I pay taxes, and I support legislation to use those taxes to improve the economy for everyone. Does that make me a wonderful human being? No, but we weren't comparing me to wonderful, we were comparing me to you.
The iphone offers exactly the level of security the user requests. Iphone users can choose between just swiping, a PIN or a pass-phrase. A pass-phrase can be of arbitrary length, include numbers letters and punctuation. A PIN is a 4 digit number. I had just swipe until my company started requiring security (government without clearance, everything I send or receive in email is legally a public record anyway). I put a real password at first, then I switched to a one-handed 4-digit pin once I realized that saved me pushing enter at the end!
I suspect his point was that anything that does not run in $WEB_BROWSER is, by definition, not a web-app. Perhaps calling your proprietary 3rd party app a web-app helps sales, but it's still a lie. OTOH, even Ubuntu has LTS, because no corporation should ever buy into software with a lifespan of less than 18 months, ever.
He's not wrong about the infection of course - you have no way of determining whether an infection has overwritten basic driver files such that it is literally impossible for your OS to see it, let alone remove it. A clean boot CD will find it, if it's a known infection. Generally I just clean with antimalware and antivirus software and if the computer seems to be running at full speed with no obvious tells call it good enough -- but if you actually care about your data, it is not.
And AVG is OK home use, have you tried it? It installs for free, it auto-updates fine and it keeps most crap from infecting a machine. It's a couple years beyond its peak now, but for people who don't even reinstall after pwnage, it's surely good enough.
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I had a friend on the waiting list for a kidney for many years so I certainly sympathize with your plight, but you misread the GP. Not a more immediate concern, but more immediate results. It will be years before the FDA allows you to implant a synthetic kidney, possibly decades. Before that, we need to produce a fully functional kidney, which is years to decades out as well. In the meantime, we can start producing fois gras next month, and get it approved for human consumption within a couple years (or days if we label it "herbal supplement"), money from which can go towards the synthetic kidney for transplants research. Solving tiny problems is the easiest way to eventually solve insurmountably large problems.
I agree that my circumcision is no big deal and I don't particularly care if other people do it or not. That said, the few cases of serious infection or nerve damage made me think twice before genitally altering my own children unnecessarily. Now, if that was genetically altering, I'd be intrigued... There also the fact that circumcised men everywhere hate condom use, while uncircumcised do not, which seems to confirm the "loss of sensitivity" claim. So much for the pro-circ groups claiming it magically prevents AIDS - condoms do that for real. And Jewish circumcision involves far less actual cutting than American circumcision, so I'd go with that first, if I was going to put in the effort. But it's like piercing your baby girl's ears - why bother?
Interesting that in your view knowing what the government is doing, and complete anarchy are one and the same. This of course is only true if everything the government is doing is utterly evil and without any redemptive value -- an assumption I have to reject in order to go on sleeping at night.
We sympathize that the government is more afraid of you reading wikileaks than it is of terrorists reading the same material, and for obvious reasons. Unfortunate that for you access to the truth is less important than your job, but perfectly understandable.
But it's not whether you can afford a slashdot subscription that is suspect, it's whether or not anyone would decide to stop subscribing based on the recent increase in accuracy in slashdot articles.
Perhaps you should instead consider getting URL tooltip for firefox, so that you won't click links to facts that you are not allowed to know?
Yes, marriage predates Christianity. Does it predate religion?
Given that swans marry for life, and gay swans marry other gay swans, I'm gonna go with, "yes."
I realize lots of religions try to pretend that "civil union" is different than marriage but it's not. Adding new terms to language to describe the same thing only adds confusion. Please stop.
You're implicit assumption that "legal" and ethical" and "moral" always overlap, is unwise.
I there's nothing inherently immoral in downloading music or videos, unless it's porn, naturally.
I find nothing unethical in downloading music or videos that I have payed for, whether it be in another media or what have you.
Yet copyright infringement laws extend even to downloading or media shifting things I have purchased previously, and things that should have dropped in public domain in the 1970!
Also, your sig is in a different tense than the song, is that deliberate?
Allowing the Berne Convention to overide the 8th amendment of the constitution of the USA is precisely the evil we are concerned with. Foreign treaties must not countermand citizen rights.
There's no guarantee there'd be more open code using the GPL, there'd possibly be one less proprietary competitor...
For some people, that's a good thing(TM).
But really, this whole argument is irrelevant. We have Beef TACO, the hypothetical open-source version that might never have existed. No need to worry about proprietary bloatware.
They based their proprietary version off the work of people they did not pay who had released it into the wild. Under the GPL, they would owe the community something. As it stands, they owe nothing.
Those who believe that the original copyrighted work had some value, believe the folks who took the work and modified it ought to owe something.
Why not both? I bought my second-hand 1st gen iphone last year because I knew I could upgrade to iphone OS 2 and software jailbreak+unlock it. If could not jailbreak it, or had to hack the hardware, I wouldn't have bought it. Now it's running iphone OS 3.0, and it's stable as-is: no more upgrades until I get some benefit from them. Sounds like I'm not getting iOS 4 anyway, which is probably just as well since even 3 is a little sluggish compared with 2.2 (installed when I bought it).
You aren't entitled to sell someone else's creation, ever, at all
If I print and sell copies of "Alice in wonderland," for a decent profit, I have made the world a better place by increasing access to a good book. Your myopic theory that I have made the world worse by stealing from Lewis Caroll is, in technical terms, Bullshit.
If Mr. Caroll feels that he needs more money, then he can damn well write another book. I have to work for a living, so should he.
I think you miss the bigger point, which is that no-one cares about efficiency, they care about costs.
A person traveling 100Km in an SUV burning 13L/100Km would save $10 by converting to a 8L/100Km car, while if I converted from my 8L/100Km car to a motorbike at 4L/100Km, I would also save $10. I'd then be killed by a logging truck, so that's the point of diminishing returns for me.
In fact, it's precisely because it's not as impressive a jump in efficiency that the SUVs are low-hanging fruit in terms of saving gas. It's not hard to do better than 10MPG, but it's damned hard to get better than 60MPG. Improve all the 10MPG vehicles first!
But I find people tend to understand, "a typical vehicle goes 300 miles on a tank of gas. A full tank for me costs $25, and for you it costs $50. This is because I care about my budget, while you are compensating for a small penis."
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I pay taxes, and I support legislation to use those taxes to improve the economy for everyone. Does that make me a wonderful human being? No, but we weren't comparing me to wonderful, we were comparing me to you.
The iphone offers exactly the level of security the user requests.
Iphone users can choose between just swiping, a PIN or a pass-phrase. A pass-phrase can be of arbitrary length, include numbers letters and punctuation. A PIN is a 4 digit number.
I had just swipe until my company started requiring security (government without clearance, everything I send or receive in email is legally a public record anyway). I put a real password at first, then I switched to a one-handed 4-digit pin once I realized that saved me pushing enter at the end!
I suspect his point was that anything that does not run in $WEB_BROWSER is, by definition, not a web-app. Perhaps calling your proprietary 3rd party app a web-app helps sales, but it's still a lie. OTOH, even Ubuntu has LTS, because no corporation should ever buy into software with a lifespan of less than 18 months, ever.
He's not wrong about the infection of course - you have no way of determining whether an infection has overwritten basic driver files such that it is literally impossible for your OS to see it, let alone remove it. A clean boot CD will find it, if it's a known infection. Generally I just clean with antimalware and antivirus software and if the computer seems to be running at full speed with no obvious tells call it good enough -- but if you actually care about your data, it is not.
And AVG is OK home use, have you tried it? It installs for free, it auto-updates fine and it keeps most crap from infecting a machine. It's a couple years beyond its peak now, but for people who don't even reinstall after pwnage, it's surely good enough.
I had a friend on the waiting list for a kidney for many years so I certainly sympathize with your plight, but you misread the GP. Not a more immediate concern, but more immediate results. It will be years before the FDA allows you to implant a synthetic kidney, possibly decades. Before that, we need to produce a fully functional kidney, which is years to decades out as well. In the meantime, we can start producing fois gras next month, and get it approved for human consumption within a couple years (or days if we label it "herbal supplement"), money from which can go towards the synthetic kidney for transplants research. Solving tiny problems is the easiest way to eventually solve insurmountably large problems.
I agree that my circumcision is no big deal and I don't particularly care if other people do it or not. That said, the few cases of serious infection or nerve damage made me think twice before genitally altering my own children unnecessarily. Now, if that was genetically altering, I'd be intrigued...
There also the fact that circumcised men everywhere hate condom use, while uncircumcised do not, which seems to confirm the "loss of sensitivity" claim. So much for the pro-circ groups claiming it magically prevents AIDS - condoms do that for real.
And Jewish circumcision involves far less actual cutting than American circumcision, so I'd go with that first, if I was going to put in the effort. But it's like piercing your baby girl's ears - why bother?
Interesting that in your view knowing what the government is doing, and complete anarchy are one and the same. This of course is only true if everything the government is doing is utterly evil and without any redemptive value -- an assumption I have to reject in order to go on sleeping at night.
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We sympathize that the government is more afraid of you reading wikileaks than it is of terrorists reading the same material, and for obvious reasons. Unfortunate that for you access to the truth is less important than your job, but perfectly understandable.
But it's not whether you can afford a slashdot subscription that is suspect, it's whether or not anyone would decide to stop subscribing based on the recent increase in accuracy in slashdot articles.
Perhaps you should instead consider getting URL tooltip for firefox, so that you won't click links to facts that you are not allowed to know?
(keeps the kids from stumbling into it, and acts as a firewall for malware coming through the browser).
Browsing porn in your VM, eh?
Duh.
No Windows 7 drivers at all. There are XP/Vista drivers for 32-bit that may work, but there are no drivers for 64-bit.
This should be marked "funny".
Those tablets use ARM processors. You cannot run Windows 7, Vista OR XP on them. No 64-bit versions either.
He's referring to a data cable driver to talk to it, I'd guess.
Given that swans marry for life, and gay swans marry other gay swans, I'm gonna go with, "yes."
I realize lots of religions try to pretend that "civil union" is different than marriage but it's not. Adding new terms to language to describe the same thing only adds confusion. Please stop.
You're implicit assumption that "legal" and ethical" and "moral" always overlap, is unwise.
I there's nothing inherently immoral in downloading music or videos, unless it's porn, naturally.
I find nothing unethical in downloading music or videos that I have payed for, whether it be in another media or what have you.
Yet copyright infringement laws extend even to downloading or media shifting things I have purchased previously, and things that should have dropped in public domain in the 1970!
Also, your sig is in a different tense than the song, is that deliberate?
Football. There are no football teams in America. There are lots of American Rugby teams
FTFY
Allowing the Berne Convention to overide the 8th amendment of the constitution of the USA is precisely the evil we are concerned with.
Foreign treaties must not countermand citizen rights.
And companies that earn that sort of reputation end up getting lower quality candidates applying for positions.
How's that working on Google?
There's no guarantee there'd be more open code using the GPL, there'd possibly be one less proprietary competitor...
For some people, that's a good thing(TM).
But really, this whole argument is irrelevant. We have Beef TACO, the hypothetical open-source version that might never have existed. No need to worry about proprietary bloatware.
They based their proprietary version off the work of people they did not pay who had released it into the wild. Under the GPL, they would owe the community something. As it stands, they owe nothing.
Those who believe that the original copyrighted work had some value, believe the folks who took the work and modified it ought to owe something.
I call that other game "American Rugby," since that's what it is.
Would you consider those features or mods?
Why not both?
I bought my second-hand 1st gen iphone last year because I knew I could upgrade to iphone OS 2 and software jailbreak+unlock it. If could not jailbreak it, or had to hack the hardware, I wouldn't have bought it. Now it's running iphone OS 3.0, and it's stable as-is: no more upgrades until I get some benefit from them. Sounds like I'm not getting iOS 4 anyway, which is probably just as well since even 3 is a little sluggish compared with 2.2 (installed when I bought it).
You do realize that Alice, written in 1865, finally came out of copyright in 1964.
Mr. Carrol's heirs have done nothing to earn any royalties on a book written some 150 years ago, and none of my concern whether they live or die.
That's capitalism, not this everything-belongs-to-the-dead hippy nonsense you're proposing.
And my district, gives away all those items in a nice backpack to families that cannot afford them.
Kind of like this district, with the in-school loner laptops and financial assistance program.
You aren't entitled to sell someone else's creation, ever, at all
If I print and sell copies of "Alice in wonderland," for a decent profit, I have made the world a better place by increasing access to a good book. Your myopic theory that I have made the world worse by stealing from Lewis Caroll is, in technical terms, Bullshit.
If Mr. Caroll feels that he needs more money, then he can damn well write another book. I have to work for a living, so should he.
You do realize that AC isn't his name, so "caught" is a bit off.
I suspect it's two people, one trolling and posting to say he's trolling.
DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS.
I think you miss the bigger point, which is that no-one cares about efficiency, they care about costs.
A person traveling 100Km in an SUV burning 13L/100Km would save $10 by converting to a 8L/100Km car, while if I converted from my 8L/100Km car to a motorbike at 4L/100Km, I would also save $10. I'd then be killed by a logging truck, so that's the point of diminishing returns for me.
In fact, it's precisely because it's not as impressive a jump in efficiency that the SUVs are low-hanging fruit in terms of saving gas. It's not hard to do better than 10MPG, but it's damned hard to get better than 60MPG. Improve all the 10MPG vehicles first!
But I find people tend to understand, "a typical vehicle goes 300 miles on a tank of gas. A full tank for me costs $25, and for you it costs $50. This is because I care about my budget, while you are compensating for a small penis."