As I understand it, Apple's EFI implementation is subtly incompatible with the UEFI firmware on PCs. Also, some Macs use 32-bit EFI whereas others use 64-bit, they're not compatible with each other, and it's not terribly easy to detect which is in use.
Steam DRM is trivial to bypass for anyone but the simplest Billy Joe Bob
Last I heard, they'd ban your account as soon as they detected you using a pirated game with it, taking away any games you had paid for. Hell, they might even ban your account if you used a crack on a game you'd actually paid for. That's a huge deterrent.
(Also, Portal 2 apparently had all kinds of clever DRM checks that rendered the game unplayable if cracked. I looked into this because the DRM is buggy and an obstacle to me playing my legitimately-purchased copy.)
This is the exact opposite of the truth. There is nothing in the BSD license, the BSD distros, or any similar license that would stop Microsoft from carrying out their patent protection racket - it's just that they have no strategic reason to do so because the competition they care about is all Linux-based. On the other hand, some of the clauses in the GPL could make it rather harder to pull off if enforced...
Nope. This is basically just going to make the normal train service worse if anything as train companies stop offering services that compete with it in order to make more money from the more expensive tickets on the new high speed line.
Though as you say linux isn't really much better No OS i'm aware of has proper handling for notifying users and their applications of WHY their unmounts are failing.
I think KDE 3.5 used to use fuser internally to tell you which applications were holding the device open in the error message. Unfortunately that feature got lost in one of the many internal changes; probably one of the one's caused by Gnome's NIH syndrome actually.
I think that presumably only works if it was you that liked the page in the first place. If it was one of your friends, you're going to be stuck with defriending them or otherwise ignoring their posts in general.
That's the CPU core reference manual. It doesn't cover all the other hardware bits like I/O configuration and clock setup because those are all horribly manufacturer-specific.
So instead of plants simply getting older and less safe they're proactively saying "this plant will be shut down by X unless you can prove it's still safe enough to continue".
This was already what was meant to happen. The problem is that the regulators are in bed with the industry and don't actually care whether the plants are actually safe enough to continue operation so long as the paperwork's filled out correctly.
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a doctor practicing today who would refuse to perform an abortion if the pregnancy posed a legitimate danger to the health of the mother
You might think that, but there are a whole bunch of Catholic hospitals in the US with a blanket policy of doing exactly that - and God help you if you're a pregnant women who gets taken to one of them when your pregnancy goes wrong, because they're certainly not going to.
PayPal's been like that for ages, at least in the UK. I often look at what kinds of complaints people have left with their neutral or negative feedback for a particular seller when judging how reliable they are..
Do you really think people are so stupid as to believe that would be the reason he vetoed it? No, it can't possibly be for some other unconstitutional provision that might even render the entire bill null and void?
Yes, because that's what Fox News will tell them. Most voters don't have the time, or in some cases even the means, to find his actual statement, dig through and analyse it to confirm that it actually did what he said, and figure out enough about politics to decide whether to believe his actual stated reason over what Fox's professional analysts claimed it was. Not only that but the effort required is hugely disproportionate to the actual impact their vote can have that it probably doesn't even make sense for them to do the research - another example of rational ignorance.
Children cannot give informed consent, so child porn, and peadophilia are out. Dead things is tricky since the dead are _things_ and things are not expected to give consent. Prostitution and adultery are no-brainer legal.
It'd be nice if it was that simple, but (for example) how do you deal with the old feminist chestnut that all women have been influenced by patriarchal social messages and so their consent is not in fact informed? Presumably there is some way to distinguish between children's inability to consent and claims that otherwise-capable adults can't consent, it's just not obvious.
Beastiality is tricky since the beast cannot give informed consent but some people think animals are things, but since animals can suffer, accumulate experience, and "hold a grudge" then we must assume they deserve to be protected by consent.
This standard isn't generally applied though. For example, as a society we seem to be OK with forcibly extracting the seed of and inseminating animals, forcing them to mate with each other, removing their sex drive by chopping off bits of their body because it's inconvenient to us, or even murdering them - and they certainly can't give any kind of informed consent to any of those. It's only sex between animals and humans where the inability of animals to consent is used to justify banning it, and that's probably the area where it's least clear that they can't consent since apparently they're capable of showing unambiguous enthusiasm for sexual acts and they presumably know what to expect. It looks very much like consent is a rationalization covering for the real reason - that it squicks us.
Not just that, but post-GPLv3 many kernel contributors have been explicitly and intentionally licensing newly-written code under the GPLv2 only in an attempt to make it as hard as possible. As I recall, there was even a widely-publicized offer to hardware manufacturers to write Linux drivers for their hardware which, in the small print, mentioned that the drivers would be GPLv2-only.
If I oppose Wal-Mart's hiring practices I can refuse to shop at Wal-Mart and (barring government interference in the economy) Wal-Mart will not get a penny of business from me.
Of course, if Wal-Mart's dubious business practices allow them to offer lower prices, you're harming yourself by not doing business with them but you're not harming them in any measurable fashion. What you really want is for everyone else to refuse to do business with them, but even if it would be economically beneficial overall if they did refuse, at an individual level there are strong incentives not to. This kind of failure of collective action is a fairly fundamental issue with the free market that can't really be solved without government intervention.
Oh, and the other fun problem is rational ignorance. There are obviously costs associated with gathering information to make a decision, and if those costs are higher than the expected benefit from having the information available it's a losing proposition to bother gathering it. Worse, companies like Wal-Mart can increase the costs by tactics such as PR and press misinformation and attempts to discredit opponents, so that it doesn't even make sense to figure out whether they are mistreating their employees.
Of course, the FDA was founded in large part because it turned out that manufacturers of medicines weren't competent enough not to use compounds known to be highly toxic and had no incentive to voluntarily recall them when people started dying...
It's not just bullshit, it's a bullshit argument put forward by a Microsoft subsidiary that helps Bing do exactly the same thing, so obviously they know how important it is to users.
Native Client's really hairy open-source code that does clever things with segments, page flags and static analysis of x86 code. Also, I'm not sure there's that many people outside of Google that have even ported code to it, yet alone worked on the internals.
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Which fool decided to exempt military courts from habeas corpus anyway? That was probably a disaster waiting to happen from the start...
As I understand it, Apple's EFI implementation is subtly incompatible with the UEFI firmware on PCs. Also, some Macs use 32-bit EFI whereas others use 64-bit, they're not compatible with each other, and it's not terribly easy to detect which is in use.
Steam DRM is trivial to bypass for anyone but the simplest Billy Joe Bob
Last I heard, they'd ban your account as soon as they detected you using a pirated game with it, taking away any games you had paid for. Hell, they might even ban your account if you used a crack on a game you'd actually paid for. That's a huge deterrent.
(Also, Portal 2 apparently had all kinds of clever DRM checks that rendered the game unplayable if cracked. I looked into this because the DRM is buggy and an obstacle to me playing my legitimately-purchased copy.)
This is the exact opposite of the truth. There is nothing in the BSD license, the BSD distros, or any similar license that would stop Microsoft from carrying out their patent protection racket - it's just that they have no strategic reason to do so because the competition they care about is all Linux-based. On the other hand, some of the clauses in the GPL could make it rather harder to pull off if enforced...
Nope. This is basically just going to make the normal train service worse if anything as train companies stop offering services that compete with it in order to make more money from the more expensive tickets on the new high speed line.
Though as you say linux isn't really much better No OS i'm aware of has proper handling for notifying users and their applications of WHY their unmounts are failing.
I think KDE 3.5 used to use fuser internally to tell you which applications were holding the device open in the error message. Unfortunately that feature got lost in one of the many internal changes; probably one of the one's caused by Gnome's NIH syndrome actually.
$15-20 bucks more than Intel's pricing would probably be too much?
I'm not sure 486-class hardware is even supported by most Linux distros these days, especially no-FPU chips like the Bifferboard.
I think that presumably only works if it was you that liked the page in the first place. If it was one of your friends, you're going to be stuck with defriending them or otherwise ignoring their posts in general.
Guess who controls the DNSSEC trusted root key? That's right, an American organization.
Cambridge isn't exactly a cheap part of the country to live in, though.
That's the CPU core reference manual. It doesn't cover all the other hardware bits like I/O configuration and clock setup because those are all horribly manufacturer-specific.
RBMK-1000s are still in operation because the Russian government is too cheap to shut them down.
Fukushima was in the process of being rubber-stamped for a license extension that would keep it running for several more years, as I recall.
So instead of plants simply getting older and less safe they're proactively saying "this plant will be shut down by X unless you can prove it's still safe enough to continue".
This was already what was meant to happen. The problem is that the regulators are in bed with the industry and don't actually care whether the plants are actually safe enough to continue operation so long as the paperwork's filled out correctly.
Israel actually went a step further than that - they made a terrorist their Prime Minister!
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a doctor practicing today who would refuse to perform an abortion if the pregnancy posed a legitimate danger to the health of the mother
You might think that, but there are a whole bunch of Catholic hospitals in the US with a blanket policy of doing exactly that - and God help you if you're a pregnant women who gets taken to one of them when your pregnancy goes wrong, because they're certainly not going to.
PayPal's been like that for ages, at least in the UK. I often look at what kinds of complaints people have left with their neutral or negative feedback for a particular seller when judging how reliable they are..
Do you really think people are so stupid as to believe that would be the reason he vetoed it? No, it can't possibly be for some other unconstitutional provision that might even render the entire bill null and void?
Yes, because that's what Fox News will tell them. Most voters don't have the time, or in some cases even the means, to find his actual statement, dig through and analyse it to confirm that it actually did what he said, and figure out enough about politics to decide whether to believe his actual stated reason over what Fox's professional analysts claimed it was. Not only that but the effort required is hugely disproportionate to the actual impact their vote can have that it probably doesn't even make sense for them to do the research - another example of rational ignorance.
Children cannot give informed consent, so child porn, and peadophilia are out. Dead things is tricky since the dead are _things_ and things are not expected to give consent. Prostitution and adultery are no-brainer legal.
It'd be nice if it was that simple, but (for example) how do you deal with the old feminist chestnut that all women have been influenced by patriarchal social messages and so their consent is not in fact informed? Presumably there is some way to distinguish between children's inability to consent and claims that otherwise-capable adults can't consent, it's just not obvious.
Beastiality is tricky since the beast cannot give informed consent but some people think animals are things, but since animals can suffer, accumulate experience, and "hold a grudge" then we must assume they deserve to be protected by consent.
This standard isn't generally applied though. For example, as a society we seem to be OK with forcibly extracting the seed of and inseminating animals, forcing them to mate with each other, removing their sex drive by chopping off bits of their body because it's inconvenient to us, or even murdering them - and they certainly can't give any kind of informed consent to any of those. It's only sex between animals and humans where the inability of animals to consent is used to justify banning it, and that's probably the area where it's least clear that they can't consent since apparently they're capable of showing unambiguous enthusiasm for sexual acts and they presumably know what to expect. It looks very much like consent is a rationalization covering for the real reason - that it squicks us.
Not just that, but post-GPLv3 many kernel contributors have been explicitly and intentionally licensing newly-written code under the GPLv2 only in an attempt to make it as hard as possible. As I recall, there was even a widely-publicized offer to hardware manufacturers to write Linux drivers for their hardware which, in the small print, mentioned that the drivers would be GPLv2-only.
If I oppose Wal-Mart's hiring practices I can refuse to shop at Wal-Mart and (barring government interference in the economy) Wal-Mart will not get a penny of business from me.
Of course, if Wal-Mart's dubious business practices allow them to offer lower prices, you're harming yourself by not doing business with them but you're not harming them in any measurable fashion. What you really want is for everyone else to refuse to do business with them, but even if it would be economically beneficial overall if they did refuse, at an individual level there are strong incentives not to. This kind of failure of collective action is a fairly fundamental issue with the free market that can't really be solved without government intervention.
Oh, and the other fun problem is rational ignorance. There are obviously costs associated with gathering information to make a decision, and if those costs are higher than the expected benefit from having the information available it's a losing proposition to bother gathering it. Worse, companies like Wal-Mart can increase the costs by tactics such as PR and press misinformation and attempts to discredit opponents, so that it doesn't even make sense to figure out whether they are mistreating their employees.
Of course, the FDA was founded in large part because it turned out that manufacturers of medicines weren't competent enough not to use compounds known to be highly toxic and had no incentive to voluntarily recall them when people started dying...
It's not just bullshit, it's a bullshit argument put forward by a Microsoft subsidiary that helps Bing do exactly the same thing, so obviously they know how important it is to users.
Native Client's really hairy open-source code that does clever things with segments, page flags and static analysis of x86 code. Also, I'm not sure there's that many people outside of Google that have even ported code to it, yet alone worked on the internals.