Even if he's right, do we really want the GPL to be a revokable license where an tiny mistake that might throw you out of compliance requires a Herculean effort to re-establish rights?
I wouldn't call failing to distribute the source a "tiny mistake".
So who can really blame them for fearing for the safety of their children?
It's pretty damn easy, actually, when the retarded actions of the anti-vaxxers are such that they not only endanger public health, but they also risk giving their child something much worse than what they were fearing in the first place. "Oh, you're afraid little Johnny will grow up autistic if he gets vaccinated? Have you thought how much better his life would be in an IRON LUNG?"
Thanks to the actions of these retarded parents, Whooping Cough is starting to become an epidemic among small children. A disease which has a good vaccine, and was on the decline, is coming back again because these parents are too fucking selfish to realize that there are more children than theirs out there.
All these great hardware patents from Motorola can not protect them from these software IP suits
Because for some reason, one cannot enter hardware patents into a dispute involving software patents? Especially against several parties that make hardware?
Still, he shouldn't have to need a business class connection. They sold him a 21 meg consumer connection, and while it might be unrealistic to expect that 24/7, it should be expected to get that the majority of the time.
Or he's just using the assumed units, like we always do in these discussions.
However, you did seem to avoid the question of why the company should be able to sell a connection that they seem to never be able to come close to meeting.
I'm having a very difficult time figuring out what I'd get out of a bike that cost over $2700 vs a $400 ?
If it's a road bike, then you're getting something that's FAR lighter, and probably comes with better gears, wheels, etc. If it's a mountain bike, then it's going to be far sturdier, able to absorb a lot more impact.
So should Apple just turn the other way, and let these egregious violations take place without taking any kind of action just because some people might be punished for it?
As far as I'm concerned, with the amount of research that goes into these things, and the amount of feedback they SHOULD be getting, there should be no reason why they should have any "plausible deniability" at all. If some dumbass is using the drug in a highly irregular fashion not consistent with it's use, like injecting it into the penis or something, then I could agree with them. But someone just taking the drug shouldn't have to face a wall of "plausible deniability" when a problem arises.
But when I complain that the new policy is adding 30 minutes to a regularly performed task and I get the attitude that I just don't know anything about security, then I don't have much sympathy for the "professional"
Probably because the odds are you, and the others who also perform your task actually don't know anything about security. I'm not trying to say that you personally don't; I don't know you from Adam. Just that many people who make complaints like that think they know better than the person who has devoted several years of their life to study of the topic, when in reality they don't.
As much as I hate big companies, simply saying "I boycott corporations!" is pretty meaningless. The corporation is one of the more popular small business organizational structures. And for the most part, a company being shitty or not doesn't depend a whole lot on it's organization, but who's in it.
Why not just say you boycott shitty companies instead?
Vaccinations have saved the lives of Countless Millions on this planet, and have lead to the eradication and decimalization of many once life-threatening diseases. When was the last time you heard of someone getting polio?
Polio has gone from about 350,000 cases worldwide in 1988, to only 1604 cases in 2009. That's a 99% reduction. Thanks to vaccination. in 2010, only FOUR COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD were identified as being polio-endemic (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan). Four.
To look at this amazing stuff that's being doing to a disease that once ran rampant among children, and to see someone like yourself be soooooo selfish and ignorant as to believe that you don't need vaccinations makes my blood boil. I hope you never let any of your children outside the house if you are going to be so reckless and irresponsible with their health.
The alternative, in which a company could disclose, or even really know about such things, is far, far, far worse for the public. Imagine going in for a job interview, and the company is able to violate your medical privacy and find out you have an intestinal disorder. Now they've decided that they don't want to hire you because of it. Is a scenario like that worth allowing a drug company to say, "Nuh Uh!" on the internet?
That's "user configurable" enough for me. All I was asking for was some mechanism in which the user could easily modify the LTE radio in their phone to work on a different provider. A SIM card does this just fine.
However, I'd think that any tower hardware capable of serving up 3G data on both the T-mobile and ATT frequencies/protocols could probably handle CDMA/etc just as easily.
And you'd be wrong. At least not without spending assloads of money.
Most likely they'd just run the two networks in parallel for two years and then force everybody on one of them to buy a new phone.
If you're talking about Sprint, this is what they did with Nextel, and it drug them down pretty hard. Running two parallel networks is pretty hard.
If you're talking about AT&T, well.... at least Google makes Nexus phones for them.
I still don't get phones with no SIM card --what do you people do when you travel? Buy and learn to reconfigure a new phone just because you're in Japan/France/Ecuador for 2 weeks?
Most people don't go overseas often, if at all. Meaning that it's not important to them to have this ability, especially at the possible expense of worse service in their primary usage area.
And there's also places like the one I grew up in, where the only providers were CDMA (Verizon and Alltel). Now that Verizon ate Alltel, AT&T is moving in, so there's a GSM carrier.
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Even if he's right, do we really want the GPL to be a revokable license where an tiny mistake that might throw you out of compliance requires a Herculean effort to re-establish rights?
I wouldn't call failing to distribute the source a "tiny mistake".
So you'd rather trust a former D-List actor and Playboy centerfold over people who have spent their entire lives studying this shit?
So who can really blame them for fearing for the safety of their children?
It's pretty damn easy, actually, when the retarded actions of the anti-vaxxers are such that they not only endanger public health, but they also risk giving their child something much worse than what they were fearing in the first place. "Oh, you're afraid little Johnny will grow up autistic if he gets vaccinated? Have you thought how much better his life would be in an IRON LUNG?"
Thanks to the actions of these retarded parents, Whooping Cough is starting to become an epidemic among small children. A disease which has a good vaccine, and was on the decline, is coming back again because these parents are too fucking selfish to realize that there are more children than theirs out there.
There's a huge difference between choosing not to hire you because you use an illegal narcotic, and choosing not to hire you because you have lupis.
All these great hardware patents from Motorola can not protect them from these software IP suits
Because for some reason, one cannot enter hardware patents into a dispute involving software patents? Especially against several parties that make hardware?
Still, he shouldn't have to need a business class connection. They sold him a 21 meg consumer connection, and while it might be unrealistic to expect that 24/7, it should be expected to get that the majority of the time.
Or he's just using the assumed units, like we always do in these discussions.
However, you did seem to avoid the question of why the company should be able to sell a connection that they seem to never be able to come close to meeting.
Why do you think cereal is sold by mass rather than by volume?
Because it's stuff? Why would I pay for a volume of cereal? You pay for just about every other dry good in mass, why should cereal be any different?
"Yeah, I want half a gallon of Fruit Loops, and two gallons of Lucky Charms."
I'm having a very difficult time figuring out what I'd get out of a bike that cost over $2700 vs a $400 ?
If it's a road bike, then you're getting something that's FAR lighter, and probably comes with better gears, wheels, etc. If it's a mountain bike, then it's going to be far sturdier, able to absorb a lot more impact.
I wonder if they also calculated the carbon BS footprint of taking a shower once you get to work because I sweat like a pig when I cycle.
Are you gonna tell me that you don't normally shower before going in to work, even without biking?
[Citation Needed]. And how many of those were violent, heinous crimes verses peaceful crimes like simply speaking against the government?
Now if these stores were generating a few billion, likely China would have told Apple to get bent.
And Apple would then have told China to get bent, moving all of their manufacturing elsewhere.
So should Apple just turn the other way, and let these egregious violations take place without taking any kind of action just because some people might be punished for it?
Do you really want companies to be able to divulge your personal, private medical information? Cause that's what it sounds like.
The alternative is that they could share this private medical information, which is far, far, far, far worse.
As far as I'm concerned, with the amount of research that goes into these things, and the amount of feedback they SHOULD be getting, there should be no reason why they should have any "plausible deniability" at all. If some dumbass is using the drug in a highly irregular fashion not consistent with it's use, like injecting it into the penis or something, then I could agree with them. But someone just taking the drug shouldn't have to face a wall of "plausible deniability" when a problem arises.
But when I complain that the new policy is adding 30 minutes to a regularly performed task and I get the attitude that I just don't know anything about security, then I don't have much sympathy for the "professional"
Probably because the odds are you, and the others who also perform your task actually don't know anything about security. I'm not trying to say that you personally don't; I don't know you from Adam. Just that many people who make complaints like that think they know better than the person who has devoted several years of their life to study of the topic, when in reality they don't.
As much as I hate big companies, simply saying "I boycott corporations!" is pretty meaningless. The corporation is one of the more popular small business organizational structures. And for the most part, a company being shitty or not doesn't depend a whole lot on it's organization, but who's in it.
Why not just say you boycott shitty companies instead?
No, no, no, no, no. Just fucking no.
Vaccinations have saved the lives of Countless Millions on this planet, and have lead to the eradication and decimalization of many once life-threatening diseases. When was the last time you heard of someone getting polio?
Polio has gone from about 350,000 cases worldwide in 1988, to only 1604 cases in 2009. That's a 99% reduction. Thanks to vaccination. in 2010, only FOUR COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD were identified as being polio-endemic (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan). Four.
To look at this amazing stuff that's being doing to a disease that once ran rampant among children, and to see someone like yourself be soooooo selfish and ignorant as to believe that you don't need vaccinations makes my blood boil. I hope you never let any of your children outside the house if you are going to be so reckless and irresponsible with their health.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs114/en/
Sucks to be them.
The alternative, in which a company could disclose, or even really know about such things, is far, far, far worse for the public. Imagine going in for a job interview, and the company is able to violate your medical privacy and find out you have an intestinal disorder. Now they've decided that they don't want to hire you because of it. Is a scenario like that worth allowing a drug company to say, "Nuh Uh!" on the internet?
That's "user configurable" enough for me. All I was asking for was some mechanism in which the user could easily modify the LTE radio in their phone to work on a different provider. A SIM card does this just fine.
I'm sure the Standard Oil thing had absolutely nothing to do with the government stepping in.
Likewise, I'm sure the Word Perfect thing had nothing to do with Microsoft's own anti-competitive behaviors.
However, I'd think that any tower hardware capable of serving up 3G data on both the T-mobile and ATT frequencies/protocols could probably handle CDMA/etc just as easily.
And you'd be wrong. At least not without spending assloads of money.
Most likely they'd just run the two networks in parallel for two years and then force everybody on one of them to buy a new phone.
If you're talking about Sprint, this is what they did with Nextel, and it drug them down pretty hard. Running two parallel networks is pretty hard.
If you're talking about AT&T, well.... at least Google makes Nexus phones for them.
I think that'd be an even worse idea, then. You thought up something. So what? If you can't actually turn that idea into something, it's worthless.
I still don't get phones with no SIM card --what do you people do when you travel? Buy and learn to reconfigure a new phone just because you're in Japan/France/Ecuador for 2 weeks?
Most people don't go overseas often, if at all. Meaning that it's not important to them to have this ability, especially at the possible expense of worse service in their primary usage area.
And there's also places like the one I grew up in, where the only providers were CDMA (Verizon and Alltel). Now that Verizon ate Alltel, AT&T is moving in, so there's a GSM carrier.