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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Or more precisely to maximize the speed at which we acquire knowledge/technology. Who do you mean by "we"? Because you certainly can not be referring to "we" as in mankind. Locking away knowledge behind walls of bureaucracy and artif
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Refer to the UNIX Programming Environment: UNIX does not stop the user from doing stupid things, as that would also prevent them from doing clever things. Apply s/stupid/bad and s/clever/good and you have my view on this issue.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
That's the stupidest definition of terrorism I have ever seen. You could call pretty much ANYTHING slightly subversive terrorism under this definition. Movements for social change? Terrorism. Peaceful demonstrations against government polic
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>it would be an act of state sponsored terrorism. How would that be, in any way, shape or form, terrorism? If anything, it might be espionage or something in that vein. Calling whistle-blowing terrorism is disingenuous at best.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Exactly my first thought when reading the first paragraph. I find it almost laughable to cite Apple as an example of "making a computer smarter". Apple has done the exact opposite: dumbing it down to fit the lowest common denominator, then
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Not to mention no tactile feedback (deal-breaker for any serious typist) and ridiculous amounts of screen real estate lost to an onscreen keyboard (deal-breaker for any serious programmer). We will one day have something to replace the keyb
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by slowpoke 14y ago
That is nice. Time to read up a bit about this man. Thank you.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I've actually been waiting for such a functionality for ages - except I would use it to adblock everything, even in real life. No more pesky ad noise == quality of life significantly improved.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Oh and anything that involves the file system is not friendly for a surprisingly huge number of users. "User friendliness" in this case also includes developers, who could easily write a program that interacts with the device. For ex
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Content will become scarce indeed if no one pays for it An common, but unproven claim, which also confuses content creation with distribution . It's the monopoly over the latter that I and many others object to. We are currently s
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Neither of your point disproves the fact that it's ridiculous. It's not about whether you want to run your own applications or not, it's about having that choice whenever you want to. On every computing device. This is - or should be - a fu
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Everyone who gets a copy has that copy forever, essentially gaining all the benefits of purchase. So? If I really wanted, I could make a copy of a book from the library, too. The possibilities are endless, but all of them are less co
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I do love it when people people in online discussions about piracy try to downplay the value of Free[1] sharing to "the latest Lady Gaga album or Game of Throne". It's a lot more than that. The implications are huge. They include a lot of w
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The book was purchased. For most things to appear on BT or elsewhere, someone has to buy them first, too. Your argument, therefore, is invalid. As for the rest, your whole point hinges on "it's approved content distribution". I say t
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by slowpoke 14y ago
My point is that this is ridiculous in the first place. There is no reason to disallow people from running their own code on their own devices. It's even worse like this. What they are doing is essentially making an undesirable situtation
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by slowpoke 14y ago
No matter how much you might try to excuse it, there is no greater user friendliness than a device simply identifying as data storage to the OS. It's ridiculous to have to use a separate program when you could just use your file manager.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Please tell me this is a joke. I have to pay to load applications I wrote myself on my own device ? This is even more ridiculous than just locking down the platform. This is a slap in the face. Good thing WP7 is failing to reach the ma
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Tell me slowpoke about the great wonders of Ubuntu and Gimp and every other crappy open source clone of proprietary software. I don't feel obliged to answer this. Please keep your flame-bait to yourself. >Just because a product
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Please tell me you are joking. The law is not a moral authority, and attempting to presenting it as such is one of the most disingenuous fallacies in existence. Something is never wrong because it's against the law. Ideally, something is
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by slowpoke 14y ago
How so? I would see it as a lot fairer if we'd all follow a liberal approach: I can't force you to give me things. But neither can you stop me from sharing them. I completely reject the illogical, nonsensical crazy idea that yo
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I find it hugely amusing how people still make out piracy as the problem. It isn't. It never was. The problem is the insistence of an industry on their business model in face of a technology that made them obsolete. Their continued, stubb
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by slowpoke 14y ago
But that is exactly my point. Choosing a single representative for all your believes, be it a person or party, is stupid, for the reasons you presented. That's why we should vote on ideas. Technology can and will enable this, and we should
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Actually, people should vote on ideas, not people. Which is why I support more flexible concepts of decision making, such as the Liquid Democracy model the German PP uses internally. We're ultimately going to converge against a leaderless s
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>And while school-level mathematics ain't the same as research-level mathematics School mathematics isn't even math, it's a bad joke. I recommend Lockhart's Lament[1], I fully share his views. School 'math' destroyed every ounce of in
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I never tried to imply that it's bad to be vigilant of fascism and right-wing ideology. I'm very much among the first people who'd step up to prevent an abomination like the Third Reich to ever happen again. I hold high respect for people s
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I think the important distinction should be between "traits that have nothing to do with the job". and those that do. Race, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual creed etc almost always have nothing to do with your job (examples such as a p
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> Like in Germany people have lots of PC for Jewish people. Which is probably also the best example of why PC is dumb. For example, it's hard to criticize Israel in German politics. At best, you'll be looked at in funny ways, at the wo
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by slowpoke 14y ago
In Germany, the stronghold of bureaucracy? You wish.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> software for example moves too quickly for this to be effective . It's not just software. Progress as a whole is moving way too fast to justify ANY temporal monopolies over inventions. The curve of technological advancement is probabl
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by slowpoke 14y ago
This isn't really a matter of money for many people. It's a matter of ethics (or principle, if that's too strong of a word for your tastes). I consider it highly anti-competitive to force people to buy an OS with their computer. It doesn't

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