Really bad analogy there. More like you don't think giving people McDonalds food is a good thing, but you let them give their employees free food because it's their choice to work there.
But of course, having incorrectly-typed URLs that don't go ANYWHERE automatically resolve to MSN Search is just fine and not opportunistic at all, right?
Yes it's fine. And I'll tell you why it's fine, it's because the browser is the user's choice (yes, I know, monopoly abuse, but if they weren't punished adequately for that it's your DoJ's fault). If they don't like that feature, they can use something else. That's a choice I don't get with typosquatters.
I'm kind of curious how it works. You can't just take, say, C++ and simply write the exact same code and it will work in both Windows and Linux. Some of the basics like cout do, but, once you start getting a little more complicated and try to modify files, then it gets tricky.
If you stay within POSIX it'll work. Now, there's a lot you can't do, but for just opening and modifying files you should be fine.
My guess is it's basically two separate pieces of code though. The advantage of doing this over separate linux and windows viruses is that it lets you infect windows machines behind a linux gateway or vice versa. Of course the price is complicating things, but no-one really cares about code size anymore.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not an IDer. But for God's sake, this is flaimbait. An obvious attempt to get the discussion going again so mods can have fun down-modding any IDer into total oblivion while patting themselves on the back for being so enlightened, so much more intelligent than the masses.
Erm, you just described the story perfectly as well.
I keep seeing these stories about governments deciding to legislate the internal usage of ODF. Is the standard really ready for prime time? I can't say I know much about the details of ODF (if anything), but it seems like it's such a new standard that there are likely issues that would need to be worked out before it's so widely adopted.
It's not ready. I'm a koffice user and I keep seeing problems - not big ones, but problems - where the standard is ambiguous and it ends up being koffice changing to what openoffice does. That's not good - OOo may be open source but having a particular implementation being the standard is a very bad situation. I think the best format to go for under this bill right now would be RTF - it may be MS but it's a published standard implemented by just about every word processor in the past twenty or so years.
When sony works on its own, the format dies. However, when sony works with a consortium, the format dominates - viz CD or floppy disc. And blu-ray is a big consortium thing.
It performs well and is actually pretty usable for downloading files. Oh, and it's had this particular feature for at least 6 months. http://www.gnunet.org/.
I have never understood that argument. More people in Sweden are speeding while drivning their cars than are pirating stuff while using their computers. Would that be a good reason to abolish speed limits?
It would be an indication that the law on speeding needs to be looked at. In this case there's a good reason for the dissonance between what people think should be the law and what should be the law - people overestimate their driving ability enormously.
The author of the parent comment appears to think the connection between these two statements is obvious. Even if I grant the premise in the first statement (and is it accurate to claim that "the Information Age" is the correct characterization for our current society--enough to derive norms from it?), I do not see that the second conclusion immediately follows from it.
The countries that succeeded most in the Industrial age were those where it was easy to set up industry. The countries that succeeded most in the agricultural age were those where it was easy to farm. The tribes that succeeded most in the bronze age were those where it was easy to smelt/trade bronze. And so forth.
Information is the most important commodity now. Artificial barriers to its exchange will therefore be crippling.
That's not how it should work. What this system should mean is that the only policies which get passed are those which at least two parties agree on. However, people deal and broker because they care more about having power than getting the best policies in place.
I don't suppose it'll be licensed under the GPLv3 then?!
Yes, it probably will (Well, I can't count on it, it being sun, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be). RTFlicense.
I guess DRM is not going to go away anytime soon, so it would be better that
the implementation is open-sourced. However, a high-quality open-sourced
DRM mechanism is less likely to have the "holes" which the Hymn project,
for example, rely on...
That's the scary part. However, I think the content protection industry were getting there already. Sadly, strong DRM is possible, and will happen.
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I'll probably get modded down for this, but here goes anyway. I see a lot of valid arguments against each new DRM mechanisim that comes out, but nobody seems to be offering an alternative. Sure, it would be great if we didn't have to deal with DRM, and it would be nice if we could trust everyone not to steal protected content, but thats not the way things are.
How does DRM change that? All it does is inconvenience legitimate customers. Piracy groups can and will strip the DRM out with little trouble, and then distribute a DRM-free version.
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Really bad analogy there. More like you don't think giving people McDonalds food is a good thing, but you let them give their employees free food because it's their choice to work there.
Yes it's fine. And I'll tell you why it's fine, it's because the browser is the user's choice (yes, I know, monopoly abuse, but if they weren't punished adequately for that it's your DoJ's fault). If they don't like that feature, they can use something else. That's a choice I don't get with typosquatters.
If you stay within POSIX it'll work. Now, there's a lot you can't do, but for just opening and modifying files you should be fine.
My guess is it's basically two separate pieces of code though. The advantage of doing this over separate linux and windows viruses is that it lets you infect windows machines behind a linux gateway or vice versa. Of course the price is complicating things, but no-one really cares about code size anymore.
Tried again and it worked. Bloody binary-only plugins...
I tried to open the test page in Konqueror and it crashed. I wish I was joking :(
AFAICS "Climate Change" is just a PC label to help the US Govt deny global warming. Am I wrong?
Erm, you just described the story perfectly as well.
It's not ready. I'm a koffice user and I keep seeing problems - not big ones, but problems - where the standard is ambiguous and it ends up being koffice changing to what openoffice does. That's not good - OOo may be open source but having a particular implementation being the standard is a very bad situation. I think the best format to go for under this bill right now would be RTF - it may be MS but it's a published standard implemented by just about every word processor in the past twenty or so years.
When sony works on its own, the format dies. However, when sony works with a consortium, the format dominates - viz CD or floppy disc. And blu-ray is a big consortium thing.
It performs well and is actually pretty usable for downloading files. Oh, and it's had this particular feature for at least 6 months. http://www.gnunet.org/.
It would be an indication that the law on speeding needs to be looked at. In this case there's a good reason for the dissonance between what people think should be the law and what should be the law - people overestimate their driving ability enormously.
And it wouldn't matter, because we'd still be able to modify and redistribute it.
The countries that succeeded most in the Industrial age were those where it was easy to set up industry. The countries that succeeded most in the agricultural age were those where it was easy to farm. The tribes that succeeded most in the bronze age were those where it was easy to smelt/trade bronze. And so forth.
Information is the most important commodity now. Artificial barriers to its exchange will therefore be crippling.
That's not how it should work. What this system should mean is that the only policies which get passed are those which at least two parties agree on. However, people deal and broker because they care more about having power than getting the best policies in place.
Yes, it probably will (Well, I can't count on it, it being sun, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be). RTFlicense.
I guess DRM is not going to go away anytime soon, so it would be better that the implementation is open-sourced. However, a high-quality open-sourced DRM mechanism is less likely to have the "holes" which the Hymn project, for example, rely on...
That's the scary part. However, I think the content protection industry were getting there already. Sadly, strong DRM is possible, and will happen.
How does DRM change that? All it does is inconvenience legitimate customers. Piracy groups can and will strip the DRM out with little trouble, and then distribute a DRM-free version.
I was slightly worried this had happened with the poll :)
That's at least giving me some pink top bars, but the logo in the top left is back to "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Any hope for improvement?
Go to the poll and mod me up. I got the ten first posts!
the humour dies. Satire dies when the RIAA gets involved.
Shurrup. Pink is nice!
Make a GNAA application. It's not like you'd get modded down for it.
I think you'll need to use wine.
Now hopefully the wonderful, neglected KOffice will finally get the attention it deserves from the OSS community.
People tried to think of a way to make the site more laughable and gave up.