What, people are just machines now? We can just decide whether they must be allowed to be born or not by looking at things like how hard it would be raise them? These are human beings, they fucking deserve to live. The attitude of you people towards this matter is disturbing.
Great. So some engineering student in Nazi Germany got bored and drew some doodles and now there's "proof" that the Nazis were on the brink of producing nuclear weapons and now every blog or slashdot comment about Nazis will claim that Nazis had nuclear weapons.
I paid Microsoft money when I bought a computer with Windows pre-installed (which I regret now). And Microsoft *makes* you pay to get anything from them. I didn't pay for Debian when I downloaded it and it never makes me pay in any way - all contributions are voluntary. That makes a huge difference (go figure).
BTW, thanks for contributing to FOSS (whatever it was). Most people on slashdot haven't contributed anything and those are the ones I'm talking about. And no, a small monetary contribution doesn't give you the authority to demand like you're their boss.
You people (especially the original poster) talk as if Debian owes you something (a release). Tell me, how much have each of you contributed to the debian project, economically or otherwise? Debian are doing its users (and users of its derivatives, like Ubuntu) a *favour* by releasing distros. None of you (well, except those who have contributed) have any authority to bash Debian for anything.
However, [Intel's Australian technical manager] ducked questions regarding technical details of how embedded DRM would work saying it was not in the interests of his company to spell out how the technology [works] in the interests of security.
So, it's not like they are providing a general DRM enforcing capability that any copyright holder can use. Only those who are in league with Intel can use this. So they are clearly stating that this is solely a backdoor for the recording/movie companies and the "IP" companies. That's dandy.
This is what I mean when I say slashdot readers are non-technically oriented idiots. (Parent is not the only such post which says it didn't understand the summary)
Whenever I hear the phrase "Linux on desktop", the phrase sounds like "Linux for idiots/lazy people" -- people who are too fucking lazy and ignorant to actually *learn* using a computer. What, ignorance is accepteable now? And is this how we rate an OS no -- how easy it is to learn using the OS for people who are not willing to learn using it?
No government owns outer space or any entity in outer space (because of the Outer Space Treaty). And yeah, I agree with you, it's a good thing and other governments must also restrict their citizens from doing this (although it's reasonable that USA is the first since US entities would've been probably the first to put ads in space).
Idiots. I haven't downloaded it, but I do know that it's good quality - as good as or even better than DVDs. Heck, even TFA says that "it may have come from within the industry rather than from someone who videotaped an advance screening." Of course, there are other reasons why you might watch it in a theatre - the sound is better and the screen is bigger. (These might not be very appealing to you if you have some home theatre though.)
Hey look everyone, an American is saying negative things about Cuba -- let's believe him! After all, Americans saying negative things about Cuba is so very non-typical of them. Right?
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What, people are just machines now? We can just decide whether they must be allowed to be born or not by looking at things like how hard it would be raise them? These are human beings, they fucking deserve to live. The attitude of you people towards this matter is disturbing.
What's up with no comment being visible on the page? (probably because of lack of moderation)
It's interesting to see trolls getting so many replies. And being modded up as well.
I bet history books would have had a different angle on it if someone else had dropped atomic bombs on USA.
...Can you give me 200 bucks?
It's interesting to know that there are people who even justify dropping an atomic bomb.
Great. So some engineering student in Nazi Germany got bored and drew some doodles and now there's "proof" that the Nazis were on the brink of producing nuclear weapons and now every blog or slashdot comment about Nazis will claim that Nazis had nuclear weapons.
How much do you want to bet that the people commenting against the article are just pissed off Americans who hate Europe?
I bet you've never written a piece of Open Source software.
I paid Microsoft money when I bought a computer with Windows pre-installed (which I regret now). And Microsoft *makes* you pay to get anything from them. I didn't pay for Debian when I downloaded it and it never makes me pay in any way - all contributions are voluntary. That makes a huge difference (go figure).
BTW, thanks for contributing to FOSS (whatever it was). Most people on slashdot haven't contributed anything and those are the ones I'm talking about. And no, a small monetary contribution doesn't give you the authority to demand like you're their boss.
You lousy ingrate.
You people (especially the original poster) talk as if Debian owes you something (a release). Tell me, how much have each of you contributed to the debian project, economically or otherwise? Debian are doing its users (and users of its derivatives, like Ubuntu) a *favour* by releasing distros. None of you (well, except those who have contributed) have any authority to bash Debian for anything.
Why do you say that? Is HP hardware generally regarded as bad? Why so?
It'd be better if taco edited the story and made it clear that it was a hoax.
However, [Intel's Australian technical manager] ducked questions regarding technical details of how embedded DRM would work saying it was not in the interests of his company to spell out how the technology [works] in the interests of security.
So, it's not like they are providing a general DRM enforcing capability that any copyright holder can use. Only those who are in league with Intel can use this. So they are clearly stating that this is solely a backdoor for the recording/movie companies and the "IP" companies. That's dandy.
This is what I mean when I say slashdot readers are non-technically oriented idiots. (Parent is not the only such post which says it didn't understand the summary)
Whenever I hear the phrase "Linux on desktop", the phrase sounds like "Linux for idiots/lazy people" -- people who are too fucking lazy and ignorant to actually *learn* using a computer. What, ignorance is accepteable now? And is this how we rate an OS no -- how easy it is to learn using the OS for people who are not willing to learn using it?
How's parent redundant? This point is almost never stated on slashdot.
That's a bold statement you're making.
No government owns outer space or any entity in outer space (because of the Outer Space Treaty). And yeah, I agree with you, it's a good thing and other governments must also restrict their citizens from doing this (although it's reasonable that USA is the first since US entities would've been probably the first to put ads in space).
The law restricts Americans from doing it. Anyone else can do it.
I thought slashdot was Google's personalised homepage.
Idiots. I haven't downloaded it, but I do know that it's good quality - as good as or even better than DVDs. Heck, even TFA says that "it may have come from within the industry rather than from someone who videotaped an advance screening." Of course, there are other reasons why you might watch it in a theatre - the sound is better and the screen is bigger. (These might not be very appealing to you if you have some home theatre though.)
And that's a good thing.
Hey look everyone, an American is saying negative things about Cuba -- let's believe him! After all, Americans saying negative things about Cuba is so very non-typical of them. Right?