Find the logical fallacy--- It might be black and white. Or not. It could be true. Or not. You may believe it. Or not. There may be proof, now or in the future. Or not. You may believe your instincts. Or not. They may be right. Or not. Be fooled. Or not. Deal with it properly. Or not.
If know the facts of a secret, it's disinformation - not a secret - and you are just naive. If you do NOT know the facts of a secret, they just don't exist, you are merely a paranoid, weird, insane, tinfoil hat, black helicopter, UFO nut. REAL facts are in the newspapers and television.
A calculation on the social and economic cost for one kg/km (or lbs/mile) spent on car or truck-based transportation versus train or subway-based, accident-related deaths due to accidents in each, and similar numbers, should be pretty enlightening. The real crisis is just massive waste and the usual political unwillingness to listen to engineers and scientists instead of lobbyists. Let's just go with some sort of Personal Rapid Transit in all urban areas, bullet trains between cities, and be done with it. Cars and personally driving big powerful things is fun and neat and all that, but that's talk about fun and hobbies, not efficient safe economical transportation for everyone and everything everywhere, resulting in millions (billions?) of cars.
Well, so now either the RIAA starts arguments that it needs to gain access to the address where the IP is registered to search the computer before the case, or everyone starts arguing they never had a computer, or that they had an open wifi access point, or other legal hairsplitting on either side. I'm all for beating the riaa in court, but I'd prefer that it _somehow_ led to a debate of the copyright and patent laws themselves, like the Pirate Party winning a seat on the European Parliament, or a debate on proper amount of punitive damages the US law allows for, the RIAA reputation, etc. The Jammie Thomas-Rasset case is being pretty helpful.
I've heard of various friends working in governments of threats, bribes, and turning a blind eye. Having a voice is great of course, and resigning in disgust is proper use of that voice. But to stay inside and really use your voice means either being threatened with being fired (at best), or saying things that you are allowed to, meaning, what was approved, not the full unabridged truth. If they let him in on some scope of attacks that happen all the time, say he is going to be helping, and offer him a salary and future "upgrades", he'll want to say. Perhaps he'll find out something about how the security/surveillance works, or something or other, not agree with it, and wish to denounce it. The choices will be laid out.
I agree, I use "linux" as the brand, people recognize it. I describe Open Office, Firefox, and Tremulous as being "from Linux, but ported to Windows". It's enough. The problem, as I see it, is that they _are_ available in windows, and so nobody has any real need to use Linux. In other words, what does Linux do for people, that Windows cannot? Why would they need Linux? To shield them from the illegality of their software? Provide them with more functionality? Which? Torvalds has it right - Linux is, still, in need of more drivers. But I also think it needs to ship with more "fun" apps - games, webcam apps, instant messenger and phone apps, etc - things Windows doesn't come built-in with. Wubi also could be used for a lot more, as a base to a quick-boot linux to run these apps, or others.
The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative are very different in philosophy and how they present themselves. There are often serious disagreements on what is best to do on on legal and political issues.
Legal and political disagreements? Isn't that some kind of major sport causing OCD in 99% of the population?
Hmm the _substance_ of the movement I believe are ideals, which are quite well represented in the licenses indeed. But I would wager that a discussion of whether the ideals of Open Source/Libre Software are more related to social ideals or are related strictly to technical/professional matters would become a rather heated debate. Is the core reason most people have hopes for GNU/Linux/etc technical? Legal? Social? Many Linux enthusiasts I have met don't even know what is source code.
Both Linux and "warez" are free. How to change things? Everyone indeed gets bogged down in details, petty issues, etc, and fail to focus on the common objectives and the big picture, still working very hard, thereby accomplishing lots of things, but not the end objectives. People still continue to prefer Windows, reformatting their preinstalled Linux machines with "free" windowz gamez serialz warez? How to change that? "Because they're ______." Not helpful. Even in places where Linux would be favored for the price, people still are tempted to run Windows, whether paid for or not. It's familiar, available, runs the software they want, bending the law a little has no practical consequences. Should Linux techs become friends of the BSA, and start collecting US $1M piracy snitch rewards?. Does gnu/linux/bsd just need more open-source games? Exchange and Outlook clones? Instant messengers? Training programmers and sysadmins? Or just users? Or would a Linux distro with the ability to run Warez better than Microsoft gain so many users and gain X% installed base? How much installed base does microsoft gain from users who never bought anything? How will standard Linux APIs for voice, video, graphics, 3d, and a developers kit come about? However, rather than ponder these difficult questions, a great many will resort to bashing the use of the word "warez", creating more fighting over nothing and accomplishing just that.
what we have is a political/economic impasse. electric trains have been around for a while, with speed, pollution, reliability, energy/mile consumed, safety records, etc, orders of magnitude better than cars, trucks, buses, planes, boats, or hovercrafts. but they don't generate lots of jobs and move lots of money in the economy, exactly *because* they don't *waste* so much stuff. (waste) = (more work) = (more jobs) = (more money). reduce waste, and there will be less work.
... and wrote a new constitution for themselves, the 'gamers, coders, hackers and slackers Bill of Rights'.
--Article 1 -- Basic right to slack. All are free to code, game, crack, download, hack, and do any and all activities that are represented in encoded, digitized form, and transmitted from any computer or digital device to another. No government, legal entity, living entity, or virtual entity shall infringe on the right of any other to digitally slack for as much time and as long as they darn please.
--Article 2 -- Economic right to slack. No infringement upon and abuse of slacking community infrastructure. No real-life activity infringing, limiting or otherwise lessening or weakening infrastructure required for slacking is to be allowed. (electronic DOSing is OK). No speculation with food (especially coffee, hops, and yeast), rent, farming, real estate, power and telecommunications. Real estate property rights are limited to the land occupied by your real-life body, your computers and digital gear, heretofore known as your home/office. The right of all citizens to lay cable and setup Central Offices, Power Distribution, digital, power, electronic, telecommunications infrastructure, schools and research centers on all public real estate is not to be infringed upon. No touching cables or equipment that aren't your own, under penalty of fixing and maintaining it for the rest of your life. --Article-3-- Education. Education on all technologies, languages, electronics, robotics, biology, physics, mechanics, power-generation and distribution technologies, digital modeling, art and sound production shall be free and compulsory. All other subjects are optional but strongly encouraged. The numbering system shall be changed to hexadecimal.
--Article-4-- The internal combustion engine, printed paper, analog signals, patents and copyrights, state secrets, trade secrets, locked doors, closed meetings, are abolished. Deal with it, and figure out an alternative. Meeting for coffee and/or beer is allowed, but only with open invitation.
--Article-5-- Weapons and military. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Therefore all virtual and real weapons are permitted to all citizens, including chemical, nuclear and biological. Shooting all virtual weapons is permitted and encouraged, and virtual weapon training is required by all citizens, especially the BFG-9000. Real weapons may be freely kept securely stored and to decorate any and all walls, and hand-born for shooting, cleaning, practicing, and touching freely in any place wherever there are no living entities of any kind, other than the owners/operators, within five times the primary or secondary damage range. If any real-weapon owner/operator shall shoot themselves in the foot, no citizen is permitted to offer or request assistance of any kind. You can join any militia, team, army, band, gang, guerrilla or terrorist group and go to any boot camp you want, real or virtual, especially for coffee or beer.
Sometimes I think the only way to have a censorship-free internet is to for the routers and fiber to be distributed and interconnected among our houses and buildings, not owned and managed by any one entity.
Yes they do.
No they don't.
Yes, they DO!
NO they do NOT!
Comic artists do NOT love being BANNED!
YES THEY DO!
baM! POW!!! KA-BLAMMM! CRRRACK! UGH! THERE! see? they do NOT!
The US spy agencies I would say have the most opportunities, and many motives, to infiltrate products. Cisco, Solaris, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sprint, ATT... any company could be easily persuaded or forced to comply with lots of spook-friendly practices, and there are lots of cases of it already known to the public.
And your inability to spell out your words or use proper grammar makes you so much better, yes?
Oh, yes, yes, most certainly! One must agree, wholeheartedly and enthusiastically, with such wonderful, and certainly unique, criticisms of the tragedies caused by the improper use of grammar! It is quite clear, and heartbreaking, the terrible misunderstandings and misfortunes that today's youth bring upon themselves, through the lack of proper control of their suffixes and prefixes, intonations and pronunciations! One must not forget that, in addition to the sins of grammar, they sin also by the use of impure operating systems! Oh! And what horrible programming habits! So lacking in proper manners of commenting, and of course, syntax -- but oh! The time! I must be going, I am so very late, I have an appointment with the priest to discuss a matter of utmost importance, to clear up some terrible sins -- just imagine, I have written a couple of letters to a Swiss friend who is quite ill with a brain tumor, and, well, you see, I made some mistakes, graphing a few words with a quite grotesque mistake in accentuation. I just never managed to quite master her language. It is positively terrifying, the prospect that she might live to read these letters! Well, the reverend must have some suggestion! Ta-ta!
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Find the logical fallacy--- It might be black and white. Or not. It could be true. Or not. You may believe it. Or not. There may be proof, now or in the future. Or not. You may believe your instincts. Or not. They may be right. Or not. Be fooled. Or not. Deal with it properly. Or not.
I don't see why it isn't done with other used software. There are hardly any companies dealing in used software.
But it's quite simple. Dot-Net is for Catholics, and Java is for protestants.
If know the facts of a secret, it's disinformation - not a secret - and you are just naive. If you do NOT know the facts of a secret, they just don't exist, you are merely a paranoid, weird, insane, tinfoil hat, black helicopter, UFO nut. REAL facts are in the newspapers and television.
A calculation on the social and economic cost for one kg/km (or lbs/mile) spent on car or truck-based transportation versus train or subway-based, accident-related deaths due to accidents in each, and similar numbers, should be pretty enlightening. The real crisis is just massive waste and the usual political unwillingness to listen to engineers and scientists instead of lobbyists. Let's just go with some sort of Personal Rapid Transit in all urban areas, bullet trains between cities, and be done with it. Cars and personally driving big powerful things is fun and neat and all that, but that's talk about fun and hobbies, not efficient safe economical transportation for everyone and everything everywhere, resulting in millions (billions?) of cars.
Well, so now either the RIAA starts arguments that it needs to gain access to the address where the IP is registered to search the computer before the case, or everyone starts arguing they never had a computer, or that they had an open wifi access point, or other legal hairsplitting on either side. I'm all for beating the riaa in court, but I'd prefer that it _somehow_ led to a debate of the copyright and patent laws themselves, like the Pirate Party winning a seat on the European Parliament, or a debate on proper amount of punitive damages the US law allows for, the RIAA reputation, etc. The Jammie Thomas-Rasset case is being pretty helpful.
I've heard of various friends working in governments of threats, bribes, and turning a blind eye. Having a voice is great of course, and resigning in disgust is proper use of that voice. But to stay inside and really use your voice means either being threatened with being fired (at best), or saying things that you are allowed to, meaning, what was approved, not the full unabridged truth. If they let him in on some scope of attacks that happen all the time, say he is going to be helping, and offer him a salary and future "upgrades", he'll want to say. Perhaps he'll find out something about how the security/surveillance works, or something or other, not agree with it, and wish to denounce it. The choices will be laid out.
Either he resigns in disgust or becomes assimilated.
I'd love to see what happens on the computers of various other "prestigious" network owners, too.
I agree, I use "linux" as the brand, people recognize it. I describe Open Office, Firefox, and Tremulous as being "from Linux, but ported to Windows". It's enough. The problem, as I see it, is that they _are_ available in windows, and so nobody has any real need to use Linux. In other words, what does Linux do for people, that Windows cannot? Why would they need Linux? To shield them from the illegality of their software? Provide them with more functionality? Which? Torvalds has it right - Linux is, still, in need of more drivers. But I also think it needs to ship with more "fun" apps - games, webcam apps, instant messenger and phone apps, etc - things Windows doesn't come built-in with. Wubi also could be used for a lot more, as a base to a quick-boot linux to run these apps, or others.
You can't translate hippyware into other languages as well. You might as well choose a new word to describe F/OSS "Quilombo Software".
The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative are very different in philosophy and how they present themselves. There are often serious disagreements on what is best to do on on legal and political issues.
Legal and political disagreements? Isn't that some kind of major sport causing OCD in 99% of the population?
Hmm the _substance_ of the movement I believe are ideals, which are quite well represented in the licenses indeed. But I would wager that a discussion of whether the ideals of Open Source/Libre Software are more related to social ideals or are related strictly to technical/professional matters would become a rather heated debate. Is the core reason most people have hopes for GNU/Linux/etc technical? Legal? Social? Many Linux enthusiasts I have met don't even know what is source code.
Both Linux and "warez" are free. How to change things? Everyone indeed gets bogged down in details, petty issues, etc, and fail to focus on the common objectives and the big picture, still working very hard, thereby accomplishing lots of things, but not the end objectives. People still continue to prefer Windows, reformatting their preinstalled Linux machines with "free" windowz gamez serialz warez? How to change that? "Because they're ______." Not helpful. Even in places where Linux would be favored for the price, people still are tempted to run Windows, whether paid for or not. It's familiar, available, runs the software they want, bending the law a little has no practical consequences. Should Linux techs become friends of the BSA, and start collecting US $1M piracy snitch rewards?. Does gnu/linux/bsd just need more open-source games? Exchange and Outlook clones? Instant messengers? Training programmers and sysadmins? Or just users? Or would a Linux distro with the ability to run Warez better than Microsoft gain so many users and gain X% installed base? How much installed base does microsoft gain from users who never bought anything? How will standard Linux APIs for voice, video, graphics, 3d, and a developers kit come about? However, rather than ponder these difficult questions, a great many will resort to bashing the use of the word "warez", creating more fighting over nothing and accomplishing just that.
green roofing would be even nicer
it's short term medicine, but should help until the world's car fleets find some alternatives.
what we have is a political/economic impasse. electric trains have been around for a while, with speed, pollution, reliability, energy/mile consumed, safety records, etc, orders of magnitude better than cars, trucks, buses, planes, boats, or hovercrafts. but they don't generate lots of jobs and move lots of money in the economy, exactly *because* they don't *waste* so much stuff. (waste) = (more work) = (more jobs) = (more money). reduce waste, and there will be less work.
What would be of Microsoft, if piracy was completely eliminated?
a method to gather sufficient energy to boot up all of the cells at once, and LIVE ONCE AGAIN
... and wrote a new constitution for themselves, the 'gamers, coders, hackers and slackers Bill of Rights'. --Article 1 -- Basic right to slack. All are free to code, game, crack, download, hack, and do any and all activities that are represented in encoded, digitized form, and transmitted from any computer or digital device to another. No government, legal entity, living entity, or virtual entity shall infringe on the right of any other to digitally slack for as much time and as long as they darn please. --Article 2 -- Economic right to slack. No infringement upon and abuse of slacking community infrastructure. No real-life activity infringing, limiting or otherwise lessening or weakening infrastructure required for slacking is to be allowed. (electronic DOSing is OK). No speculation with food (especially coffee, hops, and yeast), rent, farming, real estate, power and telecommunications. Real estate property rights are limited to the land occupied by your real-life body, your computers and digital gear, heretofore known as your home/office. The right of all citizens to lay cable and setup Central Offices, Power Distribution, digital, power, electronic, telecommunications infrastructure, schools and research centers on all public real estate is not to be infringed upon. No touching cables or equipment that aren't your own, under penalty of fixing and maintaining it for the rest of your life. --Article-3-- Education. Education on all technologies, languages, electronics, robotics, biology, physics, mechanics, power-generation and distribution technologies, digital modeling, art and sound production shall be free and compulsory. All other subjects are optional but strongly encouraged. The numbering system shall be changed to hexadecimal. --Article-4-- The internal combustion engine, printed paper, analog signals, patents and copyrights, state secrets, trade secrets, locked doors, closed meetings, are abolished. Deal with it, and figure out an alternative. Meeting for coffee and/or beer is allowed, but only with open invitation. --Article-5-- Weapons and military. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Therefore all virtual and real weapons are permitted to all citizens, including chemical, nuclear and biological. Shooting all virtual weapons is permitted and encouraged, and virtual weapon training is required by all citizens, especially the BFG-9000. Real weapons may be freely kept securely stored and to decorate any and all walls, and hand-born for shooting, cleaning, practicing, and touching freely in any place wherever there are no living entities of any kind, other than the owners/operators, within five times the primary or secondary damage range. If any real-weapon owner/operator shall shoot themselves in the foot, no citizen is permitted to offer or request assistance of any kind. You can join any militia, team, army, band, gang, guerrilla or terrorist group and go to any boot camp you want, real or virtual, especially for coffee or beer.
Sometimes I think the only way to have a censorship-free internet is to for the routers and fiber to be distributed and interconnected among our houses and buildings, not owned and managed by any one entity.
Yes they do. No they don't. Yes, they DO! NO they do NOT! Comic artists do NOT love being BANNED! YES THEY DO! baM! POW!!! KA-BLAMMM! CRRRACK! UGH! THERE! see? they do NOT!
The US spy agencies I would say have the most opportunities, and many motives, to infiltrate products. Cisco, Solaris, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Google, Sprint, ATT... any company could be easily persuaded or forced to comply with lots of spook-friendly practices, and there are lots of cases of it already known to the public.
And your inability to spell out your words or use proper grammar makes you so much better, yes?
Oh, yes, yes, most certainly! One must agree, wholeheartedly and enthusiastically, with such wonderful, and certainly unique, criticisms of the tragedies caused by the improper use of grammar! It is quite clear, and heartbreaking, the terrible misunderstandings and misfortunes that today's youth bring upon themselves, through the lack of proper control of their suffixes and prefixes, intonations and pronunciations! One must not forget that, in addition to the sins of grammar, they sin also by the use of impure operating systems! Oh! And what horrible programming habits! So lacking in proper manners of commenting, and of course, syntax -- but oh! The time! I must be going, I am so very late, I have an appointment with the priest to discuss a matter of utmost importance, to clear up some terrible sins -- just imagine, I have written a couple of letters to a Swiss friend who is quite ill with a brain tumor, and, well, you see, I made some mistakes, graphing a few words with a quite grotesque mistake in accentuation. I just never managed to quite master her language. It is positively terrifying, the prospect that she might live to read these letters! Well, the reverend must have some suggestion! Ta-ta!
Help keep my job interesting. And more relevant. Geez, now I'm in league with the narcs - if there's no crooks, I'm out of a job.