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by slowpoke 15y ago
You just described the problem of copyright as a whole: it was never designed for the little guy - as the popular myth goes (guess who is spreading that). It was invented by and for publishers (aka the big business), not for authors. That w
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You're committing a fallacy here, in addition to completely missing my point. The fact that it still rolls in billions has nothing to do with any justification of the business model. To use an extreme analogy: slave trade rolled in a huge p
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>The difficulty in quantifying the cost is largely irrelevant IMO. If you cannot quantify any damages, you are not entitled to any compensation. It's as simple as that, really. Or are you seriously going to argue that "there could hav
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>If there's no money to be made in producing content, then nobody will produce content Sigh, how often have I heard this by now? It's a lie, and you know it. The only thing that will stop existing are the big content industries. &#62
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I would say it's more like some people walked out of the library with them. No. If anything, they are walking out of the library with a perfect copy of the book, while the library still has the original. Nobody looses anything. People
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>And I never saw any other alternative than implementing diagnostic rules by the analyzer's developers at the request of programmers This isn't meant as an attack, but that sounds an awful lot like "I do not want other people to be able
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There's a difference between a word gaining a second meaning, and one meaning effectively replacing the other completely. icebraining mentioned "gay". Today, who in their right mind would call a joyful person gay ? That's what the term o
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Now that's more of a valid argument. I just dislike calling anyone who prefers to stay in relative anonymity (for whatever reason) or is simply new to a community "not credible", at least if it's only because of those attributes. It's a thi
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Attacking the messenger is shallow. How about you look at the points - whether valid or not - he or she raises instead and try to refute them? It matters little if that person is well known or someone entirely new. I don't see how the relat
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>No, everybody would not be on the same hour. Yes they would. That's the whole point, which you still seem to miss completely. With a global coordinated time, you will no longer have to care whether someone is in New York, Tokyo, Berlin
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> No, there will always be timezones, even if we call them something else. Even on swatch time, I still have to keep track of which one-hour window I can schedule a multi-continent conference call in, Your missing the point. The fact th
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm not saying every website should work perfectly without scripts - I know full well what I got myself into when I started using all these filters. What annoys me are websites which are completely un-fucking-readable without dozens of scri
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Unless it's used as a transition for a clueful, but new to Linux, user who's going to learn a bit and then move to a different distribution. Exactly to those I would point to #!. By the FSM, I would never suggest #! to a user that does
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I had to whitelist at least 4 different scripts and cross-site requests to get the desired effect. It's quite funny, but nothing I would usually notice due to my Firefox setup (NoScript, RequestPolicy and some other script/tracker blockers)
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> A year ago the standard response to a new user inquiring about Linux was "install Ubuntu, it's easy, there's lots of help available. Go get 'em tiger." Now, Ubuntu is usually spoken of with a kind of regretful contempt. True. I used t
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by slowpoke 15y ago
While I definitely support the notion of this petition, it's time that people realize that things like these won't do shit, to put it bluntly. To stop this madness, we have to attack and bring down the people who cause this retardation - th
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You're completely missing the point. Or rather, the context. RMS/the FSF never tried to pervert the meaning of "free" to only mean "libre". It's just that in the context of their work, it makes little sense to use the other meaning of free
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> This is a(and I really hate this term) first world problem of the greatest order. "I can't use Facebook because it's proprietary and they're evil." So what? Just don't use Facebook. You're forgetting another first world problem that m
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>They just want it to be simple, and work. And yet, this isn't orthogonal to still keeping it extensible, transparent and open for learning. Yes, most users might not want or need this. But there might be some who get drawn into it. Ne
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The GPL is really a very special case. I can understand most and share some of the criticism of it, but the fact is that it tries to keep things fair for everyone by preserving all essential freedoms. It does this by restricting one freedom
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Considering that conservative has, to many people, a slightly different (and more often than not, negative) meaning than what the word actually means, the confusion is honestly a bit understandable. The word just has become tainted by its p
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I wouldn't exactly call C++ "high level", but I agree that the new features make it nicer to use when you have to.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The difference is that nobody forces you to comply to standards. If you want to hack around on your device, install third party software, concoct your own APIs and drivers or patch the kernel, nobody can stop you (and shouldn't be allowed t
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>That's not exactly fair, because you never own software unless you personally write it; any software is installed under a license. Technically this might be true, but Free Software licenses allow you varying degrees of do what the fuck
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>In this sense, "Just works" relates to restrictions on users. No. Still attacking a symptom. Standard compliance solves the same problem, without having to lock down the system. If programmers are unable or unwilling to conform to stan
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Except this is a consequence of the device having to be jailbroken in the first place to work properly. You're attacking the symptom, not the cause.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I want them to _just work_, and I want to know who to call when they break. And in what way, shape or form does this require the device to be locked down to hell and back? That argument is a fallacy - correlation does not imply causati
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by slowpoke 15y ago
> it's patently obvious that helping humanity was not a primary concern. But that's exactly what your parent is criticizing. There are genius people in the startup scene whose talents would be better applied to solve problems that actua
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Thank you. To all who are interested in facts over fiction: if you want an even more comprehensive view on the matter, try http://questioncopyright.org/promise .
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There's a fine line between genius and madness, and in my opinion, rms treads it rather nicely. As I said, if anything, you have to acknowledge him for sticking to his beliefs no matter what. Whether that's obsession or dedication is subjec

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