"I'd say they are stealing [from] their own customers by disabling features based on technologies they own (so they did it on purpose) and by charging for a software that requires an improved driver that they refuse to provide."
It's time to realize that copyrights, patents, etc are theft. The alleged owners are the pirates.
...but we give too much power to machines they will start controlling our life.
You get either a machine or a bureaucrat. Take your choice. At least with a machine, you can turn it off. Just try to get rid of an incompetent bureaucrat or crooked politician who appoints him.
And as long as dinner is on the table, you are going to die waiting. You are not going to get people excited, unless you cancel their favorite TV program.
And Rove, Rumsfeld, etc all share origins in the Nixon administration's realignment of the Republican party.
Absolutely. We are in the 40th year of the Nixon presidency. The only real difference is that now they can do what Nixon did in broad daylight with no fear of any repercussions. His legacy will live on for quite some time. "Four more years"... at least.
Well, golly gee! I guess I should be impressed. You actually got a number of folks to take your little tirades seriously. So who are you, really? Lawrence Lessig playing an April fools joke? I love Slashdot... getting more subtle all the time.
Remember, in some states, using a motor is prohibited...
Doesn't always make it so, babe. Rights, like life, liberty, bla bla bla, don't need written law to exist. And the privileges created by law, such as copyright, aren't real, natural rights. It doesn't matter if it's in the constitution or the bible, or any other document you hold up to your god. It is nothing more than a binding agreement amongst the signatories. Thing is, I didn't sign. But keep it comin' darlin'. If you pop an artery, make sure to have the camera rolling.
...shut the fuck up.
Aw, I can't, man. The day's been pretty slow until you dropped by, and I'm easily entertained at the moment. I gotta see what you come up with next. The really good trolls aren't so obliging, and pudge has become tiresome, so I guess I just have to settle with you.
Well, That's niiice, (see? I've been to finishin' school) Love and kisses to you too there, sweetie. Feel free to study up on the differences between rights and privileges. Here's a little sump'in to get you started. Copyright is a privilege granted exclusively by the government in power at the moment. To do with my possessions as I wish is a right, not answerable to anybody. I will grant that society has given up that right to allow copyright in its mistaken belief that it benefits everybody in the end. But there are those who understand its real intent in calling for its abolishment. You may own the bulb, no matter how dim it may be in your case, but you don't own the light it shines on me. My buddy Tom says so. And your little "rude boy" act isn't really all that impressive either. It's been done before, by people that are much better than you. Go find another corner.
Stop violating other people's rights and this won't be a problem.
Really, man. That's what I've been telling the ??AA's. Gotta make 'em stop violating our rights in their attempt to protect and extend their privileges. It would better yet to revoke those privileges entirely.
You'll want to leave your node connected for a while; it will get faster over the first few minutes / hours it's installed, and somewhat even after that, especially as your node begins to cache popular data.
Staying connected to a single source for any great length of time is the last thing you want to do if you don't want to draw attention. And encrypted data will draw attention. Anything that can't be read will be flagged. Neither Freenet or Tor will protect you on today's heavily monitored wires.
For some time now OS of personal computers does not reside in ROM and can be changed to a different one with ease.
But that's what makes them so insecure... I think that the best way to secure your machine is to put the OS, and your documents on some kind of... plug-in cartridge, if you will.
They get it just fine. They get it enough to rake in billions while the rest might lose their house... for being dumb asses. That's funny as hell... telling them, up there in their towering palace, that they don't "get it". They're only pissed about one thing, and that's the possible loss of control. So of course they can do only one thing, and that's buy up all the pipe, and put up their firewalls to keep the control. And of course we'll help them by voting the politician of their choice.
BAAAHHHRFF! Oh wow, sorry bout that chief. I really can't handle my liquor anymore... well at least I didn't get any on the keyboard... always keep a wastebasket close to the desk... RRAALLLPPHHH... oh cool, there's a french fry
Little do they know... It is really the west, with its mechanical carbon dioxide generators that create the "strange" weather. We even have them making their own.. And now they produce more than we do. HAHAHAHA!
More like "Landing airliner collides with drone. 400 dead. Including 10 on the ground. The drone was mistakenly armed with nuclear weapons and exploded when the drone crashed, killing 50,000 more".
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"I'd say they are stealing [from] their own customers by disabling features based on technologies they own (so they did it on purpose) and by charging for a software that requires an improved driver that they refuse to provide."
It's time to realize that copyrights, patents, etc are theft. The alleged owners are the pirates.
Go back 100 years. The economy did better when Democrats controlled the White House than when Republicans did.
Theodore Roosevelt was not a democrat.
...but we give too much power to machines they will start controlling our life.
You get either a machine or a bureaucrat. Take your choice. At least with a machine, you can turn it off. Just try to get rid of an incompetent bureaucrat or crooked politician who appoints him.
And as long as dinner is on the table, you are going to die waiting. You are not going to get people excited, unless you cancel their favorite TV program.
Approval rating is a bunch of bullshit media hype. Congress lives with a consistently low approval rating and yet 90-95% are always reelected.
Well Bush is not a real Texan.
It kinda goes like this:
Excuse me, does your dog bite?
No.
Nice doggy... (bends down to pet dog) CHOMP!
I thought you said your dog does not bite.
That is not my dog.
And Rove, Rumsfeld, etc all share origins in the Nixon administration's realignment of the Republican party.
Absolutely. We are in the 40th year of the Nixon presidency. The only real difference is that now they can do what Nixon did in broad daylight with no fear of any repercussions. His legacy will live on for quite some time. "Four more years"... at least.
Remember the Maine!
Well, golly gee! I guess I should be impressed. You actually got a number of folks to take your little tirades seriously. So who are you, really? Lawrence Lessig playing an April fools joke? I love Slashdot... getting more subtle all the time.
Remember, in some states, using a motor is prohibited...
The law says it is a right.
...shut the fuck up.
Doesn't always make it so, babe. Rights, like life, liberty, bla bla bla, don't need written law to exist. And the privileges created by law, such as copyright, aren't real, natural rights. It doesn't matter if it's in the constitution or the bible, or any other document you hold up to your god. It is nothing more than a binding agreement amongst the signatories. Thing is, I didn't sign. But keep it comin' darlin'. If you pop an artery, make sure to have the camera rolling.
Aw, I can't, man. The day's been pretty slow until you dropped by, and I'm easily entertained at the moment. I gotta see what you come up with next. The really good trolls aren't so obliging, and pudge has become tiresome, so I guess I just have to settle with you.
You ever seen a grown man naked?
OK, you dipshit troll...
Well, That's niiice, (see? I've been to finishin' school) Love and kisses to you too there, sweetie. Feel free to study up on the differences between rights and privileges. Here's a little sump'in to get you started. Copyright is a privilege granted exclusively by the government in power at the moment. To do with my possessions as I wish is a right, not answerable to anybody. I will grant that society has given up that right to allow copyright in its mistaken belief that it benefits everybody in the end. But there are those who understand its real intent in calling for its abolishment. You may own the bulb, no matter how dim it may be in your case, but you don't own the light it shines on me. My buddy Tom says so. And your little "rude boy" act isn't really all that impressive either. It's been done before, by people that are much better than you. Go find another corner.
That's way too complicated. I just play the music really loud until the neighbors complain, then back it off a bit.
Stop violating other people's rights and this won't be a problem.
Really, man. That's what I've been telling the ??AA's. Gotta make 'em stop violating our rights in their attempt to protect and extend their privileges. It would better yet to revoke those privileges entirely.
We should be asking what alternative methods of connecting to the internet that bypasses the ISP can WE use.
They invented the GUI, not Xerox.
"I was the Walrus - Paul wasn't the Walrus! I was just saying that to be nice, but I was actually the Walrus!"
You'll want to leave your node connected for a while; it will get faster over the first few minutes / hours it's installed, and somewhat even after that, especially as your node begins to cache popular data.
Staying connected to a single source for any great length of time is the last thing you want to do if you don't want to draw attention. And encrypted data will draw attention. Anything that can't be read will be flagged. Neither Freenet or Tor will protect you on today's heavily monitored wires.
New and Improved! No Warrant needed!
Yeah, and so is the Cubs winning the World Series more than once in a hundred years
Why would you want a laptop that you know is insecure?
You can put your weed in there
For some time now OS of personal computers does not reside in ROM and can be changed to a different one with ease.
But that's what makes them so insecure... I think that the best way to secure your machine is to put the OS, and your documents on some kind of... plug-in cartridge, if you will.
They get it just fine. They get it enough to rake in billions while the rest might lose their house... for being dumb asses. That's funny as hell... telling them, up there in their towering palace, that they don't "get it". They're only pissed about one thing, and that's the possible loss of control. So of course they can do only one thing, and that's buy up all the pipe, and put up their firewalls to keep the control. And of course we'll help them by voting the politician of their choice.
BAAAHHHRFF! Oh wow, sorry bout that chief. I really can't handle my liquor anymore... well at least I didn't get any on the keyboard... always keep a wastebasket close to the desk... RRAALLLPPHHH... oh cool, there's a french fry
I'm pretty impressed that they have the ability to scan the data in the first place. That must not be cheap, or easy.
Good old American knowhow always gets you through the day.
Little do they know... It is really the west, with its mechanical carbon dioxide generators that create the "strange" weather. We even have them making their own.. And now they produce more than we do. HAHAHAHA!
It is absolutely impossible to know. Truly a quantum phenomenon. Which is an oxymoron, by the way.
More like "Landing airliner collides with drone. 400 dead. Including 10 on the ground. The drone was mistakenly armed with nuclear weapons and exploded when the drone crashed, killing 50,000 more".