In what way is pirating an app necessary to living your life?
What? You're on slashdot, and don't understand that software can become necessary, and that some people might not be able to afford it? Here's a tip: you're in the information age, and this need is exactly why a lot of us donate software to the free software community.
I'd probably be an alcoholic in the slum I grew up in, if not dead, if it wasn't for free software (and yes, pirated software) giving me opportunities I never had otherwise. There's a reason why people on sites like TPB rally together when attacked. Yes, software is necessary in modern life. Yes, sometimes pirating it is necessary too. Although thankfully a lot less lately, thanks to Open Source.
Really, sites like TPB are the modern equivalent of libraries that lend books to people would couldn't afford to buy them. They should be praised and donated to, not targetted. And that's why people DO donate to them.
Sun should have donated this name to the community years ago. If not, the community shouldn't have accepted that name. They'd have been better off raising the money to trademark their own name. Hope this isn't going to happen again with LibreOffice
Yet it is not at all uncommon for even large and well known businesses to re-brand and change the name of either the business or the product.
It is when that business only represents a small portion of the product's ownership.
Norwich Union -> Aviva, Charmin -> Cushelle
Funny, I still know Norwich Union by it's old name, and thought Aviva was a new, tiny company. Cushelle, I've never even heard of. Then again, I don't watch ads.
I disagree. Like it or not, Oracle is part of the OSS community.
There are thieves in your area. Are they part of your community? Only in a very broad sense of community. Generally, community refers to a group of people with shared ideals, cooperating. Submitting patches to FOSS is one thing. Submitting patches to FOSS for the good of the community, without an ulterior motive, or at least with your vision of how it might be useful sharing a large subset with others, is another thing.
a) make it a lot easier to compete with the likes of youtube. b) be very easy to take advantage of, once integrated into CMS's. c) make it a lot harder to argue that P2P is only something that pirates use, rather than simply modern technology.
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Yeah, that whole GNU Compiler Collection thing is just a waste of time. Can't compile a binary out of anything. Thankfully Microsoft were forced to give away a free version of Visual C++ for some reason, having killed all the commercial competition. Also, Intel have released a compiler for linux, which you can actually run in a shell that just happens to be pre-compiled somehow. So, thankfully there are alternatives to GCC.
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My thoughts exactly. Autotools is/are abominations.
Packt are way too fond of publishing any old crap just to get an early book out on a niche topic. They have been known (by me) to randomly spam people who blog on their books' topics, asking them to review the book. Once they get you interested in the free book they start hounding you for a review on your blog. I wouldn't have minded TOO much if their books had anything worthwhile to write about.
I tend to agree. I cut my own hair (it's quicker, easier, and more reliable, and I get better at it, unlike my last barber). However, one of the few nice things I remember about going somewhere to get a haircut was the element of service. Sometimes it's just nice to have another person groom you and look after you. I guess that's why some people still go to barbers for a proper shave.
Although I suppose they've had machines for massage for a while, but people still use a real masseur/masseuse.
Can you show us a page where any changes, even spelling fixes or simple corrections, are reverted?
Can you show me where the goal of wikipedia is documented as being so low that only spelling fixes and simple corrections are needed? That sounds more like recaptcha than a wiki.
I suspect that, if the regular edits weren't misclassified by the algorithms then:
a) the reference classification was incorrect itself b) they were much too convenient samples, compared to the kind of complex changes needed to improve pages in real life.
Many sites have been shut down, despite claiming to do only what google does. A search index linking to leaked documents, for instance, would probably be under some pressure lately, especially if they couldn't identify the data sources, but only the index that people were finding them through. Hiding the search engine server would help protect them.
they claim to have "forensic computer evidence" when they do not (sorry, a date and time from a server log, without the hard disk in the server being removed to preserve the "evidence", and a proper chain of custody, is not "forensic evidence")
Agreed, but a large part of the server contents could probably be proven legitimate by third parties who received the corresponding emails etc. If someone seizes their server after this and the seized contents don't match what was proven in the posted content, or if there are obvious gaps where the posted but unproven content was expected to be, then they'd have a very hard time explaining it. It's not like they can just burn the drives now, and make this all go away.
The population on the mainland collapsed...they [moved] the remaining birds to Resolution Island...stoats..wiped out the entire population...So they [moved them] to Little Barrier Island... Feral cats...the birds were never seen again. So they tried Kapiti island. The birds...died... At several times, the birds were believed to be extinct or functionally extinct.
Then, in 1977, they found a small, precarious population of kakapo on Steward Island.
Seems to me the problem isn't how to keep them alive, but how to keep them dead;)
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What? You're on slashdot, and don't understand that software can become necessary, and that some people might not be able to afford it? Here's a tip: you're in the information age, and this need is exactly why a lot of us donate software to the free software community.
I'd probably be an alcoholic in the slum I grew up in, if not dead, if it wasn't for free software (and yes, pirated software) giving me opportunities I never had otherwise. There's a reason why people on sites like TPB rally together when attacked. Yes, software is necessary in modern life. Yes, sometimes pirating it is necessary too. Although thankfully a lot less lately, thanks to Open Source.
Really, sites like TPB are the modern equivalent of libraries that lend books to people would couldn't afford to buy them. They should be praised and donated to, not targetted. And that's why people DO donate to them.
You're out of date. Not my problem.
Sun should have donated this name to the community years ago. If not, the community shouldn't have accepted that name. They'd have been better off raising the money to trademark their own name. Hope this isn't going to happen again with LibreOffice
Do you ignore the intended meaning and expand other common expressions, like RADAR, too?
It is when that business only represents a small portion of the product's ownership.
Funny, I still know Norwich Union by it's old name, and thought Aviva was a new, tiny company. Cushelle, I've never even heard of. Then again, I don't watch ads.
There are thieves in your area. Are they part of your community? Only in a very broad sense of community. Generally, community refers to a group of people with shared ideals, cooperating. Submitting patches to FOSS is one thing. Submitting patches to FOSS for the good of the community, without an ulterior motive, or at least with your vision of how it might be useful sharing a large subset with others, is another thing.
I think "Lightchainsaw Office" sounds catchy.
Lolololol...
This is good news. It'll:
a) make it a lot easier to compete with the likes of youtube.
b) be very easy to take advantage of, once integrated into CMS's.
c) make it a lot harder to argue that P2P is only something that pirates use, rather than simply modern technology.
Yeah, that whole GNU Compiler Collection thing is just a waste of time. Can't compile a binary out of anything. Thankfully Microsoft were forced to give away a free version of Visual C++ for some reason, having killed all the commercial competition. Also, Intel have released a compiler for linux, which you can actually run in a shell that just happens to be pre-compiled somehow. So, thankfully there are alternatives to GCC.
My thoughts exactly. Autotools is/are abominations.
Packt are way too fond of publishing any old crap just to get an early book out on a niche topic. They have been known (by me) to randomly spam people who blog on their books' topics, asking them to review the book. Once they get you interested in the free book they start hounding you for a review on your blog. I wouldn't have minded TOO much if their books had anything worthwhile to write about.
Seriously? The average voter has NO clue about stuff like this. In fact, they'll probably vote FOR it, if someone calls it anti-terrorist.
I tend to agree. I cut my own hair (it's quicker, easier, and more reliable, and I get better at it, unlike my last barber). However, one of the few nice things I remember about going somewhere to get a haircut was the element of service. Sometimes it's just nice to have another person groom you and look after you. I guess that's why some people still go to barbers for a proper shave.
Although I suppose they've had machines for massage for a while, but people still use a real masseur/masseuse.
No, but if there's no one around to stop it, it'll go to town on your genitals.
The first time one of them removes a noble's... I mean, a celebrity's cranium, it's all over for Panasonic.
Can you show me where the goal of wikipedia is documented as being so low that only spelling fixes and simple corrections are needed? That sounds more like recaptcha than a wiki.
I suspect that, if the regular edits weren't misclassified by the algorithms then:
a) the reference classification was incorrect itself
b) they were much too convenient samples, compared to the kind of complex changes needed to improve pages in real life.
"Hey, we just want them fucked up. We don't give a shit about the details."
Many sites have been shut down, despite claiming to do only what google does. A search index linking to leaked documents, for instance, would probably be under some pressure lately, especially if they couldn't identify the data sources, but only the index that people were finding them through. Hiding the search engine server would help protect them.
Excellent :)
Because geeks have a mind of their own?
Agreed, but a large part of the server contents could probably be proven legitimate by third parties who received the corresponding emails etc. If someone seizes their server after this and the seized contents don't match what was proven in the posted content, or if there are obvious gaps where the posted but unproven content was expected to be, then they'd have a very hard time explaining it. It's not like they can just burn the drives now, and make this all go away.
Seems to me the problem isn't how to keep them alive, but how to keep them dead ;)
The deodorants?