Figuring out which download to actually get for the current rolling ("unstable")
Debian Testing is the "rolling" release. That's what Linux Mint is based on -- which is just Testing with a different installer thrown on top. Unstable is free to break shit, so it's not going to be used as a basis for a desktop distribution with any assurance of quality control.
Importantly also, almost all Movie pages, for example, have content that's clearly stolen directly from IMdB.
At least in the United States, you can't "steal" factual information about movies. As for IMDb, I have no sympathy for them, since they got a lot of work for free from people under the guise of a community project, which was then sold for a profit to Amazon.
You'd have to actually live in the society to know about it, or have wide access to personal diaries from a variety of people. You talk about honor, but remember the Japanese were as brutal as anybody else during the war, and you can't pin that on the United States.
"So what would be the effect of terminating this program's copyright after 5 years? This would not require the developer to release source code, and presumably most will never do so. Users, still denied the source code, would still be unable to use the program in freedom. [..] So I proposed that the Pirate Party platform require proprietary software's source code to be put in escrow when the binaries are released. The escrowed source code would then be released in the public domain after 5 years."
Requiring the release of source code is not freedom, and that is why I put it in quotes.
Uhhhhh, you do understand how LOANS works, don't you?
First off, only a fraction of the tens of billions sent GM's way was in the form of loans. The rest was exchanged for stock. GM then touted that they paid back these loans, but they didn't tout that it was through the non-loan bailout money, not through profits:
I didn't look hard at all. I just went back to the Metallica/Napster suit. I just posted the first comment I found very early on. You think there aren't more?
You're the one who made the extraordinary claim that nobody spoke out against piracy. What the poster said was right, by the way. Piracy wasn't out in the open and mainstream until Napster came along.
Wrong. It was only very very recently (like maybe 3-4 years ago) that the first persons who opposed software and media piracy (for personal use) started to even appear on tech forums.
"When exactly did piracy change from something people did furtively on IRC, to an absolute right of the people to have whatever they want, whenever they want? I guess when programs like Napster make it possible for any clueless newbie on cable or University ethernet to serve up mp3s to the masses, it becomes acceptable?
Seriously, just because it's easy to steal, doesn't make it right--at least have the decency to hide what you're doing, people. The quote from Lars comparing these people to looters was quite appropriate."
Look at the history of yellow journalism. It's been around for a long time.
As for the serious nightly newscasts, they are still there. The difference is that today cable or satellite is nearly ubiquitous and there's a ton of competition on other channels. It used to be if you wanted to watch the news you picked one of the three broadcast channels at a set time.
I grew up in the 80s and remember shows like The McLaughlin Group, Morton Downey Jr, Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo, A Current Affair, etc.
That would be true if people like Kurzweil weren't actually predicting the future. This guy is famous for prophesying what has become known as Rapture of the Nerds.
The answer is so simple and people are barely touching on it. They took out the Twin Towers in New York City by flying airplanes into them. You'd have to go back to Pearl Harbor in World War II to find a comparable attack on American soil, and that was a military target.
This is isn't just a single plane going down, which is what Americans had been used to. The Oklahoma bombing was big, but that was a federal building and not nearly as spectacular a target.
No it isn't. It's completely self-serving (free publicity) and limited in nature. It costs them nothing to license an engine people weren't going to buy anyways, and get this: The first place team gets to keep using the engine for free for their game, but the runner-ups have to buy the license to keep working on their game:
"The winner team will get a free binary license on Unigine engine for a single project on PC platform (Windows / Linux) with full access to technical support and updates.
The teams that will take the 2nd and the 3rd place are granted huge discounts on licensing Unigine."
I don't have a problem with this contest at all. It's a good thing that companies are looking to invest in Linux gaming. I just don't want it mislabeled it as a charitable effort.
(Posting anonymously because I fear those certain political groups)
What do you think they're going to do, hunt you down based on your Slashdot pseudonym? Afraid of a few negative karma points? Don't be such a coward, silly rabbit.
The business world is all about contracts. The banks charge you fees because it's part of the contract you agreed to. You'd have to check the contracts to see if they specify a certain level of service. They also may be subject to consumer protection laws. In the end, they may tell you to stuff it, and then it's up to you to sue for damages.
It does help to be an enraged consumer, though. If enough people are pissed, and threaten to leave the bank, then they might cough up regardless.
Or lots of currency floods the market, thus making that under your mattress worth far less than when you put it there. Gold, on the other hand...
Gold, like any commodity, fluctuates a fair amount. It won't be worthless, but you can see your investment crash if you buy at a bubble. Just look at the history for the price of gold -- it can lose it's value by half over a several year period. Currently it's trending very high, though. Will it go higher? Will it crash? Who knows.
It's also not as liquid as cash. You aren't going to get the best exchange price if you need your money within a day or two.
Ah, you're right. That sucks. This means that people can then just look at open source commits for high-value items like media encoding and then file a patent, as may have been done in this case. I remember there was some discussion years back to move the US patent system to be first-to-file or publish, but I guess nothing came of it.
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Figuring out which download to actually get for the current rolling ("unstable")
Debian Testing is the "rolling" release. That's what Linux Mint is based on -- which is just Testing with a different installer thrown on top. Unstable is free to break shit, so it's not going to be used as a basis for a desktop distribution with any assurance of quality control.
Importantly also, almost all Movie pages, for example, have content that's clearly stolen directly from IMdB.
At least in the United States, you can't "steal" factual information about movies. As for IMDb, I have no sympathy for them, since they got a lot of work for free from people under the guise of a community project, which was then sold for a profit to Amazon.
You'd have to actually live in the society to know about it, or have wide access to personal diaries from a variety of people. You talk about honor, but remember the Japanese were as brutal as anybody else during the war, and you can't pin that on the United States.
The grass is always greener on the other side. I'm sure there was plenty of bullshit to go around in Japan before we got there.
The Soviets never managed to keep it a secret when they were doing those kinds of things
The Soviets just kill their vocal ex-patriots and reporters. The murderer is then elected to Parliament and granted immunity.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
"So what would be the effect of terminating this program's copyright after 5 years? This would not require the developer to release source code, and presumably most will never do so. Users, still denied the source code, would still be unable to use the program in freedom. [..] So I proposed that the Pirate Party platform require proprietary software's source code to be put in escrow when the binaries are released. The escrowed source code would then be released in the public domain after 5 years."
Requiring the release of source code is not freedom, and that is why I put it in quotes.
It's not "piracy advocacy" that is the new thing here, it's having people opposing it that's new.
My whole point is that it's not new. There's always been a fraction that opposed piracy.
Uhhhhh, you do understand how LOANS works, don't you?
First off, only a fraction of the tens of billions sent GM's way was in the form of loans. The rest was exchanged for stock. GM then touted that they paid back these loans, but they didn't tout that it was through the non-loan bailout money, not through profits:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/27/ed-whitacre/ceo-says-gm-has-repaid-government-loans-full/
Second, a loan is a risk. If GM fails, then that money is gone. Third, the government is finding new ways to hide losses:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1294504
I didn't look hard at all. I just went back to the Metallica/Napster suit. I just posted the first comment I found very early on. You think there aren't more?
You're the one who made the extraordinary claim that nobody spoke out against piracy. What the poster said was right, by the way. Piracy wasn't out in the open and mainstream until Napster came along.
Fuck off, mod-commander.
Heh, I think Stallman would be happy in a world where no licence, proprietary or free, would be enforceable.
Actually, not. He wants to force the GPL "freedoms" on you, copyright nor not.
Wrong. It was only very very recently (like maybe 3-4 years ago) that the first persons who opposed software and media piracy (for personal use) started to even appear on tech forums.
You're the one who's wrong:
April 14, 2000:
"When exactly did piracy change from something people did furtively on IRC, to an absolute right of the people to have whatever they want, whenever they want? I guess when programs like Napster make it possible for any clueless newbie on cable or University ethernet to serve up mp3s to the masses, it becomes acceptable?
Seriously, just because it's easy to steal, doesn't make it right--at least have the decency to hide what you're doing, people. The quote from Lars comparing these people to looters was quite appropriate."
Lets be careful about using the word unethical.
What makes you think the poster wasn't? Just because it disagrees with your viewpoint?
Graphic photos too
Toasty.
Look at the history of yellow journalism. It's been around for a long time.
As for the serious nightly newscasts, they are still there. The difference is that today cable or satellite is nearly ubiquitous and there's a ton of competition on other channels. It used to be if you wanted to watch the news you picked one of the three broadcast channels at a set time.
I grew up in the 80s and remember shows like The McLaughlin Group, Morton Downey Jr, Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo, A Current Affair, etc.
Futurists don't "predict the future".
That would be true if people like Kurzweil weren't actually predicting the future. This guy is famous for prophesying what has become known as Rapture of the Nerds.
We live in an age in which it is more important to entertain than to inform.
Do you think this is different than in any other age?
The answer is so simple and people are barely touching on it. They took out the Twin Towers in New York City by flying airplanes into them. You'd have to go back to Pearl Harbor in World War II to find a comparable attack on American soil, and that was a military target.
This is isn't just a single plane going down, which is what Americans had been used to. The Oklahoma bombing was big, but that was a federal building and not nearly as spectacular a target.
Yes, pretty much. What else is the point of blowing up a plane full of civilians? Logistically, it accomplishes nothing.
This is a nice gesture
No it isn't. It's completely self-serving (free publicity) and limited in nature. It costs them nothing to license an engine people weren't going to buy anyways, and get this: The first place team gets to keep using the engine for free for their game, but the runner-ups have to buy the license to keep working on their game:
"The winner team will get a free binary license on Unigine engine for a single project on PC platform (Windows / Linux) with full access to technical support and updates.
The teams that will take the 2nd and the 3rd place are granted huge discounts on licensing Unigine."
I don't have a problem with this contest at all. It's a good thing that companies are looking to invest in Linux gaming. I just don't want it mislabeled it as a charitable effort.
the smugness of not being Americans (even though nobody else can tell)
It's true. Whenever I find a find out a famous person is from Canada it's always a mild surprise.
(Posting anonymously because I fear those certain political groups)
What do you think they're going to do, hunt you down based on your Slashdot pseudonym? Afraid of a few negative karma points? Don't be such a coward, silly rabbit.
The business world is all about contracts. The banks charge you fees because it's part of the contract you agreed to. You'd have to check the contracts to see if they specify a certain level of service. They also may be subject to consumer protection laws. In the end, they may tell you to stuff it, and then it's up to you to sue for damages.
It does help to be an enraged consumer, though. If enough people are pissed, and threaten to leave the bank, then they might cough up regardless.
Or lots of currency floods the market, thus making that under your mattress worth far less than when you put it there. Gold, on the other hand...
Gold, like any commodity, fluctuates a fair amount. It won't be worthless, but you can see your investment crash if you buy at a bubble. Just look at the history for the price of gold -- it can lose it's value by half over a several year period. Currently it's trending very high, though. Will it go higher? Will it crash? Who knows.
It's also not as liquid as cash. You aren't going to get the best exchange price if you need your money within a day or two.
Ah, you're right. That sucks. This means that people can then just look at open source commits for high-value items like media encoding and then file a patent, as may have been done in this case. I remember there was some discussion years back to move the US patent system to be first-to-file or publish, but I guess nothing came of it.