Yes, but there are applications that have to be run as an administrator because enforcement of user privileges didn't start until 20 years after Windows entered the market and 12 years after it became an operating system.
Yeah, start inspecting the packaging facilities of all the places from which you buy food yourself. It'll be way cheaper than everyone in the country paying for the FDA and USDA.
If you hate DRM as much as I do, and you're not just too cheap to pay money for anything, you ought to consider using one of several DRM-free music and movie download sites. Maybe if the industry saw some successful players in that market, they would follow the money.
Or maybe they're just dinosaurs after the meteorite that is the internet hit...
Yeah, geez, maybe they'd have to write good scripts or make interesting pieces of art to get people to see movies instead of filling them with explosions and Julia Roberts.
Now there's an interesting idea for a movie, exploding Julia Roberts. I'd pay $9 for that.
You've obviously never done this. I upgraded the hard drive and RAM as soon as I bought my MacBook, and it took less than five minutes. You have to:
1. Remove the battery, turning a lock with a coin (I guess you can't do this if you spent your last cent on your new laptop) 2. Unscrew three little screws (they stay attached to the metal piece that holds in the RAM and hard drive) and remove L-shaped cover 3. Pull two levers to release memory 4. Insert new memory 5. pull tab to remove hard drive 6. Remove caddy and place on new hard drive 7. Replace hard drive 8. Replace metal piece 9. Replace battery
It used to be a pain in the dick, as I learned when I tried to salvage parts from a dead iBook, and then I didn't even care if I broke something. The new notebooks are impeccably designed, though.
The Linux kernel doesn't really do anything without userland tools. The GNU project had already created all those tools and had no working kernel. If they had not existed, it would have been difficult to create a Linux-based operating system so quickly after the release of the kernel. I suppose they could have ported a BSD userland, but the point is they didn't. Most of the operating systems referred to as Linux have GNU packages as the majority of the system. He started the GNU project because there did not exist a free operating system. He wants the operating systems that use the GNU system with a linux kernel to be referred to in a way that credits the developers.
He is not challenging their right to do anything, or else he probably would have sued Red Hat years ago. He doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to do, and he doesn't want to endorse anyone who doesn't give credit to the work of his project.
You don't restrict the expression of information naturally; that's the point. Copyrights and patents etc. are artificial rights, created by the government. Just because certain rights and privileges are transferable doesn't make them property.
Patents and copyrights and trademarks should be talked about together because it is important to integrate the granted rights into a coherent whole. They should not be talked about together as "intellectual property" because they are different; they have different durations for different reasons.
I don't know much about encryption, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what does this mean apropos the security of other encryption techniques, like RSA or SSL/TLS? If it's so easy to crack AACS, what about the others?
You're free to call it BonerOS if you want, but he doesn't have to come speak at your BonerOS User Group if he doesn't want to. He wants credit for developing most of the GNU operating system.
He won't give interviews to people who use the term "intellectual property" because it has little meaning, and the meaning it seems to have is deceptive. Information is not property because your possession of information does not diminish my possession, and the categories of copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indicators, and industrial designs have very little in common, except restricting the expression of certain pieces of information artificially.
Do you think there are many human interface professionals working on ethernet drivers for windows? It's a pretty big difference between the kernel and the desktop.
And, if you actually take the fucking time to read what he wrote, HE STATED THAT THE TWO MAJOR DESKTOP PROJECTS EMPLOY SEVERAL PROFESSIONAL HUMAN INTERFACE EXPERTS. Dick.
Why is DVD ripping against the law? I thought the MPAA agreed that it was fair use, and if you have a legitimate CSS2 license (sold with commercial DVD player software), you're not circumventing anything.
TiVo distributes Linux every time they sell a device, and they distribute source code. The TiVo hardware has some kind of device that checks for the original unmodified TiVo software, so that their Linux device cannot accept user-made changes. This does not violate GPL v2.
The reason the FOSS mascots are silly is they were all made by nerds, and they're not trying to sell a product, so you don't have to be able to take it seriously.
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Where do the comments on YouTube fit in to your evolutionary process?
Yes, but there are applications that have to be run as an administrator because enforcement of user privileges didn't start until 20 years after Windows entered the market and 12 years after it became an operating system.
Yeah, start inspecting the packaging facilities of all the places from which you buy food yourself. It'll be way cheaper than everyone in the country paying for the FDA and USDA.
If you hate DRM as much as I do, and you're not just too cheap to pay money for anything, you ought to consider using one of several DRM-free music and movie download sites. Maybe if the industry saw some successful players in that market, they would follow the money.
Or maybe they're just dinosaurs after the meteorite that is the internet hit...
You seem to be confusing "movies" with "art." There is little intersection between the two.
Yeah, geez, maybe they'd have to write good scripts or make interesting pieces of art to get people to see movies instead of filling them with explosions and Julia Roberts.
Now there's an interesting idea for a movie, exploding Julia Roberts. I'd pay $9 for that.
I don't care if it stands for "Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder".
It doesn't. From the LAME website:
LAME is an MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.
Longtime Linux system administrator with supported hardware enjoys Ubuntu Linux!
I downloaded it out of morbid curiosity, and it won't even run.
./navigator-bin: symbol lookup error: ./navigator-bin: undefined symbol: XineramaIsActive
I guess that's what I get for running dwm...
I like how the toolbar in the screenshot is full of links about Opera.
This was in response to an absurdly off-topic reply, not the comment about frivolous lawsuits.
What the fuck does this have to do with anything?
Because they want to up-sell people?
If you're not a gamer, the Intel chip is more than adequate. Plus it is fully supported under Linux with free drivers.
You've obviously never done this. I upgraded the hard drive and RAM as soon as I bought my MacBook, and it took less than five minutes. You have to:
1. Remove the battery, turning a lock with a coin (I guess you can't do this if you spent your last cent on your new laptop)
2. Unscrew three little screws (they stay attached to the metal piece that holds in the RAM and hard drive) and remove L-shaped cover
3. Pull two levers to release memory
4. Insert new memory
5. pull tab to remove hard drive
6. Remove caddy and place on new hard drive
7. Replace hard drive
8. Replace metal piece
9. Replace battery
It used to be a pain in the dick, as I learned when I tried to salvage parts from a dead iBook, and then I didn't even care if I broke something. The new notebooks are impeccably designed, though.
FYI, glibc is under the LGPL.
The Linux kernel doesn't really do anything without userland tools. The GNU project had already created all those tools and had no working kernel. If they had not existed, it would have been difficult to create a Linux-based operating system so quickly after the release of the kernel. I suppose they could have ported a BSD userland, but the point is they didn't. Most of the operating systems referred to as Linux have GNU packages as the majority of the system. He started the GNU project because there did not exist a free operating system. He wants the operating systems that use the GNU system with a linux kernel to be referred to in a way that credits the developers.
He is not challenging their right to do anything, or else he probably would have sued Red Hat years ago. He doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to do, and he doesn't want to endorse anyone who doesn't give credit to the work of his project.
You don't restrict the expression of information naturally; that's the point. Copyrights and patents etc. are artificial rights, created by the government. Just because certain rights and privileges are transferable doesn't make them property.
Patents and copyrights and trademarks should be talked about together because it is important to integrate the granted rights into a coherent whole. They should not be talked about together as "intellectual property" because they are different; they have different durations for different reasons.
I don't know much about encryption, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but what does this mean apropos the security of other encryption techniques, like RSA or SSL/TLS? If it's so easy to crack AACS, what about the others?
You're free to call it BonerOS if you want, but he doesn't have to come speak at your BonerOS User Group if he doesn't want to. He wants credit for developing most of the GNU operating system.
He won't give interviews to people who use the term "intellectual property" because it has little meaning, and the meaning it seems to have is deceptive. Information is not property because your possession of information does not diminish my possession, and the categories of copyright, patents, trademarks, geographical indicators, and industrial designs have very little in common, except restricting the expression of certain pieces of information artificially.
His business probably needs hundreds of DVD rips and 30000 mp3s.
Do you think there are many human interface professionals working on ethernet drivers for windows? It's a pretty big difference between the kernel and the desktop.
And, if you actually take the fucking time to read what he wrote, HE STATED THAT THE TWO MAJOR DESKTOP PROJECTS EMPLOY SEVERAL PROFESSIONAL HUMAN INTERFACE EXPERTS. Dick.
Why is DVD ripping against the law? I thought the MPAA agreed that it was fair use, and if you have a legitimate CSS2 license (sold with commercial DVD player software), you're not circumventing anything.
DID YOU HEAR
one time somebody said ballmer threw a chair one time
lol
TiVo distributes Linux every time they sell a device, and they distribute source code. The TiVo hardware has some kind of device that checks for the original unmodified TiVo software, so that their Linux device cannot accept user-made changes. This does not violate GPL v2.
The reason the FOSS mascots are silly is they were all made by nerds, and they're not trying to sell a product, so you don't have to be able to take it seriously.
This guy may be right.
The link is a "HEY EVERYBODY, I'M LOOKING AT PORNO!" distended anus, window-spawning monster.