I love Information Society. A party of their fans? Cool! Their classic album is 'Hack' (which, yes, is themed about that) but 'Peace and Love, Inc.' also rocks.
The party will now have to wait four more years before they have another shot at entering the Swedish Parliament.
Four years means all the college freshmen and sophomores who supported the current effort will be graduated and out in the real world before the next campaign. That is always a dire concern with this kind of organizing.
You don't hear about, say, Iceland shitting their pants over foreign military developments - because generally Iceland doesn't go out of its way to piss other nations off.
In the past decade Iceland, thorough their reckless financial chicanery, has pissed off pretty much all of Europe.
So when the founding fathers laid their lives on the line by standing up for what they believed in it was patriotism, but when Julian Assange does the same it's poor judgement?
Let's try to keep things in perspective. All Assange did was post some shit on a website.
It's sad that people like you exist, I mean it probably can only happen because society failed you and allowed you to remain ignorant about so many thing. But hey, it's a free world I guess.
The thing that the 'anti-military' shitstains should be worried about is that the people who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home. The truth has a way of not staying obscured when the people who were over there serving are around to speak out. During the past decade a lot of opportunists had the chance to spread lies about what went on, because there weren't many eyewitnesses amongst the people they were preaching their lies at. That cannot last forever. The armchair 'observers' will eventually be known for what they are.
In this case what you are circumventing is access to features of s CPU, not a copyrighted work, like a DVD movie.
I am certain that I have CPU chips made by third-party vendors that carry an Intel copyright notice, printed right on the body of the chip. I believe some of them are even AMD chips. AMD was a licensed second-source of Intel processors back in the 8088 and 80286 era. Intel couldn't sell their chips to certain customers back then without there being second-source vendors of the parts.
So what is copyrighted in those chips that magically makes it different than now?
All I had to do was turn around and reach at the bookshelf behind me:
"But we must warn you: there is a special user on every UNIX system, called the super-user, who can read or modify any file on the system. The special loginm name root carries super-user privledges...."
from page 52, "The UNIX Programming Environment", Brian W. Kernigan & Robert Pike, Prentice Hall, 1984.
Because the Redmond folks are forced (by their marketing types) to remain compatible with the long, long, long, long tail of a whole set of ABIs, regression testing there is incredible in comparison to Linux. Linux doesn't really have that excuse, in fact some bristle at the very idea that there should be any degree of binary compatibility between different versions of anything.
With the BSDs, the whole core toolchain is integrated with the kernel into a unified release. But when your userland is a dogs breakfast of whatever any particular 'distro' packager decides is good... well, it becomes more of a challenge. So there are all kinds of interesting things to ponder about with OSes based on the Linux kernel (there are many.)
Linux just sucks differently from Windows. It isn't purely a matter of degree.
Much the same as the BSDs suck differently from Windows or Linux.
Life is filled with trade-offs. But it's more fun to engage in zealotry than it is to acknowledge that and move on. So we have the usual chest thumping we see here.
Its a bug tracking issue, not a a version control issue.
Indeed, and the 'bug' in this instance appears to be someone on the team who retracted the fix.
The version control system should make it possible to figure out who that was. Especially because, it seems, the version control system was not part of the problem.
Or are the dudes in the bazaar all wearing gray robes? Hopefully kernel development isn't "A maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
Oh shit, here we go again. Sneaking in the guns aren't really bad at all argument when on the subject of DRM
Wow. By marking you as a foe (my 'foe comments' are set for -5 moderation) I can delete an entire off-topic gun-rights sub-thread from this discussion.
People in Theater talk about a concept known as 'aesthetic distance.' Briefly, all visual dramatic presentations are showing the audience an illusion, and the audience cooperates in the process of buying into said illusion. A good theatre production doesn't have to be very 'real' at all on the surface, it just has to convey the illusion well.
When the quality of a production is low enough that they have to maintain a squeaky clean 'as perfect as possible' illusion to satisfy the audience, it's a sign of piss-poor dramatic content.
Put another way: if the audience is craning their necks to 'break' the illusion, to see the man behind the curtain, the artists behind the creation haven't done a very good job.
Some of the best film and television I have watched 'gets through' on an old black-and-white receiver. It wouldn't matter if the Star Wars Holiday Special was filmed in 1080p 3-D.
No, you're just using a crutch (caps lock) to dress up your prose. Here's a tip: when people use 'tricks' to add emphasis, it detracts from the quality of their arguement.
If the chef at your local restaurant had to pay royalties whenever he used a recipe published by a celebrity chef would you have a tastier and more enjoyable meal?
Actually, probably yes. If there was a system in place where royalty payment could be enforced, chefs wouldn't have to keep their recipes secret, and the recipes would get around more, and all restaurants would consistently produce tasier and more enjoyable meals. Many great chefs guard their recipes as trade secrets under the present system. If there was a framework under which they could reap benefit from their recipes being distributed (similar to the copyright or patent system we have for other 'ideas') the recipes would get around more and we'd all eat better.
Sorry to turn your argument on it's head, but you kinda asked for it by not having a clue what you were talking about.
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Hitler was probably just lysdexic.
I love Information Society. A party of their fans? Cool! Their classic album is 'Hack' (which, yes, is themed about that) but 'Peace and Love, Inc.' also rocks.
You know, you're right. It's always those dumb voters' fault when someone doesn't get elected.
No need at all to work on refining the message. Just shout it louder.
The other problem is:
The party will now have to wait four more years before they have another shot at entering the Swedish Parliament.
Four years means all the college freshmen and sophomores who supported the current effort will be graduated and out in the real world before the next campaign. That is always a dire concern with this kind of organizing.
You don't hear about, say, Iceland shitting their pants over foreign military developments - because generally Iceland doesn't go out of its way to piss other nations off.
In the past decade Iceland, thorough their reckless financial chicanery, has pissed off pretty much all of Europe.
So when the founding fathers laid their lives on the line by standing up for what they believed in it was patriotism, but when Julian Assange does the same it's poor judgement?
Let's try to keep things in perspective. All Assange did was post some shit on a website.
It's sad that people like you exist, I mean it probably can only happen because society failed you and allowed you to remain ignorant about so many thing. But hey, it's a free world I guess.
The thing that the 'anti-military' shitstains should be worried about is that the people who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home. The truth has a way of not staying obscured when the people who were over there serving are around to speak out. During the past decade a lot of opportunists had the chance to spread lies about what went on, because there weren't many eyewitnesses amongst the people they were preaching their lies at. That cannot last forever. The armchair 'observers' will eventually be known for what they are.
But this goes even beyond that. War you say? Fucking war YOU started, unilaterally, you mean.
It was a war, with periods of truce, that Saddam Hussein started when he invaded Kuwait.
In this case what you are circumventing is access to features of s CPU, not a copyrighted work, like a DVD movie.
I am certain that I have CPU chips made by third-party vendors that carry an Intel copyright notice, printed right on the body of the chip. I believe some of them are even AMD chips. AMD was a licensed second-source of Intel processors back in the 8088 and 80286 era. Intel couldn't sell their chips to certain customers back then without there being second-source vendors of the parts.
So what is copyrighted in those chips that magically makes it different than now?
May take a week and it may take longer
If it takes longer, doesn't that amount to growing older?
Oh, wait. It wasn't Jim Morrison who sang 'I hope I die before I get old.'
He just up and did it.
It's nice when you can die when you're young and fresh and everybody can then admire you forever after. I guess.
Who the fuck calls that superuser?
All I had to do was turn around and reach at the bookshelf behind me:
"But we must warn you: there is a special user on every UNIX system, called the super-user, who can read or modify any file on the system. The special loginm name root carries super-user privledges...."
from page 52, "The UNIX Programming Environment", Brian W. Kernigan & Robert Pike, Prentice Hall, 1984.
Because the Redmond folks are forced (by their marketing types) to remain compatible with the long, long, long, long tail of a whole set of ABIs, regression testing there is incredible in comparison to Linux. Linux doesn't really have that excuse, in fact some bristle at the very idea that there should be any degree of binary compatibility between different versions of anything.
With the BSDs, the whole core toolchain is integrated with the kernel into a unified release. But when your userland is a dogs breakfast of whatever any particular 'distro' packager decides is good... well, it becomes more of a challenge. So there are all kinds of interesting things to ponder about with OSes based on the Linux kernel (there are many.)
Is this R. H. Morris the dude whose son is Robert Morris?
I suspect so.
When you pull the string on the Barbie doll's neck and let go, doesn't she say 'Regression Testing is Boring!' or something?
Or am I thinking of the string on a stuffed penguin?
In any case, the elves at the bazaar are busy doing cooler stuff.
Protip: We're nerds. Write for your audience.
Slashdot has 'come a long ways' from what it once was. There's even an Apple section now.
And, alas, the way the memory-conscious C programmer would store that single boolean is a char.
What a waste. A char is an array of bits, you know. Or do I just dwell too much in assembler?
Linux just sucks differently from Windows. It isn't purely a matter of degree.
Much the same as the BSDs suck differently from Windows or Linux.
Life is filled with trade-offs. But it's more fun to engage in zealotry than it is to acknowledge that and move on. So we have the usual chest thumping we see here.
Its a bug tracking issue, not a a version control issue.
Indeed, and the 'bug' in this instance appears to be someone on the team who retracted the fix.
The version control system should make it possible to figure out who that was. Especially because, it seems, the version control system was not part of the problem.
Or are the dudes in the bazaar all wearing gray robes? Hopefully kernel development isn't "A maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
So did IE. It used to sell as a retail-box add-on to Windows 95. But that was a long, long time ago.
I need a current loop serial interface. The new-fangled RS-232c thing won't do.
Oh shit, here we go again. Sneaking in the guns aren't really bad at all argument when on the subject of DRM
Wow. By marking you as a foe (my 'foe comments' are set for -5 moderation) I can delete an entire off-topic gun-rights sub-thread from this discussion.
(won't be) see(ing) ya later, fucker.
People in Theater talk about a concept known as 'aesthetic distance.' Briefly, all visual dramatic presentations are showing the audience an illusion, and the audience cooperates in the process of buying into said illusion. A good theatre production doesn't have to be very 'real' at all on the surface, it just has to convey the illusion well.
When the quality of a production is low enough that they have to maintain a squeaky clean 'as perfect as possible' illusion to satisfy the audience, it's a sign of piss-poor dramatic content.
Put another way: if the audience is craning their necks to 'break' the illusion, to see the man behind the curtain, the artists behind the creation haven't done a very good job.
Some of the best film and television I have watched 'gets through' on an old black-and-white receiver. It wouldn't matter if the Star Wars Holiday Special was filmed in 1080p 3-D.
The Queen can listen to the iPod stuffed full of Dear Leader's keynote speeches, though. *snicker*
No, you're just using a crutch (caps lock) to dress up your prose. Here's a tip: when people use 'tricks' to add emphasis, it detracts from the quality of their arguement.
If the chef at your local restaurant had to pay royalties whenever he used a recipe published by a celebrity chef would you have a tastier and more enjoyable meal?
Actually, probably yes. If there was a system in place where royalty payment could be enforced, chefs wouldn't have to keep their recipes secret, and the recipes would get around more, and all restaurants would consistently produce tasier and more enjoyable meals. Many great chefs guard their recipes as trade secrets under the present system. If there was a framework under which they could reap benefit from their recipes being distributed (similar to the copyright or patent system we have for other 'ideas') the recipes would get around more and we'd all eat better.
Sorry to turn your argument on it's head, but you kinda asked for it by not having a clue what you were talking about.