I'm tired of trying to explain this in abstract terms, so I'll try something new for now:
#bsd:
<@developer1> Hey look! I have this channel here, want to help me with it?
< developer2> Sure!
<@developer1> sets mode +o developer2
< selfishbastard> entered the channel
<@developer2> Hi dude, I've got this cool channel here, want to try helping?
< selfishbastard> Sure!
<@developer2> sets mode +o selfishbastard
(...2 seconds pass...)
<@evildude> -oo developer1 developer2
< developer1> this sucks.
#gpl2:
<@developer1> Hey look! I have this channel here, want to help me it?
< developer2> Sure!
<@developer1> sets mode +o developer2
< selfishbastard> entered the channel
<@developer2> Hi dude, I've got this cool channel here, want to try and make it a better place for all of us?
< selfishbastard> Sure!
<@developer2> sets mode +o selfishbastard
(...2 seconds pass...)
<@selfishbastard> tries to set mode -oo developer1 developer2
[PERMISSION DENIED]
<@selfishbastard> Hm...let's try a workaround.
<@selfishbastard>.synack developer1.home-isp.cable.net developer2.home-isp.cable.net
developer1 quit [Ping Timeout]
developer2 quit [Ping Timeout]
<@selfishbastard> Yay, it is mine!
#gplv3:
<@developer1> Hey look! I have this channel here, want to help me it?
< developer2> Sure!
<@developer1> sets mode +o developer2
< selfishbastard> entered the channel
<@developer2> Hi dude, I've got this cool channel here, want to try and make it a better place for all of us?
< selfishbastard> Sure!
<@developer2> sets mode +o selfishbastard
<@selfishbastard> tries to set mode -oo developer1 developer2
[PERMISSION DENIED]
<@selfishbastard> Hm...let's try a workaround.
<@selfishbastard>.synack developer1.home-isp.cable.net developer2.home-isp.cable.net
(...5 minutes pass...)
selfishbastard quit irc [K-Lined: abuse]
Morality does not stem from religion. I have to heavily protest that assumption of yours, because it is simply not true. Please do not equate RMS with some kind of religious leader when he uses the term moral issue correctly.
He's a brilliant engineer, a witty person, but he's an idiot when it comes to freedom related issues and he displays what basically amounts to ignorance about the subject. GPLv3 is nothing more than GPLv2 with some loopholes closed. I often wonder how Linus ended up with GPLv2 in the first place?
The contrast is striking because as an engineer he's brilliant, but he's absolutely lost as a long term thinker in relation to freedoms and morality. He'd make the worst leader in those matters.
So let me get this straight, you're suggesting that since a lot of us does not want to pay the mafiaa and likes, then we should pay the mafiaa and the likes belatedly? The problem is with the distribution cartel, not at the payment level!
I don't get why are they trying to bend over. There are plenty of ways to go on about this, like not paying any fees, protests, or just really going dark and see what effect that has.
There is a reason why my MSc in Computer Science involved the third most mathematics education after applied mathematicians and physicists.
Talk about not previewing properly. The sentence I intended to write was:
There is a reason why my MSc in Computer Science involved receiving the third most mathematics education available in my country after applied mathematicians and physicists.
Computer science IS applied mathematics at it's fundamental level.You can try to forget about it as a user, but never as a programmer, much the less as a computer scientist.
There is a reason why my MSc in Computer Science involved the third most mathematics education after applied mathematicians and physicists.
The loss of free speech is not acceptable just because he took a break and used his work computer to upload something to the internet. There has to be a balance and if lawyers can weasel out of denying free speech based on a one time use of a computer for 20 minutes, then the system is utterly broken and should be bulldozed over.
Actually the Big Bang theory says that it's not reasonable to ask the question "What happened before?", because as far as we know there was no time to make the word "before" meaningful.
I guess if you were to install a longterm telescope on the moon, you'd have to think of the impacting micrometeorites, etc that bombard the Moon daily. We don't get them on earth because our atmosphere protects us. Also, if that dust was bad enough that it has affected equipment that landed on the moon, I guess it would not be too silly to presuppose that it can get disturbed by a telescope built on the moon.
I think that the dust problem can be avoided, but measures need to be taken and the dust needs to be thought of.
I think everything you can think of that can be depicted on screen and is generated content, is fair game.
The reason we, the people prohibit child porn is because there are real children involved in the making of those pictures. When there isn't, I'd rather a pedophile would satisfy his urges with pixelated content than with a real child. Same stands for a serial killer or anyone aberrant enough to enjoy over the top, brutal things.
In fact, I have a lot of them on my property. I assign an arbitary $10^99 value to each of those molecules. But look! Every day passers by breathe in some of those molecules. Therefor, I conclude that the police focus on investigating these unimaginable crimes!
There are figures that your economy is losing out in the magnitude of tens of billion dollars due to decreased tourism to the USA because of stupid procedures. I know that I'm not willing to go to the USA as long as I'm treated as a criminal and I'm not alone with that sentiment.
However, resistance among educators crumbled with the emergence of an advocate of the new system. In 2005, Dean Coder, a principal from the Prince George district with whom Ferrie had corresponded, transferred to the Kamloops district because he wanted to become involved in its transition to free software. Assigned to Barriere secondary school, Coder decided to convert all 110 computers at the school over to the thin client system. Systems analyst Dean Montgomery began work on a second-generation system, using state-of-the-art equipment.
By this point, applications such as OpenOffice.org and Scribus had evolved to the point that teachers were "awestruck" by the new pilot system. However, what really convinced teachers that the change was worthwhile, Ferrie says, was Coder's advocacy. "He put his own reputation on the line and said to the staff, 'I'm going to be there for you.'" A young principal at the district's largest school soon requested the new system, and several others quickly followed. Now, Ferrie says, "we're struggling to implement it at the rest of our secondaries." In the end, an advocate who was both an educator and an administrator, he maintains, made all the difference in getting the system accepted.
You mean the explanation by CCP that completely left out the part (and in my opinion main allegation) where a developer from the database group went around and started questioning and telling the ISD member (volunteer) what to do?
It is easy to debunk the patently false accusations and then try to use that as proof by association to make it appear as the rest of the allegations are bunk too.
For some reason the developer in question no longer has a character. Shiny clean eh? I don't suppose it is tinfoil to be just a bit skeptical of a company's PR claims. The internal affairs division completely, utterly failed because their statement read like a corporate press release instead of the report from a supposedly independent review board.
Basically what, they are supposed to fly over for a few days every xth month and 'audit' the game/company?
What would be the point in that? They can't discover anything serious anyway. You'd need good insider and developer knowledge and months. Apart from that they might act as conduits for reporting on gameplay issues and bugs, but it'd be better accomplished by CCP reading their own forums...
How could I be so ungrateful to reject the gifts and protection of the Roman empire?
Your country didn't do anyone a favor but themselves. Maybe you should study history and look at the suffering you have caused all around the world. Iraq is only the latest in the line of atrocities.
And FYI, your country DID hang my country out to dry, it happened in 1956, look it up.
...makes me wish the EU to take a stronger stand. This isn't the cold war anymore where Europe was divided and I don't appreciate power plays over my head when the EU has more than enough economic might to not have to deal with this crap coming from the USA trying to install weapons in Europe and the Russians reacting to it.
The birthday paradox still applies, but even if you account for it, sha1 is pretty damn resilient to it. This question actually was extensively discussed at the birth of git on the git mailing list, so please refer to that. The conclusion was something along the lines of "if this really bothers you, write a shell wrapper around it".
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Morality does not stem from religion. I have to heavily protest that assumption of yours, because it is simply not true. Please do not equate RMS with some kind of religious leader when he uses the term moral issue correctly.
He's a brilliant engineer, a witty person, but he's an idiot when it comes to freedom related issues and he displays what basically amounts to ignorance about the subject. GPLv3 is nothing more than GPLv2 with some loopholes closed. I often wonder how Linus ended up with GPLv2 in the first place?
The contrast is striking because as an engineer he's brilliant, but he's absolutely lost as a long term thinker in relation to freedoms and morality. He'd make the worst leader in those matters.
So let me get this straight, you're suggesting that since a lot of us does not want to pay the mafiaa and likes, then we should pay the mafiaa and the likes belatedly? The problem is with the distribution cartel, not at the payment level!
I don't get why are they trying to bend over. There are plenty of ways to go on about this, like not paying any fees, protests, or just really going dark and see what effect that has.
Computer science IS applied mathematics at it's fundamental level.You can try to forget about it as a user, but never as a programmer, much the less as a computer scientist.
There is a reason why my MSc in Computer Science involved the third most mathematics education after applied mathematicians and physicists.
The loss of free speech is not acceptable just because he took a break and used his work computer to upload something to the internet. There has to be a balance and if lawyers can weasel out of denying free speech based on a one time use of a computer for 20 minutes, then the system is utterly broken and should be bulldozed over.
Actually the Big Bang theory says that it's not reasonable to ask the question "What happened before?", because as far as we know there was no time to make the word "before" meaningful.
I guess if you were to install a longterm telescope on the moon, you'd have to think of the impacting micrometeorites, etc that bombard the Moon daily. We don't get them on earth because our atmosphere protects us. Also, if that dust was bad enough that it has affected equipment that landed on the moon, I guess it would not be too silly to presuppose that it can get disturbed by a telescope built on the moon.
I think that the dust problem can be avoided, but measures need to be taken and the dust needs to be thought of.
Another slashdot meme in the making?
"I don't do $technology, I'm a very low-tech person."
I think everything you can think of that can be depicted on screen and is generated content, is fair game.
The reason we, the people prohibit child porn is because there are real children involved in the making of those pictures. When there isn't, I'd rather a pedophile would satisfy his urges with pixelated content than with a real child. Same stands for a serial killer or anyone aberrant enough to enjoy over the top, brutal things.
In fact, I have a lot of them on my property. I assign an arbitary $10^99 value to each of those molecules. But look! Every day passers by breathe in some of those molecules. Therefor, I conclude that the police focus on investigating these unimaginable crimes!
There are figures that your economy is losing out in the magnitude of tens of billion dollars due to decreased tourism to the USA because of stupid procedures. I know that I'm not willing to go to the USA as long as I'm treated as a criminal and I'm not alone with that sentiment.
These new plans are just bound to make it worse.
...who your real customers are.
Using bittorrent in itself is perfectly legal and everyone who questions that is missing a couple cogs in their brain.
My next monitor won't be LG. You see, I'm quite satisfied with the product, but this latest act excludes you from the companies I'd want to support.
It is my money and I care who I give it to.
You mean the explanation by CCP that completely left out the part (and in my opinion main allegation) where a developer from the database group went around and started questioning and telling the ISD member (volunteer) what to do?
It is easy to debunk the patently false accusations and then try to use that as proof by association to make it appear as the rest of the allegations are bunk too.
For some reason the developer in question no longer has a character. Shiny clean eh? I don't suppose it is tinfoil to be just a bit skeptical of a company's PR claims. The internal affairs division completely, utterly failed because their statement read like a corporate press release instead of the report from a supposedly independent review board.
Basically what, they are supposed to fly over for a few days every xth month and 'audit' the game/company?
What would be the point in that? They can't discover anything serious anyway. You'd need good insider and developer knowledge and months. Apart from that they might act as conduits for reporting on gameplay issues and bugs, but it'd be better accomplished by CCP reading their own forums...
How could I be so ungrateful to reject the gifts and protection of the Roman empire?
Your country didn't do anyone a favor but themselves. Maybe you should study history and look at the suffering you have caused all around the world. Iraq is only the latest in the line of atrocities.
And FYI, your country DID hang my country out to dry, it happened in 1956, look it up.
I don't think these countries want these US controlled systems. And I don't trust Russia, but the point is, I don't trust the USA one bit more either!
FYI, I'm from an ex soviet block country, so I guess I have a bit broader view on the topic than some anonymous troll from the USA.
...makes me wish the EU to take a stronger stand. This isn't the cold war anymore where Europe was divided and I don't appreciate power plays over my head when the EU has more than enough economic might to not have to deal with this crap coming from the USA trying to install weapons in Europe and the Russians reacting to it.
Xfree86 was axed in most places for it's license.
Perl is dual licensed under GPL and Artistic.
You have a point, I'm just nitpicking on your examples.
The birthday paradox still applies, but even if you account for it, sha1 is pretty damn resilient to it. This question actually was extensively discussed at the birth of git on the git mailing list, so please refer to that. The conclusion was something along the lines of "if this really bothers you, write a shell wrapper around it".