Re: Sad about Dark Helment's lack of understanding of political views
It's wholly unrelated.
"left" as in "socialist" and "right" as in "capitalist" are not related to the spectrum of "authoritarian" to "liberal".
And with "liberal", I do mean "liberal", as in "opposed to censorship and surveillance, pro gay marriage, and against prohibition of drugs, guns, etc." It's about liberty, for everyone.
Of the extremes, fascists and stalinists are both authoritarian, one capitalist, the other socialist; the other extreme is social anarchists and anarcho-capitalists which are both liberal, with the first one socialist and the second one capitalist, obviously.
And trying to lump these together, just because they're extreme positions is totally bogus.
And archive.org or wikimedia hosts it for free, if you put it under a free license.
And if subscribe for a webpage hosting, you get at least 10GB of storage for USD 5; space enough for several thousand articles.
The real costs of hosting an article are much more around some cents per year. What you pay at ArXiV is not the hosting, but some service associated with it.
Nope, it's not an act of terror. Not regarding the public, not regarding Elsevier. They didn't threaten people working at Elsevier, they didn't bomb their offices. Just because economical factors and actors threaten your bottomline, it's not "terrorism".
So it's totally Ok to leave the public, administration, military, water treatment, electric grid, power plants, public transport, telcos, ISPs, and other critical infrastructure vulnerable, just so you can snoop on some alleged criminals?
This is, from a security point of view, utter madness.
if our software has weaknesses that allow them to access our information, then those weaknesses are also usable by those that would do us harm.
Even further: These weaknesses will not only used by criminals to do harm to people, these weaknesses will also be used by adversaries against government agencies and critical infrastructure
This just reinforces what I've been saying for a long time - when it comes to 'terrorism' many in the government have taken the attitude of "the ends justify the means".
That attitude comes straight from the terrorists playbook.
First of all yes, the EU parliament does seem to have something against Google for whatever reason.
No. It's actually the EU Commission. That body which is supposed to be the executive, isn't elected, and meddles in the legislative's (the parliaments) territory.
You DO NOT create new content using characters that have been created by another person who owns the copyrights to it.
Like fanfiction? I cannot exactly see where the "owns the copyright to it" is in there, because "create new content" implies it's NOT copyright violation.
And one of the reasons was Windows 95. I had a beta in summer 1995, and came to the conclusion that this was the same DOS-based shit as Windows 3.11, in a nicer packaging.
Just at this moment, a friend lent me his Linux install CD, and I was hooked. I still had DOS and Windows 3.11 for maybe a year or two on the other partition, but then came Quake in 1996, and that was the point where I threw out DOS and Windows. Obviously, they weren't needed anymore, the important games were working on Linux ;).
My machines run Linux ever since, sometimes I had some Windows in a VMware, but never on the metal. But lately, wine has obliterated the need for most Windows VMs, because it's so much faster and runs about 90% of all Windows applications and 80% of all games, out of the box. Of course, now I don't even run wine so much, since a lot of games now get ported.
In any case, apart from OCR, Desktop Publishing and Image Manipulation, there is no need to use anything but Linux. And for the above three things, MacOS X has always been better than Windows anyway.
Free markets work best if everyone can participate, as consumer AND as producer.
Airbnb is exactly doing that. And I can't see why this should be a tax problem, as the income made with renting out your apartment is subject to normal income tax. Why would you have another tax on it?
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Re: Sad about Dark Helment's lack of understanding of political views
"left" as in "socialist" and "right" as in "capitalist" are not related to the spectrum of "authoritarian" to "liberal".
And with "liberal", I do mean "liberal", as in "opposed to censorship and surveillance, pro gay marriage, and against prohibition of drugs, guns, etc." It's about liberty, for everyone.
Of the extremes, fascists and stalinists are both authoritarian, one capitalist, the other socialist; the other extreme is social anarchists and anarcho-capitalists which are both liberal, with the first one socialist and the second one capitalist, obviously.
And trying to lump these together, just because they're extreme positions is totally bogus.
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Re: Re: I love this sort of story
And if subscribe for a webpage hosting, you get at least 10GB of storage for USD 5; space enough for several thousand articles.
The real costs of hosting an article are much more around some cents per year. What you pay at ArXiV is not the hosting, but some service associated with it.
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This is, from a security point of view, utter madness.
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Re: What about open source?
Hey! I do use en_GB.UTF-8, but that doesn't mean I'm in the UK, It just means, I want a correct spell checker ;).
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Re: sorry... I actually had something to say
our information, then those weaknesses are also usable by
those that would do us harm.
Even further: These weaknesses will not only used by criminals to do harm to people, these weaknesses will also be used by adversaries against government agencies and critical infrastructure
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That attitude comes straight from the terrorists playbook.
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Re: EU vs US companies
No. It's actually the EU Commission. That body which is supposed to be the executive, isn't elected, and meddles in the legislative's (the parliaments) territory.
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Like fanfiction? I cannot exactly see where the "owns the copyright to it" is in there, because "create new content" implies it's NOT copyright violation.
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I'd also say Linux is not for everyone, but then, Windows is for nobody ;)=
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Re: Re: What a joke.
And one of the reasons was Windows 95. I had a beta in summer 1995, and came to the conclusion that this was the same DOS-based shit as Windows 3.11, in a nicer packaging.
Just at this moment, a friend lent me his Linux install CD, and I was hooked. I still had DOS and Windows 3.11 for maybe a year or two on the other partition, but then came Quake in 1996, and that was the point where I threw out DOS and Windows. Obviously, they weren't needed anymore, the important games were working on Linux ;).
My machines run Linux ever since, sometimes I had some Windows in a VMware, but never on the metal. But lately, wine has obliterated the need for most Windows VMs, because it's so much faster and runs about 90% of all Windows applications and 80% of all games, out of the box. Of course, now I don't even run wine so much, since a lot of games now get ported.
In any case, apart from OCR, Desktop Publishing and Image Manipulation, there is no need to use anything but Linux. And for the above three things, MacOS X has always been better than Windows anyway.
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This is going to be the best Microsoft operating system of all time.
But arguably, the best Microsoft OS might have been Xenix, although it was a miserable Unix, it was still Unix, hence better ;).
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Somebody needs to remind them. Sic semper tyrannis.
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And §15 differentiates between "fixed" ("in körperlicher Form") and "non-fixed", but that's not related to eligibility.
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free markets
Airbnb is exactly doing that. And I can't see why this should be a tax problem, as the income made with renting out your apartment is subject to normal income tax. Why would you have another tax on it?
Of course, incumbents don't like free markets...
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Attorney-General
I my understanding, Attorney-Generals don't make laws. Ever.
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