The Linux updates tend to add functionality or features and are less "holy crap fix that huge bug we left in there" type updates. 99.998% of the Windows updates are "fix this problem while creating this other problem" type updates.
"Copyright owners are always stealing from the public by extending copyright beyond what it was intended for and putting DRM on media that does not expire when copyright right runs out."
No.
Nothing is being 'STOLEN' from you. Simply don't buy music from companies that use DRM or companies that back the extension of copyright.
This is my first "more than a phone" cellphone, my previous one had no internet browser. Just a phone and a camera. And from what I've experienced on my iPhone with a service called "Orb" that allows me to stream music over the internet from my home PC, this "2.75G" is great. I'm not downloading torrents of the latest games with it, but I can stream music (and video) just fine.
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"So far, I've yet to find a blog-oriented site that I find interesting or useful enough to come back to a second time."
What do you think slashdot is? It's pretty much the Editors blog and they let the viewers submit topics.
You blew your load too quickly. The comedy comes from pissing them off and seeing how many hoops you can get them to jump through before telling them that you're just fucking with them.
Since he didn't have them we're not pretending he didn't have them.
And using your logic behind our invasion of Iraq, we should invade Japan, China, Cuba, India, Australia, Russia, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy... Because they MIGHT consider attacking the USA.
Because all they should be storing is some word documents and maybe some images they're going to use for reports. It's for school. They're not downloading movies and music.
If watching porn caused rape I'd be a serial rapist. I'm not proud of it, but I'm single and fap once a day.
And if you look at the statistics, Japan, a country that is more open about sex to the point that they have computer games where you stalk and rape women, has a far lower amount of sex crime than the US.
So many posts say the same thing yours does. But here's the simple fact: You chose to have children. You chose to purchase a house you couldn't afford. You made life choices. You also chose to work there. If you don't want a face tattoo simply quit. If you're worth employing you'll find another job and there's always Burger King.
If your company said "Have kids and buy a house you won't pay off for another 25 years" I can see an issue, but you chose what you did with your life.
Careful, because criminals have more rights once they're inside your house than you do. Slip and fall? They can sue you. Cut themselves trying to stab you with your knife? They can sue you.
A guy lost a lot of money when a would-be burglar fell through a skylight.
Except that "consent" will be meaningless. I didn't know about it before I entered the store, I never agreed to it, and I never had the chance to DISAGREE with it. What you CAN do is ask to search my bag and when I say "no" you tell me to never come back. That's it.
"The rights of the owner of private property are certainly important, but I'm skeptical (and unsure) which parts of the constitution and the bill of rights (if any) are "suspended" when you enter private property. I mean, the private property is still on U.S. Territory."
Because at that point you're infringing the most basic rights people have. Something, Liberty, and that other one. Even on private property you can't do that.
I agree up until the end. If they refuse to allow a search they don't have to get their money back and leave. They can simply leave and never come back. You can't MAKE me return the goods I legally purchased from you. But you can ban me from your store.
They can ask to see it. They can demand to see it. Once they physically stop you from leaving they're breaking the law. If someone touches you to try to stop you, they're breaking the law. They can simply ask you to wait for the police.
I don't know why these people aren't being trained to take down details and GTFO the way. Criminals are already breaking the law, what's the difference if they knife/punch/hit a guy with their car during the escape?
When you get your phone for "free" or for $49 when it's a $300 phone you agree to their contract. To get out of it, even if you're going overseas, you are legally bound to paying an early termination fee.
And I do mean the US because, to quote the FAQ section of slashdot:
"Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S."
Boot Camp may have been planed, but it was only released after hackers figured out a way to install Windows on the Intel Macs. It seemed like they were waiting to see how badly people wanted to do it.
"Yes, but you paid for those cores, the OS vendor did not. The problem is this: what is that extra stuff, and why should your operating system be doing anything that isn't of benefit to you?
Take Vista for example. It is a resource hog. Some of that piggishness is the user interface, but there's a lot of other "extra stuff" in Vista that has no right to be there. Hopefully, someone will figure a way to strip most of it out at some point: maybe then it will be actually usable. Until then, I'm personally going to stick with XP and Linux. There's less extra stuff."
Stuff like indexing your drive so you can find things easier? Things you can also easily disable. You can turn the fancy UI stuff off. You can turn the indexing off. Sidebar? Yup, you can turn it off too.
The problem is that for all the applications you like to run to run Windows needs to backwards compatable with older versions of itself, and that includes the flaws. So you need to run anti-virus and anti-spyware stuff to keep the applications you don't want running from running.
There's a lot of crap in Vista (I don't really mind, I've got 4 gigs of RAM and a dual core processor), but you can disable most, if not all, of it.
And hell, there's no license agreement that says you can't run Windows 2000 on your "modern" computer. Why not do that? It avoids all the crap Vista has.
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I'm not sure how it should look, but it looks very nice in FF 2.0.0.6
The Linux updates tend to add functionality or features and are less "holy crap fix that huge bug we left in there" type updates. 99.998% of the Windows updates are "fix this problem while creating this other problem" type updates.
"Copyright owners are always stealing from the public by extending copyright beyond what it was intended for and putting DRM on media that does not expire when copyright right runs out."
No.
Nothing is being 'STOLEN' from you. Simply don't buy music from companies that use DRM or companies that back the extension of copyright.
This is my first "more than a phone" cellphone, my previous one had no internet browser. Just a phone and a camera. And from what I've experienced on my iPhone with a service called "Orb" that allows me to stream music over the internet from my home PC, this "2.75G" is great. I'm not downloading torrents of the latest games with it, but I can stream music (and video) just fine.
"So far, I've yet to find a blog-oriented site that I find interesting or useful enough to come back to a second time."
What do you think slashdot is? It's pretty much the Editors blog and they let the viewers submit topics.
There are FOUR lights.
You blew your load too quickly. The comedy comes from pissing them off and seeing how many hoops you can get them to jump through before telling them that you're just fucking with them.
Practice.
Make them into "compilations" and turn on "group compilations"
Learn things.
Since he didn't have them we're not pretending he didn't have them.
And using your logic behind our invasion of Iraq, we should invade Japan, China, Cuba, India, Australia, Russia, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy... Because they MIGHT consider attacking the USA.
So you open by saying religion is a man made thing and follow up by saying you believe in God.
You admit that you believe lies because they sound good?
Because all they should be storing is some word documents and maybe some images they're going to use for reports. It's for school. They're not downloading movies and music.
If watching porn caused rape I'd be a serial rapist. I'm not proud of it, but I'm single and fap once a day.
And if you look at the statistics, Japan, a country that is more open about sex to the point that they have computer games where you stalk and rape women, has a far lower amount of sex crime than the US.
So many posts say the same thing yours does. But here's the simple fact: You chose to have children. You chose to purchase a house you couldn't afford. You made life choices. You also chose to work there. If you don't want a face tattoo simply quit. If you're worth employing you'll find another job and there's always Burger King.
If your company said "Have kids and buy a house you won't pay off for another 25 years" I can see an issue, but you chose what you did with your life.
Careful, because criminals have more rights once they're inside your house than you do. Slip and fall? They can sue you. Cut themselves trying to stab you with your knife? They can sue you.
A guy lost a lot of money when a would-be burglar fell through a skylight.
I already shop "elsewhere" it's called "NewEgg.com" and "Amazon.com" they don't ask to search my bag and their prices (including shipping) are lower.
Except that "consent" will be meaningless. I didn't know about it before I entered the store, I never agreed to it, and I never had the chance to DISAGREE with it. What you CAN do is ask to search my bag and when I say "no" you tell me to never come back. That's it.
That's like the notice on the back of the amusement park ticket: "Holder of this ticket waives all rights to sue."
That's bullshit and has been found to not be worth anything.
"The rights of the owner of private property are certainly important, but I'm skeptical (and unsure) which parts of the constitution and the bill of rights (if any) are "suspended" when you enter private property. I mean, the private property is still on U.S. Territory."
Because at that point you're infringing the most basic rights people have. Something, Liberty, and that other one. Even on private property you can't do that.
I agree up until the end. If they refuse to allow a search they don't have to get their money back and leave. They can simply leave and never come back. You can't MAKE me return the goods I legally purchased from you. But you can ban me from your store.
They can ask to see it. They can demand to see it. Once they physically stop you from leaving they're breaking the law. If someone touches you to try to stop you, they're breaking the law. They can simply ask you to wait for the police.
I don't know why these people aren't being trained to take down details and GTFO the way. Criminals are already breaking the law, what's the difference if they knife/punch/hit a guy with their car during the escape?
You're wrong, but OK.
When you get your phone for "free" or for $49 when it's a $300 phone you agree to their contract. To get out of it, even if you're going overseas, you are legally bound to paying an early termination fee.
And I do mean the US because, to quote the FAQ section of slashdot:
"Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S."
Boot Camp may have been planed, but it was only released after hackers figured out a way to install Windows on the Intel Macs. It seemed like they were waiting to see how badly people wanted to do it.
You think that because a piece of SOFTWARE costs $X it means that if they charged $X-1 they'd go bankrupt?
Learn things.
"Yes, but you paid for those cores, the OS vendor did not. The problem is this: what is that extra stuff, and why should your operating system be doing anything that isn't of benefit to you? Take Vista for example. It is a resource hog. Some of that piggishness is the user interface, but there's a lot of other "extra stuff" in Vista that has no right to be there. Hopefully, someone will figure a way to strip most of it out at some point: maybe then it will be actually usable. Until then, I'm personally going to stick with XP and Linux. There's less extra stuff."
Stuff like indexing your drive so you can find things easier? Things you can also easily disable. You can turn the fancy UI stuff off. You can turn the indexing off. Sidebar? Yup, you can turn it off too.
The problem is that for all the applications you like to run to run Windows needs to backwards compatable with older versions of itself, and that includes the flaws. So you need to run anti-virus and anti-spyware stuff to keep the applications you don't want running from running.
There's a lot of crap in Vista (I don't really mind, I've got 4 gigs of RAM and a dual core processor), but you can disable most, if not all, of it.
And hell, there's no license agreement that says you can't run Windows 2000 on your "modern" computer. Why not do that? It avoids all the crap Vista has.