Run. Run fast. Run far away. Microsoft wants open source nothing and only desires to get as much free use and work out of OSS programmers as possible before tossing their dessicated husks off to one side. Run, and don't ever look back.
> If you want to know about what the Internet is going to be like if it's not protected with strong Net Neutrality laws, just picture AOL. Picture the
> entire Internet being AOL.
> Have a nice day.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNS!
I don't use OpenBSD at home (as mentioned, its niche is in firewalls and routers), but I think it's one of the most underrated and well-designed OSes in the history of modern computing. Theo de Raadt, abrasive as he is, is something like a thinner, paranoid RMS who showers once in a while, and I say that with only the best intentions. Like RMS, he may be hard to get along with, but he's nearly always right. Theo, if you're reading this, good luck!
They're only "fucking up the corporate status quo" because they're not in on this as a corporation yet. What will happen once they do snag a plurality, if not a majority, of the 700 MHz spectrum? Who's to say they're not just posturing in the name of "freedom" now and won't do something horribly evil once they get their piece of the pie? In the best-case scenario all they're doing is making the 700 MHz spectrum safe for themselves at no expense to the common person...I don't want to think about the worst.
Wait, wait, you mean the President actually cares about checks and balances? You mean that gigantic shitstain on the constitution *isn't* his? (I could believe it if you told me it was Gonzales's or Cheney's though...).
This sounds like a cheap hack. There is no need for these things to be setuid root, not on the program level. Sounds like someone is used to programming Windows drivers...
I'm tempted to infer something sinister about this, but then I remember the old adage "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." It keeps your blood pressure nice and low.
Hold on a minute, *Microsoft* is worried about *an open standard* limiting peoples choice? Bunch of mealy-mouthed hypocrites...fuck 'em all. To say the things they did here requires a colossal set of balls, and the (unfortunately) sure and certain knowledge that not one in a thousand people actually understands what's really going on. I'm not surprised, just really in the mood to smack someone.
Fuck. This. Microsoft OSes have officially dropped out my of acceptance forever. This is what amounts to a dialer and adware package in the fucking kernel, with datamining tacked on as a final insult. This more than anything shows how Microsoft really feels about its "customers." I am not a statistic; I am not a "consumer." And now, I am never, ever knowingly going to pass a single red cent to Microsoft ever again. If I hadn't already made my home a Linux shop, this would fucking well be the last push I needed.
Please, by all means pursue this with the utmost zeal, Microsoft. This will be your Sony rootkit, and I for one will laugh like a madwoman as I watch you all burn in the flames of Hell's class-action lawsuit. There is nothing I love more than seeing an arrogant criminal hang himself by his own hand.
Wonderful. Intel, maker of the Classmate PC, a DIRECT COMPETITOR to the OLPC (or so they say) is now teaming up with it. This is a transparent bid to relegate the OLPC to permanent second-class citizenship. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
I recently saw a "tickless" option in the kernel config. Would using that solve this problem? I'm not a kernel hacker by any means; knowing enough to run a clean Gentoo with no issues doesn't necessarily imply programming talent.
This has been said before, but it bears repeating: media DRM is a case of Alice wanting Bob to access the content, but not Clyde, when Bob and Clyde are the same person. DRM. Is. Broken. They can get as creative as they want, they can hide behind any number of virtual machines and worse, but DRM sows the seeds of its own destruction because of this.
If nothing else, there's always the analog hole. What are they going to do, outlaw camcorders? Create monitors that interface directly with the brain? These peoples' heads are so far up their asses they can wear their spleen as a hat.
I'll tell you why not in the Bronx: because Robert Moses' dream lives on, and he's the kind of person who pronounces the word "African-American" with a double G. The Bronx was an inconvenient residential area that was getting in the way of that neat expressway he wanted to build, you see...
This surveillance crap is there to reassure wealthy tourists and spending types, like the rich guy from Philly who posted earlier. This system does nothing for the average person because the average person doesn't live in Manhattan: it's too fucking expensive. The average person, however, is more likely to *drive to work* (or use mass transit) to get to a job in Manhattan. So people who don't live there and won't benefit from the increased surveillance (and who certainly aren't the target audience even if they're the targets) are paying for this.
Yes, this should be interesting to watch...I wonder if AMD is spreading itself too thin, but as a low-power and small-form-factor enthusiast I would be very interested in seeing what comes out of this, if anything. I would love a CPU that can power down to single-digits-of-watts in a low-power state.
If the media is simply copied, it's not stealing. Stealing implied depriving someone of property; from the sound of it, all files are put back on the hard drive after Windows is wiped and reinstalled. Copying might be copyright infringement in some cases, but it is not stealing, for the love of cheese-filled pretzels!
The only time I can see someone being upset is if one of the techies got into some personal data like a diary. If I were ever stupid enough to send in a computer for repairs without encrypting anything personal first, I'd consider it my own fault. But I wouldn't mind people copying my music collection, seeing as it's a bunch of crappy MIDIs I've made...
If they ever use any GPLv3 code, they are indeed bound by the license. There's only one way to test this though, and that's to have it tried in court. I know there's little chance of the Linux kernel itself ever becoming GPLv3, but I hope people write lots of GPLv3 software for no reason than that MS said this (yes, I am a fangirl. Sue me.). Someone has got to take these kleptocrats to court.
I don't get it...how is this an exchange? It sounds like there are two things this type of person wants, longer copyright and censorship, so why is one being offered "in exchange" for the other? The two go hand-in-hand, making it harder to distribute material and harder to produce material about what you want. This looks like a sock puppet job. Now if it was "decrease copyright term for increased censorship" or vice versa, that would be an exchange.
Seriously, why? Why bother with all this expensive "synthetic biology" or (worse) growing and using perfectly good corn to make something that's less effective than gasoline when you can just grow an imperial fuckton of algae, render them down for biofuel, and use that? Carbon neutral, and you get something more akin to good ol' diesel fuel than ethanol.
Plus there's some incentive to clean up eutrophicated bodies of water this way because, hey, that's profit floating on the top!
Does anyone actually trust any organization with more than 5 people or so when it says its motto is "don't be evil?" Even if Google doesn't actually have a cackling greybeard maniac surrounded by test tubes dreaming up evil plots, it has too many interests in too many areas to avoid hurting people when it moves to protect those interests.
Oh, quit bitching. Unlike with certain other EULAs I can name (hint: distributor begins with an M and ends with an icrosoft), there's always an alternative. There have got to be BSD, MIT, etc. licensed versions of programs that do what you need, or programs that are close enough to work. Plus the GPLv2 is still valid, and I have a feeling a lot of programs are going to stick with it. Remember that the FOSS community is just that: a *community.* It's not a monolithic corporate entity that all follows one license, and there are plenty of GPLv3 haters in it from what I've seen. If v3 is really so bad, it will die over time; just wait.
And I don't think it's possible to create DRM that "forces all your code open," as you put it...how would someone do that? You could, under the terms of the GPLv3, create a new DRM program that does absolutely nothing, or write a patch against it that disables it.
...said the spider to the fly. I hope I don't have to explain how utterly stupid it would be to trust Microsoft with any of your personal files.
Though really, I'm against online file storage of this sort anyway because it makes the assumption that you have a network connection. I think local file storage is best for most people; at least you can get to your stuff anytime (unless there's some kind of major hardware or software failure) that way.
Besides, who doesn't like envisioning their enemies burning for all eternity in a lake of fire? Eh? Eh? Come on you know you want some of that.
Who doesn't? Me, for one. I don't like that idea at all, and it just shows how puerile and childish some people are that they must not only see their opposition annihilated and humiliated but tortured beyond anything the human mind is capable of imagining for ever and ever, amen. I wouldn't wish a week of that on my worst enemy, let alone an eternity.
Someone needs to take all the Inquisition mainstays to these fundamentalist jackasses and see how they like it. Red-hot pincers, the Spanish boot, the choke pear, the rack, flaying alive, breaking on the wheel, boiling in oil, all of it. Hopefully it will cause the lot of them to go into catatonia when they try to reconcile that with what their Hell actually means.
I have to agree with the first poster. Google scares the hell out of me, and I use their webmail and search every day. They're not as "obvious" a target as Microsoft since they're not (at present) an OS vendor, which may mean that, should they choose to do more evil, they won't be as visible. And Google doesn't work on OSes, it works on *data.* Huge, collected masses of data that would be any social-engineering data miner's wet dream.
Put another way, they traffic in information. An OS is, when you get right down to it, nothing but information, and there are alternatives to Windows. What will happen when/if there becomes no alternative to Google for web searches?
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Run. Run fast. Run far away. Microsoft wants open source nothing and only desires to get as much free use and work out of OSS programmers as possible before tossing their dessicated husks off to one side. Run, and don't ever look back.
> If you want to know about what the Internet is going to be like if it's not protected with strong Net Neutrality laws, just picture AOL. Picture the > entire Internet being AOL. > Have a nice day. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNS!
I don't use OpenBSD at home (as mentioned, its niche is in firewalls and routers), but I think it's one of the most underrated and well-designed OSes in the history of modern computing. Theo de Raadt, abrasive as he is, is something like a thinner, paranoid RMS who showers once in a while, and I say that with only the best intentions. Like RMS, he may be hard to get along with, but he's nearly always right. Theo, if you're reading this, good luck!
They're only "fucking up the corporate status quo" because they're not in on this as a corporation yet. What will happen once they do snag a plurality, if not a majority, of the 700 MHz spectrum? Who's to say they're not just posturing in the name of "freedom" now and won't do something horribly evil once they get their piece of the pie? In the best-case scenario all they're doing is making the 700 MHz spectrum safe for themselves at no expense to the common person...I don't want to think about the worst.
Wait, wait, you mean the President actually cares about checks and balances? You mean that gigantic shitstain on the constitution *isn't* his? (I could believe it if you told me it was Gonzales's or Cheney's though...).
This sounds like a cheap hack. There is no need for these things to be setuid root, not on the program level. Sounds like someone is used to programming Windows drivers...
I'm tempted to infer something sinister about this, but then I remember the old adage "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." It keeps your blood pressure nice and low.
Hold on a minute, *Microsoft* is worried about *an open standard* limiting peoples choice? Bunch of mealy-mouthed hypocrites...fuck 'em all. To say the things they did here requires a colossal set of balls, and the (unfortunately) sure and certain knowledge that not one in a thousand people actually understands what's really going on. I'm not surprised, just really in the mood to smack someone.
Fuck. This. Microsoft OSes have officially dropped out my of acceptance forever. This is what amounts to a dialer and adware package in the fucking kernel, with datamining tacked on as a final insult. This more than anything shows how Microsoft really feels about its "customers." I am not a statistic; I am not a "consumer." And now, I am never, ever knowingly going to pass a single red cent to Microsoft ever again. If I hadn't already made my home a Linux shop, this would fucking well be the last push I needed.
Please, by all means pursue this with the utmost zeal, Microsoft. This will be your Sony rootkit, and I for one will laugh like a madwoman as I watch you all burn in the flames of Hell's class-action lawsuit. There is nothing I love more than seeing an arrogant criminal hang himself by his own hand.
Wonderful. Intel, maker of the Classmate PC, a DIRECT COMPETITOR to the OLPC (or so they say) is now teaming up with it. This is a transparent bid to relegate the OLPC to permanent second-class citizenship. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
I recently saw a "tickless" option in the kernel config. Would using that solve this problem? I'm not a kernel hacker by any means; knowing enough to run a clean Gentoo with no issues doesn't necessarily imply programming talent.
"Dump GTK?" You *do* know what GTK stands for don't you...?
This has been said before, but it bears repeating: media DRM is a case of Alice wanting Bob to access the content, but not Clyde, when Bob and Clyde are the same person. DRM. Is. Broken. They can get as creative as they want, they can hide behind any number of virtual machines and worse, but DRM sows the seeds of its own destruction because of this.
If nothing else, there's always the analog hole. What are they going to do, outlaw camcorders? Create monitors that interface directly with the brain? These peoples' heads are so far up their asses they can wear their spleen as a hat.
I'll tell you why not in the Bronx: because Robert Moses' dream lives on, and he's the kind of person who pronounces the word "African-American" with a double G. The Bronx was an inconvenient residential area that was getting in the way of that neat expressway he wanted to build, you see...
This surveillance crap is there to reassure wealthy tourists and spending types, like the rich guy from Philly who posted earlier. This system does nothing for the average person because the average person doesn't live in Manhattan: it's too fucking expensive. The average person, however, is more likely to *drive to work* (or use mass transit) to get to a job in Manhattan. So people who don't live there and won't benefit from the increased surveillance (and who certainly aren't the target audience even if they're the targets) are paying for this.
Yes, this should be interesting to watch...I wonder if AMD is spreading itself too thin, but as a low-power and small-form-factor enthusiast I would be very interested in seeing what comes out of this, if anything. I would love a CPU that can power down to single-digits-of-watts in a low-power state.
...raise your right hand. Then make a fist and bring it down on your head. Repeatedly. Helen Keller could have seen this coming.
If the media is simply copied, it's not stealing. Stealing implied depriving someone of property; from the sound of it, all files are put back on the hard drive after Windows is wiped and reinstalled. Copying might be copyright infringement in some cases, but it is not stealing, for the love of cheese-filled pretzels!
The only time I can see someone being upset is if one of the techies got into some personal data like a diary. If I were ever stupid enough to send in a computer for repairs without encrypting anything personal first, I'd consider it my own fault. But I wouldn't mind people copying my music collection, seeing as it's a bunch of crappy MIDIs I've made...
If they ever use any GPLv3 code, they are indeed bound by the license. There's only one way to test this though, and that's to have it tried in court. I know there's little chance of the Linux kernel itself ever becoming GPLv3, but I hope people write lots of GPLv3 software for no reason than that MS said this (yes, I am a fangirl. Sue me.). Someone has got to take these kleptocrats to court.
I don't get it...how is this an exchange? It sounds like there are two things this type of person wants, longer copyright and censorship, so why is one being offered "in exchange" for the other? The two go hand-in-hand, making it harder to distribute material and harder to produce material about what you want. This looks like a sock puppet job. Now if it was "decrease copyright term for increased censorship" or vice versa, that would be an exchange.
Since this is Sony, are they going to call these "Douche Bags?"
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.
Seriously, why? Why bother with all this expensive "synthetic biology" or (worse) growing and using perfectly good corn to make something that's less effective than gasoline when you can just grow an imperial fuckton of algae, render them down for biofuel, and use that? Carbon neutral, and you get something more akin to good ol' diesel fuel than ethanol.
Plus there's some incentive to clean up eutrophicated bodies of water this way because, hey, that's profit floating on the top!
Does anyone actually trust any organization with more than 5 people or so when it says its motto is "don't be evil?" Even if Google doesn't actually have a cackling greybeard maniac surrounded by test tubes dreaming up evil plots, it has too many interests in too many areas to avoid hurting people when it moves to protect those interests.
Oh, quit bitching. Unlike with certain other EULAs I can name (hint: distributor begins with an M and ends with an icrosoft), there's always an alternative. There have got to be BSD, MIT, etc. licensed versions of programs that do what you need, or programs that are close enough to work. Plus the GPLv2 is still valid, and I have a feeling a lot of programs are going to stick with it. Remember that the FOSS community is just that: a *community.* It's not a monolithic corporate entity that all follows one license, and there are plenty of GPLv3 haters in it from what I've seen. If v3 is really so bad, it will die over time; just wait.
And I don't think it's possible to create DRM that "forces all your code open," as you put it...how would someone do that? You could, under the terms of the GPLv3, create a new DRM program that does absolutely nothing, or write a patch against it that disables it.
...said the spider to the fly. I hope I don't have to explain how utterly stupid it would be to trust Microsoft with any of your personal files.
Though really, I'm against online file storage of this sort anyway because it makes the assumption that you have a network connection. I think local file storage is best for most people; at least you can get to your stuff anytime (unless there's some kind of major hardware or software failure) that way.
Besides, who doesn't like envisioning their enemies burning for all eternity in a lake of fire? Eh? Eh? Come on you know you want some of that.
Who doesn't? Me, for one. I don't like that idea at all, and it just shows how puerile and childish some people are that they must not only see their opposition annihilated and humiliated but tortured beyond anything the human mind is capable of imagining for ever and ever, amen. I wouldn't wish a week of that on my worst enemy, let alone an eternity.
Someone needs to take all the Inquisition mainstays to these fundamentalist jackasses and see how they like it. Red-hot pincers, the Spanish boot, the choke pear, the rack, flaying alive, breaking on the wheel, boiling in oil, all of it. Hopefully it will cause the lot of them to go into catatonia when they try to reconcile that with what their Hell actually means.
I have to agree with the first poster. Google scares the hell out of me, and I use their webmail and search every day. They're not as "obvious" a target as Microsoft since they're not (at present) an OS vendor, which may mean that, should they choose to do more evil, they won't be as visible. And Google doesn't work on OSes, it works on *data.* Huge, collected masses of data that would be any social-engineering data miner's wet dream.
Put another way, they traffic in information. An OS is, when you get right down to it, nothing but information, and there are alternatives to Windows. What will happen when/if there becomes no alternative to Google for web searches?