse, ok. But abolition of copyright is the removal of a rule: maybe it works, maybe when you remove too many rules you make room for the only rule that can't be touched: the stronger wins.
RMS commits a logic error here. He's much more lucid on other issues. The curiosity of a child towards sex is voluntary only in a desert island, here a child is subjected to all explicit and implicit stimulation of sexual urges which is standard practice in marketing. There is also no doubt that a child can be easily convinced to do stuff by clever and determined people. Finally, proving something "comes from his will" is not feasible today and a legal nightmare. So while his statement is true in theory it is irrelevant in practice. If a little baby is maturing let him mature with his peers, no problem with that.
That "think of the children" is used to push another agenda (control of the internet), is also true, but a completely independent problem. Ironically an unreasonably restrictive stance helps putting paedophiles on the side of freedom fighters(a teen shooting nudes of herself is accused of trafficking child pornography? Madness. Nail the buyer instead). Very stupid.
False dilemma: a popular vote would have more than one analysis done, all possibly biased. People would decide like they do decide in courts.
If leaders are bad, they are interested in keeping The People ignorant, emotional, under influence of bad substances. Therefore The People's democratic decision is an act of freedom, using their propaganda against them. If what I said is a false theory, then the leaders are our servant, so they STFU and cope with our decisions.
My understand of risk is "it may happen". What OP said is crystal clear, but let me make a stupid example: a guy puts a ping pong ball over your head. That is HARMLESS for your spine, whereas an anvil would be very dangerous. A guy plays a variant of Russian roulette with n bullets, only one of those is a real one, the others are dummies. Is the situation devoid of risk for large values of n?
You may object that we take small risks every time we get at the wheel. I agree. It all boils down to: is it worth it?
IMHO Fission reactors are a crutch to keep a broken model of development going, which is going to fail eventually. Either it will fail sooner without fission, or later with fission, more people on the planet, more waste, more targets for terrorism and illegal disposing of waste. Of course this is an opinion: this matter should be decided with democratic and direct expression of The People.
Apple hardware is usually cooler than the competition, no argument there. And the price is the same (free) for all machines, which doesn't unfortunately happen in the stores. I don't buy apple because IMHO linux is a smarter choice in the long run (for desktop and appliances), anyway they used to make the best UI when I was their customer and I don't think it has changed recently.
But I suspect that hackers love to pwn macs because of the debates about the state of security in mac vs. windows.
FF4 on linux, using the.mozilla folder setting directly from iceweasel 3.5 recognized history, cookies, flash, noscript and video downloadhelper extensions, shows the statusbar at the right place and keeps the custom UI font. The only thing I'm waiting for is... er... the red cats theme.
I hope the UI changes made on windows will be easily reversible on all platforms.
And it hasn't crashed by browsing slashdot which is likely a good test...
> The first to file system only really works in a very specific context - where you have two inventors who filed an application on almost identical types of inventions
AND, when a crook steals an idea from the inventor and files the application.
But who cares, as long as the patent office can award patents efficiently? I mean why don't we dispose of judge and jury and just make the guy with most expensive lawyers the automagic winner of a trial, too?:)
Unless of course you consider your family a unit, then trading anything is pointless, such as a heart charging the rest of the body for the act of pumping blood.
It's interesting to see how the zeitgeist equates independence from family with independence. The atomized families of today, compared to the families of the past, depend more heavily on the system (what we used to call society). The worst example I recall involves those who listened to the politician that called them bamboccioni and got indebted to buy a house, at high market prices, just before the economic crisis.
If replying please avoid the "how bad things were in the past" false cause fallacy.
it's exactly the same for people who buy apple, but if I send an mp3 of my stuff around it gets decoded by apple unfortunate users. In the good ol days of MS dominance you had to buy office, the latest version, or try rtf and hope for the best or pdf whose files could be only modified with acrobat. Worse for Excel. Access and publisher files are still a problem IIRC
A personal conversation, even in the open, should be recorded only when everybody agrees to it. BUT 1. a public officer paid with public money should have NO expectation of privacy when he's in uniform. 2. "nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide" -> this works when blanket surveillance is imposed on the citizen, why not when it's the citizen doing surveillance in a personal context?
I stopped buying apple when the ipod usb wasn`t behaving as a normal usb storage device: as with sony boycott because of the rootkit and MS avoidance because stuff I bought for the mac sucked (1997) it was a good idea in the long term. Apple doesn't affect you the way MS affected everybody with their closed document formats, so fanbois have a point. But thanks to software patents you don't need a monopoly to affect people who choose not to buy you, so Apple can now be evil just like thousands other companies. Will they? IIRC they are in MPEG-LA, the guys who made a license asserting rights on material which has been h264 even after it's transcoded...
Maybe they have some hacker among their ranks. I am dubious when I see the choice of targets for their attacks. Some justified ones, but a lot of evildoers were not target of any campaign. Looking at the past years`events and correlating them to attacks seems to me that anonymous does not often read newspapers- which might be good - and not even alternative media. Strange.
Slashdot Mirror
Silly OP is clearly joking, he knows there is one meaningful anagram: `cum`.
Which means `with` in Latin. Problem, anglocentrists?
They don't make the geeks they used to :)
> "Trisquel 4.5 Slaine...
could be whatever. probably mature (see version minor #)
> ...comes with a new boot manager for the live images, an improved installer which showcases the project highlights...
Something that boots live images and installs? it's an OS
>... and new programs like the Remmina remote desktop client, the social network client Gwibber or the backup tool Deja-dup. The web browser received several changes to improve attributes like speed by enabling http pipelining and other methods, privacy with blocking third party cookies and moving to Duck Duck Go search engine — both as default, and usability with the preinstalled FlashVideoReplacer plugin that allows watching videos from YouTube, Vimeo and many others.
never heard of any of those programs, but i know what a remote desktop client or a backup tool is...
> The main packages include: Linux-libre 2.6.35
so it's linux
> Xorg 7.5, GNOME 2.32, Mozilla based web browser 3.6.15 and OpenOffice.org 3.2. Slaine is based on Ubuntu 10.10, and as always with Trisquel, it contains just free software. Available are 32 and 64 bit flavors, and being an STS release it will be supported for a year. This release will be the "live" operating system included in the Free Software Foundation member cards from now on, in replacement of Trisquel 4.0.
so it's ubuntu based.STS reminds me of ubuntu LTS, so possibly S is for short. It is included in member cards, so the FSF gives it away to member (it would be cool if it did in card sized CDs. I recall about a 1gb usb drive that was shaped like a credit card, that would be cool too.
So, nothing really really difficult huh?
Driver support is spotty with windows too, in a different way: old hardware does not get updated drivers at the next iteration.
So you either choose among less peripherals supported by FOSS drivers or keep throwing out perfectly working stuff because it becomes impractical to use.
I hate vista because I used it for 30 minutes on a new laptop and seen my old laptop with half cores and bus length (32bit 1 core) was noticeably faster.
That vista became usable after more than a year under a different name is irrelevant, the thesis that one software house publishes what's in the interest of their customers is untenable. You want another? Oracle.
You want a debatable third? Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is FOSS so you might switch to mint, aptosid, debian without big problems.
> When I'm buying software from lets say Microsoft, I know what I will get. I know how they make their money and it is in their best interest not to lose customers faith.
Windows Vista.
Your argument is invalid.
> As you appear to be an apologist for liberty dollars...
That's not true for the GP post, anyway. So you've done an ad hominem. If he defends the liberty dollar, reply on that thread, it will look better.
I think that he simply said that "fiat money is fiat", not defending this or that.
the cake is a pi * square of radius * height
height must not include candles.
Do they sponsor the news network to say the truth or to orient people's opinion?
Nonetheless I have issues with xkcd analysis when it writes cellphones = no ionizing radiation therefore no cancer. No matter if cellphones are safe or not, this is an obvious fallacy, even if partially justified by the context.
Speaking of context, does the poisonous effects of the fallout another risk or the stuff is not concentrated enough to matter?
Copyright works in theory, it's not insane per se. It is abused, ok, and patents on obvious things are even worse, ok. But abolition of copyright is the removal of a rule: maybe it works, maybe when you remove too many rules you make room for the only rule that can't be touched: the stronger wins.
> Pedophilia wasn't always a taboo.
Nor human sacrifices. Nor slavery (oh wait we are slaves today nvm)
And anyway the correct term shoud be pederasty.
I agree with RMS on headers, those are interfaces.
RMS commits a logic error here. He's much more lucid on other issues.
The curiosity of a child towards sex is voluntary only in a desert island, here a child is subjected to all explicit and implicit stimulation of sexual urges which is standard practice in marketing. There is also no doubt that a child can be easily convinced to do stuff by clever and determined people. Finally, proving something "comes from his will" is not feasible today and a legal nightmare. So while his statement is true in theory it is irrelevant in practice. If a little baby is maturing let him mature with his peers, no problem with that.
That "think of the children" is used to push another agenda (control of the internet), is also true, but a completely independent problem. Ironically an unreasonably restrictive stance helps putting paedophiles on the side of freedom fighters(a teen shooting nudes of herself is accused of trafficking child pornography? Madness. Nail the buyer instead). Very stupid.
False dilemma: a popular vote would have more than one analysis done, all possibly biased. People would decide like they do decide in courts.
If leaders are bad, they are interested in keeping The People ignorant, emotional, under influence of bad substances. Therefore The People's democratic decision is an act of freedom, using their propaganda against them.
If what I said is a false theory, then the leaders are our servant, so they STFU and cope with our decisions.
was the intensity of the earthquake 8 near the reactor?
My understand of risk is "it may happen".
What OP said is crystal clear, but let me make a stupid example: a guy puts a ping pong ball over your head. That is HARMLESS for your spine, whereas an anvil would be very dangerous.
A guy plays a variant of Russian roulette with n bullets, only one of those is a real one, the others are dummies. Is the situation devoid of risk for large values of n?
You may object that we take small risks every time we get at the wheel. I agree. It all boils down to: is it worth it?
IMHO Fission reactors are a crutch to keep a broken model of development going, which is going to fail eventually. Either it will fail sooner without fission, or later with fission, more people on the planet, more waste, more targets for terrorism and illegal disposing of waste. Of course this is an opinion: this matter should be decided with democratic and direct expression of The People.
Apple hardware is usually cooler than the competition, no argument there. And the price is the same (free) for all machines, which doesn't unfortunately happen in the stores. I don't buy apple because IMHO linux is a smarter choice in the long run (for desktop and appliances), anyway they used to make the best UI when I was their customer and I don't think it has changed recently.
But I suspect that hackers love to pwn macs because of the debates about the state of security in mac vs. windows.
FF4 on linux, using the .mozilla folder setting directly from iceweasel 3.5 recognized history, cookies, flash, noscript and video downloadhelper extensions, shows the statusbar at the right place and keeps the custom UI font. The only thing I'm waiting for is... er... the red cats theme.
I hope the UI changes made on windows will be easily reversible on all platforms.
And it hasn't crashed by browsing slashdot which is likely a good test...
dunno, when the store becomes mainstream and full of offers you may be better off setting up a website and a shopping cart instead.
> The first to file system only really works in a very specific context - where you have two inventors who filed an application on almost identical types of inventions
AND, when a crook steals an idea from the inventor and files the application.
But who cares, as long as the patent office can award patents efficiently? I mean why don't we dispose of judge and jury and just make the guy with most expensive lawyers the automagic winner of a trial, too? :)
Unless of course you consider your family a unit, then trading anything is pointless, such as a heart charging the rest of the body for the act of pumping blood.
It's interesting to see how the zeitgeist equates independence from family with independence.
The atomized families of today, compared to the families of the past, depend more heavily on the system (what we used to call society). The worst example I recall involves those who listened to the politician that called them bamboccioni and got indebted to buy a house, at high market prices, just before the economic crisis.
If replying please avoid the "how bad things were in the past" false cause fallacy.
it's exactly the same for people who buy apple, but if I send an mp3 of my stuff around it gets decoded by apple unfortunate users. In the good ol days of MS dominance you had to buy office, the latest version, or try rtf and hope for the best or pdf whose files could be only modified with acrobat. Worse for Excel. Access and publisher files are still a problem IIRC
yep, TFA confirms:"On the Internet, don't be right - be smart."
of course, I think TFA is wrong, I say outtroll `em.
A personal conversation, even in the open, should be recorded only when everybody agrees to it.
BUT
1. a public officer paid with public money should have NO expectation of privacy when he's in uniform.
2. "nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide" -> this works when blanket surveillance is imposed on the citizen, why not when it's the citizen doing surveillance in a personal context?
I stopped buying apple when the ipod usb wasn`t behaving as a normal usb storage device: as with sony boycott because of the rootkit and MS avoidance because stuff I bought for the mac sucked (1997) it was a good idea in the long term.
Apple doesn't affect you the way MS affected everybody with their closed document formats, so fanbois have a point.
But thanks to software patents you don't need a monopoly to affect people who choose not to buy you, so Apple can now be evil just like thousands other companies. Will they? IIRC they are in MPEG-LA, the guys who made a license asserting rights on material which has been h264 even after it's transcoded...
Anonymous might have been inspired by "Luther Blisset" itself.
Maybe they have some hacker among their ranks. I am dubious when I see the choice of targets for their attacks. Some justified ones, but a lot of evildoers were not target of any campaign. Looking at the past years`events and correlating them to attacks seems to me that anonymous does not often read newspapers- which might be good - and not even alternative media. Strange.
> Microsoft didn't force anyone to use Microsoft.
they did, just like many others do, when their documents` format is not published.