I'd be worried even if I were a senior exec that never left Mountain View. To think the cartels can't reach more than, say 10 miles over the border is beyond Pollyannish.
I'm reading this through my occasional early-morning fuzzies caused by my date with destiny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs'_dystrophy Could be worse, but my perspective is biaseed.
It doesn't mean much if this is done hand in glove with government suppression, surveillance, and harassment to ensure zero research gets done that would threaten lucrative government policies, such as massive petrochemical pollution and the Harper regime in Canada (it's happened to EPA scientists too, IIRC).
Tony Blair was called a lap dog of US policy, but with strip-mining for tar and draconian DRM bills, little Stephen has eclipsed him.
When I read this and saw Ubuntu, a small warning flag started waving in my mind. Is this some sort of 'special arrangement' between Shuttleworth and Steam, resulting in this client not working in other Linux distributions without tons of command line fu? If so, it wouldn't suprise me much. Trust, but verify (on real Debian).
This reminds me that the Amazon mp3 downloader still doesn't work in 64-bit Linux distributions. Given that running the amz file though clamz on the command line downloads the mp3 file, it really shouldn't be difficult for Amazon to offer a 64-bit downloader that 'just works', and yet they haven't bothered. Will Steam 'bother' with non-Ubuntu Linuxen?
for all their foibles (slow playing DOCSIS 3 in smaller markets; IPv6 will be as slow in arriving), they frequently are far less dickish than the other US ISPs. Not like I have an alternative even if they were, though (yay, monopoly and ~$160 monthly bills).
I use Keepass and love it but, given that I use the generate function for passwords, I am now totally dependent on it - along with relying on the browsers to remember the more common non-banking passwords. Given that even my backups are at the same site (home), I really need to finally get a bank deposit box, but I balk at yet another bill.
The most egregeous violations of Robocall laws are naturally inflicted by politicians themselves. One of my US Reps has robocalled me for a few years now, even though the only news I want to hear from this right-wing apparatchik is that he is dying in a fire.
... First it does not grant power over communications, as in all communications, it is for the governments own emergency communications.. second there is nothing about seizing anything
If the corporate-owned news organs could no longer placate an angry public, they would definitely think it an emergency.
We still have one weapon: stop buying (or copying) their tawdry wares. Although it wouldn't suprise me much is they began legislation to, we are not yet forced to buy corporate books, music, or movies. We should be making our own, or learning some other worthy skills instead of growing fatter on the couch or deafer in the ears.
And if we can't live without these mostly mindless blathering distractions, that's on us.
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Underwritten, no doubt by the People's Army Central committee to speed the plow for industrial and military IP espionage.
I'd be worried even if I were a senior exec that never left Mountain View. To think the cartels can't reach more than, say 10 miles over the border is beyond Pollyannish.
A Harper-ectomy would be far more effective.
I'm reading this through my occasional early-morning fuzzies caused by my date with destiny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs'_dystrophy Could be worse, but my perspective is biaseed.
Religion - beyond redemption.
Ruh-roh :(
"Professional *what*?"
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It doesn't mean much if this is done hand in glove with government suppression, surveillance, and harassment to ensure zero research gets done that would threaten lucrative government policies, such as massive petrochemical pollution and the Harper regime in Canada (it's happened to EPA scientists too, IIRC).
Tony Blair was called a lap dog of US policy, but with strip-mining for tar and draconian DRM bills, little Stephen has eclipsed him.
When ever I read about Sony, I recall this one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2007/may/28/sonyuserscrew
Special 'screw', indeed.
When I read this and saw Ubuntu, a small warning flag started waving in my mind. Is this some sort of 'special arrangement' between Shuttleworth and Steam, resulting in this client not working in other Linux distributions without tons of command line fu? If so, it wouldn't suprise me much. Trust, but verify (on real Debian).
This reminds me that the Amazon mp3 downloader still doesn't work in 64-bit Linux distributions. Given that running the amz file though clamz on the command line downloads the mp3 file, it really shouldn't be difficult for Amazon to offer a 64-bit downloader that 'just works', and yet they haven't bothered. Will Steam 'bother' with non-Ubuntu Linuxen?
for all their foibles (slow playing DOCSIS 3 in smaller markets; IPv6 will be as slow in arriving), they frequently are far less dickish than the other US ISPs. Not like I have an alternative even if they were, though (yay, monopoly and ~$160 monthly bills).
Apparently, when their fancy new plastic bills get hot, they shrivel up like (non-Canadian) bacon. Oh, AGW irony, Hr. Harper.
Just another way of saying powerless. He who controls the bits controls how much money you 'actually' have... and how you 'actually' voted.
A paper trail really is right up there as a facet of a truly free and open society; we casually abandon it at our peril.
(and bureaucrats) first!
"If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read."
"Shouldn't the goal of an advanced society be zero employment?"
Have no doubt: they are.
I use Keepass and love it but, given that I use the generate function for passwords, I am now totally dependent on it - along with relying on the browsers to remember the more common non-banking passwords. Given that even my backups are at the same site (home), I really need to finally get a bank deposit box, but I balk at yet another bill.
Couldn't care less. Couldn't. Once might be an accident; twice is... careless.
He will be asked in court to try on a pair of shriveled, dissicated gloves. Where's Sam Waterston when you need him?
also certified by the NSA. Just like the old ones.
The most egregeous violations of Robocall laws are naturally inflicted by politicians themselves. One of my US Reps has robocalled me for a few years now, even though the only news I want to hear from this right-wing apparatchik is that he is dying in a fire.
If the corporate-owned news organs could no longer placate an angry public, they would definitely think it an emergency.
We still have one weapon: stop buying (or copying) their tawdry wares. Although it wouldn't suprise me much is they began legislation to, we are not yet forced to buy corporate books, music, or movies. We should be making our own, or learning some other worthy skills instead of growing fatter on the couch or deafer in the ears.
And if we can't live without these mostly mindless blathering distractions, that's on us.
IE8 (forced to use it at work) has no built-in spell checker; every other browser I use does. Microsoft, heal thyself.