Despite all the shortfalls mentioned, M$ marketing will tell you that XP is better than that toy OS but XP is all you can run on toy hardware and be able to do "real work". If you want to do real work right, they will tell you to buy Intel's latest and cripple it with Vista. I know, that has nothing to do with reality but that's what they will tell you.
When it comes to education, they will point to piles and piles of really awful "educational" software available for XP that will soon be ported to Vista. Or they will do what they did here and act like XP + Office and a thumb drive for "sharing" is all you need. Who knows, as the article pointed out, none of it will work once you put in AV and viruses eat it anyway. The sad fact is that XO and Sugar met a real need in a way that M$ can't, but M$ is going to bribe and lie until XO is destroyed.
Apparently, reading Slashdot and your outbound email was not good enough. Yes indeed, Cox did correct the immediate technical problem, but no one is swearing off creepy practices. Comcast, as usual, is going the last mile to assure everyone that Big Brother is watching but you can be sure that other ISPs have and will be using the same "technology" to spy on their users. How else will TIA happen?
See this warning about divide and conquer. M$ has not brought much to the table. In return their marketing department is going to pretend there is community support for OOXML and other proprietary formats.
The broader M$ goal is to have people pay M$ if they want to use free software. They want you to use Windoze and taxed versions of GNU/Linux. Until they shut up about patents it is best to have nothing to do with them.
ACPI was designed to harm free software, so this is not surprising. M$ will continue to lay mines like this as long as makers are willing to sell their reputation or fail to guard it with proper QA.
Until there are cheap motherboards with free BIOS, free software users will have to research carefully or test hardware before they buy it. Thanks to Social Network Poisoning and corporate moles, research is harder to do than it once was.
There is no real evidence here of anything but government misconduct. They are either covering up real contact or creating the whole story to cover up other secrets.
Either case is reprehensible but the former is worse. Periodically, US government agents lend enough credibility to UFO stories for anyone who distrusts government to suspect a cover up. They also also strongly deny this kind of thing and monitor those who listen. In other words, they actively encourage beliefs which are helpful or harmless to themselves but damaging to those who would believe them. We can quote a letter from the first director of the CIA to Congress on this subject:
"Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense."
This is a waste of taxpayer money which creates a demand for further wasteful spending and gives credence to all manner of crackpot theories while stigmatizing people with reasonable beliefs. Note that this is exactly the opposite of what is publically claimed. Secrecy makes it impossible to determine anything.
There can be no doubt that intelligent life exists on other planets. It is also clear that our government could do nothing but request assistance if confronted by a society that has intergalactic travel capability.
That's funny, I send text to the people I like. It's rude to reach out and touch people with a big clanging bell or other alarm device that sounds like a sick and angry bird. With cell phone users, you also cost them money. Voice communications with family are nice but that too is expensive and best reserved to times you know they are not busy.
A service that gets messages to me without ringing an alarm on my desk or in my pocket is great and I'd like to extend the same courtesy to people I talk to. That's one of the things I like about email. I can get this for my phones now by turning off my ringers. Other people can do the same. The problem is that voicemail services are clumsy, so leaving them for people is generally rude. No, I'm not going to listen to an advertisement just to be able to leave a voicemail.
Crap service is what you get from the current phone companies. I'd like SMS if it were not so expensive, but that's what you get when you auction bandwith to the highest monopoly service bidder. Better services would exist if the spectrum were liberated. Convenient and pervasive communications will finally arrive when the incumbents sink off into history. I'll consider it done when I have a Neo1973 device that does IM, voice and video, over any available IP service. Yes, it has to be free software before I'll trust it with real contact information, scheduling and all the other things computers are good at.
Purdue's investigation has done a good job of exonerating the man. The only accusation that stuck was that he "compelled" a student to claim co-authorship on one of his publications. There was no real evidence of scientific data fraud.
In fact, one frequent charge leveled makes the whole ordeal look crazy. Several times the summary mentions "flouted" copyright laws for data sharing. This is done in passing and it is quickly explained that it is not scientific misconduct. All researchers want their work to be published as widely as possible. Copyright laws make that increasingly difficult. In that spirit, they released the report as a pdf image. This is so against the goals of science and education that it degrades the report and makes the accusers look like a bunch of petty, vindictive nutjobs.
It is disaster enough that Taleyarkhan's work has not been independently verified.
I don't want to spend my tax money making you feel like a billionaire. Buy something off the shelf that gets the job done. Even billionaires have enough sense to avoid a $64,000 seat color change.
You behavior can also cause a moral problem. People risking their lives following your orders might start to question your dedication and judgment. In short, this is a screw up that's going to embarrass everyone involved.
IBM, HP, Apple, Dell and other companies that have significant revenue outside of non free software should get out of the BSA. Their continued membership in the BSA negates a lot of the goodwill built by their move into more honest business. Money given to them is less self defeating than money given to M$ but some small portion of it goes to backroom deals like ACTA.
You know that RNG was put in for NIST 800-90 compliance and is not the default in Vista or any other Microsoft OS, don't you?
I don't know that and neither do you. I don't know anything about Windoze because I can't compile it from source. Some people might trust that M$'s encryption does not have backdoors but they will never know. Given M$'s honesty on other issues and a story told to me by a reliable witness about government pressure to backdoor encryption software, it is safer to assume nothing trusted to M$ is safe.
You know that M$ encryption is backdoored, don't you? Never trust closed source software for things that are important.
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Blaming Google and claiming it's because of broken captcha begs the question of how the spammers really operate. Anything open to the public is open to abuse as you say. Invite systems only invite spammers to do more of what normal people do. Spammers can't be doing this from a single IP address, or even a small collection of them, without being blocked so we know they are somehow obfuscating their communications. I can only think of two ways:
Botnet
TOR and other anonymous proxy services.
The history of spam shows that a combination of the two is at work. Spam has traditionally come from exploited computers on cable modems and that has not changed only the means. Now that every ISP blocks port 25 and forces you to use their SMTP server, the spammers have targeted that and webmail.
The real solution to the spam problem is to attack the root cause, the continuedfailure of M$ to protect their customers. The spam problem is directly proportional to the number of Windows machines on the Internet and the speed of their connection.
There are windows specific ways to both display images and get replies. It is even easier to knock out most free sotware through stuff like java, which has yet to propagate to all stable distributions.
I don't know how or really care but newspapers handled by College Publisher were like this. The image displays fine but it never accepts the correct answer. I complained but nothing changed in two years. This was tested with clean installs of Firefox and Konqueror with Debian Etch and Lenny. Lenny seems to work now, hurray! The staff at the local paper used Macs so that worked well. Windows problems either few or dismissed as "computer problems".
It would be nice to make all moderation pass a CAPTA. This is not a lot of effort for a normal person with five mod points but it is for a karma farmer. Make the bastards work harder.
It's funny how little hardware is required to make playable games. The Wii, for example, gets buy with an 800 MHz PowerPC and 88MB of RAM and 24 MB for the GPU. More is always better, but sooner or later it's going to be overkill.
Google should care about privacy for privacy's sake and business reasons. Chilling effects are bad for YouTube's business, but uploader records are a sword that cuts both ways. Proving that Viacom and other "rights holder" employees uploaded content will cut the legs out from under this suit.
The offset is the loss of freedom and traffic that a free YouTube could provide. The uploaders at Anonymous, for example, can fear being sold out by Viacomm to Scientology reps. That kind of fear will knock out a lot of good political discourse. It will also eliminate a lot of traffic and advertisements.
If your economy was not in ruins, we would not be able to demand you work for pennies an hour in unsafe conditions. If you were not willing to do that, Habib would not be able to make lots of money with H1B employees that replace US employees. This will eventually ruin the US economy and laws that protect it's citizens but those in power think that's just fine. They will be happy to rape US citizens the same way they have raped you.
This is why so called free trade agreements are anything but. They are exploitation agreements and the biggest most glaring one is trade with Communist China. The real price of goods made with slave labor is your freedom.
It's so nice of M$ and Intel to pick up the last project they smashed. This is more evidence that M$ wants everyone in the world under their thumb and can no tolerate any other software anywhere. It won't work because the world wants freedom.
Because they fired them last year. I agree with you 100% about the lack of pots of gold and fountains of youth but the market is not that much better when you have skills. Companies like M$ have been filling ALL of their entry level positions with H1B people, who they treat like dirt. Engineers are in a worse spot because there's little need for them when everything is actually made in China. The market for engineers has shrunk faster than the number available. Good luck.
No, it's not funny. I'm one of those whiners who thinks US leadership has sold the US out.
Companies as well as users are finding value in the four software freedoms. IBM, Asus, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Chrysler, Lowes. even Intel's graphics division has used and vended free software. Can you think of a kind of company that has not moved to free software?
You can do as you please with your own code but don't expect me to use your software when I can have my software freedom and get my work done. Efforts to undermine software freedom through anti-competitive practices will hopefully get you fined or thrown in jail.
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Despite all the shortfalls mentioned, M$ marketing will tell you that XP is better than that toy OS but XP is all you can run on toy hardware and be able to do "real work". If you want to do real work right, they will tell you to buy Intel's latest and cripple it with Vista. I know, that has nothing to do with reality but that's what they will tell you.
When it comes to education, they will point to piles and piles of really awful "educational" software available for XP that will soon be ported to Vista. Or they will do what they did here and act like XP + Office and a thumb drive for "sharing" is all you need. Who knows, as the article pointed out, none of it will work once you put in AV and viruses eat it anyway. The sad fact is that XO and Sugar met a real need in a way that M$ can't, but M$ is going to bribe and lie until XO is destroyed.
Apparently, reading Slashdot and your outbound email was not good enough. Yes indeed, Cox did correct the immediate technical problem, but no one is swearing off creepy practices. Comcast, as usual, is going the last mile to assure everyone that Big Brother is watching but you can be sure that other ISPs have and will be using the same "technology" to spy on their users. How else will TIA happen?
See this warning about divide and conquer. M$ has not brought much to the table. In return their marketing department is going to pretend there is community support for OOXML and other proprietary formats.
The broader M$ goal is to have people pay M$ if they want to use free software. They want you to use Windoze and taxed versions of GNU/Linux. Until they shut up about patents it is best to have nothing to do with them.
ACPI was designed to harm free software, so this is not surprising. M$ will continue to lay mines like this as long as makers are willing to sell their reputation or fail to guard it with proper QA.
Until there are cheap motherboards with free BIOS, free software users will have to research carefully or test hardware before they buy it. Thanks to Social Network Poisoning and corporate moles, research is harder to do than it once was.
There is no real evidence here of anything but government misconduct. They are either covering up real contact or creating the whole story to cover up other secrets.
Either case is reprehensible but the former is worse. Periodically, US government agents lend enough credibility to UFO stories for anyone who distrusts government to suspect a cover up. They also also strongly deny this kind of thing and monitor those who listen. In other words, they actively encourage beliefs which are helpful or harmless to themselves but damaging to those who would believe them. We can quote a letter from the first director of the CIA to Congress on this subject:
This is a waste of taxpayer money which creates a demand for further wasteful spending and gives credence to all manner of crackpot theories while stigmatizing people with reasonable beliefs. Note that this is exactly the opposite of what is publically claimed. Secrecy makes it impossible to determine anything.
There can be no doubt that intelligent life exists on other planets. It is also clear that our government could do nothing but request assistance if confronted by a society that has intergalactic travel capability.
That's funny, I send text to the people I like. It's rude to reach out and touch people with a big clanging bell or other alarm device that sounds like a sick and angry bird. With cell phone users, you also cost them money. Voice communications with family are nice but that too is expensive and best reserved to times you know they are not busy.
A service that gets messages to me without ringing an alarm on my desk or in my pocket is great and I'd like to extend the same courtesy to people I talk to. That's one of the things I like about email. I can get this for my phones now by turning off my ringers. Other people can do the same. The problem is that voicemail services are clumsy, so leaving them for people is generally rude. No, I'm not going to listen to an advertisement just to be able to leave a voicemail.
Crap service is what you get from the current phone companies. I'd like SMS if it were not so expensive, but that's what you get when you auction bandwith to the highest monopoly service bidder. Better services would exist if the spectrum were liberated. Convenient and pervasive communications will finally arrive when the incumbents sink off into history. I'll consider it done when I have a Neo1973 device that does IM, voice and video, over any available IP service. Yes, it has to be free software before I'll trust it with real contact information, scheduling and all the other things computers are good at.
Purdue's investigation has done a good job of exonerating the man. The only accusation that stuck was that he "compelled" a student to claim co-authorship on one of his publications. There was no real evidence of scientific data fraud.
In fact, one frequent charge leveled makes the whole ordeal look crazy. Several times the summary mentions "flouted" copyright laws for data sharing. This is done in passing and it is quickly explained that it is not scientific misconduct. All researchers want their work to be published as widely as possible. Copyright laws make that increasingly difficult. In that spirit, they released the report as a pdf image. This is so against the goals of science and education that it degrades the report and makes the accusers look like a bunch of petty, vindictive nutjobs.
It is disaster enough that Taleyarkhan's work has not been independently verified.
I don't want to spend my tax money making you feel like a billionaire. Buy something off the shelf that gets the job done. Even billionaires have enough sense to avoid a $64,000 seat color change.
You behavior can also cause a moral problem. People risking their lives following your orders might start to question your dedication and judgment. In short, this is a screw up that's going to embarrass everyone involved.
IBM, HP, Apple, Dell and other companies that have significant revenue outside of non free software should get out of the BSA. Their continued membership in the BSA negates a lot of the goodwill built by their move into more honest business. Money given to them is less self defeating than money given to M$ but some small portion of it goes to backroom deals like ACTA.
If the patch is not suspicious enough, inaction by the Justice Department is damning.
I don't know that and neither do you. I don't know anything about Windoze because I can't compile it from source. Some people might trust that M$'s encryption does not have backdoors but they will never know. Given M$'s honesty on other issues and a story told to me by a reliable witness about government pressure to backdoor encryption software, it is safer to assume nothing trusted to M$ is safe.
You know that M$ encryption is backdoored, don't you? Never trust closed source software for things that are important.
Blaming Google and claiming it's because of broken captcha begs the question of how the spammers really operate. Anything open to the public is open to abuse as you say. Invite systems only invite spammers to do more of what normal people do. Spammers can't be doing this from a single IP address, or even a small collection of them, without being blocked so we know they are somehow obfuscating their communications. I can only think of two ways:
The history of spam shows that a combination of the two is at work. Spam has traditionally come from exploited computers on cable modems and that has not changed only the means. Now that every ISP blocks port 25 and forces you to use their SMTP server, the spammers have targeted that and webmail.
The real solution to the spam problem is to attack the root cause, the continued failure of M$ to protect their customers. The spam problem is directly proportional to the number of Windows machines on the Internet and the speed of their connection.
There are windows specific ways to both display images and get replies. It is even easier to knock out most free sotware through stuff like java, which has yet to propagate to all stable distributions.
I don't know how or really care but newspapers handled by College Publisher were like this. The image displays fine but it never accepts the correct answer. I complained but nothing changed in two years. This was tested with clean installs of Firefox and Konqueror with Debian Etch and Lenny. Lenny seems to work now, hurray! The staff at the local paper used Macs so that worked well. Windows problems either few or dismissed as "computer problems".
There is irony, force people to use the platform that's responsible for botnets in the first place.
It would be nice to make all moderation pass a CAPTA. This is not a lot of effort for a normal person with five mod points but it is for a karma farmer. Make the bastards work harder.
It's funny how little hardware is required to make playable games. The Wii, for example, gets buy with an 800 MHz PowerPC and 88MB of RAM and 24 MB for the GPU. More is always better, but sooner or later it's going to be overkill.
Google should care about privacy for privacy's sake and business reasons. Chilling effects are bad for YouTube's business, but uploader records are a sword that cuts both ways. Proving that Viacom and other "rights holder" employees uploaded content will cut the legs out from under this suit.
The offset is the loss of freedom and traffic that a free YouTube could provide. The uploaders at Anonymous, for example, can fear being sold out by Viacomm to Scientology reps. That kind of fear will knock out a lot of good political discourse. It will also eliminate a lot of traffic and advertisements.
If your economy was not in ruins, we would not be able to demand you work for pennies an hour in unsafe conditions. If you were not willing to do that, Habib would not be able to make lots of money with H1B employees that replace US employees. This will eventually ruin the US economy and laws that protect it's citizens but those in power think that's just fine. They will be happy to rape US citizens the same way they have raped you.
This is why so called free trade agreements are anything but. They are exploitation agreements and the biggest most glaring one is trade with Communist China. The real price of goods made with slave labor is your freedom.
It's so nice of M$ and Intel to pick up the last project they smashed. This is more evidence that M$ wants everyone in the world under their thumb and can no tolerate any other software anywhere. It won't work because the world wants freedom.
What is the difference between Paris Hilton and a $20 whore? Family money.
The choice of metaphors here is awful. It would be better to directly say that censorship is not the way to prevent child exploitation.
Because they fired them last year. I agree with you 100% about the lack of pots of gold and fountains of youth but the market is not that much better when you have skills. Companies like M$ have been filling ALL of their entry level positions with H1B people, who they treat like dirt. Engineers are in a worse spot because there's little need for them when everything is actually made in China. The market for engineers has shrunk faster than the number available. Good luck.
No, it's not funny. I'm one of those whiners who thinks US leadership has sold the US out.
My other accounts are doing just fine, thank you.
Companies as well as users are finding value in the four software freedoms. IBM, Asus, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Chrysler, Lowes. even Intel's graphics division has used and vended free software. Can you think of a kind of company that has not moved to free software?
You can do as you please with your own code but don't expect me to use your software when I can have my software freedom and get my work done. Efforts to undermine software freedom through anti-competitive practices will hopefully get you fined or thrown in jail.