Comment Re:FSF questions (Score 1) 98
The part about encrypted radio firmware is lame. If you can't make calls from Ubuntu, it's not an "Ubuntu" phone, it's a phone that can also be turned into a less useful tablet-style device.
The part about encrypted radio firmware is lame. If you can't make calls from Ubuntu, it's not an "Ubuntu" phone, it's a phone that can also be turned into a less useful tablet-style device.
I don't care so much if the FSF doesn't like the Ubuntu Edge. I'm OK with closed-source software being on the phone.
I never cared much for smart phones, and I didn't even own one until last year when a friend gave me a bricked LG model. It really bothered me that a modern computer could be "bricked" and I couldn't even fix it without importing a Medusa jtag box with illegal software (under the DMCA).
This is why I was interested in the Ubuntu Edge. An open source boot loader would be awesome.
Were the following questions by the FSF ever answered?
"Will the Ubuntu Edge versions of both Android and Ubuntu contain or rely on any proprietary software or proprietary firmware?"
"Will the Ubuntu Edge include any Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) software?"
"Will the device's bootloader be free software?"
"Will the device have Restricted Boot, or will users be able to replace the operating system with a free one of their choice?"
"Will Ubuntu Edge include F-Droid, the free software Android application repository, as part of a commitment to promote and recommend only free software?"
Learn the difference between effect and affect. It will make people take the rest of your tripe more seriously.
You think wrong. If you bothered to read the source, it says all of the abstracts included in the study matched "the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'."
Except that all of the "11944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 [match] the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'."
HELL YES!
Most operate under the impression that the government just has all this free money to send where it wants with no clue that those resources and funds have to actually come from somewhere.
Most in the government operate under that assumption. But, hey, we can always print more money.
Your numbers don't add up. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/number-ipads-sold-apple-quarter-201153619.html
What is this I don't even...
You realize that the Surface Pro doesn't run Windows RT?
Commas don't go, where you think they go.
And if millions of people use this proxy service, who are they going to bust for piracy?
Wow, the US postal service has a lot of shit to answer for.
Did you not read the part where the courier did not know the ALREADY sealed envelope had drugs?
No shit. People that don't have access to insulin will die more often from diabetes. So fucking what? They introduce this interesting phenomenon that even wealthy and seemingly healthy Americans have lower life expectancy than those in other affluent areas, and then they don't explain shit about why they think that is the case. Do you care to explain it?
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
