No, it's called a rational debate. Why did you even bother to post anything if you're essentially pulling things out of your ass with no intention of backing up your claims? Or are you so steeped in the rhetorical you've forgotten about constructive debating? The only other reason for you posting would be sheer posturing, hoping to elicit praise and a sense of belonging from this crowd...
It's called sarcasm, in case you didn't realise. And the burden of proof is on you, my friend, not I, for you made the claim. As it stands, you still made a completely unfounded accusation, for some reason other than logical debate.
#2 isn't file sharing. It's commercial copyright infringement, which is a criminal offense in countries that have even slightly strict copyright laws. P2P for personal use is usually only a civil offense in those countries. It's taring P2P with a bad name by proxy. It's a completely different thing, yet this cocknozzle seems to think it's cool. Also "Piracy", which implies the same thing, but again is completely different to copyright infringement. I don't remember tales of the pirates of old boarding ships, making copies of everything on board out of their own materials, then slinking off into the night with no-one none-the-wiser. Pirates STOLE something, a legal concept borne from people losing their physical property, not from people getting stuff they didn't pay for.
And to play devil's advocate, #1 turns copyright infringement into commercial copyright infringement, as they're earning money from copyright infringement. I'm not saying it's a bad thing in itself, but "so what" and "so does slashdot" don't really apply as counters to that point.
Anything that requires modifying a proprietary format for which there is no open-source library capable of handling it. You have to remember that OS X users don't solely work with BSD file formats, but the plethora of closed-source or poorly-documented Apple formats that simply don't have the support. The problem isn't what BSD is capable of - the problem is finding software from one "camp" to work on files from another.
I'm not being a dick here, but BSD can't do everything that software on OS X can do... Sometimes the only way to do stuff on OS X is to buy software, or to not do it.
Well, Jobs hasn't said anything of any great depth. If the iPhone is as beholden to the powers-that-be as iTunes is, functionality will be an issue when it possibly curtails money-making activities of other parties involved in the iPhone. iTunes used to have lots of functionality in its SDK that has since been taken away because of the possibility of piracy, even though the functionality was massively useful for legal purposes. I won't hold my breath for its release, but I hope it's not as much of a cluster-fuck of conflicts of interest as other Apple SDKs. Let's just wait until the thing hits the shelves before proclaiming it the bar-setter of the smartphone world, ok? Lest we look like fanboys, which I'm not saying we are.
I have a quantumly-entangled scale model of him on my desk, and it's rolling like a bastard right now. Just knocked my coffee into the middle of next week. But that's a different problem all together.
I'm not talking about the US. The US legal system, including the police, is all kinds of fucked up. I was talking about the UK.
The cops can't arrest your for "almost anything". They can, however, arrest you for committing arrestible offenses. Which is kind of the point. When the cops search you in London, which they usually only do in tube stations, they're searching for something specific, like guns or knives. If they find anything else illegal (say, drugs) that doesn't pose a harm to anyone, they'll simply confiscate it and let you go (unless you have a prior record for having an on-the-spot confiscation, in which case they might give you a caution). And yes, they can give instant fines, but you can contest them in court if you want, or just pay the £80 and be done with it. A friend of mine was caught spitting right next to a police car (he was spitting at the cop car, but missed), and he was given an £80 on-the-spot fine. I'd hardly call that a bad thing. As for being held without charge, you have to be charged within 24 hours or they let you go. It can be extended to 36 hours if a superintendent deems it necessary, or 48 hours if a majistrate agrees. All those extensions require serious amounts of paperwork and the scrutiny of the public police watchdog bodies. If, though, you're a terror suspect, they can hold you for 7 days. DNA in the database? I can't possibly see how that's a problem. It's led to thousands of arrests for crimes that would have otherwise gone unsolved. It's not a privacy infringement, as it can only be used against you if you've committed a crime. If you're worried about the definition of crimes being skewed to such an extent that morally-innocent folks are caught this way, then your problem isn't with the DNA database but with lawmakers, so your anger would be more wiseley put to use in making sure laws accurately reflect the will of the people, as opposed to letting that slide and just attacking a worthwhile tool in policing.
Completely. If you're worried that the cops will see an undesirable book on your bookshelf, the problem isn't that book being on Google Whatever, but that the cops have a problem with a book. Fix that, and it doesn't matter what they see on your bookshelf. It's a knee-jerk reaction, completely missing the point of fixing society. Don't fix the symptoms, fix the cause.
I don't want to sound rude, but that's rubbish. The cops can't and won't arrest you simply because someone says your curtains are closed all the time. You have to be a certified paranoid schizophrenic to believe that happens, and that it's cool by the cops. The cops, on the whole, DO believe you innocent until proven guilty. Whenever it's brought to the attention of the public that they have acted otherwise, untold pressure is brought to bear on them by the various civilian watchdog/oversight/complaint organisations, not to mention the higher powers in the police force itself. When the police asked people to be on the look-out for people involved in the growing of drugs, they said to look out for really, really strong odours of cannabis, and report those. That means the police will come round that person's house (note: not your house, theirs), and if the police can smell it, then they have probable cause to enter your property. Not growing drugs? No arrest. Growing drugs? Arrest.
That changes absolutely nothing. You can't get the same use out of a hardware device that's not functioning simply because you know it's not its fault that it's not working. That's borderline insanity. The fact is, Linux has shitty hardware support. That's it. That's the bottom line. Until that's changed, however that should happen, projects like this are flights of fancy with very, very limited application. Because if it doesn't work, what's the point in having it?
And not very well, so the issue still stands... Linux doesn't have as complete hardware support as some of the other OSs out there. Until that changes, this will have very limited use, as it only takes one unsupported component and you're screwed.
You'd have more chance getting a Windows system to do this, simply because it has better hardware support. OS X only supports Mac hardware, whereas Windows supports a whole slew of devices out of the box. Sure it's not everything, but it's a lot more than OS X and Linux.
Apparently you missed Core 2 Duo from Intel. They slashed power consumption, gigahertz, and yet made some fantastically fast processors, all without making them ridiculously expensive. Credit where credit's due, surely...
Microsoft is a company, not an ideological movement. They're not in business to strong-arm developers at the expense of consumers. They're just trying to make as much money as possible.
Yeah! Because no-one ever attacks the police, and they're armed, so clearly everyone who wants to do harm is in full control of their faculties! Idiot. It's folks like you in the Pentagon who cause this shit in the first place. Use some sense, will you?
And just imagine. At the moment there are air-rage incidents where folks get all drunk and start all kinds of shit. They ALWAYS end up in jail, and yet they keep on doing it. Throw some guns into the mix, and you'll end up with people being killed every single day of every single week on flights. Brilliant. Fucking genius.
The IRA were from Northern Ireland, not Eire. The IRA stopped fighting when they received representation in the discussion that they were trying to take part in. Once that happened, the violence didn't make sense, as they were fighting people who were trying to help them, and they stopped. If you think the conflict was due to food, you are hundreds of years out of date. But nice try.
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No, it's called a rational debate. Why did you even bother to post anything if you're essentially pulling things out of your ass with no intention of backing up your claims? Or are you so steeped in the rhetorical you've forgotten about constructive debating? The only other reason for you posting would be sheer posturing, hoping to elicit praise and a sense of belonging from this crowd...
It's called sarcasm, in case you didn't realise. And the burden of proof is on you, my friend, not I, for you made the claim. As it stands, you still made a completely unfounded accusation, for some reason other than logical debate.
#2 isn't file sharing. It's commercial copyright infringement, which is a criminal offense in countries that have even slightly strict copyright laws. P2P for personal use is usually only a civil offense in those countries. It's taring P2P with a bad name by proxy. It's a completely different thing, yet this cocknozzle seems to think it's cool. Also "Piracy", which implies the same thing, but again is completely different to copyright infringement. I don't remember tales of the pirates of old boarding ships, making copies of everything on board out of their own materials, then slinking off into the night with no-one none-the-wiser. Pirates STOLE something, a legal concept borne from people losing their physical property, not from people getting stuff they didn't pay for.
And to play devil's advocate, #1 turns copyright infringement into commercial copyright infringement, as they're earning money from copyright infringement. I'm not saying it's a bad thing in itself, but "so what" and "so does slashdot" don't really apply as counters to that point.
Oh yes, clearly MS. Definitely. The complete lack of evidence suggesting that only makes the case stronger! Fuck you, microsoft! You killed Jesus!
Anything that requires modifying a proprietary format for which there is no open-source library capable of handling it. You have to remember that OS X users don't solely work with BSD file formats, but the plethora of closed-source or poorly-documented Apple formats that simply don't have the support. The problem isn't what BSD is capable of - the problem is finding software from one "camp" to work on files from another.
I'm not being a dick here, but BSD can't do everything that software on OS X can do... Sometimes the only way to do stuff on OS X is to buy software, or to not do it.
Well, Jobs hasn't said anything of any great depth. If the iPhone is as beholden to the powers-that-be as iTunes is, functionality will be an issue when it possibly curtails money-making activities of other parties involved in the iPhone. iTunes used to have lots of functionality in its SDK that has since been taken away because of the possibility of piracy, even though the functionality was massively useful for legal purposes. I won't hold my breath for its release, but I hope it's not as much of a cluster-fuck of conflicts of interest as other Apple SDKs. Let's just wait until the thing hits the shelves before proclaiming it the bar-setter of the smartphone world, ok? Lest we look like fanboys, which I'm not saying we are.
I have a quantumly-entangled scale model of him on my desk, and it's rolling like a bastard right now. Just knocked my coffee into the middle of next week. But that's a different problem all together.
Your post is quite hilarious. Really. That's some good shit right there. Paranoid much?
Are you talking about in the UK or the US? There's a world of difference between both sides of the pond.
I'm not talking about the US. The US legal system, including the police, is all kinds of fucked up. I was talking about the UK.
The cops can't arrest your for "almost anything". They can, however, arrest you for committing arrestible offenses. Which is kind of the point. When the cops search you in London, which they usually only do in tube stations, they're searching for something specific, like guns or knives. If they find anything else illegal (say, drugs) that doesn't pose a harm to anyone, they'll simply confiscate it and let you go (unless you have a prior record for having an on-the-spot confiscation, in which case they might give you a caution). And yes, they can give instant fines, but you can contest them in court if you want, or just pay the £80 and be done with it. A friend of mine was caught spitting right next to a police car (he was spitting at the cop car, but missed), and he was given an £80 on-the-spot fine. I'd hardly call that a bad thing. As for being held without charge, you have to be charged within 24 hours or they let you go. It can be extended to 36 hours if a superintendent deems it necessary, or 48 hours if a majistrate agrees. All those extensions require serious amounts of paperwork and the scrutiny of the public police watchdog bodies. If, though, you're a terror suspect, they can hold you for 7 days. DNA in the database? I can't possibly see how that's a problem. It's led to thousands of arrests for crimes that would have otherwise gone unsolved. It's not a privacy infringement, as it can only be used against you if you've committed a crime. If you're worried about the definition of crimes being skewed to such an extent that morally-innocent folks are caught this way, then your problem isn't with the DNA database but with lawmakers, so your anger would be more wiseley put to use in making sure laws accurately reflect the will of the people, as opposed to letting that slide and just attacking a worthwhile tool in policing.
Exactly. That's the problem. Fix that, and this isn't an issue.
Completely. If you're worried that the cops will see an undesirable book on your bookshelf, the problem isn't that book being on Google Whatever, but that the cops have a problem with a book. Fix that, and it doesn't matter what they see on your bookshelf. It's a knee-jerk reaction, completely missing the point of fixing society. Don't fix the symptoms, fix the cause.
I don't want to sound rude, but that's rubbish. The cops can't and won't arrest you simply because someone says your curtains are closed all the time. You have to be a certified paranoid schizophrenic to believe that happens, and that it's cool by the cops. The cops, on the whole, DO believe you innocent until proven guilty. Whenever it's brought to the attention of the public that they have acted otherwise, untold pressure is brought to bear on them by the various civilian watchdog/oversight/complaint organisations, not to mention the higher powers in the police force itself. When the police asked people to be on the look-out for people involved in the growing of drugs, they said to look out for really, really strong odours of cannabis, and report those. That means the police will come round that person's house (note: not your house, theirs), and if the police can smell it, then they have probable cause to enter your property. Not growing drugs? No arrest. Growing drugs? Arrest.
That changes absolutely nothing. You can't get the same use out of a hardware device that's not functioning simply because you know it's not its fault that it's not working. That's borderline insanity. The fact is, Linux has shitty hardware support. That's it. That's the bottom line. Until that's changed, however that should happen, projects like this are flights of fancy with very, very limited application. Because if it doesn't work, what's the point in having it?
And not very well, so the issue still stands... Linux doesn't have as complete hardware support as some of the other OSs out there. Until that changes, this will have very limited use, as it only takes one unsupported component and you're screwed.
It looks like every other iPod knock-off out there :)
You'd have more chance getting a Windows system to do this, simply because it has better hardware support. OS X only supports Mac hardware, whereas Windows supports a whole slew of devices out of the box. Sure it's not everything, but it's a lot more than OS X and Linux.
Apparently you missed Core 2 Duo from Intel. They slashed power consumption, gigahertz, and yet made some fantastically fast processors, all without making them ridiculously expensive. Credit where credit's due, surely...
Microsoft is a company, not an ideological movement. They're not in business to strong-arm developers at the expense of consumers. They're just trying to make as much money as possible.
(looks at explorer)... I can't see a floppy drive listed. No floppy controller in device manager, nothin'.
Yeah! Because no-one ever attacks the police, and they're armed, so clearly everyone who wants to do harm is in full control of their faculties! Idiot. It's folks like you in the Pentagon who cause this shit in the first place. Use some sense, will you?
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And just imagine. At the moment there are air-rage incidents where folks get all drunk and start all kinds of shit. They ALWAYS end up in jail, and yet they keep on doing it. Throw some guns into the mix, and you'll end up with people being killed every single day of every single week on flights. Brilliant. Fucking genius.
I hope you're joking
Maybe the first thing to do would be to understand what the word "terrorism" means. Hint: It's not killing soldiers.
The IRA were from Northern Ireland, not Eire. The IRA stopped fighting when they received representation in the discussion that they were trying to take part in. Once that happened, the violence didn't make sense, as they were fighting people who were trying to help them, and they stopped. If you think the conflict was due to food, you are hundreds of years out of date. But nice try.
I hope that was a joke!