I'm well aware of how embrace, extend and extinguish works, but I'd say they prematurely ended phase 1. It's not like android has enough weight right now to make them forking (extending) really matter. Not to mention, this is all pretty much over some shitty poorly thought out modification what isn't useful for anything except android. Not exactly an effective extend...
Giving up your seat may not be an issue of life or death, but it certainly is an issue of human rights. If you are drawing your line there, I must say, I think you are drawing it in the wrong place.
On the topic of the appropriateness of breaking laws, I think this excerpt from the Letter from Birmingham Jail sums up my feelings nicely:
One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."
You can read the full letter here. It is a very good read, I highly suggest it. Anyways, I suppose what I'm saying is that the severity of the injustice makes little difference to me, unjust laws do not get my respect.
Bluray wouldn't be copyright'd, but rather patented. In order to make a bluray player you need to license the technology, which I imagine is some sort of package deal of patents and trademarks (so you can legally call your product a "bluray" player and whatnot). The actual documents that describe the spec may be copyrighted, but the technology would be patented.
Patent and copyright law are two seperate beasts, but that is often overlooked. Probably because often people (particularly here on slashdot) have a similar dislike for both of them.
Circumventing DRM on a bluray disc counts as circumvention of a copyright protection measure. That is DMCA territory, related to copyright, but not totally the same thing.
I'm well aware of how certificates work, and I'm sure you are well aware that the vast majority of the population would never think, or even know, to confirm that the certificate is from the correct CA.
Ah, but how do we know we are actually getting the right extension? Normally that process is secured by ssl but now.... The Chinese government could man in the middle anyone who tries to install any particular extension, and feed them a crippled one instead. Implausible sure, but possible.
Read it as "There are plenty of devices with virtual keyboards and they aren't going away.". No doubt Freud would have some snide comment about my mother or penises for this.;)
Panama is hardly the only place in the world with rainforests, your statement proves nothing except perhaps that Panama in particular has their act together.
In the end, what was originally intended as a mechanism for slowing global warming has created huge economic pressure for ecocide. And there will be no objections from easily duped bleeding- heart "environmentalists," who absolutely love tree planting because it sounds so "green."
That was from December 2009, and I doubt much has changed in the past few weeks...
The concept can be as sound as bedrock, but if the execution is poor then it isn't worth a shit. Where there is money, there is corruption, and that doesn't get you anywhere.
Well sure, but this would only be an exceptable solution to the most paranoid of technically minded people. Nobody wants to manually confirm a public key each time they make a phonecall. It's also quite worthless if you are not controlling the femtocell in question, which would be the vast majority of the time.
use only encrypted VoiP. Preferebly with a microSD card filled with one-time pad
Say what? Either you don't know what a one-time pad is and are just pulling cryto terms out your ass, or you have really weird telephone habits. OTPs never make sense, unless you are a spy deep in enemy territory and you need to transmit a handful of words with perfect security to a single receiver. The logistical issues with a system like the one you are proposing are absurd.
Huh? Public keys are just that... public. A hash of a public key demonstrates nothing....wait a second. You were on the dev team of these femtocell things weren't you?
That makes MPG ratings totally useless, which supports my point, rather than invalidating it. Thanks!
I agree with that, and I'm not attempting to invalidate any of your points...
Fixing CO2 is responsible behavior.
...Ok, maybe this one. Oh yeah, clear-cutting rainforests to plant tree-farms so a bunch of yuppies can feel good about driving around a tank every day just to pick up their groceries is really responsible...
Most bikes are making under 30 MPG in real-world riding, because their owners are addicted to wrist-twisting.
MPG ratings don't take terrible driving practices into account, nor are they supposed to.
If you're the proud owner of an electronically fuel-injected motorcycle with a catalyst, you can be as smug as you like.
Allow me to clarify. I don't own or drive a motorcycle, my car is half a state away in storage because I live in the city, and I really don't care about polution. I was simply trying to explain the probable reasoning the original poster was using when he claimed motorcycles have less polution than SUVs.
Also, CO2 can be fixed. If you're worried about it, you can buy carbon credits.
Oh please... buying pardons for your sins is so 16th century...
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Yeah, because a project dying and all the people that still use it being left out in the cold is really an attractive alternative.
Not.
This is really a great step in the right direction for Australia! Time to break out the suddenoutbreakofcommonsense tag!
I'm well aware of how embrace, extend and extinguish works, but I'd say they prematurely ended phase 1. It's not like android has enough weight right now to make them forking (extending) really matter. Not to mention, this is all pretty much over some shitty poorly thought out modification what isn't useful for anything except android. Not exactly an effective extend...
Since when is forking considered "embracing"?
I am not equating, merely comparing. I do not believe that breaking unjust laws is unethical, regardless of magnitude.
Giving up your seat may not be an issue of life or death, but it certainly is an issue of human rights. If you are drawing your line there, I must say, I think you are drawing it in the wrong place.
On the topic of the appropriateness of breaking laws, I think this excerpt from the Letter from Birmingham Jail sums up my feelings nicely:
You can read the full letter here. It is a very good read, I highly suggest it. Anyways, I suppose what I'm saying is that the severity of the injustice makes little difference to me, unjust laws do not get my respect.
Bluray wouldn't be copyright'd, but rather patented. In order to make a bluray player you need to license the technology, which I imagine is some sort of package deal of patents and trademarks (so you can legally call your product a "bluray" player and whatnot). The actual documents that describe the spec may be copyrighted, but the technology would be patented.
Patent and copyright law are two seperate beasts, but that is often overlooked. Probably because often people (particularly here on slashdot) have a similar dislike for both of them.
Circumventing DRM on a bluray disc counts as circumvention of a copyright protection measure. That is DMCA territory, related to copyright, but not totally the same thing.
And yes, the DMCA is absolute bullshit, I agree.
So Rosa Parks was wrong for not giving up her seat.
Right.
No, you would be too busy responding with a well-aimed chair.
I'm well aware of how certificates work, and I'm sure you are well aware that the vast majority of the population would never think, or even know, to confirm that the certificate is from the correct CA.
Easier said then done. If they were going to use this for evil, they would only do so in very isolated cases for exactly this reason.
Ah, but how do we know we are actually getting the right extension? Normally that process is secured by ssl but now.... The Chinese government could man in the middle anyone who tries to install any particular extension, and feed them a crippled one instead. Implausible sure, but possible.
Yeah, that's what we said. Easy.
Read it as "There are plenty of devices with virtual keyboards and they aren't going away.". No doubt Freud would have some snide comment about my mother or penises for this. ;)
Panama is hardly the only place in the world with rainforests, your statement proves nothing except perhaps that Panama in particular has their act together.
But what do I know? Lets see what Bernd Heinrich, emeritus professor at the University of Vermont has to say.
That was from December 2009, and I doubt much has changed in the past few weeks...
The concept can be as sound as bedrock, but if the execution is poor then it isn't worth a shit. Where there is money, there is corruption, and that doesn't get you anywhere.
I read the second section of your post as "virtual keyboards", and worded my response accordingly. That'll teach me to read more carefully.
Well sure, but this would only be an exceptable solution to the most paranoid of technically minded people. Nobody wants to manually confirm a public key each time they make a phonecall. It's also quite worthless if you are not controlling the femtocell in question, which would be the vast majority of the time.
Say what? Either you don't know what a one-time pad is and are just pulling cryto terms out your ass, or you have really weird telephone habits. OTPs never make sense, unless you are a spy deep in enemy territory and you need to transmit a handful of words with perfect security to a single receiver. The logistical issues with a system like the one you are proposing are absurd.
He also seems to be assuming that the attacker and the owner are two seperate people.
Huh? Public keys are just that... public. A hash of a public key demonstrates nothing. ...wait a second. You were on the dev team of these femtocell things weren't you?
Why do you care enough to respond to a post that you disagree with?
There are plenty of people you are going to disagree with and they aren't going away.
I agree with that, and I'm not attempting to invalidate any of your points...
MPG ratings don't take terrible driving practices into account, nor are they supposed to.
Allow me to clarify. I don't own or drive a motorcycle, my car is half a state away in storage because I live in the city, and I really don't care about polution. I was simply trying to explain the probable reasoning the original poster was using when he claimed motorcycles have less polution than SUVs.
Oh please... buying pardons for your sins is so 16th century...
"150 pounds of momentum"
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Except pounds are a measure of weight, not momentum
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