Getting 1500 watts out of 12 volts DC is WAY more dangerous than 1500 watts from 120 AC, by an order of magnitude. 1500w @15v == 100 amps. That means all your in home wiring would need to be ATLEAST 6 gauge wire to be able to carry the current, more likely its going to be 4 gauge wire, and its STILL GOING TO GET HOT.
At just 100 watts, you know, like a high powered light bulb, thats STILL 10 amps, which requires AT LEAST 10 gauge wire... when most homes are wired with 12 or even 14 gauge!
We're not going to design homes around the Tesla charger and charging our iPhones, we're going to design it around our fridge, microwave, washer and dryer, and air-conditioning.
This entire article is stupid. The conversion losses are nothing compared to the resistive losses from carrying 10 or 100 amps across the wire, even only a 100 feet or so in your home.
I have several 3000 watt devices in my home, which is FILLED with 100 watt light bulbs. In the real world, this shit won't fly.
... CPUs are small enough that they don't need to be flexable, the CPU is not that big hunk of a thing you pull out of the socket, thats the package, and it has to be big and string to hold all those pins or balls in the right place under the pressure of the lock on the socket. The CPU is a little chip inside of there with wires connected to it so small that you can't see them without good vision or assistance.
Also, silica doesn't require or create toxic chemicals by working with it, had you bothered to read my statement, you'd see that its the doping agents that make the silica actually do something other than not conduct electricity that come with all the toxic effects.
Its not dumb luck, its the threat of nuclear annihilation that prevents it.
Its mind numbing that someone like you can say 'hey look at these three examples of where we didn't go to war... it means war in inevitable!@$!%!@%' completely and utterly ignoring the fact that there have been fewer wars and they've been smaller since this happened.
So they replace the substrate with wood... instead of silica... the argument being that wood is plentiful and biodegradable and biologically safe...
Except... Silica is more plentiful and more biologically safe since its essentially biologically inert.
As an advantage, silica is NOT biodegradable, because I want my chips to last, not fall apart over the winter when it sheds its leaves.
Silica is NOT the issue for the environment in CPUs, its the production materials and doping agents that are horrible on living things and hard to dispose of.
So congrats... you solved a problem... wait, no, you didn't really do anything productive. Not seeing any redeeming quality about a chip produced this way and seeing plenty of down sides.
Whats next, you're going to try and convince me that the aircraft carrier made of sawdust and ice they tried to construct during WWII really was a brilliant plant for a warship sailing in the south pacific?
Great they took a lot of photos and stitched them together... nothing I can't do myself. Just like I can also build a boat or raft out of Mt Dew cans.
But doing so would be neither original or impressive, certainly not news for nerds.
This is no more interesting than how many digits of Pi they calculated on their own. It doesn't require special innovation, just more money and time than brains.
48TB of PS4 would have been a more useful way to use the storage and time to me, and I don't even own nor have any interest in a PS4.
I mean shit, they didn't even hold the camera, a robot did. Its literally the same as photos taking by the ISS in orbit.
You keep calling the something, not sure what, a hypervisor, when it is not. I'm not sure if you're referring to the Virtual Memory Manager or Pre-emptive task switching, but neither of those things are a hypervisor, as you've called them in several posts, no version of windows outside of Windows Server has a hypervisor built in. They have had Virtual Memory and Pre-Emptive multitasking in varying incarnations since even before Win 3.0 though, so I really don't get what you think you're talking about. The important thing is that none of this deals with 'virtual hardware' although it may provide APIs through which you can access hardware in an abstracted manner, this is not 'virtual'.
A hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor. It creates 'virtual' hardware by emulation, allowing software under it to believe it is on physical hardware and to generally run unmodified, but without full access to the real physical hardware it is running on. No direct API to the video display, for instance. The software in a hypervisor thinks its talking to physical hardware (or is hypervisor aware, so can detect that it isn't, things like drivers for instance) and has full control of it. Windows has no such feature (other than Windows Server with Hyper-V installed, but thats not really any different than Windows Server with VMware installed). Windows applications talk to a software API, that abstracts the hardware from the software but it does not virtualize it.
We are not all created equal. We do not all have the same level of life. Deal with it.
Yes, the people who make the laws (you know, the politicians who live in this neighborhood) do get treated differently, thats normal. Not treating them differently would be impossible, and you not understanding that shows a real lack of understanding of how people work.
'Fairness' is an entirely human construct made up by humans to mean treating everyone the same. It does not actually mean treat them fairly.
Nature treats life fairly. The weak die first, the strong carry the species on. I'm sorry that reality doesn't look good for you, but you have to be retarded to be so silly as to think this is ever going to be any other way. Everyone getting the EXACT same privileges will never happen. Not until we're all a bunch of clones who behave and perform the EXACT SAME WAY.
Until then, man who worked harder to get power will get more privileges, just like I expect to get more when I work harder in my job.
And for people like yourself, who slack off and whine about how someone else gets treated better than you... well... welcome to the rest of your life because while you're whining and bitching about it, the people who deserve better are working to make their lives better.
All you're doing is whining and moaning, you deserve your lot in life.
Rand Paul makes his opinion well known and stands by it. Agree or disagree, if you don't know his stance, its only because you've not bothered to pay attention.
Other senators abstain rather than vote against the party, Rand Paul votes. When he doesn't like something, he states it loudly and votes against it. This is unlike people like Changemaster Obama... who no one bothered to look at his voting record while ranting and raving about him... at which point they would have noticed, clearly, that Obama made John McCain look angelic. I suspect based on your comment, you don't really look at who you're voting for either, as Rand Paul is rather well known and has stood on his own for years.
Note: I do no vote for Rand Paul, but he is one of the few people that clearly votes based on his own personal agenda, and he does so publicly. I appreciate that. I do not appreciate politicians who claim they support my agenda, when in reality all they care about is more money and power.
Most cheap computers didn't come with that much useful software pre-installed.
This is more of an issue now than it was even then. Buying a pre-made PC is just buying a bunch of trial offers, which you then have to remove. Or more appropriately, reinstall the OS cleanly.
Unless you build your own hardware and install from scratch or buy OS X or Linux, you're going to get a bunch of trial-ware spam.
Worse than the first posts here on/.... the full article is about 2 sentences longer than the summary!. Its literally 2 poorly formed paragraphs. Thats it.
I'm just curious as to if you expect people to spend their own time and money providing a website you use but they don't get any avenue to make a return on their investment and time.
If you pay, great. Good for you.
If not, then shut the fuck up you worthless leach, no one gives a shit what you say.:)
I'm better you don't pay for a subscription... Do you?
Over a 200 year period, 100% of the humans on the planet die... of course, more are born to replace them so the population actually grows... making that number that looked super duper scary... pretty much normal.
So... 40% in and of itself doesn't mean anything to me if Bees only live 2-3 years anyway.
How many new colonies were formed and how was the total population effected in the end.
The title and summary give no indication that something is wrong, only the indication that someone wants a sensationalist headline.
Its fairly easy to love your children and punish them at the same time, it is in fact a requirement of loving your children properly. Without the punishment, there is a good chance they'll do something that is very bad for them.
I love my child unconditionally and punish him regularly.
Just because you don't understand something, doesn't instantly make it wrong or devoid of logic. It just means you don't understand it, full stop.
While you don't need religion for these things, there can be no argument that religion frequently exaggerates these conflicts.
Ugm, there most certainly is an argument. Those people fighting aren't doing it BECAUSE of religion. They just do it in the NAME of religion. Entirely different.
They could all be the same religion, be it muslim, atheist or christian, and they'd still be fighting.
It has a whole hell of a lot to do with who has what resources, and nothing to do with actual religion. Religion is just the excuse used to justify their actions, which is why the people doing these killing have completely nut job interpretations of the religion they're part of.
If you think that this stuff happens BECAUSE of religion then you have absolutely no understanding of how humans work. You're doing the old correlation == causation bug.
If your computer experience involves apply patches as part of normal operations, you've completely and utterly failed to understand that computers are there to relieve work from you, not make you work harder.
Seriously, not all of us are 15 years old and have nothing better to do than sit around picking with kernel configs. Unlike you, some of us use computers to accomplish things other than bragging about all the crap I've compiled by hand for custom configurations.
My solution? Don't use Xen/QEMU/VirtualBox. They're all pretty shitty when compared to something like VMware. oVirt and OpenStack are monstrous piles of crap. They are free... yet its way cheaper to pay for over priced VMware and not spend your time picking around with silly weaknesses in the OSS hypervisors since they all copy each other and run essentially the same code in all of them... hence this exploit. They're ALL based almost ENTIRELY on QEMU, hence all of them being exploitable.
It's called font-hinting. Because when you just take a vector and stretch it to the desired pixel size, you often end up with junk not resembling the vector at all.
Thats only true for very small fonts which are bordering on illegible, where sometimes they even just include bitmapped variants because you're approaching the point where the vector is not useful since a pixel takes up 20-30% of character. The rules change at this scale.
Vectors are not, and never have been the be-all and end-all of graphics. Take a paintbrush-artist using a particular stipple effect - to just encode their strokes as vectors means it won't render at small or very large sizes effectively either. It's just not that simple.
This is true, but no one is reducing it to drawing lines of fixed width with no other attributes, are they? I mean other than you. Either way, certainly vector graphics are not always the best way to store information about a particular artwork, everyone can agree on that.
There's a reason that every OS has claimed to have "vector" back-end support and yet - in the end
The OS I use... second most popular one at that, allow vectors for icons. SVGs specifically. So... uhm... try again. Of course it also displays PDFs natively, but you go ahead and tell me all about the lack of Vector support.
Or I could download Firefox without DRM, and watch Netflix
No, you could not watch it without the plugin to decrypt it, never have been able to in Firefox, you were watching Netflix with flash if you were using FF before to watch Netflix.
Or I could just use Chrome and get Netflix without this pointless garbage?
Yes, because it already supports the DRM and has for a long time.
not when you bundle digital restrictions management with your browser and only offer the truly open one as an 'option'
Bullshit argument. You're more than welcome to not use the plugin and not use DRM'd content. At no point do you EVER get the right to tell someone else how they have to make things available to you. You're selfish arrogant ass doesn't get to demand other people do things your we because... well because otherwise you'll throw a tantrum.
Its not open... when you start restricting people can do... but you want your browser to restrict people from using a plugin standard they want to use.
Asshole.
quit enabling googles malware system, and stop enabling targeted ads by default.
More people want that turned on than want it turned off. You are simply the minority. Deal with it. Maybe even consider the fact that because a lot of people who understand whats going on here don't think its pure evil that MAYBE, just fucking MAYBE you're an ignorant douche with the problem, not every one else.
thats the direct antithesis of DRM. same goes for point 06 on interoperability.
No, it doesn't, on either point. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you get any right to tell me how I do something. You don't like the color blue, so in order for my artwork to be open and interoperable... it can't have the color blue in it...
Thats your argument here. You don't like it... so screw the fact that we're talking about a PUBLISHED STANDARD FOR INTEROPERABILITY... its not... because you said so...
but DRM does not.
Neither does currency, but you wouldn't be able to use the Internet or even have this conversation without it. You don't have to use DRM or buy artwork with the color blue in it, and very few people give a flying fuck that you don't do it. Actually, outside of this website I can safely assume no one gives a fuck what you do. Someone else's hard work is theirs to do with what they want. It is NOT a public resource. It is NOT a right. Unless you intend to argue that everything you do on the Internet is a public resource, including any banking done by you directly or indirectly... in which case, give me your bank account and CC numbers and lets get straight the point of the public resource that was formally known as your bank account.
I dont remember hearing a goddamn thing about you adding DRM or targeted ads before you just decided to do it.
Then you're just a moron. This isn't the first time its been mentioned here and on many other tech websites and of course, Google News. So at this point, if you are completely blind sided by this... well, again, you're the problem.
So lets recap... you don't like DRM... so everyone who has anything to do with it is being restrictive and preventing you from doing what YOU want to do... but its okay for you to prevent them from doing what they want to do (i.e. use DRM)...
I suggest a dictionary and a quick check of the word:
You fail to understand what scientists know versus what they speculate about.
Making the assumption that they are even somewhat accurate about the big bang (unlikely), the math used to get there breaks down and doesn't work as the size approaches infinitely small. Everything is just speculation from unimaginative scientists who think they know what happened 14 billion years ago at some random spot that they can't even point their finger in the general direction of.
That does not mean that space was not infinitely large while at the same time infinitely small, its all a matter of perspective. Outside looking in, its infinitely small, inside looking out its infinitely large.
Note: We can't get an accurate police report 20 minutes after the event with 20 eye witnesses, but many are dead set that we KNOW what happened during the big bang. When you think about things like this, use your head and think about the police report.
In case you haven't noticed, no one likes either the Firefox (or Chrome) model for updates. People who don't know any better put up with it, but no one likes it.
WTF part of your tiny little brain makes you think people want continual changes to what they are used to because YOU deem it to be better.
My job does not revolve around learning new Windows crap every couple of months, and if you try to make it that way, I'll use something else.
My screw driver doesn't change every 2 months, thats not a bad thing, get the clue you idiots, just because you're entire life revolves around making a new version of windows to justify your existence doesn't mean my life does too and trying to make it so it does means I'm going to find an alternative.
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Getting 1500 watts out of 12 volts DC is WAY more dangerous than 1500 watts from 120 AC, by an order of magnitude.
1500w @15v == 100 amps. That means all your in home wiring would need to be ATLEAST 6 gauge wire to be able to carry the current, more likely its going to be 4
gauge wire, and its STILL GOING TO GET HOT.
At just 100 watts, you know, like a high powered light bulb, thats STILL 10 amps, which requires AT LEAST 10 gauge wire ... when most homes are wired with 12 or even 14 gauge!
We're not going to design homes around the Tesla charger and charging our iPhones, we're going to design it around our fridge, microwave, washer and dryer, and air-conditioning.
This entire article is stupid. The conversion losses are nothing compared to the resistive losses from carrying 10 or 100 amps across the wire, even only a 100 feet or so in your home.
I have several 3000 watt devices in my home, which is FILLED with 100 watt light bulbs. In the real world, this shit won't fly.
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Are you trying to be cute or just ignorant and talking out your ass?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Specifically
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
I.E. Silica is the naturally occurring thing that gets refined into silicon for the substrate.
... CPUs are small enough that they don't need to be flexable, the CPU is not that big hunk of a thing you pull out of the socket, thats the package, and it has to be big and string to hold all those pins or balls in the right place under the pressure of the lock on the socket. The CPU is a little chip inside of there with wires connected to it so small that you can't see them without good vision or assistance.
Also, silica doesn't require or create toxic chemicals by working with it, had you bothered to read my statement, you'd see that its the doping agents that make the silica actually do something other than not conduct electricity that come with all the toxic effects.
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No, its working EXACTLY like he said.
No rational actor will start a nuclear war.
Its not dumb luck, its the threat of nuclear annihilation that prevents it.
Its mind numbing that someone like you can say 'hey look at these three examples of where we didn't go to war ... it means war in inevitable!@$!%!@%' completely and utterly ignoring the fact that there have been fewer wars and they've been smaller since this happened.
If you think its blind luck, you're the blind.
So they replace the substrate with wood ... instead of silica ... the argument being that wood is plentiful and biodegradable and biologically safe ...
Except ... Silica is more plentiful and more biologically safe since its essentially biologically inert.
As an advantage, silica is NOT biodegradable, because I want my chips to last, not fall apart over the winter when it sheds its leaves.
Silica is NOT the issue for the environment in CPUs, its the production materials and doping agents that are horrible on living things and hard to dispose of.
So congrats ... you solved a problem ... wait, no, you didn't really do anything productive. Not seeing any redeeming quality about a chip produced this way and seeing plenty of down sides.
Whats next, you're going to try and convince me that the aircraft carrier made of sawdust and ice they tried to construct during WWII really was a brilliant plant for a warship sailing in the south pacific?
Or every satellite in the last 30 years.
Great they took a lot of photos and stitched them together ... nothing I can't do myself. Just like I can also build a boat or raft out of Mt Dew cans.
But doing so would be neither original or impressive, certainly not news for nerds.
This is no more interesting than how many digits of Pi they calculated on their own. It doesn't require special innovation, just more money and time than brains.
48TB of PS4 would have been a more useful way to use the storage and time to me, and I don't even own nor have any interest in a PS4.
I mean shit, they didn't even hold the camera, a robot did. Its literally the same as photos taking by the ISS in orbit.
Sad but true
You keep calling the something, not sure what, a hypervisor, when it is not. I'm not sure if you're referring to the Virtual Memory Manager or Pre-emptive task switching, but neither of those things are a hypervisor, as you've called them in several posts, no version of windows outside of Windows Server has a hypervisor built in. They have had Virtual Memory and Pre-Emptive multitasking in varying incarnations since even before Win 3.0 though, so I really don't get what you think you're talking about. The important thing is that none of this deals with 'virtual hardware' although it may provide APIs through which you can access hardware in an abstracted manner, this is not 'virtual'.
A hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor. It creates 'virtual' hardware by emulation, allowing software under it to believe it is on physical hardware and to generally run unmodified, but without full access to the real physical hardware it is running on. No direct API to the video display, for instance. The software in a hypervisor thinks its talking to physical hardware (or is hypervisor aware, so can detect that it isn't, things like drivers for instance) and has full control of it. Windows has no such feature (other than Windows Server with Hyper-V installed, but thats not really any different than Windows Server with VMware installed). Windows applications talk to a software API, that abstracts the hardware from the software but it does not virtualize it.
Welcome to reality.
We are not all created equal. We do not all have the same level of life. Deal with it.
Yes, the people who make the laws (you know, the politicians who live in this neighborhood) do get treated differently, thats normal. Not treating them differently would be impossible, and you not understanding that shows a real lack of understanding of how people work.
'Fairness' is an entirely human construct made up by humans to mean treating everyone the same. It does not actually mean treat them fairly.
Nature treats life fairly. The weak die first, the strong carry the species on. I'm sorry that reality doesn't look good for you, but you have to be retarded to be so silly as to think this is ever going to be any other way. Everyone getting the EXACT same privileges will never happen. Not until we're all a bunch of clones who behave and perform the EXACT SAME WAY.
Until then, man who worked harder to get power will get more privileges, just like I expect to get more when I work harder in my job.
And for people like yourself, who slack off and whine about how someone else gets treated better than you ... well ... welcome to the rest of your life because while you're whining and bitching about it, the people who deserve better are working to make their lives better.
All you're doing is whining and moaning, you deserve your lot in life.
Theres not really much wonder to it.
Rand Paul makes his opinion well known and stands by it. Agree or disagree, if you don't know his stance, its only because you've not bothered to pay attention.
Other senators abstain rather than vote against the party, Rand Paul votes. When he doesn't like something, he states it loudly and votes against it. This is unlike people like Changemaster Obama ... who no one bothered to look at his voting record while ranting and raving about him ... at which point they would have noticed, clearly, that Obama made John McCain look angelic. I suspect based on your comment, you don't really look at who you're voting for either, as Rand Paul is rather well known and has stood on his own for years.
Note: I do no vote for Rand Paul, but he is one of the few people that clearly votes based on his own personal agenda, and he does so publicly. I appreciate that. I do not appreciate politicians who claim they support my agenda, when in reality all they care about is more money and power.
I live in NC, citation please?
Most cheap computers didn't come with that much useful software pre-installed.
This is more of an issue now than it was even then. Buying a pre-made PC is just buying a bunch of trial offers, which you then have to remove. Or more appropriately, reinstall the OS cleanly.
Unless you build your own hardware and install from scratch or buy OS X or Linux, you're going to get a bunch of trial-ware spam.
Worse than the first posts here on /. ... the full article is about 2 sentences longer than the summary!. Its literally 2 poorly formed paragraphs. Thats it.
Do you pay for a subscription to slashdot?
I'm just curious as to if you expect people to spend their own time and money providing a website you use but they don't get any avenue to make a return on their investment and time.
If you pay, great. Good for you.
If not, then shut the fuck up you worthless leach, no one gives a shit what you say. :)
I'm better you don't pay for a subscription ... Do you?
Over a 200 year period, 100% of the humans on the planet die ... of course, more are born to replace them so the population actually grows ... making that number that looked super duper scary ... pretty much normal.
So ... 40% in and of itself doesn't mean anything to me if Bees only live 2-3 years anyway.
How many new colonies were formed and how was the total population effected in the end.
The title and summary give no indication that something is wrong, only the indication that someone wants a sensationalist headline.
Facts please ... you know, news for nerds.
You're not a parent are you?
Its fairly easy to love your children and punish them at the same time, it is in fact a requirement of loving your children properly. Without the punishment, there is a good chance they'll do something that is very bad for them.
I love my child unconditionally and punish him regularly.
Just because you don't understand something, doesn't instantly make it wrong or devoid of logic. It just means you don't understand it, full stop.
While you don't need religion for these things, there can be no argument that religion frequently exaggerates these conflicts.
Ugm, there most certainly is an argument. Those people fighting aren't doing it BECAUSE of religion. They just do it in the NAME of religion. Entirely different.
They could all be the same religion, be it muslim, atheist or christian, and they'd still be fighting.
It has a whole hell of a lot to do with who has what resources, and nothing to do with actual religion. Religion is just the excuse used to justify their actions, which is why the people doing these killing have completely nut job interpretations of the religion they're part of.
If you think that this stuff happens BECAUSE of religion then you have absolutely no understanding of how humans work. You're doing the old correlation == causation bug.
If your computer experience involves apply patches as part of normal operations, you've completely and utterly failed to understand that computers are there to relieve work from you, not make you work harder.
Seriously, not all of us are 15 years old and have nothing better to do than sit around picking with kernel configs. Unlike you, some of us use computers to accomplish things other than bragging about all the crap I've compiled by hand for custom configurations.
My solution? Don't use Xen/QEMU/VirtualBox. They're all pretty shitty when compared to something like VMware. oVirt and OpenStack are monstrous piles of crap. They are free ... yet its way cheaper to pay for over priced VMware and not spend your time picking around with silly weaknesses in the OSS hypervisors since they all copy each other and run essentially the same code in all of them ... hence this exploit. They're ALL based almost ENTIRELY on QEMU, hence all of them being exploitable.
It's called font-hinting. Because when you just take a vector and stretch it to the desired pixel size, you often end up with junk not resembling the vector at all.
Thats only true for very small fonts which are bordering on illegible, where sometimes they even just include bitmapped variants because you're approaching the point where the vector is not useful since a pixel takes up 20-30% of character. The rules change at this scale.
Vectors are not, and never have been the be-all and end-all of graphics. Take a paintbrush-artist using a particular stipple effect - to just encode their strokes as vectors means it won't render at small or very large sizes effectively either. It's just not that simple.
This is true, but no one is reducing it to drawing lines of fixed width with no other attributes, are they? I mean other than you. Either way, certainly vector graphics are not always the best way to store information about a particular artwork, everyone can agree on that.
There's a reason that every OS has claimed to have "vector" back-end support and yet - in the end
The OS I use ... second most popular one at that, allow vectors for icons. SVGs specifically. So ... uhm... try again. Of course it also displays PDFs natively, but you go ahead and tell me all about the lack of Vector support.
The difference now is, streaming services will help introduce people to new music,
Why do people keep acting like this is 'new'.
Radio has been streaming music since before you were born.
Or I could download Firefox without DRM, and watch Netflix
No, you could not watch it without the plugin to decrypt it, never have been able to in Firefox, you were watching Netflix with flash if you were using FF before to watch Netflix.
Or I could just use Chrome and get Netflix without this pointless garbage?
Yes, because it already supports the DRM and has for a long time.
not when you bundle digital restrictions management with your browser and only offer the truly open one as an 'option'
Bullshit argument. You're more than welcome to not use the plugin and not use DRM'd content. At no point do you EVER get the right to tell someone else how they have to make things available to you. You're selfish arrogant ass doesn't get to demand other people do things your we because ... well because otherwise you'll throw a tantrum.
Its not open ... when you start restricting people can do ... but you want your browser to restrict people from using a plugin standard they want to use.
Asshole.
quit enabling googles malware system, and stop enabling targeted ads by default.
More people want that turned on than want it turned off. You are simply the minority. Deal with it. Maybe even consider the fact that because a lot of people who understand whats going on here don't think its pure evil that MAYBE, just fucking MAYBE you're an ignorant douche with the problem, not every one else.
thats the direct antithesis of DRM. same goes for point 06 on interoperability.
No, it doesn't, on either point. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you get any right to tell me how I do something. You don't like the color blue, so in order for my artwork to be open and interoperable ... it can't have the color blue in it ...
Thats your argument here. You don't like it ... so screw the fact that we're talking about a PUBLISHED STANDARD FOR INTEROPERABILITY ... its not ... because you said so ...
but DRM does not.
Neither does currency, but you wouldn't be able to use the Internet or even have this conversation without it. You don't have to use DRM or buy artwork with the color blue in it, and very few people give a flying fuck that you don't do it. Actually, outside of this website I can safely assume no one gives a fuck what you do. Someone else's hard work is theirs to do with what they want. It is NOT a public resource. It is NOT a right. Unless you intend to argue that everything you do on the Internet is a public resource, including any banking done by you directly or indirectly ... in which case, give me your bank account and CC numbers and lets get straight the point of the public resource that was formally known as your bank account.
I dont remember hearing a goddamn thing about you adding DRM or targeted ads before you just decided to do it.
Then you're just a moron. This isn't the first time its been mentioned here and on many other tech websites and of course, Google News. So at this point, if you are completely blind sided by this ... well, again, you're the problem.
So lets recap ... you don't like DRM ... so everyone who has anything to do with it is being restrictive and preventing you from doing what YOU want to do ... but its okay for you to prevent them from doing what they want to do (i.e. use DRM) ...
I suggest a dictionary and a quick check of the word:
HYPOCRITE
You fail to understand what scientists know versus what they speculate about.
Making the assumption that they are even somewhat accurate about the big bang (unlikely), the math used to get there breaks down and doesn't work as the size approaches infinitely small. Everything is just speculation from unimaginative scientists who think they know what happened 14 billion years ago at some random spot that they can't even point their finger in the general direction of.
That does not mean that space was not infinitely large while at the same time infinitely small, its all a matter of perspective. Outside looking in, its infinitely small, inside looking out its infinitely large.
Note: We can't get an accurate police report 20 minutes after the event with 20 eye witnesses, but many are dead set that we KNOW what happened during the big bang. When you think about things like this, use your head and think about the police report.
I knew some asshole would try to use some bullshit like Aaron Schwartz to try and act like theres a double standard.
The reason you're hearing about this on slashdot ... IS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN FEDERAL COURT.
Seriously, its in the fucking summary, don't even need to get to the full article.
Dear Microsoft,
In case you haven't noticed, no one likes either the Firefox (or Chrome) model for updates. People who don't know any better put up with it, but no one likes it.
WTF part of your tiny little brain makes you think people want continual changes to what they are used to because YOU deem it to be better.
My job does not revolve around learning new Windows crap every couple of months, and if you try to make it that way, I'll use something else.
My screw driver doesn't change every 2 months, thats not a bad thing, get the clue you idiots, just because you're entire life revolves around making a new version of windows to justify your existence doesn't mean my life does too and trying to make it so it does means I'm going to find an alternative.