how dare you compare copyright infringement to concentration camps! WTF!
There's more than one type of crime against humanity. Decrying a second one doesn't make the first any less appalling.
Two more arguments:
* you're bound to die anyway, murder "merely" speeds that up. In a few years, maybe a cousin will once mention that uncle yayoubetcha did so-and-so, and that's it. On the other hand, culture you create has a chance to live almost forever. And that's not restricted to "high" culture -- that cat meme might survive. A scatologic grafitti you painted on a wall might get buried by a volcano, then unearthed two thousand years later, cherished by scholars. Cut your name with a knife into the marble of an ancient church? Here you go, as a rare proof of Viking contacts with Byzantium. Some birch sheets of your kid scribbling survived? Your name gets to live forever.
That's why I deem the likes of Diego de Landa in the league of Hitler -- the former nearly completely erased literate heritage of a mighty nation. Heck, as a Polack, I don't know even the names of gods of my forefathers, after the Church's work all we got are wild guesses that a deity depicted by a four-faced statue was Swiatowid ("sees-the-world") then years later, with no new evidence whatsoever, that's declared invalid, replaced with "Svantevit" ("holy lord").
* what's worse, killing a million or reducing the quality of life of a billion? Reduce that quality enough, and I'll vote for the latter.
There's major difference of being volunteering and being forced too.
Most of recipients are naturally freeloaders, and that's expected. When a merchant in medieval Genoa or a partician in ancient Rome sponsored a work of art, the plebs got to see it for free. In ancient Greece, there were even special funds so the poor can be exposed to culture. Some goods are scarce, and those are naturally limited -- during a famine, I wouldn't share my last bread no matter how loud the preachers speak -- but most artwork doesn't get used up just because some enjoy it for free. That statue on the Forum doesn't go away just because that uncultured pleb dared to raise his gaze upon it. Denying people access to an infinitely copyable good -- that's a special kind of evil.
Economics say, if the marginal price of a good is zero, the fair price is zero as well.
Obviously, such goods don't get created for free. Those with a disposable income get to decide what gets created. So instead of enriching the mafia that steals from the artists, go and patronize them directly. As middle-classers, we can decide what culture gets created instead of waiting for a 1-percenter to "trickle down" on us. It's culture that's worth fighting for, those private jets I can do without (even if I wouldn't mind owning one).
For tangible goods, you should get to keep what your produce. But for goods that can be replicated at no cost, why would you care that someone else gets for free what you paid for? You don't get any less of it -- so both you get to keep your piece, and Billy Bob gets a copy.
Quoting MAFIAA's words: "would you download a car?". If I have access to a reliable enough 3D printer, the hell I would! And I don't give a rat's ass about the car makers cartel's lost profits.
So, are you volunteering to work for free in return?
You mean, like Debian Developer work and upstream work on a bunch of projects? I believe I got my fair share of unpaid work covered.
Are you fine with clients just tossing your invoice for whatever you do for a living?
A non-advance invoice is a debt; it has been agreed upon beforehand (even if just verbally).
As for works of music/literature/etc, they worked fine -- better -- before the Worshipful Company of Stationers were granted copyright monopoly to limit who can own a printing press. Artists were paid generously, they just didn't get a monopoly afterwards. Grateful patrons paid them to ensure more good work is coming, as an incentive. A monopoly 75/95 years after death isn't exactly going to incentivize that artists to create more works, as he's, you know, dead.
Let's see music I listen to. I don't enjoy any drivel by MPAA/RIAA or their "artists", I listen mostly to symphonic black metal which is a niche genre (I also do +/-1 for every component, so symphonic is on my table too -- but the last time I checked, Mozart and Beethoven were long dead). Even there, musicians get only a small fraction of money for record sales, the portion is far better for concerts and merch such as shirts. Thus, I get the music exclusively via torrents, then patronize the artists some other way. Heck, I've even once put some money in a snail-mail anonymous envelope (many years ago, there are better ways now). I feel I've been skimping lately and should benefit them more, but you still can't accuse me of being a freeloader.
And, a disbanded band doesn't concert/etc anymore, so no incentive is misplaced, while I still enjoy their past work. It's just that to get my money you need to keep doing your part.
"It assumed that most pirates didn't even realize they were violating copyright, and just needed to be shown the error of their ways."
Right. So those Jews who tried to avoid concentration camps were merely misguided and should be told their race is so inferior they should welcome extermination? Arguing that an unjust law is not unjust is not that easy when it's you, personally, who paid for its enactment.
We should not dismiss the harm of copyright. It grieviously damages culture -- not just receiving culture as in "freeloading" watchers of a random crap movie, but also creating more works. It's impossible to create a cultural work without building atop of references and conventions built up previously -- it would be totally incomprehensible to any reader. Because of copyright, direct references to any semi-modern works are outright banned, and less direct ones are not banned yet only because the copyright cartel didn't yet bribe^W"campaign donate" appropriate legislation.
Culture is what puts us apart from animals (in the common sense of the word) -- as biologically we are animals with most of the same urge. It's transmission of works that makes humanity. Thus, a crime that hampers this transmission is a crime against humanity itself.
(You might call my stance "extreme", starting with self-Godwining at the start. Don't let the propaganda that "piracy is evil" cloud you.)
> "Upon reflection, one of my many cases of being a douche and an assclown has been exposed. Sorry, my bad, will prevent such exposure in the future." FTFY.
To be pedantic, 127.0.0.1 is still considered a network request.
But why would a removed ad connect to localhost? Neither RequestPolicy nor AdBlock do so, and if you block ads at DNS level, using 0.0.0.0 or:: means no requests either.
The STARTUPINFO structure you pass to CreateProcess() has fields hStdInput, hStdOutput and hStdError which do just that. An UNIX process can have more than these three descriptors, but I don't think anyone would expect them to work for a Windows process anyway.
Yeah, I'd understand high-level communications not working, emulating them right would be a task as hard as wine's -- but on WSL, even basic execve("hello.exe") doesn't work.
This isn't a stupid question -- WSL processes can not exec a PE. On the other hand, on my system, with qemu and wine binfmts, arch-test reports: alpha amd64 arm arm64 armel armhf hppa i386 m68k mips mips64 mips64el mipsel powerpc ppc64 ppc64el sh4 sparc sparc64 win32 win64 x32 and you can run processes for any of these archs from any other, completely transparently.
On the other hand, in WSL you can start amd64 Linux ELFs and nothing else. A compat layer on Windows that can't even interact with Windows -- what's the point?
They didn't expect a group of most competent devs jumping ship and making MariaDB. It's nearly impossible for a fork of something as complex to succeed, thus it was a near-sure bet that control of MySQL would let them slowly extinguish their biggest competitor. Well, proper use cases for Oracle-the-DB and MySQL differ but most people who decide don't know the difference: if that wasn't the case, MySQL wouldn't have the massive usage share it enjoys, as if you need real SQL then Postgres is much better, and if you don't, you're better served by a non-relational database.
Thus, instead of reaping the rewards, they flail wildly and merely make MySQL unusable: stop real new features, shut down access to most of bug database, halt any detailed information about security vulnerabilities (providing fixes only as massive new versions, unfit for backporting). Thus, distributions are switching to MariaDB left and right: Debian just did, Fedora did so ages ago.
Firefox isn't a "small browser", it's the only browser for most architectures. Chromium is Windows (not XP!)/Mac/Linux-glibc only, exclusively for amd64/i386 -- ARM is only for Android.
Also, Chromium is spyware that phones home even in "Incognito mode", going over any extensions (so uBlock+uMatrix are of no help). It contacts www.google-analytics.com so it's not just an update check or something benign.
So even on amd64, Firefox is the only real option.
I have a Pine64 and Geekbox, and both will only run custom Ubuntu because they don't have devicetree.
For Pine64, try Icenowy's kernels, they work fine for me. That's 4.9 with devicetree; she hasn't rebased the patch set to 4.10-rc yet, though, and so many A64 pieces went into 4.10 while so many are still missing from mainline that I'm not attempting to rebase it myself. But if "only" 4.9 is good enough for you, dump that 3.10 vendor crap...
It was dead the moment Oracle ate Sun -- it wasn't even their primary target, merely collateral damage in their plan to kill MySQL.
Unrelated: you really should check your keyboard, either your Caps Lock or Shift is stuck. If you can't fix that immediately, try stty iuclc although this helps on terminals only (although elinks is an option). If you did that intentionally, please at least use small caps: apt install tran; echo "But what about Solaris?"|tran smallcaps; that's way less rude. As the Great Runes are dead in England since 11th century, last computer terminals since late 1970s, there's no reason to use them.
And when a book becomes only partially ungood, the technology will kindly destroy and replace the copy your own, instead of ordering you to cut out a page from your Great Soviet Encyclopedia and mailing a replacement sheet you're supposed to glue in, with random visits to the encyclopedia's subscribers to check compliance (Orwell wasn't the one to invent this either).
Don't worry. One of these days/. will catch up and you'll be able to use it. Of course that will probably happen just before the sun consumes the earth, but it'll happen.
Oh you sweet summer child... that's only 7.6 billion years from now! How can you dream of Slashdot moving that fast?
More seriously, Slashcode supports Unicode since forever, it's just for some reason not enabled on Slashdot. It's a matter of flipping a config switch and a single query to convert the database. Of course, a single query affecting all rows in a database this big on a live site isn't trivial, but not exactly rocket surgery.
But history shows AMD hasn't been able to be that kick in the past 10 years....
5 years ago I did the research and it was AMD Phenom II x6 which was at the sweet bang-to-buck spot. Worse in single-threaded but for compiles/etc kicked the ass of similarly priced Intel chips.
And despite its age I still don't feel an urge to upgrade -- it's adequate for software I work with, I don't compile anything bigger than the kernel these days. So unless I'll need to run big bisects or something, it stays for now. Being one of the last non-backdoored CPUs from both sides of the aisle is a big bonus.
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how dare you compare copyright infringement to concentration camps! WTF!
There's more than one type of crime against humanity. Decrying a second one doesn't make the first any less appalling.
Two more arguments:
That's why I deem the likes of Diego de Landa in the league of Hitler -- the former nearly completely erased literate heritage of a mighty nation. Heck, as a Polack, I don't know even the names of gods of my forefathers, after the Church's work all we got are wild guesses that a deity depicted by a four-faced statue was Swiatowid ("sees-the-world") then years later, with no new evidence whatsoever, that's declared invalid, replaced with "Svantevit" ("holy lord").
There's major difference of being volunteering and being forced too.
Most of recipients are naturally freeloaders, and that's expected. When a merchant in medieval Genoa or a partician in ancient Rome sponsored a work of art, the plebs got to see it for free. In ancient Greece, there were even special funds so the poor can be exposed to culture. Some goods are scarce, and those are naturally limited -- during a famine, I wouldn't share my last bread no matter how loud the preachers speak -- but most artwork doesn't get used up just because some enjoy it for free. That statue on the Forum doesn't go away just because that uncultured pleb dared to raise his gaze upon it. Denying people access to an infinitely copyable good -- that's a special kind of evil.
Economics say, if the marginal price of a good is zero, the fair price is zero as well.
Obviously, such goods don't get created for free. Those with a disposable income get to decide what gets created. So instead of enriching the mafia that steals from the artists, go and patronize them directly. As middle-classers, we can decide what culture gets created instead of waiting for a 1-percenter to "trickle down" on us. It's culture that's worth fighting for, those private jets I can do without (even if I wouldn't mind owning one).
For tangible goods, you should get to keep what your produce. But for goods that can be replicated at no cost, why would you care that someone else gets for free what you paid for? You don't get any less of it -- so both you get to keep your piece, and Billy Bob gets a copy.
Quoting MAFIAA's words: "would you download a car?". If I have access to a reliable enough 3D printer, the hell I would! And I don't give a rat's ass about the car makers cartel's lost profits.
So, are you volunteering to work for free in return?
You mean, like Debian Developer work and upstream work on a bunch of projects? I believe I got my fair share of unpaid work covered.
Are you fine with clients just tossing your invoice for whatever you do for a living?
A non-advance invoice is a debt; it has been agreed upon beforehand (even if just verbally).
As for works of music/literature/etc, they worked fine -- better -- before the Worshipful Company of Stationers were granted copyright monopoly to limit who can own a printing press. Artists were paid generously, they just didn't get a monopoly afterwards. Grateful patrons paid them to ensure more good work is coming, as an incentive. A monopoly 75/95 years after death isn't exactly going to incentivize that artists to create more works, as he's, you know, dead.
Let's see music I listen to. I don't enjoy any drivel by MPAA/RIAA or their "artists", I listen mostly to symphonic black metal which is a niche genre (I also do +/-1 for every component, so symphonic is on my table too -- but the last time I checked, Mozart and Beethoven were long dead). Even there, musicians get only a small fraction of money for record sales, the portion is far better for concerts and merch such as shirts. Thus, I get the music exclusively via torrents, then patronize the artists some other way. Heck, I've even once put some money in a snail-mail anonymous envelope (many years ago, there are better ways now). I feel I've been skimping lately and should benefit them more, but you still can't accuse me of being a freeloader.
And, a disbanded band doesn't concert/etc anymore, so no incentive is misplaced, while I still enjoy their past work. It's just that to get my money you need to keep doing your part.
"It assumed that most pirates didn't even realize they were violating copyright, and just needed to be shown the error of their ways."
Right. So those Jews who tried to avoid concentration camps were merely misguided and should be told their race is so inferior they should welcome extermination? Arguing that an unjust law is not unjust is not that easy when it's you, personally, who paid for its enactment.
We should not dismiss the harm of copyright. It grieviously damages culture -- not just receiving culture as in "freeloading" watchers of a random crap movie, but also creating more works. It's impossible to create a cultural work without building atop of references and conventions built up previously -- it would be totally incomprehensible to any reader. Because of copyright, direct references to any semi-modern works are outright banned, and less direct ones are not banned yet only because the copyright cartel didn't yet bribe^W"campaign donate" appropriate legislation.
Culture is what puts us apart from animals (in the common sense of the word) -- as biologically we are animals with most of the same urge. It's transmission of works that makes humanity. Thus, a crime that hampers this transmission is a crime against humanity itself.
(You might call my stance "extreme", starting with self-Godwining at the start. Don't let the propaganda that "piracy is evil" cloud you.)
There are people who buy fake premium/OEM accessory because they think they do know better.
FTFY.
"Made in Britain" label
Sorry, I want only genuine EU products.
> "Upon reflection, one of my many cases of being a douche and an assclown has been exposed. Sorry, my bad, will prevent such exposure in the future."
FTFY.
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Then see Google's cache -- if the paywall blocked Google, it wouldn't pop up in the search in the first place.
To be pedantic, 127.0.0.1 is still considered a network request.
But why would a removed ad connect to localhost? Neither RequestPolicy nor AdBlock do so, and if you block ads at DNS level, using 0.0.0.0 or :: means no requests either.
Well, most of us already see good ads. And the only good ad is one that takes 0x0 on the screen and no network requests.
We still don't delete in case the feds want to take a peak at anything
As keeping deleted files comes at a significant cost, my guess is that malice here doesn't come from Dropbox itself.
The STARTUPINFO structure you pass to CreateProcess() has fields hStdInput, hStdOutput and hStdError which do just that. An UNIX process can have more than these three descriptors, but I don't think anyone would expect them to work for a Windows process anyway.
Yeah, I'd understand high-level communications not working, emulating them right would be a task as hard as wine's -- but on WSL, even basic execve("hello.exe") doesn't work.
But can it run Linux?!
This isn't a stupid question -- WSL processes can not exec a PE. On the other hand, on my system, with qemu and wine binfmts, arch-test reports:
alpha amd64 arm arm64 armel armhf hppa i386 m68k mips mips64 mips64el mipsel powerpc ppc64 ppc64el sh4 sparc sparc64 win32 win64 x32
and you can run processes for any of these archs from any other, completely transparently.
On the other hand, in WSL you can start amd64 Linux ELFs and nothing else. A compat layer on Windows that can't even interact with Windows -- what's the point?
They didn't expect a group of most competent devs jumping ship and making MariaDB. It's nearly impossible for a fork of something as complex to succeed, thus it was a near-sure bet that control of MySQL would let them slowly extinguish their biggest competitor. Well, proper use cases for Oracle-the-DB and MySQL differ but most people who decide don't know the difference: if that wasn't the case, MySQL wouldn't have the massive usage share it enjoys, as if you need real SQL then Postgres is much better, and if you don't, you're better served by a non-relational database.
Thus, instead of reaping the rewards, they flail wildly and merely make MySQL unusable: stop real new features, shut down access to most of bug database, halt any detailed information about security vulnerabilities (providing fixes only as massive new versions, unfit for backporting). Thus, distributions are switching to MariaDB left and right: Debian just did, Fedora did so ages ago.
Firefox isn't a "small browser", it's the only browser for most architectures. Chromium is Windows (not XP!)/Mac/Linux-glibc only, exclusively for amd64/i386 -- ARM is only for Android.
Also, Chromium is spyware that phones home even in "Incognito mode", going over any extensions (so uBlock+uMatrix are of no help). It contacts www.google-analytics.com so it's not just an update check or something benign.
So even on amd64, Firefox is the only real option.
I have a Pine64 and Geekbox, and both will only run custom Ubuntu because they don't have devicetree.
For Pine64, try Icenowy's kernels, they work fine for me. That's 4.9 with devicetree; she hasn't rebased the patch set to 4.10-rc yet, though, and so many A64 pieces went into 4.10 while so many are still missing from mainline that I'm not attempting to rebase it myself. But if "only" 4.9 is good enough for you, dump that 3.10 vendor crap...
BUT WHAT ABOUT SOLARIS
It was dead the moment Oracle ate Sun -- it wasn't even their primary target, merely collateral damage in their plan to kill MySQL.
Unrelated: you really should check your keyboard, either your Caps Lock or Shift is stuck. If you can't fix that immediately, try stty iuclc although this helps on terminals only (although elinks is an option). If you did that intentionally, please at least use small caps: apt install tran; echo "But what about Solaris?"|tran smallcaps; that's way less rude. As the Great Runes are dead in England since 11th century, last computer terminals since late 1970s, there's no reason to use them.
Will we be able to disable/uninstall it?
No, but it will be able to uninstall ebooks you own. Although, as usual, this innovation has been copied by Microsoft from others, in this case, from Amazon dropping YOUR copies of "1984" down the memory hole.
And when a book becomes only partially ungood, the technology will kindly destroy and replace the copy your own, instead of ordering you to cut out a page from your Great Soviet Encyclopedia and mailing a replacement sheet you're supposed to glue in, with random visits to the encyclopedia's subscribers to check compliance (Orwell wasn't the one to invent this either).
More like: "It looks like you're trying to repair a watch. Would you like me to hammer it?".
Manning wasn't pardoned, his sentence merely got reduced. Assange's offer was for a pardon.
Ah right Unicode...
Don't worry. One of these days /. will catch up and you'll be able to use it. Of course that will probably happen just before the sun consumes the earth, but it'll happen.
Oh you sweet summer child... that's only 7.6 billion years from now! How can you dream of Slashdot moving that fast?
More seriously, Slashcode supports Unicode since forever, it's just for some reason not enabled on Slashdot. It's a matter of flipping a config switch and a single query to convert the database. Of course, a single query affecting all rows in a database this big on a live site isn't trivial, but not exactly rocket surgery.
The guy deserves an apology.
And the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He, not Obama's second in command whose medal is about as warranted as Obama's Nobel Prize.
SoB, just because you can't see me, doesn't mean I'm not there.
The Ninja Labor Union will sue Microsoft soon.
But history shows AMD hasn't been able to be that kick in the past 10 years....
5 years ago I did the research and it was AMD Phenom II x6 which was at the sweet bang-to-buck spot. Worse in single-threaded but for compiles/etc kicked the ass of similarly priced Intel chips.
And despite its age I still don't feel an urge to upgrade -- it's adequate for software I work with, I don't compile anything bigger than the kernel these days. So unless I'll need to run big bisects or something, it stays for now. Being one of the last non-backdoored CPUs from both sides of the aisle is a big bonus.