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by slowpoke 15y ago
>You're asking people not to have a knee-jerk reaction to offensive language, but you're having a knee-jerk reaction to people being offended. Uh, yeah, and that invalidates his point in exactly what way? It's still true that people are
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>15 is usually around the age that kids start getting proficient enough with their computer that they can figure out how to bootleg movies. 25 is about the time that they mature out of it. Asserting that pirating is a question of maturi
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I think the entire DNS system needs to be out of the hands of government bodies of any type, preferably relying on a cooperative, distributed solution, like the internet itself (theoretically) does/can. There was a small project a whil
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And as long as mathematicans will refuse to stop asserting that their holy science is the one and only correct answer to all problems on this earth, I'll have a hard time being interested in mathematics. This goes both ways, you see?
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You confuse the medium with the means of distributing said medium. The stream (distribution) is the DRM preventing me from doing what I want with the movie (medium). In other words, the stream itself is the DRM, not the thing that is restri
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's just obfuscating what DRM really is. Sure, it's cool and convenient to use Steam, but it's still DRM. Gold-coated feces, if you'd prefer an analogy. Just for example, you don't actually own the game, and you can't do with it whatever
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There is no good DRM. Claiming otherwise is simply regurgitating the same bullshit that companies such as Ubisoft, EA and Valve spout at every given opportunity. DRM, in all of its forms, limits what you can do with the product you paid for
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by slowpoke 15y ago
While I really agree with you on the convenience of the run-prompt (or dmenu-style launchers, which I use on my Arch+Xmonad machine), try to tell a regular user to start a program this way. He/she will stare at you in disbelief and then go
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Jacob Appelbaum (of the Tor project) has been detained multiple times at the US border already, and at least one time has had his electronic equipment taken away. The wikipedia article about him has a section about it that should lead to so
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>And, if my reading of history is not mistaken It is. Copyright is and always was designed for distributors, not authors. It's nothing more than a myth - or rather, industry propaganda - that copyright was invented by authors. Here's a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>if you accept the premise that the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for the production of said work Then please elaborate why we should accept said premise. You just state it like it's an universal law of the universe. It
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by slowpoke 15y ago
On a small IRC network I used to frequent, at one time I set up a channel with a bot that lead to a very similar situation. The idea was that channel ops can see people talk even if the channel is muted (+m). Furthermore, on unreal, you can
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>So in short, mathematics saves you time by expressing common patterns or ideas. I wasn't arguing that. In fact, I said that math is lending me and students of other fields tools to use and apply. The problem lies in the expression of s
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I fail to see how creating a new set of symbols would do anything but hinder communication within the math community. I don't think this is just about the math community. The problem - at least as I see it, as a student myself - is tha