"Hi, I'm Cindy the seeing Doll powered by Windows CE. Before you can use me I need to tell you my EULA and you must say 'I accept' when I have finished...."
Dude, she's a damn toy for children and not a hooker for christs sake!
But does that make my cat 'human'? Nope. Human is someone who looks and talks like me and has enough of my genes that we can (if we were of the right ages and genders) fuck like bunnies and make more humans.
What's with people who don't have some of the abilities you describe because of some kind of disease? By your own definition they wouldn't count as humans. What about a machine that would look like you, had a speech synthesizer and could impregnate women with synthesized sperm? Would these "features" make it a human?
Why do philosophers try so hard to identify the unique "humaness" of our species when it's such a simple thing...?
Because...well..it isn't. You are making the same mistake as the people you are arguing against by trying to dumb something very complex down to a handful of definitions.
I don't think it will help anything if section six of the GPL can overrule section one. If the copyright holder did not Know they had code in Linux, they should not be obligated to have that code be considered GPLed because they distribute it.
But they DID know that the code was in there for quite a while. In fact even now they're distributing the kernel under the GPL from their website so while I agree on what you said (and I think the courts would agree too) your point simply doesn't apply in this case.
Good to see that people are focusing on the important stuff and not some crap like usable file dialogs or actually making gnome a true integrated platform.
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For those who have followed this Robota thing:
:P
This is *not* a new trailer. It's the same one that has been up there for six months now.
And no I don't mean to complain about this story since we all know already that the definition of "news" on Slashdot is pretty wide
...so instead of receiving lots of spam you would receive lots of dupes instead. great.
Microsoft deplying Linux. It must be getting pretty cold in hell right now.
Good to see that people are focusing on the important stuff and not some crap like usable file dialogs or actually making gnome a true integrated platform.