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by slowpoke 14y ago
I, for one, refuse to be used as the source of free labor by Google just because I want to sign up for a website.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> Plus it helps get rid of the "internet fuckwads" Hahaha. No. Take a single look at Facebook, and you'll be proven wrong. The amount of utter retardation people post under their real names is both astonishing and depressing. I've seen
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>If the argument that computer algorithms are invalid because they are mathematical concepts is going to be made, it needs to be applied consistently which would exclude all currently patentable subject matter. I wouldn't argue it tha
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>And as a proud owner of (what is widely considered the most supported linux laptop) lenovo laptop, I can say that many things just dont work. E.g. Suspend. Suspend worked out of the box for me on my X220t. I am running Arch Linux.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I do not think that the whole patent issue is one of scale. It's one of principle. Nothing and no one should be allowed to own ideas, formulas, algorithms, genes or molecular arrangements. Besides - and I've argued this countless times in t
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> When people say "software patents" they are usually talking about "business process" patents, not computer algorithm patents, and business process patents should be disallowed generally. You are contradicting yourself. "Business proc
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Actually, the original intention was governmental censorship.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>That's typical - otherwise, you could implement some almost arbitrary protocol but say it was this one (and use a small amount of it) and claim that you were shielded from Skype's patents. No, that's what standard bodies are for. No
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I vehemently disagree. This is supposed to become an open standard. Open standards must, in my opinion, be completely free. No compromises. No exceptions. No footnotes. No patent bullshit.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Unfortunately, according to Wikipedia, Skype holds software patents on parts of the algorithm. Even though they said they'd make them avaiable royalty-free, this still means it isn't completely free.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>You could just, you know, choose not be logged in with facebook. Im not. This utterly misses the point. This is not about being logged into Facebook or not. I don't have a Facebook account I could be logged into, and they still try
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Plus, if you're a linux guy, and the windows version is cheaper, just buy that and get the ubuntu image or drivers from dell support. This is not an option if you are opposed to the Windows Tax on principle. I am extremely uncomfortabl
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Copyright is not part of the constitution. That's flat out wrong. What's part of the constitution is congress' ability to create copyright or patent laws. There's absolutely no imperative to have these laws, and as others have pointed o
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Because lock-in is the only reason Windows is still so heavily entrenched on the market. This isn't even about the merit of Powershell as a program. This is about a tool which is designed to work on Windows (and Windows only[1]), and thus t
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The difference is that in the world of GNU/Linux, a different desktop environment or window manager is usually just a single package manager command away. You're being free to choose. Microsoft will force their UIs on you, and there's nothi
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Do yourself a favor and don't lock yourself even more into the Windows environment if you, for whatever reason, have to work with it.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The flip side of patent protection is this is what encourages drug companies to spend the multiple years of drug research and drug approval to develop new antibiotics. That's patently wrong (pun intended). At least in Europe, a major
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Vim has the ftplugin (filetype plugin), which makes this easy as pie, and extremely configurable, too. You simply set filetype plugin on then put configuration files for a filetype into ~/.vim/ftplugin/$filetype.vim (for example, p
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by slowpoke 14y ago
It is true, though, that there is a limit to how much people this planet can reasonably sustain, and I'd say we're billions over that mark - the only reason the system still works (barely) is because a large part of the world's population l
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Please don't give me the "rational adult" when you are obviously unable to differentiate between having a sexual preference and acting on a sexual preference. I've explicitly stated that child abuse and/or rape is a crime, and I've ne
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>we've seen thought the history of time that it's ok to punish otherwise-acceptable behavior as long as it acts as an insurance in order to prevent more harmful acts. I doubt there's actually any evidence for it. It's not that I don't
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Now, I'm a child of my time, so I think homosexuality is OK, and I think paedophilia is a crime. Except paedophilia isn't a crime, child abuse (and rape) is. Assering a sexual preference (which paedophilia boils down to) is criminal
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>There's too much money in them. This is not an argument. I'm pretty sure there was a lot of money in the slave markets as well. Didn't stop the US from abolishing it, though.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The more people take the "radical" stance, the less radical it becomes (relative to the status quo). That's my whole point. So stop bickering about how we'll never get anything done with demands for abolition - demand it be done, and tell o
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by slowpoke 14y ago
We don't want a different system. We want no system at all. How's that so hard to grasp? Every single proposal to "fix" patents so far either involves fighting bureaucracy with even more bureaucracy (that's suuuure gonna work out) or are
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>I simply do not believe that there is a moral imperative that software vendors allow anyone and everyone to redistribute that package. The moral imperative here is not that they need to allow it - it's that they can and should not be
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>its still debatable whether such a thing would be viable given the R&D costs in producing a modern desktop OS, mobile OS, programming languages and runtimes, Metro, etc. Bullshit. The estimated cost to redevelop the Linux kernel
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>If my users don't want me to trample on their "Freedoms", they don't have to buy my software. They could most likely not make an informed choice, because you do not educate them about denying them their freedom. And still there is
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Provides the ability to turn a profit on the sale of software licenses, which is a tried and true method for producing better quality consumer software than we've ever seen from OSS products. a) "Tried and true" does not mean it will
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>They have taken a far too totalitarian approach to their offerings and it is not getting any better. You might have missed the part about Microsoft being equally as eager to lock down everything they can get away with. This isn't goi

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