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  1. Re:Hey Stallman, how's Hurd coming along? on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Except that, you know, the only restrictions in v3 are closing loopholes in restrictions that already existed in v2.

  2. Re:Hey Stallman, how's Hurd coming along? on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    It's mostly just people who like the GNU software base but don't understand what freedom actually means.

  3. Re:Hey Stallman, how's Hurd coming along? on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    GPLv3: As censorship is fundamentally incompatible with freedom of speech, you may not speak in support of censorship. Actually it's more like:

    As censorship is fundamentally incompatible with freedom of speech, you may not say anything along the lines of "With the authority of the President I declare don't say XYZ" unless you give people the right to repeal the declarations for their own as they wish.
  4. Re:Stallman the visionary.... on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Depends. Which side of the mecha will I be on? But seriously, Torvalds is wrong on this point. It has nothing to do with the semantics points RMS inexplicably likes but Torvalds' political opinions are too Wernher von Braun. Sure, it's good to have those sort of people around but don't actually listen to them on anything in the real world.

  5. Re:Linus has been making jabs at RMS for years on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    How is Torvalds not more practical than RMS? Pragmatism as a philosophy tends to become less pragmatic in the long run. Look at what happened with the "best tool for the job" BitKeeper. I wonder why Linus isn't using that "best tool for the job" anymore? Oh, that's right, he can't! And why can't he? Oh, I dunno, for the exact reasons RMS had been predicting for years, perhaps? In any case, go read some of LBT's postings and tell me that he's not worse than RMS in the neuroticism department.
  6. Re:Dead on on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2. The GPLv3 does not contain any restrictions that are not merely loophole-closings of the "restrictions" on GPLv2.

  7. Re:You missed one on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    And this is why most people pretend the GFDL doesn't exist. ;)

  8. Re:Definitely different goals on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem with the GPL3 (IMHO) is that it does exactly the same thing all the EULAs and conditional licenses of people like Microsoft employ. No it hasn't. The restrictions on the GPL3 are only on distributors just as they've always been.
  9. Re:Back when people could actually code.. on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 1

    I wish for the alternate universe where microkernels and capability systems won.

  10. Re:Hey, DOS 5 was cool on DOS 5 Upgrade Video · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude, World War Six sucked.

  11. Re:Alternate, but rejected, Slashdot headlines on Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow... I just thought of something- if Steve Jobs and Lunis Torballs got in a fight, who's side would Shatslot take? The dumbasses, like you, would all take Steve Ballmer's side.
  12. Re:You know it's a Slow newsday when ... on Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" · · Score: 1

    Don't include me here, I run on nuclear.

  13. Re:comon on Is China's "Great Firewall" a Fraud? · · Score: 1

    With the former, the uncertainty is a government tool. With the latter, the only way to be politically correct is to not be politically correct. That's worse than political correctness. That's actual correctness.

  14. Re:MS has no right to steal consumer data. on Vista Pirates To Get "Black Screen of Darkness" · · Score: 1

    The class action lawsuit money cap is the worst of both worlds. It prevents class-action lawsuits from actually having an effect on the corporations but allows the leeches to get sufficient money for what they need.

  15. Re:Why preorder? on Pre-Order Valve Games Via Steam Next Week, Enter the TF2 Beta · · Score: 1

    Because it's an easy scapegoat.

  16. Re:Does Valve suck for anyone else? on Pre-Order Valve Games Via Steam Next Week, Enter the TF2 Beta · · Score: 1

    my gf's mother You know, you can just call her a great-grandmother. (We all know the other meaning of gf doesn't exist for Slashdot :P)
  17. Re:Muslims would disagree. on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Actually the idea was old when it was adopted by a chap named Romulus, sevenfiftythree years before the arbitrary cutoffpoint six years after Jesus was born.

  18. Re:This is very good news on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Thank you for actually pointing out a flaw in the study. Everyone else calling the study biased seems to be unable to actually say why.

  19. Re:This is very good news on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    1) Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. Correlation does not imply causation. CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION!
    2) A .4 correlation isn't that big. It's big enough to imply further study, but not big enough to make inferences from directly. It means that sixteen percent(you square it) of the change in income is related to IQ.

  20. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Except that liberals don't become conservative as they age. The only life action known to increase conservatism is having kids.

  21. Re:Could age be a factor? on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    He also discovered Lisp by accident.

  22. Re:Just In! on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously comparing the Iraq war, a war of aggression(Iraq hasn't invaded anybody since we left) with the prelude to WWII(Hitler was invading left and right) and the American Revolution(after decades of salutary neglect the British sent in a bunch of Redcoats)? If that's not ignorance I don't know what is.

  23. Re:Just In! on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    There's one more problem: The traffic is a demon spawn from hell.

  24. Re:Just In! on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Teddy Roosevelt did but he wasn't a very conservative Republican.

  25. Re:In another amazing development on Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives · · Score: 1

    Can I see a specific problem with the actual methodology of the study? As in, selection bias, correlation!=causation, etc... or are you the one making conclusions before you know the facts?