Because encrypted data that can't be unencrypted is useless.
I don't think you understand the idea of sharing if you think handing someone a blob of randomness and saying 'its encrypted!' is what sharing is.
Dotcom uses websites to profit from people sharing files that they shouldn't be sharing. If you still don't understand that, stop reading now, theres no way anything on this post or entire thread will make sense to you.
In order for people to give a flying fuck about his website... where he makes money off ads... they have to be able to decrypt whatever is on the site. That information is more or less made public, in which case, its trivial for anyone to figure out whats on the site.
Why is it so difficult to understand that other people kind find warez on the Internet just like you can?
People that need to legitimately share things do it in a far less complicated way.
You need to do some research, hell even google can solve this in one short search.
Our hairless bodies coupled with some nice quirks of our hips make us the undisputed long distance runners.
That dog you're chasing can't run a marathon, it'll over heat. It might out run you for what you think is a long distance, but people can run all day long without so much as a break, no other animal can, none even come close.
Humans are the most efficient running animals on the planet. We can literally run down ANY creature on the surface of the Earth. We can literally kill creatures by running them into heat exhaustion and in fact still do in many parts of the world such as Australia and the plains of Africa.
We aren't the fastest, but we are by far the most efficient long distance runners to exist.
Most (not all, but certainly most) obese people don't have metabolism problems they have gluteny problems. They are fat asses, nothing more.
When the famine comes around, said person who is inshape will out last Mr Obese lazy bastard because the guy who can run, can beat out the fat guy.
The fat won't keep him alive long enough to get in shape and compete with the guy who already is. The fat guy won't have the skills to compete for food either.
Contrary to popular believe, being obese doesnt' help you survive food shortages in any way.
It may be tempting, but its certainly shines of ignorance.
There is no other animal on the planet that can run for the distances we can. We are the definitive long distance runners of the planet. Our ancestors on the plains of Africa hunted not by being quicker than other animals but by running them down until heat exhaustion took its toll and practically killed them without a weapon.
I didn't RTFA but the summery sounds like regurgitation of shit I've known since high school.
We aren't built to be lazy, we're efficient as shit.
When are you morons going to realize that these online petitions are worse than meaningless?
Why do you think your signature means anything. You aren't going to vote differently, its obvious from the last couple of elections that people bitch about politicians and then do nothing to effect change. There is no reason for anyone to give a flying fuck what signature your petition is on. Worse still is you're not bright enough to realize how easy it is to fake said petitions, making them even less useful.
There is no effort in collecting online petitions, you just put a form up one SOMEONE ELSES website. Starting a petition this way, and 'running it' requires zero effort and thats exactly the kind of response you'll get.
Signing a petition... ESPECIALLY AN ONLINE PETITION FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR CHAIR just shows exactly how little you care about the issue.
You aren't going to get more back out of it than you put in, thats not the way the universe works.
If you want to effect change, its going to take a whole hell of a lot more than clicking 'I agree' on some retarded website.
What you're trying to accomplish here is creating a public utility.
You don't want a utility to be powered by random people. You want a utility to be government regulated. You may think regulation and the government are bad and evil and blah blah but the reason you're trying to create a wireless network based on home systems is because the unregulated commercial sector has failed to provide a sane alternative.
Its worse than that though, the commercial sector is actively working to ensure that no such utility is created even when they are fully unwilling to do so when requested as is obvious when various municipalities try to create their own networks.
Yes... reject permissions and promote anarchy! And while you're doing it, do it with a license that restricts people and only grants them permission to use it in specific ways!
In the US... the point is... EVERYTHING is licensed the instant its created and the creator holds ALL rights. That is by default.
Just because you 'slap a license' on someones code doesn't mean you hold copyright on it. What you're implying is no different than taking the Linux kernel and putting my own personal license on it.
Having a 'license' doesn't mean you hold the copyright.
You completely utterly fail to understand basic common sense about the way the world works.
Your agenda is to use OSS against commercial software makers, but that isn't the point of open source.
Thats what RMS tries his absolute hardest to corrupt the term to mean, along with Free and Libre but that doesn't mean thats what everyone with a brain thinks.
Using someone elses stuff without asking permission first is rude.
Pre-1976 it simply wasn't illegal to be rude. The 'change of default' you refer to is to make it clear that just because I didn't say you couldn't use it doesn't mean its okay for you to use it because you happen to come across it. The change was made to prevent things from being co-opted by snakes.
The change occurred for the same idiotic reason the original rubbish about 'pushing back against a permissions culture', idiotic people twisting the normal around in a way to get what they want rather than actually being considerate.
Unlicensed code on github isn't there because of some anti-permissions culture movement this moron dreamt up.
Unlicensed code on github is unlicensed because the author hasn't bothered to make a public statement allowing use of their stuff. They just haven't gotten around to it. It has nothing to do with some retarded OSS based fantasy about the world suddenly ceasing to using licenses, or to dump the concepts of copyright and intellectual property.
STOP assuming everyone else has your agenda. Stop assuming they are fine with you deciding they mean to givie away their stuff.
Really? They can't just... ASK? The only code on github which you can't ask permission to use is code written by dead people, and then its relatively safe as they aren't going to be suing you anytime in the near future.
These younger devs DON'T CARE ABOUT FORCING PEOPLE TO AN AGENDA.
You're what if's are based on something these younger devs don't care about. You care about a political movement and forcing others to behave in a way you see fit. They don't. If you don't want to give back, they don't care.
They also don't tend to have this silly 'using my code without giving me your changes is stealing from me!$!@$!@%' silliness going on either.
Sometimes people are actually just sharing, not pretending to share but meaning 'you can use this if you give me something in return, like using only doing certain things with it'
You might want to take 'full office tool' off the TOP of your list.
Its fine that its good enough for you, but contrary to what you believe it does not actually suit the rest of the world. Its not JUST because of the MS Office monopoly as we've seen plenty of people trounce the incumbent monopolies in computing over the last decade by coming out with something that people ACTUALLY WANT MORE than the incumbent monopoly.
What this does for the rest of your list (regardless of much of a point you may have) is makes it not worth reading to those of us who aren't living in a narrowly defined box so they can fanboy up some FOSS. Your very first example is utterly disconnected from reality so the rest your opinions have very little weight.
I did read the rest of your list just to be sure and my initial conclusion is correct. You have this silly idea that your half assed software that works like its 94 is actually comparable to modern software.
Just because you are unable to determine that there are meaningful differences doesn't' mean there are only cosmetic differences.
He didn't mean whatever distro of the week you think is the most awesome because people don't actually do what you want just because you're trying to project your own bullshit onto them.
You do realize if he spends an extra week finding and setting up a solution rather than just using Windows.than his paycheck will be more costly than just buying the licenses, right?
Cost is a big picture thing, not a single item/aspect.
You can stream 1080p compressed across the Internet because someone spent considerable CPU power to compress the video in advance that you can not possible do in real time.
Perhaps instead of waxing on about software design like you have a clue you should join the real world and realize the MS RDP implementation gives you both, not one or the other.
Just because your software sucks doesn't mean it all does.
No. Having a Ph.D. in physics means nothing more than you have a Ph.D. in physics. It does not, contrary to what you assume, mean you know what you're talking about. Having a Ph.D. just means you did the same shit grunt work those before you did so now you've got a certificate from the Good Ole' Boys club saying you did the same shit they did. That is not science, thats Academia and while most associate Academia with knowledge, that is also silly and more often than not, wrong.
A Ph.D. means you paid your dues to the elitist, arrogant and often ignorant Academia club, nothing more.
To be clear, you may very well be qualified to respond, but having a Ph.D. has nothing to do with why. Pointing out you have a Ph.D. actually means its less likely you know what you're talking about and more likely you just wanted to brag about how smart you think you are.
You sold him on buying Linux and spending a ridiculous amount of money on you since you clearly don't know what you're doing and aren't going to get shit done for several hours, when all he needed was a new switch.
And how many cards are you putting into this PC anyway? Are you planning on just using a Linux bridge or something along side their existing switch cause its going to cost you a small fortune putting 10 ports in a PC compared to just buying a gigabit switch, not to mention that PC doesn't have the bandwidth to switch more than 2 of those ports at the same time anywhere near full speed.
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It's not like Doctom wanted Mega to be a Pirate Bay...
Yea, and I have some ocean front property to sell you in Vegas. I'll sell it REALLY cheap.
Are you really that stupid?
Because encrypted data that can't be unencrypted is useless.
I don't think you understand the idea of sharing if you think handing someone a blob of randomness and saying 'its encrypted!' is what sharing is.
Dotcom uses websites to profit from people sharing files that they shouldn't be sharing. If you still don't understand that, stop reading now, theres no way anything on this post or entire thread will make sense to you.
In order for people to give a flying fuck about his website ... where he makes money off ads ... they have to be able to decrypt whatever is on the site. That information is more or less made public, in which case, its trivial for anyone to figure out whats on the site.
Why is it so difficult to understand that other people kind find warez on the Internet just like you can?
People that need to legitimately share things do it in a far less complicated way.
You need to do some research, hell even google can solve this in one short search.
Our hairless bodies coupled with some nice quirks of our hips make us the undisputed long distance runners.
That dog you're chasing can't run a marathon, it'll over heat. It might out run you for what you think is a long distance, but people can run all day long without so much as a break, no other animal can, none even come close.
You could not possibly be more incorrect.
Humans are the most efficient running animals on the planet. We can literally run down ANY creature on the surface of the Earth. We can literally kill creatures by running them into heat exhaustion and in fact still do in many parts of the world such as Australia and the plains of Africa.
We aren't the fastest, but we are by far the most efficient long distance runners to exist.
Most (not all, but certainly most) obese people don't have metabolism problems they have gluteny problems. They are fat asses, nothing more.
When the famine comes around, said person who is inshape will out last Mr Obese lazy bastard because the guy who can run, can beat out the fat guy.
The fat won't keep him alive long enough to get in shape and compete with the guy who already is. The fat guy won't have the skills to compete for food either.
Contrary to popular believe, being obese doesnt' help you survive food shortages in any way.
It may be tempting, but its certainly shines of ignorance.
There is no other animal on the planet that can run for the distances we can. We are the definitive long distance runners of the planet. Our ancestors on the plains of Africa hunted not by being quicker than other animals but by running them down until heat exhaustion took its toll and practically killed them without a weapon.
I didn't RTFA but the summery sounds like regurgitation of shit I've known since high school.
We aren't built to be lazy, we're efficient as shit.
When are you morons going to realize that these online petitions are worse than meaningless?
Why do you think your signature means anything. You aren't going to vote differently, its obvious from the last couple of elections that people bitch about politicians and then do nothing to effect change. There is no reason for anyone to give a flying fuck what signature your petition is on. Worse still is you're not bright enough to realize how easy it is to fake said petitions, making them even less useful.
There is no effort in collecting online petitions, you just put a form up one SOMEONE ELSES website. Starting a petition this way, and 'running it' requires zero effort and thats exactly the kind of response you'll get.
Signing a petition ... ESPECIALLY AN ONLINE PETITION FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR CHAIR just shows exactly how little you care about the issue.
You aren't going to get more back out of it than you put in, thats not the way the universe works.
If you want to effect change, its going to take a whole hell of a lot more than clicking 'I agree' on some retarded website.
What you're trying to accomplish here is creating a public utility.
You don't want a utility to be powered by random people. You want a utility to be government regulated. You may think regulation and the government are bad and evil and blah blah but the reason you're trying to create a wireless network based on home systems is because the unregulated commercial sector has failed to provide a sane alternative.
Its worse than that though, the commercial sector is actively working to ensure that no such utility is created even when they are fully unwilling to do so when requested as is obvious when various municipalities try to create their own networks.
Yes ... reject permissions and promote anarchy! And while you're doing it, do it with a license that restricts people and only grants them permission to use it in specific ways!
GPL is far from free, ESPECIALLY in this context.
So basically you released everything as 'All rights reserved for copyright holder', which is the default.
Your small protest against the 'permissions culture' just contributed too it, as did your ignorance of the world you live in. Congratulations.
In the US ... the point is ... EVERYTHING is licensed the instant its created and the creator holds ALL rights. That is by default.
Just because you 'slap a license' on someones code doesn't mean you hold copyright on it. What you're implying is no different than taking the Linux kernel and putting my own personal license on it.
Having a 'license' doesn't mean you hold the copyright.
You completely utterly fail to understand basic common sense about the way the world works.
Do that more than once or twice and I'll have the grounds for suing you for using predatory practices and abusing the legal system itself.
There are solutions for trolls even if you don't always see them.
The precedent was set. The lawyers on both sides made a fair amount of money off your fathers business. He got screwed.
No, it isn't.
Your agenda is to use OSS against commercial software makers, but that isn't the point of open source.
Thats what RMS tries his absolute hardest to corrupt the term to mean, along with Free and Libre but that doesn't mean thats what everyone with a brain thinks.
Wrong.
Using someone elses stuff without asking permission first is rude.
Pre-1976 it simply wasn't illegal to be rude. The 'change of default' you refer to is to make it clear that just because I didn't say you couldn't use it doesn't mean its okay for you to use it because you happen to come across it. The change was made to prevent things from being co-opted by snakes.
The change occurred for the same idiotic reason the original rubbish about 'pushing back against a permissions culture', idiotic people twisting the normal around in a way to get what they want rather than actually being considerate.
Unlicensed code on github isn't there because of some anti-permissions culture movement this moron dreamt up.
Unlicensed code on github is unlicensed because the author hasn't bothered to make a public statement allowing use of their stuff. They just haven't gotten around to it. It has nothing to do with some retarded OSS based fantasy about the world suddenly ceasing to using licenses, or to dump the concepts of copyright and intellectual property.
STOP assuming everyone else has your agenda. Stop assuming they are fine with you deciding they mean to givie away their stuff.
Really? They can't just ... ASK? The only code on github which you can't ask permission to use is code written by dead people, and then its relatively safe as they aren't going to be suing you anytime in the near future.
What forces them to
You've missed the point.
These younger devs DON'T CARE ABOUT FORCING PEOPLE TO AN AGENDA.
You're what if's are based on something these younger devs don't care about. You care about a political movement and forcing others to behave in a way you see fit. They don't. If you don't want to give back, they don't care.
They also don't tend to have this silly 'using my code without giving me your changes is stealing from me!$!@$!@%' silliness going on either.
Sometimes people are actually just sharing, not pretending to share but meaning 'you can use this if you give me something in return, like using only doing certain things with it'
You might want to take 'full office tool' off the TOP of your list.
Its fine that its good enough for you, but contrary to what you believe it does not actually suit the rest of the world. Its not JUST because of the MS Office monopoly as we've seen plenty of people trounce the incumbent monopolies in computing over the last decade by coming out with something that people ACTUALLY WANT MORE than the incumbent monopoly.
What this does for the rest of your list (regardless of much of a point you may have) is makes it not worth reading to those of us who aren't living in a narrowly defined box so they can fanboy up some FOSS. Your very first example is utterly disconnected from reality so the rest your opinions have very little weight.
I did read the rest of your list just to be sure and my initial conclusion is correct. You have this silly idea that your half assed software that works like its 94 is actually comparable to modern software.
Just because you are unable to determine that there are meaningful differences doesn't' mean there are only cosmetic differences.
No, he meant Ubuntu, thats why he said Ubuntu.
He didn't mean whatever distro of the week you think is the most awesome because people don't actually do what you want just because you're trying to project your own bullshit onto them.
Except you can't do it on any Windows 8 tablet released before the Surface Pro since RT can't be removed.
So basically until Feb 9th, no you couldn't remove Windows 8 from any tablet its installed on.
Could you be any more wrong? There is absolutely nothing correct about your statement.
You do realize if he spends an extra week finding and setting up a solution rather than just using Windows.than his paycheck will be more costly than just buying the licenses, right?
Cost is a big picture thing, not a single item/aspect.
You can stream 1080p compressed across the Internet because someone spent considerable CPU power to compress the video in advance that you can not possible do in real time.
Per-recorded versus real time.
Perhaps instead of waxing on about software design like you have a clue you should join the real world and realize the MS RDP implementation gives you both, not one or the other.
Just because your software sucks doesn't mean it all does.
By the way, I have a Ph.D. in physics.
No. Having a Ph.D. in physics means nothing more than you have a Ph.D. in physics. It does not, contrary to what you assume, mean you know what you're talking about. Having a Ph.D. just means you did the same shit grunt work those before you did so now you've got a certificate from the Good Ole' Boys club saying you did the same shit they did. That is not science, thats Academia and while most associate Academia with knowledge, that is also silly and more often than not, wrong.
A Ph.D. means you paid your dues to the elitist, arrogant and often ignorant Academia club, nothing more.
To be clear, you may very well be qualified to respond, but having a Ph.D. has nothing to do with why. Pointing out you have a Ph.D. actually means its less likely you know what you're talking about and more likely you just wanted to brag about how smart you think you are.
Typical Linux moron.
You sold him on buying Linux and spending a ridiculous amount of money on you since you clearly don't know what you're doing and aren't going to get shit done for several hours, when all he needed was a new switch.
And how many cards are you putting into this PC anyway? Are you planning on just using a Linux bridge or something along side their existing switch cause its going to cost you a small fortune putting 10 ports in a PC compared to just buying a gigabit switch, not to mention that PC doesn't have the bandwidth to switch more than 2 of those ports at the same time anywhere near full speed.
You're post isn't funny, its retarded.