I'm an author, and I have no problem with this. In fact, I encourage it. Why should a generation find a means to profit off my work, changing it, manipulating it, doing whatever they want with it, soon after I pass? What a disgrace that could be.
Parent is totally right. After all, the copyright clause does read:
To promote the Agrandizement of Creative Egos, by securing for extreme Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Just because they're public employees doesn't mean their cameras are always filming public locations. If they enter a private residence or a bathroom, the press doesn't get access to the videos "just because".
Letting the TV folk view it so they can report on it should be free or minor administrative fee. Letting them have the footage to broadcast on TV? That takes a group of two officers and two department lawyers reviewing all requested footage.
The trouble with posting everyones' salaries is that....it DOES tend to trend towards everyone getting paid the same, which penalizes those folks that work harder, are worth more...and are better negotiators
Removing negotiation skill as a factor for pay is a plus for any job that doesn't directly involve negotiation. If Frank does a better job than Bill, but Bill is a great BS artist, then Bill shouldn't get paid the same (or more) just because he puts a nice spin on things.
Paying a little more for people to extract more expensive materials from the ground seems ultimately more useful than paying people a heck of a lot more on the dead end job of reconfiguring coin machines
And those materials can be used for reconfiguring coin machines! The circle of life.
Of course it was sarcastic. I reject the concept that to be an Open Source or Free Software evangelist, I also must stand for your "Freedom" to put holes in everyone around you with your guns, which obviously deprives them of their freedom.
Why then, the pejorative and the consistent message that you are no longer associated with open source?
Regarding our "freedom" to put holes in everyone with our guns... That's not the freedom we have. There are laws against that, just like there are laws against putting holes in everyone with our knives, swords, baseball bats, cars, explosive/flammable materials or any other object that can be used in a dangerous manner. In the United States, we have the right to possess and wield weapons (bear arms), not the right to use them indiscriminately.
If you're talking about "mobile websites" in the context of a separate page/site that mobile devices get redirected to, I'm completely in agreement. Those are garbage.
Yes!
additional things are added to make it display / function properly on a mobile device. One such example is scaling things on smaller screens that have high resolutions to make them readable (so you don't have to constantly be zooming in and out to use the app.
This is exactly what I was talking about, and they're garbage. I don't want a screen that is 15 characters wide just because some webmaster decided I'm blind. If they must, provide me with an option to go to the vision-impaired site, but let me use the regular site.
And CSS does some really wonderful things now where you can display things differently depending on the size of the screen
Give me a real website. My screen resolution on my phone is crazy big, and it can zoom with a flick of two fingers if I need to. Reduced functionality/UI mobile sites are grandfathered crap intended for web-enabled Moto Razr phones from pre-smartphone days.
You are comparing a guy sufficiently prescient to license his database with the GPL so that he can get back access to the code later and start a fork with a guy who's taken 4 billion and is still complaining?
Well, Lucas copyrighted his work with American law, which means he should be able to make a new Star Wars movie when Disney stops bribing congressmen.
Something never considered or shown in movies or RPGs: horses require a lot of food if they're going to be working; essentially all the weight they would be carrying in equipment would need to be oats and hay instead. They can't graze to get enough energy if they're working hard; grass and twigs just don't have enough calories. The MULE runs on something the military handles in its current supply chains: gasoline. Bioengineer a horse that can eat MREs and you'll have a quiet (but smelly) alternative to this robot.
Use "United States" in a sentence. "He went to United States." Doesn't work. Needs the article. Britain is a region within the larger country of the United Kingdom. Luxemburg was a joke, but there are other countries where an article is needed, for a historical example: the U.S.S.R. (hint, it's not the same as Russia). Of course in Russian, CCCP does not have article preceding.
At first, I thought he meant the genetics of the bacteria, or some mechanism in the cell. But then he just injects it in himself hoping for what? A cross-species genetic swap or that the bacteria would replace his body's cells in placement and function?
It's a very common example for many locations, assuming "sealed" means a lock and cable on a public-use computer.
We are talking about the boot process, the computer wouldn't be shut down if the user was away for three minutes.
Physical access does include the power button. And it's not just "the user" you have to worry about, but *anyone* just passing by. Of course if the machine was screen-locked with a user logged in, it might arouse suspicion if it's later found turned off or at the login screen.
More realistic scenario would be laptop left in hotel room and an option would be to just steal the laptop and have all the time in the world.
More common for home users perhaps, but this doesn't mean it's the only scenario that grub should be designed for.
Ah, but what if the people of principle want to do things you do not want done, and do not want to do the things you want done? To that question, I respond: what if the would-be tyrants who currently do what you want decide to work against your interests after having further eroded your ability to remove them from power?
This was a deliberate move by the FSF, because computers that need passwords aren't really free, are they?
You joke, but RMS hates passwords on computers: http://www.oreilly.com/openboo...
He might as well say "A train that is stuck to the tracks isn't really free to move. Remove the tracks!"
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I'm an author, and I have no problem with this. In fact, I encourage it. Why should a generation find a means to profit off my work, changing it, manipulating it, doing whatever they want with it, soon after I pass? What a disgrace that could be.
Parent is totally right. After all, the copyright clause does read:
To promote the Agrandizement of Creative Egos, by securing for extreme Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Just because they're public employees doesn't mean their cameras are always filming public locations. If they enter a private residence or a bathroom, the press doesn't get access to the videos "just because".
Letting the TV folk view it so they can report on it should be free or minor administrative fee. Letting them have the footage to broadcast on TV? That takes a group of two officers and two department lawyers reviewing all requested footage.
The trouble with posting everyones' salaries is that....it DOES tend to trend towards everyone getting paid the same, which penalizes those folks that work harder, are worth more...and are better negotiators
Removing negotiation skill as a factor for pay is a plus for any job that doesn't directly involve negotiation. If Frank does a better job than Bill, but Bill is a great BS artist, then Bill shouldn't get paid the same (or more) just because he puts a nice spin on things.
Paying a little more for people to extract more expensive materials from the ground seems ultimately more useful than paying people a heck of a lot more on the dead end job of reconfiguring coin machines
And those materials can be used for reconfiguring coin machines! The circle of life.
Of course it was sarcastic. I reject the concept that to be an Open Source or Free Software evangelist, I also must stand for your "Freedom" to put holes in everyone around you with your guns, which obviously deprives them of their freedom.
Why then, the pejorative and the consistent message that you are no longer associated with open source?
Regarding our "freedom" to put holes in everyone with our guns... That's not the freedom we have. There are laws against that, just like there are laws against putting holes in everyone with our knives, swords, baseball bats, cars, explosive/flammable materials or any other object that can be used in a dangerous manner. In the United States, we have the right to possess and wield weapons (bear arms), not the right to use them indiscriminately.
So what you're saying, is Communism is a
*dons sunglasses*
Red Herring
YEEAAHHH!!!
If you're talking about "mobile websites" in the context of a separate page/site that mobile devices get redirected to, I'm completely in agreement. Those are garbage.
Yes!
additional things are added to make it display / function properly on a mobile device. One such example is scaling things on smaller screens that have high resolutions to make them readable (so you don't have to constantly be zooming in and out to use the app.
This is exactly what I was talking about, and they're garbage. I don't want a screen that is 15 characters wide just because some webmaster decided I'm blind. If they must, provide me with an option to go to the vision-impaired site, but let me use the regular site.
And CSS does some really wonderful things now where you can display things differently depending on the size of the screen
Ugh. This is what scrolling is for.
Give me a real website. My screen resolution on my phone is crazy big, and it can zoom with a flick of two fingers if I need to. Reduced functionality/UI mobile sites are grandfathered crap intended for web-enabled Moto Razr phones from pre-smartphone days.
I installed gentoo on my smart gun. It's constantly compiling the latest updates. emerge failures only occur on 25% of any given period of time.
And at that point, Leia didn't know they were brother and sister (for certain).
You are comparing a guy sufficiently prescient to license his database with the GPL so that he can get back access to the code later and start a fork with a guy who's taken 4 billion and is still complaining?
Well, Lucas copyrighted his work with American law, which means he should be able to make a new Star Wars movie when Disney stops bribing congressmen.
Something never considered or shown in movies or RPGs: horses require a lot of food if they're going to be working; essentially all the weight they would be carrying in equipment would need to be oats and hay instead. They can't graze to get enough energy if they're working hard; grass and twigs just don't have enough calories. The MULE runs on something the military handles in its current supply chains: gasoline. Bioengineer a horse that can eat MREs and you'll have a quiet (but smelly) alternative to this robot.
This not help Cookie Monster. Both hands cookie hand. Om nom nom nom nom!
You joke, but most horse carriages are essentially driverless on frequently traveled trips, especially for trips home.
I imagined 25% of the world population was Amish. Your move.
Use "United States" in a sentence. "He went to United States." Doesn't work. Needs the article. Britain is a region within the larger country of the United Kingdom. Luxemburg was a joke, but there are other countries where an article is needed, for a historical example: the U.S.S.R. (hint, it's not the same as Russia). Of course in Russian, CCCP does not have article preceding.
The United States of America. The United Kingdom. The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. The the the the the!
At first, I thought he meant the genetics of the bacteria, or some mechanism in the cell. But then he just injects it in himself hoping for what? A cross-species genetic swap or that the bacteria would replace his body's cells in placement and function?
The thing was already built. It's being used to threaten planets into slavery. Why not destroy it?
When lilo failed, you were stuck with a box you had to boot from CD. With grub, you can at least boot another disk or even the correct disk.
That is like the most contrived example ever.
It's a very common example for many locations, assuming "sealed" means a lock and cable on a public-use computer.
We are talking about the boot process, the computer wouldn't be shut down if the user was away for three minutes.
Physical access does include the power button. And it's not just "the user" you have to worry about, but *anyone* just passing by. Of course if the machine was screen-locked with a user logged in, it might arouse suspicion if it's later found turned off or at the login screen.
More realistic scenario would be laptop left in hotel room and an option would be to just steal the laptop and have all the time in the world.
More common for home users perhaps, but this doesn't mean it's the only scenario that grub should be designed for.
Ah, but what if the people of principle want to do things you do not want done, and do not want to do the things you want done? To that question, I respond: what if the would-be tyrants who currently do what you want decide to work against your interests after having further eroded your ability to remove them from power?
Meta redirects, pop ups, even browser pre-caching could look like a "visit".
This was a deliberate move by the FSF, because computers that need passwords aren't really free, are they?
You joke, but RMS hates passwords on computers: http://www.oreilly.com/openboo... He might as well say "A train that is stuck to the tracks isn't really free to move. Remove the tracks!"