We've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! It's a work in progress -- we hope you'll check it out (Learn more about the recent updates).
It's only "controversial" in software where people think that "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" is an acceptable way to think about other people's work.
The GPL is a clever hack of copyright law written by someone that knew what he was doing. I think people see RMS and think they can get away with sh*t because they think he's not smart enough to hire a real lawyer.
A fit body is more ready for a nasty surprise. If you aren't very fit, you may end up as a freak heart attack statistic. No one may even know what really killed you.
It's all a mix of seemingly random events with the inclusion of at least one element that's under your control.
I would add #4 -- detect when someone is trying to trick the end user. Multiple file extensions. The combination of a visible file extension that's harmless with one that's executable. Trap these conditions and treat the file with an extra level of harshness.
If one of us would see it as an obvious attempt to abuse the Windows file handler, then make it something that the common rube would not be able to execute even if they wanted to.
No. A user should be able to trust the name of the file.
If the file isn't really what it says it is, then that should be a BIG RED FLAG for the user shell. At that point the OS should know to treat the file as a threat.
A deceptively named file should immediately go into quarantine.
Instead, the user (assumed to be an idiot) is just left to fend for themselves.
Hell hath no fury like a nerd that has to clean up after boneheaded design decisions made by incompetent engineers with billions of dollars in resources who should really know better.
Pornography is and always has been illegal in many US jurisdictions. This is very much like online gambling. New York or California might tolerate this stuff but some grandstanding DA in Tennesee will decide to bring someone up on charges.
Doesn't matter where the server is hosted.
This has been going on with online services and cable TV since the 80s.
The problem with new Trek isn't JJ Abrams. It's us. The future painted by Star Trek in the 1960's isn't quite so distant any more. It's actually a little quaint. The "ethnic crewmen" are no longer awkward stereotypes. They are real people viewed much more as equals and just plain mundane.
The Scottish engineer is actually a real geeky Scot.
The Asian is more than a smiling cheerful guy.
The Russian is actually from Leningrad and actually sounds like someone who could be Spock's protoge.
The black girl comes off as more than just a switchboard operator.
Most of the tech of the old show seems dated so they find the need to make it all look even snazzier.
We are past most of the little details and the big details are taken for granted.
The future arrived. The bar is higher now. The remarkable has become the mundane.
> If you watch your movies via streaming, this is not an issue. 2015 people, 2015.
Yes. In 2015 there's still plenty of stuff that's not available via streaming or is only available at a price that most people aren't interested in paying.
Some us actually use this stuff and don't merely talk about it.
In other words, you have a BD player too old to matter in this context. Current players do more than just decode spinning plastic. They also have all of those apps that connect to all of those interesting video services that you just conveniently ignored.
> It's a machine before the TCP/IP and Internet times.
I ran a machine like that with TCP/IP on the Internet. The main problem would be getting an ethernet port working on the thing but the software side of the equation is well covered.
Been there. Did that.
Meanwhile, there is this PC platform that wiped out all of it's other bespoke competitors probably before you even touched your first computer. PCs are MUCH more diverse than Android phones. But if you started whining about "fragmentation" to PC developers they would look at you like you grew a second head.
What do "desktop users" even want? Do they even have any real desires or do they just mindlessly take whatever is force fed to them by a Microsoft dominated OEM channel?
These are the same "desktop users" that turned their noses up at MacOS in favor of DOS.
The idea that Linux "lost the desktop" is assinine. It was never there to take. It was owned by DOS from day one. Quality of the product accounts for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
By Lemming-centric market metrics, even MacOS is a failure.
Thankfully most other markets are not quite as broken and I am not stuck eating dirt. Only in the computing market is the notion of not wanting to eat dirt seen as extreme or subversive.
...in a VM perhaps.
Go beyond that and Windows is a royal pain to get up and running. It's actually far more problematic to get up and running than Linux is.
It's hard to see this if you've never actually installed a proper copy of Windows on bare metal.
This Linux gaming renaissance is most likely a side effect of how every other gaming platform besides Windows uses "something else". That something else is Linux compatible. That reduces the distance between Linux and what has already been ported to.
Android, MacOS, even the PS4 and Wii's are intermediate steps towards Linux.
It's no great surprise that the most interesting ports for Linux are being done by a MacOS porting house.
Beyond the big titles, Linux is a significant part of the market. The indies were already porting to Linux because of this.
While the NUCs are overkill for HTPC duty, the PIs are also not sufficiently there either. A PI just has problems keeping up with the user interface (XBMC).
Something like a Chromebox is the sweet spot. Decent enough GPU for video decoding and a CPU that's not ridiculously anemic.
All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected, so there's still hope.
