You may want to check your history lesson there. TCP/IP wasn't invented by the OSS crowd, GCC nobody cares about (there were C / C++ compilers before GCC), and Apache wasn't the first webserver. In other words, everything you mention was "stolen" (to use the OSS term), not innovated.
How arrogant to think that MS wouldn't be able to build their own TCP/IP stack (especially considering that in Vista it was rewritten).
I'll ask again, what did OSS INNOVATE, not just copy?
Doubtful. I had a computer running for weeks at a time. I shut it down to install my new (for 2001) NVidia card. When I booted up, I got a message saying that the MBR could not be read. The drive failed physically as even when I recovered my data, I could not get anything to write to the MBR. I suspect the drive failed while it was running at some point.
My comment wasn't directed at you, it was the person who replied to you and mentioned uptime. I see now that my post was confusing.
FWIW, hibernate is the same as shutting the laptop down as far as power goes, so you'll get the same power draw as if it was plugged in but turned off.
I am pretty sure suggesting a revolution or anything similar would qualify someone as a terrorist under the Patriot Act or some other law that may be passed under the same spirit.
If we reach the point of needed another revolution, I doubt it matters how the government would classify the revolutionaries. The British called the revolutionaries terrorists as well.
No, a paper ballot is not okay because the stakes are so high that we have numerous groups trying to steal the election and make a game of the system. We need something secure if we want to elect someone rather than just handing over the reins to a cheat. And that means a voting system that doesn't REQUIRE us to TRUST countless officials who are given the privilege of counting our votes and reporting the totals.
Well, we could also lower the stakes by returning to th original intent of a federal government.. that is, relatively weak, compared to the states. Then it doesn't matter too much who the president is, because you're mostly concerned with the people in your own state.
Huh? We in America delegate some but not all decision making authority to our elected folks. Major issues should be voted on directly, that's the whole point of democracy. Or are you suggesting Americans are so foolish they cannot handle making decisions beyond looking for the (D) or (R) next to candidates' names?
Apparently you are a foolish American that shouldn't bother going to vote. We're not a democracy, we are a republic, because a democracy is simply mob rule, whereas our system is supposed to protect the rights of minorities too.
I would like to be able to vote on more issues, but there are usually only a few issues on the ballot. In the last election there were 3 in my state, and only 1 I recall being of significant potential impact.
I would not like people telling me what to do just because there are alot of other people that may agree. I certainly wouldn't like the majority to, say, dictate that I am to become a Christian.
Plus Microsoft is always about 5-10 years behind everyone else when it comes to "innovation" so they're just now hearing those buzz words that (in their time warped universe) will have nearly destroyed Sun in a couple of years.
So, how far behind is the OSS community? What "innovations" have come from that camp?
Though thin clients have been touted in the past and failed, the state of the internet has never been ready to handle thin clients in the past. This has changed.
Thin clients failed because they offer an awful user experience. That hasn't changed at all. The web browser is still an AWFUL application platform. For buying insurance online, its fine, but otherwise its crap.
Not quite. Some traffic laws (speeding) are based on lies and are really there to generate cash for the government and for the police to continue justifying their jobs. There's even studies to show that the "safest" speed is the one people would choose on their own if there was no limit.
FWIW, in the early 70s, there were no speed limit laws, yet it wasn't a constant steam of crashes ever five seconds. Go ask your parents, they'll tell you.
Better yet, post it all here. After all, he doesn't care about who sees that info.
If he really had nothing to hide, he'd give out his bank numbers too. But notice he suddenly says "I don't trust my bank." Very interesting... he doesn't want to give information because of a trust issue... hm..
I think the biggest argument *for* "I've got nothing to hide" is the fact that plenty of people will partake in illegal activity if they think noone is watching. I hate to say it, but I think it's a minor part of human nature.
So in other words, a majority of people do things they do not believe is wrong, yet it makes perfect sense to have laws making said activities illegal.
I call it the halo effect. Watch it, next time your driving. People cut you off, don't use their turn signals, speed, basically drive like idiots. Place a patrol car in the mix, (in fact the second it comes into sight of any of the aforementioned asshole drivers) and suddenly, without warning, little halos appear over every car and everyone is just a cute little perfect driver doing what they're supposed to.
Well, I assume you drive like an idiot then too, since you made the blanket 'people drive like idiots.' Therefore the majority of people drive that way, and you are likely in the majority. Of course you'll claim that YOU don't drive like an idiot. The odd thing is that most others would make the same statements as well.
Also, it seems to me to be MORE dangerous when a cop car is around, because people are now braking suddenly and with no reason to continue going UNDER the speed limit. Basically, everyone is now watching the cop instead of concentrating on their driving.
I love making the analogy of drivers to general society because it allows you to observe people acting privately in a public place. The isolation of the driver from everyone else (aka no real communication) gives this sense of "tunnel vision" where basically people drive as if they're the only ones on the road at all, and somehow the other cars are not really people but automatons just getting in the way.
I take it you've never walked on a major city's streets, like Philadephia or NYC. People walking perceive others and just being in the way also.
So the major premise of the "I've got nothing to hide" crowd, is that plenty of people do, and the ones that squirm in their seats are usually the ones who just might...
If "plenty of people" are violating laws, perhaps we need to re-evaluate if said laws should even be on the books at all.
I didn't read the essay. But I can imagine the guy is outraged at people's nonchalance. "I've got nothing to hide" may generally be perceived as "I don't care", and that's what the author is most likely trying to avoid.
I didn't read the article either, but I'm not going to speculate that its actually about another topic (apapthy).
Give me the middle ground... I do care if you monitor me too much, but I also do care if you do the things like drive like an asshole when you think noone is looking. With the proper checks and balances, neither side will get overconfident.
Perhaps if people are cutting you off and 'driving like assholes' you're doing things you shouldn't as well, like being in the passing lane but not passing anyone.
The law also said he could no longer be prosecuted. The reason we have a statue of limitations is to prevent a government compiling a list of laws you've violated, and then if you become annoying to them, suddenly charging you out of no where. In other words, its better to let someone "get away" with some crimes than to give the government the power to toss anyone in jail at anytime.
The ex post facto here is revising the statue of limitations so that its now longer, and saying that his confession after the OLD statue but before the law extending it is still valid. THAT'S the ex post facto.
Your time and skill are only worth something if you have someone willing to pay you for it. It's not like the guy took unpaid leave from his job to do this instead. He used time he wasn't going to get paid for anyway.
You assume nobody would be willing to pay for that time. I know there are people that would... its a certainty. The fact that he chooses not to pursue other ventures is up to him.
But we're not talking about work time here. We're talking about his free time. Do you never read books, watch movies, or play games because you don't get paid to do it?
Its his choice whether he was paid to do something or not. The fact that he chooses to do something for free does not automatically make his time worthless and less than time I spend watching a movie makes the time worthless. The point is that I COULD get paid to work for that time, should I choose too.
His time always has a value. Besides being able to choose to work, there are other things competing for his time as well. If he owns a home, he could have spent the time working on it (owning a home myself, I know there's ALWAYS something to do to it). In short, time is valuable.
Don't forget the price fixing. I remember being a kid seeing games just before the SNES came out and they STILL where the same price as they were when released. Of course being a kid I thought this was normal, until I read an article about it and got a $20 check from Nintendo.
There is no disadvantage of emulating in software rather than hardware.
Its slower, although I don't know if it matters. It also has more of a chance to be buggy, because features of the older hardware may not map 100% to features of the newer hardware. I image though that the software part of the PS3 can be flashed though.
Hopefully then you'll be able to buy a $500 iPhone from Apple, and any network will offer you service with no contract (since the phone isn't subsidized).
Bull, the phone wouldn't cost that much. The reason is that now instead of select phones working on one carrier, every phone could work on every carrier... in other words, we'd have a flood of phones to choose from (more than today) and prices would drop in the face of this new competition.
it means spending more time on the phone with relatives and friends talking about stuff that doesn't involve the phrase: "Oh, hey, while you're here, can you help me? my computer has been acting up lately..."
How much you help others is directly under your control. Also, don't pretent things don't go wrong on Linux, because they do.
at work, less money shoveled at MSFT licensing and other useless costs means more cash that can be put towards my salary.
Unlikely. More likely, it will mean more profit for your employer. You're keeping the systems running, regardless of whether or not its MS software.
less downtime @ work too.
This isn't 1998 anymore, you can stop with the "my computer is crashing everyday" crap. Of course, this may be why you AREN'T getting a raise, if you can't have computers running Windows that don't crash constantly.
watching Symantec go Chapter 11 would be delicious
You realize the first viruses and worms exploited Unix right? What makes you think Linux is any more or less immune?
seeing MSFT actually pay attention to the average and small customers again would be pretty cool
Who says they aren't? For $400 I can get a Windows server, Sql Server, Exchange Server + Outlook licenses, ISA, and Sharepoint. That's not a bad deal at all.
As I grow up I didn't stop saving the princess and start killing people in brutal ways. Just because my age changes doesn't mean I want more violence in my life.
Wow really, so you still watch the CareBears too? You don't think it was violent to dump a living being (deemed "evil", by the book that came with the game) into a pool of lava? Hmm.
I'm not saying they shouldn't publish the game at all... Publish away, I don't have to buy it. I just don't think the majority of adults even really care about AO games.
I would buy them for a console system, if any existed. But with Sony, MS and Nintendo saying "no AO games period," I don't really have that option.
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You may want to check your history lesson there. TCP/IP wasn't invented by the OSS crowd, GCC nobody cares about (there were C / C++ compilers before GCC), and Apache wasn't the first webserver. In other words, everything you mention was "stolen" (to use the OSS term), not innovated.
How arrogant to think that MS wouldn't be able to build their own TCP/IP stack (especially considering that in Vista it was rewritten).
I'll ask again, what did OSS INNOVATE, not just copy?
Doubtful. I had a computer running for weeks at a time. I shut it down to install my new (for 2001) NVidia card. When I booted up, I got a message saying that the MBR could not be read. The drive failed physically as even when I recovered my data, I could not get anything to write to the MBR. I suspect the drive failed while it was running at some point.
My comment wasn't directed at you, it was the person who replied to you and mentioned uptime. I see now that my post was confusing.
FWIW, hibernate is the same as shutting the laptop down as far as power goes, so you'll get the same power draw as if it was plugged in but turned off.
They were no where to be found as the FBI sat upon said tip for well over eight frigging months!!!!
Give them a break, they were busy spying on innocent civilians.
You say you have nothing to hide, then point out everything wrong with spying on innocent people. Thanks for proving you do have something to hide.
I am pretty sure suggesting a revolution or anything similar would qualify someone as a terrorist under the Patriot Act or some other law that may be passed under the same spirit.
If we reach the point of needed another revolution, I doubt it matters how the government would classify the revolutionaries. The British called the revolutionaries terrorists as well.
Ya, because you're really l337 running a laptop 24/7!!11
No, a paper ballot is not okay because the stakes are so high that we have numerous groups trying to steal the election and make a game of the system. We need something secure if we want to elect someone rather than just handing over the reins to a cheat. And that means a voting system that doesn't REQUIRE us to TRUST countless officials who are given the privilege of counting our votes and reporting the totals.
Well, we could also lower the stakes by returning to th original intent of a federal government.. that is, relatively weak, compared to the states. Then it doesn't matter too much who the president is, because you're mostly concerned with the people in your own state.
Huh? We in America delegate some but not all decision making authority to our elected folks. Major issues should be voted on directly, that's the whole point of democracy. Or are you suggesting Americans are so foolish they cannot handle making decisions beyond looking for the (D) or (R) next to candidates' names?
Apparently you are a foolish American that shouldn't bother going to vote. We're not a democracy, we are a republic, because a democracy is simply mob rule, whereas our system is supposed to protect the rights of minorities too.
I would like to be able to vote on more issues, but there are usually only a few issues on the ballot. In the last election there were 3 in my state, and only 1 I recall being of significant potential impact.
I would not like people telling me what to do just because there are alot of other people that may agree. I certainly wouldn't like the majority to, say, dictate that I am to become a Christian.
Yup, if Nero detects that the DVD is copy protected, it refuses to even make an image.
Plus Microsoft is always about 5-10 years behind everyone else when it comes to "innovation" so they're just now hearing those buzz words that (in their time warped universe) will have nearly destroyed Sun in a couple of years.
So, how far behind is the OSS community? What "innovations" have come from that camp?
Though thin clients have been touted in the past and failed, the state of the internet has never been ready to handle thin clients in the past. This has changed.
Thin clients failed because they offer an awful user experience. That hasn't changed at all. The web browser is still an AWFUL application platform. For buying insurance online, its fine, but otherwise its crap.
Well, read your history books on the british colonies around, oh say 1776. There IS a reason they built the government the way they did.
Not quite. Some traffic laws (speeding) are based on lies and are really there to generate cash for the government and for the police to continue justifying their jobs. There's even studies to show that the "safest" speed is the one people would choose on their own if there was no limit.
FWIW, in the early 70s, there were no speed limit laws, yet it wasn't a constant steam of crashes ever five seconds. Go ask your parents, they'll tell you.
Better yet, post it all here. After all, he doesn't care about who sees that info.
If he really had nothing to hide, he'd give out his bank numbers too. But notice he suddenly says "I don't trust my bank." Very interesting... he doesn't want to give information because of a trust issue... hm..
I think the biggest argument *for* "I've got nothing to hide" is the fact that plenty of people will partake in illegal activity if they think noone is watching. I hate to say it, but I think it's a minor part of human nature.
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... I do care if you monitor me too much, but I also do care if you do the things like drive like an asshole when you think noone is looking. With the proper checks and balances, neither side will get overconfident.
So in other words, a majority of people do things they do not believe is wrong, yet it makes perfect sense to have laws making said activities illegal.
I call it the halo effect. Watch it, next time your driving. People cut you off, don't use their turn signals, speed, basically drive like idiots. Place a patrol car in the mix, (in fact the second it comes into sight of any of the aforementioned asshole drivers) and suddenly, without warning, little halos appear over every car and everyone is just a cute little perfect driver doing what they're supposed to.
Well, I assume you drive like an idiot then too, since you made the blanket 'people drive like idiots.' Therefore the majority of people drive that way, and you are likely in the majority. Of course you'll claim that YOU don't drive like an idiot. The odd thing is that most others would make the same statements as well.
Also, it seems to me to be MORE dangerous when a cop car is around, because people are now braking suddenly and with no reason to continue going UNDER the speed limit. Basically, everyone is now watching the cop instead of concentrating on their driving.
I love making the analogy of drivers to general society because it allows you to observe people acting privately in a public place. The isolation of the driver from everyone else (aka no real communication) gives this sense of "tunnel vision" where basically people drive as if they're the only ones on the road at all, and somehow the other cars are not really people but automatons just getting in the way.
I take it you've never walked on a major city's streets, like Philadephia or NYC. People walking perceive others and just being in the way also.
So the major premise of the "I've got nothing to hide" crowd, is that plenty of people do, and the ones that squirm in their seats are usually the ones who just might
If "plenty of people" are violating laws, perhaps we need to re-evaluate if said laws should even be on the books at all.
I didn't read the essay. But I can imagine the guy is outraged at people's nonchalance. "I've got nothing to hide" may generally be perceived as "I don't care", and that's what the author is most likely trying to avoid.
I didn't read the article either, but I'm not going to speculate that its actually about another topic (apapthy).
Give me the middle ground
Perhaps if people are cutting you off and 'driving like assholes' you're doing things you shouldn't as well, like being in the passing lane but not passing anyone.
The law also said he could no longer be prosecuted. The reason we have a statue of limitations is to prevent a government compiling a list of laws you've violated, and then if you become annoying to them, suddenly charging you out of no where. In other words, its better to let someone "get away" with some crimes than to give the government the power to toss anyone in jail at anytime.
The ex post facto here is revising the statue of limitations so that its now longer, and saying that his confession after the OLD statue but before the law extending it is still valid. THAT'S the ex post facto.
Your time and skill are only worth something if you have someone willing to pay you for it. It's not like the guy took unpaid leave from his job to do this instead. He used time he wasn't going to get paid for anyway.
You assume nobody would be willing to pay for that time. I know there are people that would... its a certainty. The fact that he chooses not to pursue other ventures is up to him.
But we're not talking about work time here. We're talking about his free time. Do you never read books, watch movies, or play games because you don't get paid to do it?
Its his choice whether he was paid to do something or not. The fact that he chooses to do something for free does not automatically make his time worthless and less than time I spend watching a movie makes the time worthless. The point is that I COULD get paid to work for that time, should I choose too.
His time always has a value. Besides being able to choose to work, there are other things competing for his time as well. If he owns a home, he could have spent the time working on it (owning a home myself, I know there's ALWAYS something to do to it). In short, time is valuable.
Don't forget the price fixing. I remember being a kid seeing games just before the SNES came out and they STILL where the same price as they were when released. Of course being a kid I thought this was normal, until I read an article about it and got a $20 check from Nintendo.
There is no disadvantage of emulating in software rather than hardware.
Its slower, although I don't know if it matters. It also has more of a chance to be buggy, because features of the older hardware may not map 100% to features of the newer hardware. I image though that the software part of the PS3 can be flashed though.
Interstate commerce... since, you know, the cell phone companies are all national entities.
Hopefully then you'll be able to buy a $500 iPhone from Apple, and any network will offer you service with no contract (since the phone isn't subsidized).
Bull, the phone wouldn't cost that much. The reason is that now instead of select phones working on one carrier, every phone could work on every carrier... in other words, we'd have a flood of phones to choose from (more than today) and prices would drop in the face of this new competition.
it means spending more time on the phone with relatives and friends talking about stuff that doesn't involve the phrase: "Oh, hey, while you're here, can you help me? my computer has been acting up lately..."
How much you help others is directly under your control. Also, don't pretent things don't go wrong on Linux, because they do.
at work, less money shoveled at MSFT licensing and other useless costs means more cash that can be put towards my salary.
Unlikely. More likely, it will mean more profit for your employer. You're keeping the systems running, regardless of whether or not its MS software.
less downtime @ work too.
This isn't 1998 anymore, you can stop with the "my computer is crashing everyday" crap. Of course, this may be why you AREN'T getting a raise, if you can't have computers running Windows that don't crash constantly.
watching Symantec go Chapter 11 would be delicious
You realize the first viruses and worms exploited Unix right? What makes you think Linux is any more or less immune?
seeing MSFT actually pay attention to the average and small customers again would be pretty cool
Who says they aren't? For $400 I can get a Windows server, Sql Server, Exchange Server + Outlook licenses, ISA, and Sharepoint. That's not a bad deal at all.
As I grow up I didn't stop saving the princess and start killing people in brutal ways. Just because my age changes doesn't mean I want more violence in my life.
Wow really, so you still watch the CareBears too? You don't think it was violent to dump a living being (deemed "evil", by the book that came with the game) into a pool of lava? Hmm.
I'm not saying they shouldn't publish the game at all... Publish away, I don't have to buy it. I just don't think the majority of adults even really care about AO games.
I would buy them for a console system, if any existed. But with Sony, MS and Nintendo saying "no AO games period," I don't really have that option.
The ESRB was created out of an act of Congress.
No, it was created in response to a threat of an act of Congress, by the industry itself.