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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Content owners have to police the entire internet for their works. See, here's the problem. That is highly unfeasible, if not impossible (not to mention unethical) and should tell you more about the brokenness of distribution as a bu
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Exactly. Also, I always like to ask people making that claim how they explain the apparently miraculous existence of art before 1557 (or 1710, depending on whether you consider the Stationer's Charter or the Statute of Anne to be the first
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by slowpoke 15y ago
About 2: It's funny you cite the DMCA of all things as an example of "good" copyright protection. The DMCA is almost as bad a clusterfuck of a legislation as SOPA, if on a much smaller scale. DMCA takedowns are often without due process eit
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by slowpoke 15y ago
In my opinion, they effectively created a logical dilemma. Either you are against them being granted special privileges because they are a religion (and thus have to be against that in general to not appear as a complete hypocrite) or you
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by slowpoke 15y ago
A reflective eye-patch would be a nice idea. Are the materials which interfere with cameras but are not too annoying to other people?
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Thanks for giving a detailed explanation, I appreciate it, and I do see some of the plus factor this adds over DOSBox. To my personal defense: I just don't like it when people build meaningless abstractions over existing tools, and Boxers l
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I really don't get the point of that either. As far as I can tell, it wraps... Wine. What's the purpose? I could just run Wine (or DOSBox) directly, same result.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Bank PINs aren't really about password strength though. To prevent brute force, they simply block access after n tries (usually n = 3). They are just a way of preventing access to the card in case of loss or theft. So as long as there are e
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by slowpoke 15y ago
My first thought: There's already DOSBox (which I bet was already ported to Mac), what's the point? >It's powered by DOSBox. My second thought after reading that: DOSBox is GPL'd, where's the source of Boxers? >Clicking through a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Would you not agree that vegetarian people are likely to be more conscious of their nutritian than the average person? That's certainly true, and actually a necessity for vegetarianism to be healthy in the first place (just removing
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Wouldn't an anarchistic collective imply that they all follow a specific political philosophy? No, by no means. You confuse the organizational state of anarchy with the political philosophy of anarchism, which is basically the mistr
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You (and many others) fail to realize that Anonymous isn't an organization. It's an anarchistic collective with an extremely loosely defined set of common goals and values which anybody can consider themselves member of[1]. Anonymous doesn'
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I do not believe that Veganism is healthy at all. Vegetarianism with a correct diet (and only then) can be, but the human body isn't fit for a vegan diet in the long run. I respect your choice if you do it, but at large it's just not reason
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You might just be ambidextrous with a strong right hand. My strong hand is the left, but besides more complex things like writing I can also do pretty much everything with my right hand without having to train.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. We're still very much at the beginning, and it's far too early to say anything like that. If at all, we've been slightly thrown back. I still believe everything you dismissed as "techno-uto
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I think that's exactly what your parent meant (or at least my interpretation of it). Some people might not (want to) believe it but there's actually a whole lot of very valid reasoning behind what RMS is advocating. We shouldn't desire open
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> The new release model is bullshit, since it carries no information. You're talking about the versioning scheme, which I agree wasn't the best idea. However, the version number by itself never carries information. It's not an argume
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by slowpoke 15y ago
What I actually fear to become the new IE6 is Firefox 3.6 (and 4, to a degree). I've seen and talked to an unholy amount of people who flat out refuse to upgrade to the newest stable release, either because they assume (or have been told)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>In some areas, they're even ahead of the competition. Such as? (Not trying to be rude here, I'm seriously interested)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I don't believe so, but I bet you the RIAA would consider it so, even though they got paid. If the RIAA had it their way, you'd probably be forced to pay every single time you play a track on your computer or hit the Copy command to
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Anti-piracy legislation is all about protecting the middlemen who realize that they do nothing and they need the government to bail them out. Beautifully said. That, my fellow hackers, is copyright and anti-piracy legislation in a nu
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>So it's not about closed-source or open-source, but rather it's about trust. And that's my point. How can I trust someone who's unwilling to show me the source of their software and denies me my basic freedoms? What I am not saying
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by slowpoke 15y ago
While you are basically correct, the mere ability to check the source yourself and possibly be able to find (or even fix) said bugs-which-could-or-could-not-be-cleverly-hidden-backdoors puts it leagues ahead of any proprietary solution, w
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm not up to date on this, but wasn't it actually impossible to really block ads on Chrome? As in, they aren't even loaded (that's what ABP does afaik), not merely hidden from display. I seem to remember this was the case a while ago, and
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Exactly. Trusting proprietary, closed source software (in other words, a third party) for encryption is missing the point of encryption so hard, it's not even funny.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'd be interested in which `free` you are talking about. Beer or speech (or both)? Because for me, the prime reason I refuse to use Dropbox[1] is that it's unfree software as per the speech definition. I am not running software on my comp
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You want to be truly cross-platform? There's exactly one way to do this: Open-source your game. If there is demand on a platform, it will be ported.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I believe that a BSD-style license is generally good (personally I even prefer the WTFPL). In an ideal world, we wouldn't need licenses because nobody would be stupid enough to make proprietary software[1] or otherwise try to restrict the u
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>If you believe in free speech, except for the speech you don't agree with, you don't believe in free speech. Except that's not what I was saying. You have an opinion that differs from mine? You are free to state it and I will gladly
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>You can have either free speech or banned campaign founding but not both. You could have something else: complete and total accountability, and full transparency of WHO is paying HOW MUCH to WHOM for WHAT purpose. Publicly available.

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