The original poster is not dumb. He's making a valid point that they don't need the Internet before the need basic nessisities, not that the don't need technically minded people to fix the things you mention.
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The guy was arrested for creating and selling a device which breaks Adobe's "encryption".
Lets suppose for a moment that Adobe had good encryption on their product, would we all be whining so much. Probably and that still isn't nessicarily illegal I realize. But not right either, the guy is trying to make money off of Adobe's work. That would piss me off a bit too
I've also seen a ton of comment about Bush and Ashcroft how they will prosecute anyway because they are for the Corporate Republic blah blah blah. Lets remember that Bush didn't pass the DMCA- Clinton did! Ashcroft is doing his job by upholding a standing law. Personally I prefer politicians that don't selectively follow the law but uphold them no matter how bad they are until someone gets them changed..
Dimitry broke a law plain and simple, and it wasn't to make some sort of statement, he didnt' release his product open source, he was doing it to make money. I'm sorry but/. needs a better martyr then this.
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That's like saying you can't run Quake III on Linux because its not GPL. Or Netscape for that matter. Why can't you have non-GPL code on Mono or GPL on.NET? The way I understand it is that its only against the lisense if they link together not if they run off of each other.
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Yes it is hypocritical for media to do this and in the case of Big Brothervs. the 60 minutes episode I'd venture to say this was a case of the left hand not knowing what the right was doing.
What I don't understand is why this is yet another rant about big media taking over our lives. The real issue is the fact that people buy this stuff. The networks sell the things that make money and people want to see sex and violence.
There is another big hypocracy here. That is this article. Katz says that the Net is not so bad, which is true there is a lot of misconceptions and paranoia. But he also implies that protecting children from say pornography is bad. Now I agree there is no good way to do it yet but my point is that porn on the net is no different than Big Brother (i.e. sex appeals to people) so why is one trashy and the other not? It seem to me that Katz himself has a double standard.
The real issue here is that people choose to believe what's on TV, they choose to install filters on their home computers (which I don't understand what your beef is there, not everyone thinks the same way and if they own the computer then its their right to but whatever they want on it.). And people vote to pass laws that install them on public computers. Is it stupid and paranoid? Yes. Does it violate your rights? Not really. Can it been changed? Yes if you quit whining and go vote!
And Jon's attack on Senator Lieberman is completely destroys any shread of credibility he may have had. If you don't like him don't vote for him but lets not get into personal attacks.
Nothing like a good Jon Katz rant to brighten my day or waste some time at work:)
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Why would you want AI for that? Obviously you would have to make it semi-intellegent but I think of AI i think of something that has concieousness. We don't need machines that can tell us "no" otherwise you don't have much of a Robomaid (you'd have a women hehehehe.... before you flame, I'm KIDDING)
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"I've never played the game, but it has to be way more fun than this movie."
Which is probably exactly why you hated it. Why do we have a person reviewing a movie based on a game when that person hasn't ever played the game. Wouldn't it follow that the person would not be able to understand the plot. And rather just say that make generalizations in order to try to make people believe they know what they are talking about?
Then of course 90% of Jon's articles are that way:)
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Its different because 'Illustrator' is a word that common sense would say can't be trademarked, plus its the name of the product. Whether or not the 'KIllustrator' people were trying to steal users from Adobe is iffy but really I think they were simply trying to let users know that it was a program that does a similar thing.
This case is much sinister. MySQL is the company name not just a product that they make. It seems to me that NuSphere is trying to fool people into believeing that they have the genuine MySQL when in fact they do not. MySQL AB seems to be complaining because, 1. NuSphere is requiring registration to get software that they wrote. 2. NuSphere is releasing the Gemini table type in violation of MySQL's lisense (unclear on this but isn't it GPL?) because its not open. And 3. NuSphere is trying to capitalize on MySQL's popularity by stealing the name. I think the MySQL folks (no matter what you think of their database) are perfectly justified in their action. They don't mind NuSphere extending MySQL but they want people to play by their rules because it their work and they have that right.
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Perhaps because science and technology have always been dominated by educated, sometimes arrogant elites
Must be a new record, usually I read at least half of Jon's articles. Don't you have to be educated to be in a science or technology field? Is this opposed to science and technology that is dominated by people that are uneducated? Also if I'm educated does that make me sometimes arrogant and always elite? or is that sometimes arrogant and sometimes elite? Whatever. At any rate the statement makes no sense, and does nothing for Katz's rant on global warming or his typical buy into the popular media attitude.
Now if someone could just tell me why I don't go and turn of the Jon Katz box.... I guess I'm just masicistic
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Create your own site. It shouldn't be too hard to find a site that exports the headlines (/. does it, look in the FAQ) and you can add a google search to it by clicking this link http://www.google.com/services/ You can even customize google's output to match your own site.
Voila! No more popups!
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"The poverty of attention is changing society, and is often misundertood. Younger people in particular are often derided as apathetic or ignorant, but the brutal truth is that their new information lives are much more interesting than the old civic and entertainment options".
*sigh* This statement contridicts your whole argument Jon. I'm not sure if you are against having so much information or against "big media"... what's the point? Your statement above is your opinion. Personally I think that people in general in the US, not just young onescould stand to lose a few of their luxuries. Life is more interesting now? When most of us sit around for an average of EIGHT HOURS watching a flashing box??? Come-on!
People don't pay attention anymore to anything because its convienent to be ignorant. People want their little pre-packaged fast-food lives. When it comes to technology people don't choose something better because they can't learn it instantly.
Maybe I'm paranoid but I truely believe that apathy is going to cause the destruction of America. Although maybe that's not so bad:). The funny irony is that Katz himself is a victim. This article runs around blaming everything but the real problem so as not offend anyone. The real problem is that people need to start caring about things that really matter. I know that most people on/. don't do the religion thing but even if you don't that whole "Love thy neighbor" thing can come in handy. Okay getting back on topic:)
The point is that attention isn't a natural resource in limited supply, we can't run out of it. We have to choose at any given point what to pay attention to. The real problem is that people don't care what happens in politics, or society or technology or anything else. We've become so individualized that no-one else matters.
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I work for a mid-sized ISP and we don't give out addresses to anyone but new accounts still get spammed. Why? Because someone sees our domain names and begins sending mail to common letter combinations and common names, guess what? They hit real addresses all the time.
When I was using hotmail back in the day I often got spams that had my first name and tons of last names appended to it my email address being my first_lastname I would get the spam. I don't know if hotmail is selling addresses or not but I do know that alot of spam comes from an educated guess.
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Oh so I get it, truth is subjective and if a Scientologist decides to come and destroy you or your family or cause you physical harm thats okay because its their philosophy and thats what they believe. Come on! You would fight them to the full extent of the law because they are wrong to do that.
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Looks like this would require a country to blanket their territory in receivers and if they did detect something the chances of it being a bird or a cloud are probably higher than it being an enemy plane.
I can just see it now, military detects something using this system, lobs a couple of missiles at it:
"Lietinaunt What did we get?
"No plane commander but we nailed a bald eagle, should I make a report?"
"No Lietinaunt, the last thing we need here is the EPA or any of those other green %!@#$!";
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Looks like it could be really cool if the weeny writting it would port it, or allow it to be ported. From the looks of things he's one of those rabid Mac users (there is no other system):)
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Maybe you should read the line again. It distinctly says "developer/user base". In other words how many Windows users (outside of M$ employees) are Windows developers? Exactly 0 (zip, nadda, NONE). How many Linux users (or other Free OS users) developers as well? With Linux I'd say at least half the people who use it have probably contributed something, probably more. How many everyday people do you hear praising Windows? I'd say the vast majority of regular users complain about it but they accept it because they think its all there is.
So lets restate: M$oft obviously has more users. How many are developers for their product? -- None. How many of their users actually praise everything they do and would never go away even when presented with a better product? -- Not alot. So if there are about 10 million Linux users world wide and assuming half develop (5 million). And M$oft I saw somewhere has 38,000 employees. Say 20,000 are developers for them. We out number their developers 2500 to 1. I think we can use this resource.
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Microsoft is not indestructable. They are powerful yes, but not indestructable. The king of the Corporate Republic? No. Gates is merely a prince. The people that control Pharmacutical companies, the oil industry and the auto makers are far more evil.
For once we need to think outside of the box. Form grass-roots advertising campaigns. Its not that expensive either. Local LUGS hold community conferences and put up some signs. BANG! Instant linux users. We have something M$oft will never have: a world-wide loyal developer/user base. Most people use M$oft because they think its the only thing there is... we need to show them otherwise! If we listen to Katz we might as well take our programs and go home.
<sarcasm> Lets take our programs and go home, M$oft has won, no way we can beat them </sarcasm>
Seriously Jon, you've had some much better articles lately but this isn't one of them
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Gimp is amazing on Win32 and Linux. Its very simple to install especially on Win32. Gimp 1.2 simply rocks. I use it instead of Photoshop (I'm a web developer). Its amazing the other guys in the office run shiny G4's and Photoshop. They crash all the time. I'm on a Linux 120mhz Pentium 1 and I have never crashed. Plus with Gimp I can do anything they can do.
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"The wealth of the earth is the earth. We should all demand a system where everybody is guaranteed an estate, a piece of the pie.
There is plenty for everybody. Even animals are wise enough to set territories for themselves. What we do with our piece is up to
us. No more slavery, no more exploitation! Down with the slave masters!"
Well, we tried that and its called communism a system under which people get exploited more than they do under capitalism.
However do we really get exploited? Refuse to give into the system, buy yourself a piece of land, move to Antarctica where no one really has a claim. But don't whine about being a slave. I'm sure African American's before 1860 would disagree with you. You have it good. I've been to Africa where people live on less than $20 a month, they don't have a choice because there is no place to get education and even if they had one there is no place to use it. The "official" poverty rate in the United States is something like $12,000 a year! In most places you would be rich beyond everyone's dreams by making that much money.
I appologize for my rant but I get so tired of people in America complaining about how little freedom they have and how they are so mistreated by the businesses that feed them and give them a lifestyle unequaled in 90% of the rest of the world. Its ridiculous, try living on $20 a month and realize how truely fortunate you are.
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IBM buys all rights to all acronyms that contain the letter 'I'. The company then proceeded to sue the ICANN, the IETF, SGI and the RIAA unless they removed the 'I' from their acronym within 24 hours.
ICANN promptly issued a statement that the would be switching to AYTBTU (All your TLD belong to us) and the RIAA says that they will fight the move in court. Their spokesperson stated
"They can't do that because we along with the MPAA control everything in the would that we can trick the government into believing is intelectual property".
SGI also joined in the response saying: "We got 'Open' and 'GL' but no one here ever thought of just the letter 'I'.
Market analysts are predicting that other companies would soon follow this lead and begin copyrighting various letters of the alphabet.
Stated one:
This is a dangerous precident. Imagine if someone copyright's the letter 'M'. That person would take out IBM and Microsoft in one sweep!"
Several bystanders who heard this quote rushed to the courts in order to claim the letter 'M'
More information as it becomes available
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The rise of fast food and all the things that go with it (and it works for your metaphor as well) is not the root of the problem. The problem is that Americans and most of western culture want instant gratification. The rise of fast food and the way that corporations handle media, over the Internet or radio or TV is a direct result of it. Americans don't care where their media or food comes from as long as they can have it yesterday they are satisfied. Until our culture rediscovers the value of time and doesn't try to live so quickly we will have people and corporations and fast food resturants there to give it to them.
On a side note I would like to say that America and its culture is not a badly off as the far left (jon katz) and the far right would have us all believe. I dare anyone who thinks it is to move to Africa and live with the people there (not the tourist traps, the people) and then complain about how bad America is.
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While I can see this putting a real dent in M$ofts bottom line, Which is worse? AOL evil or M$oft evil? A friend of mine has a sticker that says "When choosing between to evils, I take the one I haven't tried before". I guess that applies in this case:)
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This is a crime folks
The guy was arrested for creating and selling a device which breaks Adobe's "encryption".Lets suppose for a moment that Adobe had good encryption on their product, would we all be whining so much. Probably and that still isn't nessicarily illegal I realize. But not right either, the guy is trying to make money off of Adobe's work. That would piss me off a bit too
I've also seen a ton of comment about Bush and Ashcroft how they will prosecute anyway because they are for the Corporate Republic blah blah blah. Lets remember that Bush didn't pass the DMCA- Clinton did! Ashcroft is doing his job by upholding a standing law. Personally I prefer politicians that don't selectively follow the law but uphold them no matter how bad they are until someone gets them changed..
Dimitry broke a law plain and simple, and it wasn't to make some sort of statement, he didnt' release his product open source, he was doing it to make money. I'm sorry but /. needs a better martyr then this.
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What I don't understand is why this is yet another rant about big media taking over our lives. The real issue is the fact that people buy this stuff. The networks sell the things that make money and people want to see sex and violence.
There is another big hypocracy here. That is this article. Katz says that the Net is not so bad, which is true there is a lot of misconceptions and paranoia. But he also implies that protecting children from say pornography is bad. Now I agree there is no good way to do it yet but my point is that porn on the net is no different than Big Brother (i.e. sex appeals to people) so why is one trashy and the other not? It seem to me that Katz himself has a double standard.
The real issue here is that people choose to believe what's on TV, they choose to install filters on their home computers (which I don't understand what your beef is there, not everyone thinks the same way and if they own the computer then its their right to but whatever they want on it.). And people vote to pass laws that install them on public computers. Is it stupid and paranoid? Yes. Does it violate your rights? Not really. Can it been changed? Yes if you quit whining and go vote!
And Jon's attack on Senator Lieberman is completely destroys any shread of credibility he may have had. If you don't like him don't vote for him but lets not get into personal attacks.
Nothing like a good Jon Katz rant to brighten my day or waste some time at work :)
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"I've never played the game, but it has to be way more fun than this movie."
Which is probably exactly why you hated it. Why do we have a person reviewing a movie based on a game when that person hasn't ever played the game. Wouldn't it follow that the person would not be able to understand the plot. And rather just say that make generalizations in order to try to make people believe they know what they are talking about?
Then of course 90% of Jon's articles are that way :)
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This case is much sinister. MySQL is the company name not just a product that they make. It seems to me that NuSphere is trying to fool people into believeing that they have the genuine MySQL when in fact they do not. MySQL AB seems to be complaining because, 1. NuSphere is requiring registration to get software that they wrote. 2. NuSphere is releasing the Gemini table type in violation of MySQL's lisense (unclear on this but isn't it GPL?) because its not open. And 3. NuSphere is trying to capitalize on MySQL's popularity by stealing the name. I think the MySQL folks (no matter what you think of their database) are perfectly justified in their action. They don't mind NuSphere extending MySQL but they want people to play by their rules because it their work and they have that right.
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I would defenatly agree, but why do we have so much ranting here about NASA's low budget?
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Perhaps because science and technology have always been dominated by educated, sometimes arrogant elites
Must be a new record, usually I read at least half of Jon's articles. Don't you have to be educated to be in a science or technology field? Is this opposed to science and technology that is dominated by people that are uneducated? Also if I'm educated does that make me sometimes arrogant and always elite? or is that sometimes arrogant and sometimes elite? Whatever. At any rate the statement makes no sense, and does nothing for Katz's rant on global warming or his typical buy into the popular media attitude.
Now if someone could just tell me why I don't go and turn of the Jon Katz box .... I guess I'm just masicistic
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- Almost all the same features
- Less memory
- Doesn't crash
You're right, Gimp isn't Photoshop . . . its better"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
You can even customize google's output to match your own site.
Voila! No more popups!
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*sigh* This statement contridicts your whole argument Jon. I'm not sure if you are against having so much information or against "big media" ... what's the point? Your statement above is your opinion. Personally I think that people in general in the US, not just young onescould stand to lose a few of their luxuries. Life is more interesting now? When most of us sit around for an average of EIGHT HOURS watching a flashing box??? Come-on!
People don't pay attention anymore to anything because its convienent to be ignorant. People want their little pre-packaged fast-food lives. When it comes to technology people don't choose something better because they can't learn it instantly.
Maybe I'm paranoid but I truely believe that apathy is going to cause the destruction of America. Although maybe that's not so bad :). The funny irony is that Katz himself is a victim. This article runs around blaming everything but the real problem so as not offend anyone. The real problem is that people need to start caring about things that really matter. I know that most people on /. don't do the religion thing but even if you don't that whole "Love thy neighbor" thing can come in handy. Okay getting back on topic :)
The point is that attention isn't a natural resource in limited supply, we can't run out of it. We have to choose at any given point what to pay attention to. The real problem is that people don't care what happens in politics, or society or technology or anything else. We've become so individualized that no-one else matters.
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
I work for a mid-sized ISP and we don't give out addresses to anyone but new accounts still get spammed. Why? Because someone sees our domain names and begins sending mail to common letter combinations and common names, guess what? They hit real addresses all the time.
When I was using hotmail back in the day I often got spams that had my first name and tons of last names appended to it my email address being my first_lastname I would get the spam. I don't know if hotmail is selling addresses or not but I do know that alot of spam comes from an educated guess.
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Looks like this would require a country to blanket their territory in receivers and if they did detect something the chances of it being a bird or a cloud are probably higher than it being an enemy plane.
I can just see it now, military detects something using this system, lobs a couple of missiles at it:
"Lietinaunt What did we get?
"No plane commander but we nailed a bald eagle, should I make a report?"
"No Lietinaunt, the last thing we need here is the EPA or any of those other green %!@#$!";
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
Maybe you should read the line again. It distinctly says "developer/user base". In other words how many Windows users (outside of M$ employees) are Windows developers? Exactly 0 (zip, nadda, NONE). How many Linux users (or other Free OS users) developers as well? With Linux I'd say at least half the people who use it have probably contributed something, probably more. How many everyday people do you hear praising Windows? I'd say the vast majority of regular users complain about it but they accept it because they think its all there is.
So lets restate: M$oft obviously has more users. How many are developers for their product? -- None. How many of their users actually praise everything they do and would never go away even when presented with a better product? -- Not alot. So if there are about 10 million Linux users world wide and assuming half develop (5 million). And M$oft I saw somewhere has 38,000 employees. Say 20,000 are developers for them. We out number their developers 2500 to 1. I think we can use this resource.
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I must admit, this one hurts.
Microsoft is not indestructable. They are powerful yes, but not indestructable. The king of the Corporate Republic? No. Gates is merely a prince. The people that control Pharmacutical companies, the oil industry and the auto makers are far more evil.
For once we need to think outside of the box. Form grass-roots advertising campaigns. Its not that expensive either. Local LUGS hold community conferences and put up some signs. BANG! Instant linux users. We have something M$oft will never have: a world-wide loyal developer/user base. Most people use M$oft because they think its the only thing there is... we need to show them otherwise! If we listen to Katz we might as well take our programs and go home.
<sarcasm> Lets take our programs and go home, M$oft has won, no way we can beat them </sarcasm>
Seriously Jon, you've had some much better articles lately but this isn't one of them
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Well, we tried that and its called communism a system under which people get exploited more than they do under capitalism.
However do we really get exploited? Refuse to give into the system, buy yourself a piece of land, move to Antarctica where no one really has a claim. But don't whine about being a slave. I'm sure African American's before 1860 would disagree with you. You have it good. I've been to Africa where people live on less than $20 a month, they don't have a choice because there is no place to get education and even if they had one there is no place to use it. The "official" poverty rate in the United States is something like $12,000 a year! In most places you would be rich beyond everyone's dreams by making that much money.
I appologize for my rant but I get so tired of people in America complaining about how little freedom they have and how they are so mistreated by the businesses that feed them and give them a lifestyle unequaled in 90% of the rest of the world. Its ridiculous, try living on $20 a month and realize how truely fortunate you are.
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IBM buys all rights to all acronyms that contain the letter 'I'. The company then proceeded to sue the ICANN, the IETF, SGI and the RIAA unless they removed the 'I' from their acronym within 24 hours.
ICANN promptly issued a statement that the would be switching to AYTBTU (All your TLD belong to us) and the RIAA says that they will fight the move in court. Their spokesperson stated
SGI also joined in the response saying: "We got 'Open' and 'GL' but no one here ever thought of just the letter 'I'.
Market analysts are predicting that other companies would soon follow this lead and begin copyrighting various letters of the alphabet.
Stated one:Several bystanders who heard this quote rushed to the courts in order to claim the letter 'M'
More information as it becomes available
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
The rise of fast food and all the things that go with it (and it works for your metaphor as well) is not the root of the problem. The problem is that Americans and most of western culture want instant gratification. The rise of fast food and the way that corporations handle media, over the Internet or radio or TV is a direct result of it. Americans don't care where their media or food comes from as long as they can have it yesterday they are satisfied. Until our culture rediscovers the value of time and doesn't try to live so quickly we will have people and corporations and fast food resturants there to give it to them.
On a side note I would like to say that America and its culture is not a badly off as the far left (jon katz) and the far right would have us all believe. I dare anyone who thinks it is to move to Africa and live with the people there (not the tourist traps, the people) and then complain about how bad America is.
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad