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by slowpoke 15y ago
Well, it would at least not keep you in the dark about what is actually done.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Mark Zuckerberg's perceived public figure does not inspire confidence either. I haven't seen that movie, but let me just say that I simply can't help but deeply mistrust a person who considers privacy "obsolete" (which he has stated
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It sounded more like RequestPolicy than ABP, but there's nothing stopping you from using both, which is what I do.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Well, despite all the "juvenile behavior", Anonymous is a force to be reckoned with. They mean it when they say "Expect us.". I also think the fact that they don't care how you perceive them (by acting juvenile or otherwise immature) is one
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's something I've been saying since a while, and a very nice reference for various tools. Also, there's another strong argument I like to use: the UNIX philosophy of "Write programs to do one thing, and do it well". An IDE tries to do w
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Which really doesn't show, ever. I think being a scientist (and by contrast, a politician) is a matter of thinking, not of degree or title. The currently top rated comment [1] explains it rather nicely. [1]: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3589
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You don't even need to be from another planet. I'm from Germany and I'm baffled at US politics pretty much every time I read about it. That isn't to say that it's better in any way here - we just have more political parties, so the nonsense
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by slowpoke 15y ago
A very good article. I have to disagree with the part about the DRM though: >Untrue. The argument here is that Secure Boot can be used to restrict the software that a machine can run, and so can limit a system to running code that impl
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Closing unused applications. That's not a solution, that's a workaround. I'm sitting here with a 4GB RAM machine running Arch Linux with XMonad. I usually run the following applications in day to day usage: - Firefox Nightly wi
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You most likely aren't downvoted because people want to "silence" your opinion, but because your expression of it is aggressive, unfriendly and borders on ad hominem. That's why I myself downvoted you, at least. It's fine being critical of
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>CS education has a terrible batting average at producing effective developers. That's likely because "producing effective developers" is not a focus of CS education. It's to make you understand fundamentals of computation, such as co
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It's a very valid and reasonable stance to be against all forms of copyright, patents or similar forms of "intellectual property". In my opinion, they are among the worst mistakes in the history of mankind.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>But I think most mathematicians teach and learn math because they think it's cool, not because it's useful That's exactly the point I'm making. That's math for math's sake - which is perfectly okay if you're actually studying math, b
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Others have already answered the gist of your problem, so I'm just going to add the following: That's not a feature of vi(m), that's a part of some shells (bash, zsh). You can suspend any programming running in a shell with ^Z. In addition
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>You have fallen into the classic fallacy that because something cost nothing to reproduce, it cost nothing to discover or to build for the first time. I rather think that you are conflating discovery/creation and distribution/usage,
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You beautifully sum up my experience with math at the university, as a CompSci student in Germany. The absolutely most frustrating thing for me, in the beginning, were the basic math lectures (which I, as a disclaimer, still haven't finishe
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I think it's due to two factors: First, I still think the FBI (and other such deeply hierarchical organizations) are fundamentally unable to comprehend something like Anonymous on its full scale. They can't fathom the concept of a working c
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>You disclose what you have done, and in return, for X number of years, anyone who wants to use the method you have published pays you a fee. Neither am I going to wait X years to use an idea, nor am I going to pay a fee. I want it ri
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You're Anonymous if you say you're Anonymous, and anybody can do that. It's as simple as that.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Exactly. I've been saying this time and time again in the past: you cannot trust proprietary software for security, full stop . As you point out, it's security through obscurity (which we all know isn't really security), but what's more, y
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Another very good reason to get rid of the unreasonable clusterfuck that are patents. Once and for all. And magic is there to be shared. I can't even begin to imagine where we, as humanity, could be if people shared their results and benefi
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>To protect themselves From what? People actually using and improving their drivers? >to protect their IP What's the fucking point? What is there to protect? It's what I don't understand in the first place. >and to save tim
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>And it's not feasible for them to just give away their driver source for free in the meantime, for the same reasons it was never feasible for nvidia or AMD to just open up their proprietary drivers. Why? For what reason? All they are
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I use Yoda Conditions[1] in C-oid languages, so the error would be visible even without warnings (because the program would refuse to compile). [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>But can you not at least understand that many people don't understand why those four Freedoms have to be assumed as given? No, I can't. I fundamentally don't understand why you would keep source code secret, why you would deny me the
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>No one's freedom is being taken away when you create a proprietary fork. You're free to make forks for your own personal usage and never give anyone the source. You don't even have to tell anyone that you did. As soon as you share th
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by slowpoke 15y ago
RMS makes his money by being paid for roughly half (iirc) of the talks and speeches he gives around the world. That has been his only source of income for years now.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>you want to create a proprietary fork you can do it Why should you be allowed to take away the Freedoms of others? The one thing the GPL restricts is your Freedom to restrict the Freedom of others. That's the foundation of copyleft:
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Quite the contrary. It shows that something is severely wrong and in dire need of improvement if you need to go to those lengths to be able to run entirely on Free Software. Someone who wants to run only Free Software should not, by any mea
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Anyway, that's just as bad: it teaches you to be paranoid. What taught me to be paranoid weren't retarded fliers like these. That honor goes to the people who caused me to pick up the practices described on this flier in the first pl

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