Which, for at least Christian Conservatives go directly against their Jesus's direct order to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Not in Conservative Christian Logic. "If I were a homosexual/atheist/non-Christian I'd want someone to pressure me and make things difficult so that I would have no choice but to accept Jesus and be saved from the fires of hell."
There is a quote in the Qur'an that says "fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them" which sound bad when taken out of context, but that is directed specifically against the Meccan Pagans of 1500 years ago (that were at war against Mohammad at the time of writing).
Likewise there are many questionable passages in the Bible. For example: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death"
These are still allowed because they are important historical documents that reflect the views of the time. Making similar statements today would be considered hate speech in most countries.
It actually says "fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them" in several places, one of which the apologists always bring out because it is qualified by the context. In the other places it is a general command.
It amazes me that books like these are censored while the Qur'an and Hadith, which tell Muslims to subdue or kill non-Muslims to enter paradise, is allowed.
How will that compete with an ad-supported GPS unit that is installed to your car completely free of charge?
It might work in areas with low congestion, but in the UK a diversion via Asda or Starbucks could easily add an hour to a trip by taking you off a bypass and into the centre at peak times. For most people paying £100 to have an optimal route would be mony well worth spending
Although the telephone has a rotary dial for dialing numbers, most calculators and keyboards have button pads. Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory, as well as ability to use commas. Do any slashdoters use a scientific calculator with a rotary dial on it? I've already scraped and resoldered my Casio fx-9000 calculator to have a rotor, and plugged a USB rotor phone into Gentoo, but if there exists any calculators like this already on the market, I'd buy three.
I'm looking for a car with a wheel to turn to put on the breaks and a string pull horn. Switching from a steam locomotive to an Audi destroys muscle- and spatial- memory
This is something that has bugged me for years: why do people still use calculators? Take an interpreter for your scripting language of choice or take emacs or whatever and you can do anything a calculator does and even more. For example you will never have to type all those number columns because you can just copy and paste them or read them from files.
There are still occasions when I use a real calculatot. Like going to the hardware store to buy tiles and working out how many of each size I would need and what it will cost. Yes I could take a computer but a calculator in my jeans pocket is much more practical. Plus if I drop it when stacking the tiles in the car its not much of a loss compared to a computer
I really feel sorry for kids today. It wasn't that long ago that I went to college. And tuition has almost tripled at my old school since then (while incomes have barely budged).
I echo the feeling but in my case the fees have increased by an infinite multiple. From zero to £9,000 (US $14,000) per year. Really, I don't think that degree/non-degree salary differentials make it worth while in the UK.
If they modified the standard so that the system would give a confirmation popup saying
"You are about to load an unsigned operating system, do you want to do so? To continue may compromise the security of your system.
This way people could load Linux if they wanted but the "joe average" would know something is wrong if he was compromised by a boot virus. This would actually be more sensible than preventing other systems, otherwise they will have literally thousands of hackers trying to discover the boot signing keys and publish them online like they did for blue-ray.
That's great, but how is that Microsoft's problem? Seriously, if people want Linux to boot on this new generation of motherboard/firmware, then people need to do the work to make it happen. It's not Microsoft's job. Find an OEM to help and get to work.
That's a bit like saying that if someone campaigns for a system that would only allow you to use one bank's credit card in all shops the lock in would be nothing to do with them but the shops problem.
If they modified the standard so that the system would give a confirmation popup saying
"You are about to load an unsigned operating system, do you want to do so? To continue may compromise the security of your system.
This way people could load Linux if they wanted but the "joe average" would know something is wrong if he was compromised by a boot virus. This would actually be more sensible than preventing other systems, otherwise they will have literally thousands of hackers trying to discover the boot signing keys and publish them online like they did for blue-ray.
Considering the reaction here; the OEMs that would do this would get so much bad PR, that a significant number of customers would flee to some other manufacturer.
The reaction from slashdotters who want to run Linux might not be representative of their market.
We're talking Microsoft here, you might as well hope that a leprechaun will bring you a pot of gold so that you can retire in never-never land and live happily ever after.
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Leave science to the white-boys and get back in your tree
Who says he's not? Ignorant fool.
Who says he's not what? In a tree?
Really though...who buys a vendor PC then slaps Linux on it? We build our PC's..
I did just that with my laptop
Doesn't this only affect OEM stuff, in which case, who cares.
WTF are you talking about? It will affect any PC that you want to load another OS on.
Really? Show me the library that did this. (bet you can't)
fair cop - I just realised that these are only books that people companied about.
This isn't the message board you are looking for.
Shit. I was just about to post a really good comment too.
You heard that on Fox news, right?
No, I read the Qur'an. Something that a lot of people who say "it doesn't say that" haven't
Meego is dead, Webos is dead ...and I don't feel very well.
Does anyone else find it a tad ironic that 1984 is among the books "censored"? Maybe they should remove Fahrenheit 451 as well. :)
I would go with enforcing conversion of the title to "Celsius 233". I am the SI unit Nazi
Which, for at least Christian Conservatives go directly against their Jesus's direct order to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
Not in Conservative Christian Logic. "If I were a homosexual/atheist/non-Christian I'd want someone to pressure me and make things difficult so that I would have no choice but to accept Jesus and be saved from the fires of hell."
There is a quote in the Qur'an that says "fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them" which sound bad when taken out of context, but that is directed specifically against the Meccan Pagans of 1500 years ago (that were at war against Mohammad at the time of writing).
Likewise there are many questionable passages in the Bible. For example: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death"
These are still allowed because they are important historical documents that reflect the views of the time. Making similar statements today would be considered hate speech in most countries.
It actually says "fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them" in several places, one of which the apologists always bring out because it is qualified by the context. In the other places it is a general command.
It amazes me that books like these are censored while the Qur'an and Hadith, which tell Muslims to subdue or kill non-Muslims to enter paradise, is allowed.
...just as every single Hudson user is switching to Jenkins
Really? Both of them!
Maybe they ARE listening, and their response is "Yeah? Well fuck you right back."
The difference is that Larry is waving wads of banknotes at you from the back of his yatch at the same time.
It might work in areas with low congestion, but in the UK a diversion via Asda or Starbucks could easily add an hour to a trip by taking you off a bypass and into the centre at peak times. For most people paying £100 to have an optimal route would be mony well worth spending
Although the telephone has a rotary dial for dialing numbers, most calculators and keyboards have button pads. Switching between the two destroys muscle- and spatial- memory, as well as ability to use commas. Do any slashdoters use a scientific calculator with a rotary dial on it? I've already scraped and resoldered my Casio fx-9000 calculator to have a rotor, and plugged a USB rotor phone into Gentoo, but if there exists any calculators like this already on the market, I'd buy three.
I'm looking for a car with a wheel to turn to put on the breaks and a string pull horn. Switching from a steam locomotive to an Audi destroys muscle- and spatial- memory
This is something that has bugged me for years: why do people still use calculators? Take an interpreter for your scripting language of choice or take emacs or whatever and you can do anything a calculator does and even more. For example you will never have to type all those number columns because you can just copy and paste them or read them from files.
There are still occasions when I use a real calculatot. Like going to the hardware store to buy tiles and working out how many of each size I would need and what it will cost. Yes I could take a computer but a calculator in my jeans pocket is much more practical. Plus if I drop it when stacking the tiles in the car its not much of a loss compared to a computer
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Intensive?
And who cares about whom?
Watch out the MPAA might sue you for having dreams about their precious content.
They will insist that you either pay lifetime royalties or whipe your mind clean.
I really feel sorry for kids today. It wasn't that long ago that I went to college. And tuition has almost tripled at my old school since then (while incomes have barely budged).
I echo the feeling but in my case the fees have increased by an infinite multiple. From zero to £9,000 (US $14,000) per year. Really, I don't think that degree/non-degree salary differentials make it worth while in the UK.
If they modified the standard so that the system would give a confirmation popup saying
This way people could load Linux if they wanted but the "joe average" would know something is wrong if he was compromised by a boot virus. This would actually be more sensible than preventing other systems, otherwise they will have literally thousands of hackers trying to discover the boot signing keys and publish them online like they did for blue-ray.
That's great, but how is that Microsoft's problem? Seriously, if people want Linux to boot on this new generation of motherboard/firmware, then people need to do the work to make it happen. It's not Microsoft's job. Find an OEM to help and get to work.
That's a bit like saying that if someone campaigns for a system that would only allow you to use one bank's credit card in all shops the lock in would be nothing to do with them but the shops problem.
This way people could load Linux if they wanted but the "joe average" would know something is wrong if he was compromised by a boot virus. This would actually be more sensible than preventing other systems, otherwise they will have literally thousands of hackers trying to discover the boot signing keys and publish them online like they did for blue-ray.
Considering the reaction here; the OEMs that would do this would get so much bad PR, that a significant number of customers would flee to some other manufacturer.
The reaction from slashdotters who want to run Linux might not be representative of their market.
Let's hope that this isn't an empty promise
We're talking Microsoft here, you might as well hope that a leprechaun will bring you a pot of gold so that you can retire in never-never land and live happily ever after.
Summary:
If the vendors don't provide a way to boot other systems its not our fault!
it's not something that can be done half-assed.
The truth is its not something that can be done lard-assed. They can't find an American that will fit in a space-suit any more.