No under my plan we are saying goodbye to one-click patents and other garbage.
As far as the clone argument goes, there is a HUGE HUGE business advantage in being first to market and developing a brand. Patents are 17th century ideas that help no one but big companies oppress competition and submarine patent firms. Its time to send that horse out to pasture.
Thats what I dont like about this patent (and all patents.) You can patent science fiction today, wait it out, do ZERO work, and then collect large sums of money.
The people who took a chance and did all the work deserve all the profits. Patents are a scam. They were in the past and more so today. Patent reform is not enough. Abolishment of all patents is the only way to go.
>India is doing better as far as democracy then some of the other "BIG" countries that have recently invaded a smaller one.
So? The only country to use nuclear weapons in a war is a democracy. Ever hear of WWII? The idea that democracy means pacifist anti-nuke is ridiculous.
The point is that india's defenders are lying when they are saying its a peaceful (See kashmir) and secular country (see caste), unlike Pakistan. When it truth both countries are just as bad and will continue to fight wars over Kashmir, and those wars might lead to a nuclear strike. The point is that india and pakistan needs less nukes not more.
How isnt India hostile? They have nukes pointed at Pakistan and Pakistan has nukes pointed at them. They are CONSTANTLY fighting over Kashmir. This could be percieved as an escalation or at least a way to unbalance the MAD equation in that part of the world.
The US needs to be serious about non-proliferation. Shame it isnt.
No. Saying 'teach both' side by side is still wrong. You can teach creationism if you like but only in a religious studies class that involves other religions, NOT in a science class.
1% sounds unusually high to me. When companies do direct marketing with new and sale items they dont usually hit 1%.
When I examine our spam here at work I see a lot what looks like spam but has download links to trojans or links to webpages full of client-side exploits. The difference between spammers and hackers seems to have disappeared.
You have a right to something and also have the actions provided by that right be bad for everyone. Certain controversial topics like easily available guns or religious fundamentalism come into play here.
Why would you need a hole? All you need to do is write the executable, put it on the web, and send out an email about "greeting cards" or "photos of hot chicks." When all users run as admin by default then there's really no reason to go for anything than a simple download. This is why companies take away admin access from their users and why XP is much, much worse than Vista, by default.
The Holy See is committed to standardizing on linux on both its mobile and desktop applications. The pope was once overheard summarizing his opposition to the war in Iraq as "Make Install, Not War."
Thats roughly true. Red states are socialist, and the blue ones pay for their programs. If the GOP is anything its a wealth redistribution system that would make the old soviets drool.
Yeah, damn elitist lawyers. Oh right, obama grew up poor and without a father.
I mean, we need to vote in people who are likable. Regular people who I can 'have a beer with' as the media says. That's Bush alright, he's a regular guy, not the son of millionares who has never had to fend for himself or work a hard day in his life.
Eight years ago your post would be: "These two candidates are the same guy! I'm voting for Nader!"
Do you honestly thing Gore would have run things just like Bush?
Now, do you honestly thing McCain would run things just like Obama?
Enough with the protest voting, we should mobilize people and teach them to vote for their best interests, not teaching them to be cynical and become protest voters.
That's fine. But the first step it to get people off of admin. Userland viruses arent going to be able to do 90% of the things current viruses do. They will also be trivially easy to remove.
Ah yes steam, which requires me to authenticate to play single-player non-online games. Or the steam I've had to reinstall a few times because of bugs. Or the steam that refuses to let me play TF2 because of some random error. Or the steam that bans whole accounts for any reason which means you just lost all your games.
We dont need a friggin DRM framework to download games. Give me the exact same installer youre putting on the CDs and call it a day.
Or they could just stop running as local admins. Regardless of OS, if they dont take secure steps then they'll always fall into some trouble. Its just a lot more obvious in Windows.
The astronauts should have a separate account for local admin tasks and they should be using a limited user account for everything else. Not doing this is just like running as root 24/7.
The real problem with windows culture is the assumption that people can get away with running as admin 24/7. They cant.
It should be. Why are we wasting packaging and transportation on digital files? How about they sell me digital delivery instead of more extra fees for "SUPER FAST SHIPPING!!!"
Its incredible how behind the times the game industry is in digital delivery.
All you can get is probably commercial fiber. I think this is a fair test. Ignoring economics leads to unrepresentative samples. For instance I have a 1.5mbps via AT&T for 28 dollars in Chicago. Thats the fastest speed i can get for DSL because of my distance from the CO. The next step up for me is Comcast cable which is 4mbps for 60 something dollars. I'm not paying that much for just 4mbps. I'd consider it for a 10 or 15 meg line. I dont see the value in paying so much more for downloads that are only slightly faster than 2x my current speed.
Now if you wanted to see broadband peentration in Chicago, would you rather know that I and all my neighbors are on AT&T because of prices or that we could all move up to a 4 or 6 meg line, but choose not to. Heck, we could probably pool our money and split some fiber if we really wanted.
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No under my plan we are saying goodbye to one-click patents and other garbage.
As far as the clone argument goes, there is a HUGE HUGE business advantage in being first to market and developing a brand. Patents are 17th century ideas that help no one but big companies oppress competition and submarine patent firms. Its time to send that horse out to pasture.
>If patents are abolished, then how will people who take a chance and do lots of work get any profits?
trade secrets, first to market. We dont need the government to perform socialist control on ideas.
Thats what I dont like about this patent (and all patents.) You can patent science fiction today, wait it out, do ZERO work, and then collect large sums of money.
The people who took a chance and did all the work deserve all the profits. Patents are a scam. They were in the past and more so today. Patent reform is not enough. Abolishment of all patents is the only way to go.
>India is doing better as far as democracy then some of the other "BIG" countries that have recently invaded a smaller one.
So? The only country to use nuclear weapons in a war is a democracy. Ever hear of WWII? The idea that democracy means pacifist anti-nuke is ridiculous.
"Dude" caste is a religious concept.
http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm
The point is that india's defenders are lying when they are saying its a peaceful (See kashmir) and secular country (see caste), unlike Pakistan. When it truth both countries are just as bad and will continue to fight wars over Kashmir, and those wars might lead to a nuclear strike. The point is that india and pakistan needs less nukes not more.
Grok?
>By the same token, India is fighting their own caste system.
So "any day now?" Fine, but stop pretending to be secular.
>and it doesn't help that their caste system has been around longer than our country.
Excuses, excuses.
Secular? No country with a caste system is secular.
How isnt India hostile? They have nukes pointed at Pakistan and Pakistan has nukes pointed at them. They are CONSTANTLY fighting over Kashmir. This could be percieved as an escalation or at least a way to unbalance the MAD equation in that part of the world.
The US needs to be serious about non-proliferation. Shame it isnt.
Bullshit. My gf just went to india, germany, and russia and texted and called me without tell AT&T anything.
This is another customer 'gotcha.'
No. Saying 'teach both' side by side is still wrong. You can teach creationism if you like but only in a religious studies class that involves other religions, NOT in a science class.
1% sounds unusually high to me. When companies do direct marketing with new and sale items they dont usually hit 1%.
When I examine our spam here at work I see a lot what looks like spam but has download links to trojans or links to webpages full of client-side exploits. The difference between spammers and hackers seems to have disappeared.
You have a right to something and also have the actions provided by that right be bad for everyone. Certain controversial topics like easily available guns or religious fundamentalism come into play here.
Why would you need a hole? All you need to do is write the executable, put it on the web, and send out an email about "greeting cards" or "photos of hot chicks." When all users run as admin by default then there's really no reason to go for anything than a simple download. This is why companies take away admin access from their users and why XP is much, much worse than Vista, by default.
The Holy See is committed to standardizing on linux on both its mobile and desktop applications. The pope was once overheard summarizing his opposition to the war in Iraq as "Make Install, Not War."
Thats roughly true. Red states are socialist, and the blue ones pay for their programs. If the GOP is anything its a wealth redistribution system that would make the old soviets drool.
Yeah, damn elitist lawyers. Oh right, obama grew up poor and without a father.
I mean, we need to vote in people who are likable. Regular people who I can 'have a beer with' as the media says. That's Bush alright, he's a regular guy, not the son of millionares who has never had to fend for himself or work a hard day in his life.
Agreed, hardcore christians love that "joke" and Ive never really seen it represented without that context.
Eight years ago your post would be: "These two candidates are the same guy! I'm voting for Nader!"
Do you honestly thing Gore would have run things just like Bush?
Now, do you honestly thing McCain would run things just like Obama?
Enough with the protest voting, we should mobilize people and teach them to vote for their best interests, not teaching them to be cynical and become protest voters.
Why would they still be using USB but not SD? Both interfaces would most likely be just as rare.
That's fine. But the first step it to get people off of admin. Userland viruses arent going to be able to do 90% of the things current viruses do. They will also be trivially easy to remove.
Ah yes steam, which requires me to authenticate to play single-player non-online games. Or the steam I've had to reinstall a few times because of bugs. Or the steam that refuses to let me play TF2 because of some random error. Or the steam that bans whole accounts for any reason which means you just lost all your games.
We dont need a friggin DRM framework to download games. Give me the exact same installer youre putting on the CDs and call it a day.
Or they could just stop running as local admins. Regardless of OS, if they dont take secure steps then they'll always fall into some trouble. Its just a lot more obvious in Windows.
The astronauts should have a separate account for local admin tasks and they should be using a limited user account for everything else. Not doing this is just like running as root 24/7.
The real problem with windows culture is the assumption that people can get away with running as admin 24/7. They cant.
It should be. Why are we wasting packaging and transportation on digital files? How about they sell me digital delivery instead of more extra fees for "SUPER FAST SHIPPING!!!"
Its incredible how behind the times the game industry is in digital delivery.
>previously planned features and end by hiring a 90's sitcom star
I'm picturing Kathy Griffin annoyingly promoting Android. *shudder*
Perhaps Woz can make an awkward guest appearance.
All you can get is probably commercial fiber. I think this is a fair test. Ignoring economics leads to unrepresentative samples. For instance I have a 1.5mbps via AT&T for 28 dollars in Chicago. Thats the fastest speed i can get for DSL because of my distance from the CO. The next step up for me is Comcast cable which is 4mbps for 60 something dollars. I'm not paying that much for just 4mbps. I'd consider it for a 10 or 15 meg line. I dont see the value in paying so much more for downloads that are only slightly faster than 2x my current speed.
Now if you wanted to see broadband peentration in Chicago, would you rather know that I and all my neighbors are on AT&T because of prices or that we could all move up to a 4 or 6 meg line, but choose not to. Heck, we could probably pool our money and split some fiber if we really wanted.