Anonymous isn't a group, and therefore a false flag is impossible. Anonymous is the name given to any number of people who are on the internet anonymously exchanging ideas at any given time. If the FBI wants to troll/b/ and encourage people to attack innocent people, that's not "false flag" any more than a highschool loser doing the exact same thing.
Why would their customers abandon them? This won't be marketed as "We charge you more depending on what you do", it will be marketed as "and now, your favourite sites cost less per minute!"
Between the extremes of "an author retains absolute control over the ideas he publishes, even beyond the grave. No one is free to share those ideas with others without consulting the author or their descendants first" and "you only get to claim ownership of things which actually exist, and only when you're alive", then yes, I prefer the latter.
But I'm pretty sure there's a huge middle-ground we could be squabbling over instead.
I have never truly signed on to the notion that the public should surrender its rights to an individual. If you don't want to share your work with the public, then don't create anything, or destroy what you make as soon as you make it.
You're not "surrendering" anything to allow someone else to see what you have done. Someone else would be "surrendering" their rights to say that they wouldn't look, even after you are dead.
Your argument is: "What they are doing is wrong, because if what they are doing were right, I find it unlikely that I would be able to make money doing what I do"
Which is just as valid an argument against police officers as it is one in favour of current copyright law.
I promise you it is not the graphics that stop me from playing games on the Wii. It's the fucking awful games. It's the controls.
Every Wii game I've played has come in one of two flavours:
a) Trying to use the Wii-mote as advertised, the result being horribly awkward and ultimately impossible-to-enjoy inconsistent fumblings as the Wii really sucks at motion control.
b) Games where the developers realized the limitations of the Wii, and compensated by making the controller a prop which doesn't actually do anything. "Let's pray pretend! Now you're a sorcerer! Here, hold this stick, it's a MAGIC WAND!" entertaining for five minutes, maybe, but once you realize that your moving the stick around doesn't actually have any more effect on game than sitting on the controller at the appropriate time, it loses its appeal fast. I can play pretend all by myself/without/ standing in front of a TV.
I have heard that WiiMotion+ improves greatly on what amounts to Nintendo saying it had a great idea for a console, then getting really hung over and writing its homework out in five minutes before class. I don't have a compelling reason to blow money on it, when apparently all it has going for it is "Makes Wii act like they said it would, on some new games designed for it." Especially when there's a new motion controller for another console which doesn't even need to make wild guesses about where your arms are.
I really just hope that these "bandwidth users" like google outright refuse to pay, and instead instantly cut off access from those ISPs which threaten them with such stupidity.
Damn those hobgoblins and robots and the businesses they run! Always taking things away from people!
I believe in the elimination of the lie of an artist's right to control their work. I believe that once an artist has been compensated, his work should be free for anyone wishing to derive from it. I believe that "anyone" should not be dependent on why the derivation is desired.
Most of my failures have been "many sectors unreadable, some not unreadable". Yes, I/would/ much prefer a drive which consisted of many independent blocks, which could be plugged in separately (or at least exchanged with components of a new drive), all fitting into the space of an ordinary hard drive.... but that isn't for sale yet, while this is.
You can debate whether or not desktop Linux has a chance all you want. I'll just keep using my Linux desktop along with half the people in this office.
Probably because the dead-simple tasks, such as "resize an image" have always been extremely primitive and clumsy-feeling to the point of being downright broken when compared with Photoshop. If GIMP can't even get that right, why should anyone use it? PaintShopPro is a less-expensive alternative to Photoshop which actually works, though.
"Mature and stable" is just a euphemism for "dead". If your project REALLY has no bugs, and all its users are fully satisfied with the current feature-set, that just means you don't have any new users. It is far more likely that all your current users have long-since learned to live with bugs you don't feel like fixing, or have built ad-hoc work-arounds for bugs and missing features since your project is too "stable" (read: dead) to accept patches or proposals.
Either the cable provider should pay for the privilege of letting their customers watch TV shows. They can pay by charging customers. -or- The channels can pay the cable provider for the privilege of letting their advertisers have an audience. They can pay by charging advertisers.
It doesn't make any sense for both to happen. The only reason both happens is because one of the parties involved (cable companies) has a monopoly.
A man walks into a shop: "Hello, good sir. I would like to purchase a computer."
"Here you are. That will be $600"
"A fair deal indeed. Thank you."
[ Several months later, our hero comes home to find his computer missing. In its place is a short note and a paddle-ball ]
"Dear customer. We have taken the liberty of replacing your computer with a paddle-ball, as we learned that people were attempting to use their computers for non-paddleball-related activities."
I like the idea of being able to take the IP address of one workstation, and subtract the IP address of another workstation to get the number of people sitting at the same table. But I don't, because that's not what it means and it's not what it should mean.
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So is buying an internet connection.
Anonymous isn't a group, and therefore a false flag is impossible. Anonymous is the name given to any number of people who are on the internet anonymously exchanging ideas at any given time. If the FBI wants to troll /b/ and encourage people to attack innocent people, that's not "false flag" any more than a highschool loser doing the exact same thing.
Why would their customers abandon them? This won't be marketed as "We charge you more depending on what you do", it will be marketed as "and now, your favourite sites cost less per minute!"
Between the extremes of "an author retains absolute control over the ideas he publishes, even beyond the grave. No one is free to share those ideas with others without consulting the author or their descendants first" and "you only get to claim ownership of things which actually exist, and only when you're alive", then yes, I prefer the latter.
But I'm pretty sure there's a huge middle-ground we could be squabbling over instead.
I have never truly signed on to the notion that the public should surrender its rights to an individual.
If you don't want to share your work with the public, then don't create anything, or destroy what you make as soon as you make it.
You're not "surrendering" anything to allow someone else to see what you have done.
Someone else would be "surrendering" their rights to say that they wouldn't look, even after you are dead.
Someone's rights? You're honestly trying to say that the imaginary control over a work an author created 50+ years ago is a right?
unless you're in England, "Outlet Cover" is not synonymous with "Outlet Plug"
Your argument is: "What they are doing is wrong, because if what they are doing were right, I find it unlikely that I would be able to make money doing what I do"
Which is just as valid an argument against police officers as it is one in favour of current copyright law.
I promise you it is not the graphics that stop me from playing games on the Wii.
It's the fucking awful games.
It's the controls.
Every Wii game I've played has come in one of two flavours: /without/ standing in front of a TV.
a) Trying to use the Wii-mote as advertised, the result being horribly awkward and ultimately impossible-to-enjoy inconsistent fumblings as the Wii really sucks at motion control.
b) Games where the developers realized the limitations of the Wii, and compensated by making the controller a prop which doesn't actually do anything. "Let's pray pretend! Now you're a sorcerer! Here, hold this stick, it's a MAGIC WAND!" entertaining for five minutes, maybe, but once you realize that your moving the stick around doesn't actually have any more effect on game than sitting on the controller at the appropriate time, it loses its appeal fast. I can play pretend all by myself
I have heard that WiiMotion+ improves greatly on what amounts to Nintendo saying it had a great idea for a console, then getting really hung over and writing its homework out in five minutes before class. I don't have a compelling reason to blow money on it, when apparently all it has going for it is "Makes Wii act like they said it would, on some new games designed for it." Especially when there's a new motion controller for another console which doesn't even need to make wild guesses about where your arms are.
I got one of those just by not paying much for a phone
I really just hope that these "bandwidth users" like google outright refuse to pay, and instead instantly cut off access from those ISPs which threaten them with such stupidity.
n/t
Maybe they want it to behave like a fast, simply, easy-to-parallelize language?
doesn't support AJAX or flash plugins.
Damn those hobgoblins and robots and the businesses they run! Always taking things away from people!
I believe in the elimination of the lie of an artist's right to control their work. I believe that once an artist has been compensated, his work should be free for anyone wishing to derive from it. I believe that "anyone" should not be dependent on why the derivation is desired.
with 2^32 addresses?
"merged back" being the key point. The term "fork" is a poor one, because it has the connotation of never merging/sharing patches.
Most of my failures have been "many sectors unreadable, some not unreadable". Yes, I /would/ much prefer a drive which consisted of many independent blocks, which could be plugged in separately (or at least exchanged with components of a new drive), all fitting into the space of an ordinary hard drive....
but that isn't for sale yet, while this is.
Can I please flip a switch to turn that into 20GB of hard-to-corrupt data?
You can debate whether or not desktop Linux has a chance all you want. I'll just keep using my Linux desktop along with half the people in this office.
Probably because the dead-simple tasks, such as "resize an image" have always been extremely primitive and clumsy-feeling to the point of being downright broken when compared with Photoshop. If GIMP can't even get that right, why should anyone use it?
PaintShopPro is a less-expensive alternative to Photoshop which actually works, though.
"Mature and stable" is just a euphemism for "dead". If your project REALLY has no bugs, and all its users are fully satisfied with the current feature-set, that just means you don't have any new users. It is far more likely that all your current users have long-since learned to live with bugs you don't feel like fixing, or have built ad-hoc work-arounds for bugs and missing features since your project is too "stable" (read: dead) to accept patches or proposals.
Either the cable provider should pay for the privilege of letting their customers watch TV shows. They can pay by charging customers.
-or-
The channels can pay the cable provider for the privilege of letting their advertisers have an audience. They can pay by charging advertisers.
It doesn't make any sense for both to happen. The only reason both happens is because one of the parties involved (cable companies) has a monopoly.
A man walks into a shop:
"Hello, good sir. I would like to purchase a computer."
"Here you are. That will be $600"
"A fair deal indeed. Thank you."
[ Several months later, our hero comes home to find his computer missing. In its place is a short note and a paddle-ball ]
"Dear customer. We have taken the liberty of replacing your computer with a paddle-ball, as we learned that people were attempting to use their computers for non-paddleball-related activities."
I like the idea of being able to take the IP address of one workstation, and subtract the IP address of another workstation to get the number of people sitting at the same table. But I don't, because that's not what it means and it's not what it should mean.