But upsetting someone is clearly ethically bad, even if you're doing something normal. If my brother gets awfully upset whenever I walk on the pavement on the left side of the street, not the right, then you could say it's unethical of me to walk on the left side, even though I'm not doing anything which would normally be considered wrong.
No, he's saying it would be fine for MS to incorporate the entire linux codebase, release the source to their OS, but politely ask us not to actually use said source, and then it would be unethical of us to use the source.
There are licenses which make you provide a human-readable changelog for "unofficial" versions, with the idea that the user knows what wasn't written by the original author. I don't think the GPL is one of them though.
Read some books on a little something called Energia. It has flown in configurations which can lift 25% more than the Saturn V, and if you're willing to pay to restart the production line, there's a configuration which can lift twice as much.
The saturn 5 was as powerful as it was because money was no object, not because the technology was better.
Indeed it is. But some people seem to say could care less when they mean couldn't, while others say could care less where they might use sarcasm. It's genuinely confusing to me, so I just want people to think about it a little before saying it.
It's not about the marketshare. But it has always been, is, and should always be about being *better*. That's the whole point. Why was it started in the first place? Well, linux itself was started to be a working kernel, but gnu in general was started to be a better unix by being free. The reason many of us use and work on gnu/linux is because, to us, by being free it is better than alternatives. However, for many of us freedom alone wasn't enough, we only switched when it was good enough to be useable. As it became closer and closer in other characteristics, the freedom was enough to make it better than the alternatives for more and more of us. Now we're getting to the point where even if freedom isn't worth anything to you, gnu/linux is still better. You're basically right when you say "all that matters is what they want/need", but that they doesn't have to be a they, to me it's a we. And what I want is an operating system that is "bettering what the other guy is doing".
The I Robot movie was better than most of the non-asimov asimov books. And it did have a decent thought-inspiring point. Sure it was a point that asimov could have made in ~4 pages rather than a whole movie, but to dismiss the entirity as an action film is unfair. I haven't seen the movies you mentioned, but the science fiction movies I've watched recently have made me think more than all but the best science fiction writers. You're right about games though, wrt what I've played recently, but I think that's just a phase and it's brought about by the fact that we're just on the cusp of having games which look as realistic as film. So everyone's concentrating on the graphics and rushing the plot, trying to be the first to "get there". When processor speeds stop growing so fast and graphical engines are as good as makes any difference to human eyes, we'll see a return to the traditional attempts to try and make something truly special.
Not necessarily. The NSA had differential cryptanalysis years before it was public. GCHQ had public keys well before RSA. Why are you so sure they don't have a working 4096 bit quantum computer now?
It works - once. However, when you're planning an attack you need multiple communications. Ideally, you need regular communications too. And once you're sending pictures of your car at 8:43AM every wednesday, TLA can start to become suspicious.
Secondly, TLA probably has a way to know if there's data hidden in your images given that recently on slashdot a professor found a way of detecting whether a jpeg at over 90% quality had hidden information in it. We know TLA is usually ~10 years ahead of what is public, possibly more.
Trillian SecureIM is not secure against NSA, no way, it's vulnerable to a simple (if you can bully the user's ISP) man in the middle attack. Use gaim-e with gaim or spyshield with MSN.
I'm a terrorist and planning to overthrow the government. I just need a load of explosives and some weapons grade plutonium so I can make a dirty bomb to hold the government hostage until I can assasinate the president.
Is there a good open source elliptical curves program around? I've got a book and I'm looking at writing one but I don't want to be duplicating effort.
I'd imagine that's because people like to spam trolls. The email address I used to get this account has no spam. If the address of that troll account isn't public, it's not OSDN that's selling your address to spammers, it's GMail.
It's MS's fault for having everyone an admin for so long. And they'll have paid for it when programs don't need admin, and then we'll stop moaning about lack of privilidge separation.
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But upsetting someone is clearly ethically bad, even if you're doing something normal. If my brother gets awfully upset whenever I walk on the pavement on the left side of the street, not the right, then you could say it's unethical of me to walk on the left side, even though I'm not doing anything which would normally be considered wrong.
No, he's saying it would be fine for MS to incorporate the entire linux codebase, release the source to their OS, but politely ask us not to actually use said source, and then it would be unethical of us to use the source.
That will have the same effect as closing the CVS repository, only more so.
There are licenses which make you provide a human-readable changelog for "unofficial" versions, with the idea that the user knows what wasn't written by the original author. I don't think the GPL is one of them though.
I am willing to try this, but I suspect it would quickly fall behind the "real gimp" while I was implementing the UI stuff. Fancy giving it a go?
The saturn 5 was as powerful as it was because money was no object, not because the technology was better.
well, if it's 6666 it's not evil then, is it?
There are quite a few books now "Issac Asimov's" which he didn't have anything to do with.
I think some are infinite - you can get out of it by killing IE after all, and it's actually easier to make it infinite than not.
Indeed it is. But some people seem to say could care less when they mean couldn't, while others say could care less where they might use sarcasm. It's genuinely confusing to me, so I just want people to think about it a little before saying it.
Why did no one tell him that with the cd burning business then?
It's not about the marketshare. But it has always been, is, and should always be about being *better*. That's the whole point. Why was it started in the first place? Well, linux itself was started to be a working kernel, but gnu in general was started to be a better unix by being free. The reason many of us use and work on gnu/linux is because, to us, by being free it is better than alternatives. However, for many of us freedom alone wasn't enough, we only switched when it was good enough to be useable. As it became closer and closer in other characteristics, the freedom was enough to make it better than the alternatives for more and more of us. Now we're getting to the point where even if freedom isn't worth anything to you, gnu/linux is still better. You're basically right when you say "all that matters is what they want/need", but that they doesn't have to be a they, to me it's a we. And what I want is an operating system that is "bettering what the other guy is doing".
The I Robot movie was better than most of the non-asimov asimov books. And it did have a decent thought-inspiring point. Sure it was a point that asimov could have made in ~4 pages rather than a whole movie, but to dismiss the entirity as an action film is unfair. I haven't seen the movies you mentioned, but the science fiction movies I've watched recently have made me think more than all but the best science fiction writers. You're right about games though, wrt what I've played recently, but I think that's just a phase and it's brought about by the fact that we're just on the cusp of having games which look as realistic as film. So everyone's concentrating on the graphics and rushing the plot, trying to be the first to "get there". When processor speeds stop growing so fast and graphical engines are as good as makes any difference to human eyes, we'll see a return to the traditional attempts to try and make something truly special.
Not necessarily. The NSA had differential cryptanalysis years before it was public. GCHQ had public keys well before RSA. Why are you so sure they don't have a working 4096 bit quantum computer now?
People can be persuaded to though. Even one of my friends who isn't planning to overthrow the government will use it when talking to me.
Secondly, TLA probably has a way to know if there's data hidden in your images given that recently on slashdot a professor found a way of detecting whether a jpeg at over 90% quality had hidden information in it. We know TLA is usually ~10 years ahead of what is public, possibly more.
Trillian SecureIM is not secure against NSA, no way, it's vulnerable to a simple (if you can bully the user's ISP) man in the middle attack. Use gaim-e with gaim or spyshield with MSN.
I'm a terrorist and planning to overthrow the government. I just need a load of explosives and some weapons grade plutonium so I can make a dirty bomb to hold the government hostage until I can assasinate the president.
When was the last time the TLA raided your house and didn't look at your CDRs?
Just add an extra day to the last month. It would be easier than trying to remember which months have how many days.
Is there a good open source elliptical curves program around? I've got a book and I'm looking at writing one but I don't want to be duplicating effort.
The US is officially metric. Not that anyone seems to care.
I'd imagine that's because people like to spam trolls. The email address I used to get this account has no spam. If the address of that troll account isn't public, it's not OSDN that's selling your address to spammers, it's GMail.
There's a javascript trick where the question just reappears if the user clicks no.
It's MS's fault for having everyone an admin for so long. And they'll have paid for it when programs don't need admin, and then we'll stop moaning about lack of privilidge separation.