user49598
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Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Making everyone pay isn't a solution, it's a business plan.
When I go out to a loud club I can still communicate and no one comes around telling me it's against the club rules to try to.
The Olympics would be nothing without our ability to communicate about them. IMHO that's one of the biggest failings of NBC this year. They're doing a horrible job of communicating the Olympics. Opening up the communication channels just brings more interest, more coverage and more excitement.
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes, but you don't fix it by shutting them all down and making people pay for something they could provide themselves. You make it free, 'cos it's the Olympics and people need to communicate freely.
ps. wasn't my downvote, I think they're useless
edit-- well it seems you removed the part of your comment that called out your down-voter and now i seem pedantic
Comment · 14 years ago
Whether or not that reddit post is correct in this situation, they are banning regular wifi and 3g hotspots created by personal cell phones. Which IMHO isn't really draconian but pretty dumb. The olympics should be about athletics, communication, and celebration. Not brand recognition.
http://www.zdnet.com/london-bans-3g-wi-fi-hotspots-from-olym...
Comment · 14 years ago
The license for those interested:
SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&...
Comment · 14 years ago
no one uses the whois unix command?
Comment · 14 years ago
However, I'm not advocating price controls.
If what you're implying is that you believe in the ability of the free market to solve the problem, then first we would need free the wireless phone market.
Comment · 14 years ago
This isn't about cryptography, this is about what data can be pulled out of bits transfered through your computer. There is no requisite that they be encrypted, they can be obfuscated, hidden, or just not recognizable as illegal to you. There is no way for you to verify that a collection of bits, put on your computer by a 3rd party, does not in fact represent something illegal. You would have to have access to every existing and theoretical encoding, encryption and obfuscation technique, and use them in every theoretical combination to verify such a thing.
Comment · 14 years ago
It's not about what kind of software they are considered, it's about code running on your system. In the RMS eyes, if code runs on your system, and you can't read/modify that code yourself, it's unethical.
Comment · 14 years ago
The problem is thinking that there is a way. You can't. Data can easily be obfuscated. As long as bits are flowing through your machine from sources that you don't control, you could be middle man to anything.
Comment · 14 years ago
...everyone knows child porn is bad. It's existence though, does not negate the usefulness of a system. Not that cryptosphere is going to be the open government revolution, but your comment is a useless vomit of emotional blather.
Comment · 14 years ago
The first one with the 2-tone metal back is still the prettiest IMHO. And it seemed the sturdiest. A drop resulted in a dent, not a crack or finger shaving glass shards.
Comment · 14 years ago
Because unfortunately logical reasoning and argument construction are not educational targets for most people. :(
Comment · 14 years ago
Haven't made any commits in a while. Waiting for more features from meteor.
Data: Back it up. Backup your backups. Stop fucking around. If you don't get hacked, your storage will fail.
Software: Don't install shit you don't trust. Don't trust shit you can't verify.
Passwords: Don't try to remember them!!
It's 2012, not following these simple rules is inexcusable.