Come on people, remove you heads out of your fucking asses and read the links. For those who are too freaking stupid to understand basic English sentences (which appears to be most of you) here's the problem. Debian creates and maintains literally thousands of packages. It has a whole goddamn infrastructure in place to do this well and to make sure it works on a shit load of architectures. A lot of people contribute to debian. Almost all distros based on debian, including ubuntu, actually take packages from the debian project developed by debian contributors. Then they wrap it with their installation system or whatever, and distribute it. If there is any package they make significant improvements/developments on, they give the improvement back to debian, so that it's available for all architectures and other projects. All this works out well. Now ubuntu came along. Mind you, ubuntu just takes snapshots (copies, for idiots) of debian unstable every six months and then distributes it, so ubuntu *needs* debian and the *huge* effort behind debian. Now ubuntu packages are incompatible with debian (sarge, the distro debian is working on now). Not only that, ubuntu is also drawing a lot effort away from debian because of its popularity. This is breaking the fucking system. In the second link (you know, the one which you were supposed to fucking read?) he says "If you want a glimpse of what will happen, take a look at the RPM world, where software developers and ISVs have to build a different RPM for every RPM-based distro (either that, or the ISVs have to choose the one or two most popular RPM-based distros to the exclusion of all others--or perhaps that's what you have in mind?)." Debian and based distros were compatible. Until now. Now ubuntu might break it. All the debian-based distros stick to one standard - debian. The distro which does most of the work for other distros. Even Ubuntu derives so much from debian. So only if ubuntu stuck to the standard too, incompatibilities will be non-existent. Just because you use Ubuntu and someone is saying something not entirely positive about ubuntu doesn't mean that they're disapproving you. They're not saying that you have a small penis. Grow up.
Actually it *is* their audience. You might think that all gamers are intelligent beings who like games that mentally stimulate them, but mainstream gamers, just like mainstream-anything, are just mindless mtv-watching zombies who play anything that the media feeds them and play a new version of an American football game every year.
A lot of people using mobile-phones/phones talk louder than it's actually necessary. And not because they think speaking that loud is necessary. So this might not necessarily reduce the voice of phone users.
I'm surprised this didn't get modded down as flamebait. Maybe flamefest would be more appropriate. I mean, this article would have went without another flame war.
Few corrections. First of all they country TLDs, not language TLDs. Language has nothing to do with TLDs. And.edu is only for colleges/institutions approved by some American organisation (can't remember its name). It's mostly just American universities.
Such huge changes will definitely have bad effects. I can't think of any right now. Well, one such effect will be easier phishing with mistyped URLs. Like www.mastercar.dcom. And many other bad effects.
Um, no, people can still use whichever TLD available they want for porn. Where the fuck did you get that idea? And who will force people to use.xxx? One country's government can not force other countries to do the same thing. So at worst this law will be restricted to one country.
Flying cars are science fiction (at least economically and resourcefully *viable* flying cars are). What Japan is trying to do is reality. And you have a serious problem of not being able to differentiate between science fiction and reality.
Of course you are. You (or an average slashdotter) feels enthusiastic about *some* Movies/Series/Sci-fi book. You treat a "mainstream nerd" like this and yet you flame about "jocks" bullying people. (And no, I'm not a Star Wars fan)
People on slashdot never seem to understand someone when he points at an example of a general happening and makes a general observation. Slashdotters think (or act like they think) that the guy is generalising based on just one event.
This was done in Norway. It has nothing to do with USA. Your question is as relevant here as asking how legal this is in any other country of the world. Why USA?
Can't you fucking read? From my previous post: That's grandparent's point. I'm not necessarily supporting it, so quit flaming me and if you have something to say, reply to grandparent. Really. I posted because my parent didn't get my grandparent's point. Reply to my post only if you think my interpretation of (great-) grandparent was wrong.
Canada is certainly not the only country in the world to curtail the freedom of speech purportedly in order to protect a defendant's right to a fair trial. And if Canadians want to have that rule, that's fine. But to try to impose such rules on American citizens for publishing something in America, that's just wrong. That's trying to impose Canadian laws on us...
That's why grandparent said "ethics", smartass, not "laws".
Grandparent's point is that no US media outlet has released this information (due to ethics) but a US blogger has. The ethic is that if the Canadian judiciary thinks that some information should be temporarily withheld from its people, then even the American media respects that decision and refrains itself from releasing that information. The American media thought that this was a valid ethic and thus followed it whereas an American blogger didn't. [That's grandparent's point. I'm not necessarily supporting it, so quit flaming me and if you have something to say, reply to grandparent]
Yeah, you don't want it. Others do. Or rather, many others won't mind targetted ads. Wait, let me rephrase that. Many others will *fall* for targetted ads. Most of them will fall for any ads and any better way of advertising, like targetted ads, only help the advertisers. There are a lot of people who can't even differentiate between ads and normal content (like they can't differentiate between spam and normal mail).
You don't *want* flash. You *need* flash. To visit a lot of websites and access a lot of "features" on other websites. Just like you need Windows for games and stuff.
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Come on people, remove you heads out of your fucking asses and read the links. For those who are too freaking stupid to understand basic English sentences (which appears to be most of you) here's the problem. Debian creates and maintains literally thousands of packages. It has a whole goddamn infrastructure in place to do this well and to make sure it works on a shit load of architectures. A lot of people contribute to debian. Almost all distros based on debian, including ubuntu, actually take packages from the debian project developed by debian contributors. Then they wrap it with their installation system or whatever, and distribute it. If there is any package they make significant improvements/developments on, they give the improvement back to debian, so that it's available for all architectures and other projects. All this works out well. Now ubuntu came along. Mind you, ubuntu just takes snapshots (copies, for idiots) of debian unstable every six months and then distributes it, so ubuntu *needs* debian and the *huge* effort behind debian. Now ubuntu packages are incompatible with debian (sarge, the distro debian is working on now). Not only that, ubuntu is also drawing a lot effort away from debian because of its popularity. This is breaking the fucking system. In the second link (you know, the one which you were supposed to fucking read?) he says "If you want a glimpse of what will happen, take a look at the RPM world, where software developers and ISVs have to build a different RPM for every RPM-based distro (either that, or the ISVs have to choose the one or two most popular RPM-based distros to the exclusion of all others--or perhaps that's what you have in mind?)." Debian and based distros were compatible. Until now. Now ubuntu might break it. All the debian-based distros stick to one standard - debian. The distro which does most of the work for other distros. Even Ubuntu derives so much from debian. So only if ubuntu stuck to the standard too, incompatibilities will be non-existent. Just because you use Ubuntu and someone is saying something not entirely positive about ubuntu doesn't mean that they're disapproving you. They're not saying that you have a small penis. Grow up.
Actually it *is* their audience. You might think that all gamers are intelligent beings who like games that mentally stimulate them, but mainstream gamers, just like mainstream-anything, are just mindless mtv-watching zombies who play anything that the media feeds them and play a new version of an American football game every year.
A lot of people using mobile-phones/phones talk louder than it's actually necessary. And not because they think speaking that loud is necessary. So this might not necessarily reduce the voice of phone users.
I'm surprised this didn't get modded down as flamebait. Maybe flamefest would be more appropriate. I mean, this article would have went without another flame war.
Few corrections. First of all they country TLDs, not language TLDs. Language has nothing to do with TLDs. And .edu is only for colleges/institutions approved by some American organisation (can't remember its name). It's mostly just American universities.
Such huge changes will definitely have bad effects. I can't think of any right now. Well, one such effect will be easier phishing with mistyped URLs. Like www.mastercar.dcom. And many other bad effects.
And for those of you who don't know: It means SOS.
The next time you are talking something specific to USA, please mention which country you are talking about. Everyone else does.
Um, no, people can still use whichever TLD available they want for porn. Where the fuck did you get that idea? And who will force people to use .xxx? One country's government can not force other countries to do the same thing. So at worst this law will be restricted to one country.
Um, sorry, I'm not really bright today, you're being sarcastic right?
Flying cars are science fiction (at least economically and resourcefully *viable* flying cars are). What Japan is trying to do is reality. And you have a serious problem of not being able to differentiate between science fiction and reality.
Of course you are. You (or an average slashdotter) feels enthusiastic about *some* Movies/Series/Sci-fi book. You treat a "mainstream nerd" like this and yet you flame about "jocks" bullying people. (And no, I'm not a Star Wars fan)
People on slashdot never seem to understand someone when he points at an example of a general happening and makes a general observation. Slashdotters think (or act like they think) that the guy is generalising based on just one event.
eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins)...it appears that the guys with girlfriends will have the last laugh...
Slashdot is sounding more and more like high school jocks who pick on "nerds". (BTW, I'm not a Star Wars fan)
Nah, it's just Doom 3. The game is really dark.
Um, we want PowerPC (those who use PearPC) not Mac OS. If we wan't Mac OS we *should* get the real thing since there is no "Mac OS emulator" (AFAIK).
God, do you really believe that if MS "threatens" EU, the EU is going to bend over?
This was done in Norway. It has nothing to do with USA. Your question is as relevant here as asking how legal this is in any other country of the world. Why USA?
I want to fucking stick a fork in your eye. It's an "A or B" question, bitch, don't answer it with "yes".
The problem is that there are idiots like you on the earth.
Can't you fucking read? From my previous post: That's grandparent's point. I'm not necessarily supporting it, so quit flaming me and if you have something to say, reply to grandparent. Really. I posted because my parent didn't get my grandparent's point. Reply to my post only if you think my interpretation of (great-) grandparent was wrong.
Canada is certainly not the only country in the world to curtail the freedom of speech purportedly in order to protect a defendant's right to a fair trial. And if Canadians want to have that rule, that's fine. But to try to impose such rules on American citizens for publishing something in America, that's just wrong. That's trying to impose Canadian laws on us...
That's why grandparent said "ethics", smartass, not "laws".
Grandparent's point is that no US media outlet has released this information (due to ethics) but a US blogger has. The ethic is that if the Canadian judiciary thinks that some information should be temporarily withheld from its people, then even the American media respects that decision and refrains itself from releasing that information. The American media thought that this was a valid ethic and thus followed it whereas an American blogger didn't. [That's grandparent's point. I'm not necessarily supporting it, so quit flaming me and if you have something to say, reply to grandparent]
Yeah, you don't want it. Others do. Or rather, many others won't mind targetted ads. Wait, let me rephrase that. Many others will *fall* for targetted ads. Most of them will fall for any ads and any better way of advertising, like targetted ads, only help the advertisers. There are a lot of people who can't even differentiate between ads and normal content (like they can't differentiate between spam and normal mail).
You don't *want* flash. You *need* flash. To visit a lot of websites and access a lot of "features" on other websites. Just like you need Windows for games and stuff.