A million people could had the idea of mass producing cars, figured out a^2+b^2=c^2, or thought up special relativity. Innovation and insight always seems obvious after the fact but, as much as many people don't want to admit it, rarely can you really describe these events as just "luck".
A few years ago, when describing special relativity my physics professor said something to the effect of "This is really simple, the basic premise of this is not hard to grasp and thousands of people could have done this. However none of them did except one man. Brillance is being able to figure out the seemingly obvious stuff that nobody else can."
What you are arguing is that the certificate on the calculators is copyrighted.
That may or may not arguably be true (personally I think it's bullshit) but that is irrelevant and beside the point. The C&Ds were sent out for the factorizations of the keys in the certificate, not for publishing the certificate itself (which was done long before this). For your train of thought to hold any ground you would have to argue that factorizations of copyrighted numbers (a dubious concept) are themselves copyrighted. This is nonsensical because this would allow you to, with the aid of some mathematical transformations, claim copyright on any number you wished.
As an extreme case, TI could DMCA schoolchildren because KEY/KEY * 2 = 2, and they dared publish the number 2 without permission.
Yeah, but the initial C&Ds that they sent out only mentioned the OS signing keys, not the App signing keys. The OSes have always been free of charge and available to the public. Apparently they somehow missed that we also cracked the App keys the first time around but that didn't stop them from DMCAing everyone involved.
I really fail to see how their flawed business model (a business model based of the supposed security of a 512-bit RSA key) is any of my problem. Furthermore, I really fail to see how their flawed business model should have any bearing what so ever with that rights I have with my hardware.
To be perfectly blunt, I don't give a shit how bad it is for them, I have the right to load software of my chosing on my hardware.
Also, since you mentioned Doom I should add that Doom is still a quite good game. As a matter of fact I was playing it for about 45 minutes in linux on the train back home just a few hours ago. (well, Doom 2 technically)
I know some mod is about to mod me 'funny' but I'm quite serious. If you are a casual gamer and not addicted to fast-paced games and high-rez graphics, give roguelikes a try. My personal favorite is nethack, but there are a lot out there and there is some good variety and inovation in the genre.
Yeah agreed. If I were going to make a markov chain from slashdot articles about iphones, flash, and mono, I'm pretty sure the output would be quite like the GPs post.
It'd probably get modded up too because it'd hit all the key words to trigger the brainless mods who just scan for phrases that they like.
Meanwhile those of use not running Linux From Scratch generally don't have to do shit to get sound working. It's been working "out of the box" with practically every distro I've used since I've had this computer, nearly 3 years.
Hell, even in Gentoo all I had to do was run `alsaconfig`.
Why should I do something that is outside of my normal use-case? The fact is that many people do not do heavy gaming or media editing and do not need more powerful machines.
"Even with a few pseudo-open-source components, Apple is still vastly more "proprietary and locked in" than Microsoft"
As a linux user and fellow Apple hater, I've got to say I think this critisism is a bit off base. In the very least they have put out Webkit which my prefered webbrowser (Arora) uses as it's rendering engine. Webkit was based off of KHTML and is as opensource as anything.
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You just had to reinforce that steriotype didn't you? ;)
That's probably why he's asking jackass.
A million people could had the idea of mass producing cars, figured out a^2+b^2=c^2, or thought up special relativity. Innovation and insight always seems obvious after the fact but, as much as many people don't want to admit it, rarely can you really describe these events as just "luck".
A few years ago, when describing special relativity my physics professor said something to the effect of "This is really simple, the basic premise of this is not hard to grasp and thousands of people could have done this. However none of them did except one man. Brillance is being able to figure out the seemingly obvious stuff that nobody else can."
What you are arguing is that the certificate on the calculators is copyrighted.
That may or may not arguably be true (personally I think it's bullshit) but that is irrelevant and beside the point. The C&Ds were sent out for the factorizations of the keys in the certificate, not for publishing the certificate itself (which was done long before this). For your train of thought to hold any ground you would have to argue that factorizations of copyrighted numbers (a dubious concept) are themselves copyrighted. This is nonsensical because this would allow you to, with the aid of some mathematical transformations, claim copyright on any number you wished.
As an extreme case, TI could DMCA schoolchildren because KEY/KEY * 2 = 2, and they dared publish the number 2 without permission.
Yeah, but the initial C&Ds that they sent out only mentioned the OS signing keys, not the App signing keys. The OSes have always been free of charge and available to the public. Apparently they somehow missed that we also cracked the App keys the first time around but that didn't stop them from DMCAing everyone involved.
Bullshit, the "checksum" (really a cryptographic key used for verifying signatures) is free for all to see as well, all we did was factorize it.
I really fail to see how their flawed business model (a business model based of the supposed security of a 512-bit RSA key) is any of my problem. Furthermore, I really fail to see how their flawed business model should have any bearing what so ever with that rights I have with my hardware.
To be perfectly blunt, I don't give a shit how bad it is for them, I have the right to load software of my chosing on my hardware.
Also, since you mentioned Doom I should add that Doom is still a quite good game. As a matter of fact I was playing it for about 45 minutes in linux on the train back home just a few hours ago. (well, Doom 2 technically)
Nethack.
I know some mod is about to mod me 'funny' but I'm quite serious. If you are a casual gamer and not addicted to fast-paced games and high-rez graphics, give roguelikes a try. My personal favorite is nethack, but there are a lot out there and there is some good variety and inovation in the genre.
Perhaps I have a higher definition of "computer literate", but it doesn't include people who think the internet is magic...
elinks doesn't restrict you to a 80 column terminal. To tell you the truth though, I didn't think any of them did...
Yeah agreed. If I were going to make a markov chain from slashdot articles about iphones, flash, and mono, I'm pretty sure the output would be quite like the GPs post.
It'd probably get modded up too because it'd hit all the key words to trigger the brainless mods who just scan for phrases that they like.
Clever.
Meanwhile those of use not running Linux From Scratch generally don't have to do shit to get sound working. It's been working "out of the box" with practically every distro I've used since I've had this computer, nearly 3 years.
Hell, even in Gentoo all I had to do was run `alsaconfig`.
Thought you were RMS there for a second. ;)
Case Fucking Closed.
Well done good sir, well done.
Well I initially thought it was about a group taking issue with internet users downloading illegal 100KB files... ;)
Technically that should be an all Rush mix tape and a 2 liter bottle of Shasta.
Interestingly enough, that seems to only be an issue with proprietary software, though even Apple seems to handle it pretty gracefully.
I once slipped on an icy stree and dropped my T60p several feet onto a steel manhole cover. Barely a scratch.
So clearly it's not targeted at you. Nobody cares.
Why should I do something that is outside of my normal use-case? The fact is that many people do not do heavy gaming or media editing and do not need more powerful machines.
Really? Lets take a look at what he said in your linked twitter post:
Now maybe I'm just similarly difficult, but that doesn't seem unreasonable at all.
As a linux user and fellow Apple hater, I've got to say I think this critisism is a bit off base. In the very least they have put out Webkit which my prefered webbrowser (Arora) uses as it's rendering engine. Webkit was based off of KHTML and is as opensource as anything.
Besides that point, I wholly agree though.
Maybe blood vessels are flexible because, you know, people are flexible? I find it pretty hard to imagine a person with rigid blood vessels. ;)
Second hand sodomy! Oh won't someone think of the children!