As fellow living in Thailand as well this is the first I heard about any such ban and have been using twitter and facebook everyday. Also, 100 officers to monitor the whole internet? Good luck with that.
Actually it is harmful, while the company is out trying to figure out how and what got stolen the hackers are trying the stolen passwords on users email accounts and anywhere else that the user's email address pops up. Time is very important when dealing with these things so that the users can change their passwords as soon as possible.
Hey wanker, this guy is right, it's totally to do with the GPL license, people have been complaining about this for a long time, so it looks like the only imbecile is you.
People have been bitching about this for ages, then finally when his scams get pulled, oh suddenly it's google siding up with the big corporations, give me break, ugh..
I just noticed that your first "fact" is wrong too. The GPL only requires the source code to be released if you give it to someone else and only on improvements to the GPL code which may be separate from your proprietary code.
You're second "fact" is incorrect. The code has to be released with the binary and any user may request the source code if not provided. Hence you are wrong about this, you can't delay releasing the source code to users that already have the binary.
Also no one is raising pitchforks apart from some news articles that as they always do attempt to blow something out of all proportion.
No one is encouraging companies to use linux for their devices. These companies use it because the advantages of not having to build their own OS from scratch outweigh the disadvantages of having to release their improvements to linux. Only problem is that some companies forget to play by the rules.
Also people like GPL violations don't just launch an attack on linux violators with a lawsuit. They first attempt to contact them and work with them to release the needed source changes, rarely does it ever result in a lawsuit. You only see the worse examples where companies have repeatedly ignored or refused to release the improvements they've made on GPL'd source code.
The very same thing happens in closed source code as well. Lots of companies sue other companies over using their code which hasn't be properly licensed, etc. Same thing happens there, it's mostly worked out before it ever hits a court room.
This is why there is an appearance of there being lots of GPL lawsuits but no closed source ones, because the interested parties in the GPL cases are all of us and it's news, however the closed source cases involve only two parties, the companies directly involved.
That's seriously not going to work. If anything Ubuntu or someone else needs to solve this problem now and provide something similar to android's security permission model where you can see what the application accesses and grant it permission to do certain things.
We already have the tools to a certain point to do this, for example SE Linux, it just needs some work to put it all together into a nice overlay.
He already HAS said that he's not above criticism, people ignore him.
You sound like someone who hasn't got the slightest idea about the country or its people. You spout out garbage like you're an expert on everything yet you haven't even got a basic understanding of the country, it's people and current political situation.
He's been in hospital for 2 years, he's around 86 years old. The internet is the least of his problems let alone having to personally denounce every moron that pretends to do something in his name.
I've been to both the red shirt and yellow shirt demonstrations and seen how the leaders of both repeat the same "facts" over and over again till the point that the people there believe that they are the true saviours while the other side is pure evil.
I've seen the red shirt demonstrators with guns and performing illegal searches on peoples cars. I saw them burning buildings after the government told them to leave. Yet you wonder why people have such a low opinion of them in Bangkok when they are burning their work places down or throwing explosives at the anti-demonstrators protesting them to leave bangkok?
You realise that both the yellow and red shirt demonstrators only make up 5% of the population right? So no, they are not a majority. They're a bunch of violent thugs that wish to blame Bangkok citizens for their poverty.
You'd do better insulting the people who use him to get their political opponents arrested then insulting an 86 year old man who has been in hospital for the last 2 years and has no idea what anyone is doing or why people are still being arrested after he said he's not above criticism.
The red shirts of who you speak only have one goal which is to re-elect Taksin the former prime minister who is currently on the run from corruption charges.
You spew bullshit about his democratically elected brother-inlaw which became prime minister after him and now his sister is going to try to become prime minister. What other country allows one family to continue becoming the prime minister? None, because he and his followers are corrupt. Also democratically elected doesn't mean vote buying which is what he is guilty of hence why their political party was banned for five years.
It's nice that you try to come on slashdot and convince the ignorant that the king is all evil and eats babies but the simple fact is it has nothing to do with him.
The Red Shirts gave the people affordable health care, for one thing.
The red shirts did no such thing. They're not a political party, they're rioters that burned down half of bangkok last year. They fired grenades at the train and anti-supporters in silom. They killed lots of people in their "demonstrations" including police officers. I've walked through their demonstations, I've seen their supporters with m16s so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about unlike you, some foreigner that gets all their news from his country wife.
It's true that they too have been killed but it's pretty much their own fault, you don't start a gun fight then complain about being shot.
No he doesn't, he's a monarch like in England. He has no power to make laws or tell people what to do and he has already spoken out that he's not above criticism. Any laws in Thailand have to be voted in or out by its people and no one will propose to get rid of such laws because their political careers would be over; hence the reason there are so many fucked up rules here.
He HAS made speeches publicly about how he is not above criticism it doesn't matter because he's the king and everyone respects him to a level that is just beyond a westerners understanding. It doesn't matter what he does because it has very little to do with what the king does or doesn't do and more about what the people that use him as a political tool do.
Even getting rid of the law is an impossibility because the king can't do that, it's people must vote it in. Who the hell is going to commit political suicide by proposing to get rid of the les majesty laws? No one because their opponents would be quick to take advantage of it to gather support.
Immediately a soldier came pushing her with his machine gun to make her stand up, so all these tokens of respect are not that spontaneous.
I live in Thailand now (not in the past like your did) and I've never once seen that happen or experienced that and I usually just keep walking in Train stations regardless of national anthem or not, but then I guess I am wrong because of your "expert" advice from 20 years ago.
Also I think your story is bullshit because there aren't soldiers with machine guns at train stations.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Also I am not from the US so I have no idea about what Illinois is or isn't doing. You seem to completely miss my point regardless.
I live in the third world so I have first hand experience. No one walks, they'd rather take a boat across a river then walk across the bridge right next to it. Going down the street? They take a motorcycle taxi, regardless of distance. Even the petrol (gas) prices are cheaper here. There are so many damn cars that everyone keeps their hand breaks off so others can move cars about when parking, in fact it's considered rude not to.
The air quality is terrible when there is no wind and it all comes from the cars, motorcycles and boats.
I have to say you're wrong. It's no one those things which is "grass is greener on the other side". It simply isn't as no one cares about the environment. You could try and make a point there I more people in third world countries but from what I've seen that has very little factor to it. Even if there were less people they'd still not care and continue doing what they're doing.
I'm not trying to deny the existence of what you're talking about but you have to see it from an outsiders point of view. Stupid scare stories about how wifi won't work from people who don't know their ass from their elbow only makes people turn away from what you're saying. How can anyone take these government institutions seriously when they branch into subjects that it's obvious they have no clue what they're talking about.
This isn't the first stupid scare story attached to the "because of global warming" trend. It's not difficult to see why no one cares anymore about what people in these positions are saying.
You want to release some software under BSD, go right ahead but don't bitch about what others are doing. Since GPL is more popular is seems like you're on the losing side, so sorry about that.
It's not only found in america or europe. Thailand (Buddhist) and Malaysia (Muslim) are exactly the same and both are Asian countries. In fact most countries in asia are like this.
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As fellow living in Thailand as well this is the first I heard about any such ban and have been using twitter and facebook everyday. Also, 100 officers to monitor the whole internet? Good luck with that.
Actually it is harmful, while the company is out trying to figure out how and what got stolen the hackers are trying the stolen passwords on users email accounts and anywhere else that the user's email address pops up. Time is very important when dealing with these things so that the users can change their passwords as soon as possible.
Hey wanker, this guy is right, it's totally to do with the GPL license, people have been complaining about this for a long time, so it looks like the only imbecile is you.
People have been bitching about this for ages, then finally when his scams get pulled, oh suddenly it's google siding up with the big corporations, give me break, ugh..
Which is why you sell the first copy for a million dollars, i'm a genius!
I just noticed that your first "fact" is wrong too. The GPL only requires the source code to be released if you give it to someone else and only on improvements to the GPL code which may be separate from your proprietary code.
You're second "fact" is incorrect. The code has to be released with the binary and any user may request the source code if not provided. Hence you are wrong about this, you can't delay releasing the source code to users that already have the binary.
Also no one is raising pitchforks apart from some news articles that as they always do attempt to blow something out of all proportion.
No one is encouraging companies to use linux for their devices. These companies use it because the advantages of not having to build their own OS from scratch outweigh the disadvantages of having to release their improvements to linux. Only problem is that some companies forget to play by the rules.
Also people like GPL violations don't just launch an attack on linux violators with a lawsuit. They first attempt to contact them and work with them to release the needed source changes, rarely does it ever result in a lawsuit. You only see the worse examples where companies have repeatedly ignored or refused to release the improvements they've made on GPL'd source code.
The very same thing happens in closed source code as well. Lots of companies sue other companies over using their code which hasn't be properly licensed, etc. Same thing happens there, it's mostly worked out before it ever hits a court room.
This is why there is an appearance of there being lots of GPL lawsuits but no closed source ones, because the interested parties in the GPL cases are all of us and it's news, however the closed source cases involve only two parties, the companies directly involved.
That's seriously not going to work. If anything Ubuntu or someone else needs to solve this problem now and provide something similar to android's security permission model where you can see what the application accesses and grant it permission to do certain things.
We already have the tools to a certain point to do this, for example SE Linux, it just needs some work to put it all together into a nice overlay.
He already HAS said that he's not above criticism, people ignore him.
You sound like someone who hasn't got the slightest idea about the country or its people. You spout out garbage like you're an expert on everything yet you haven't even got a basic understanding of the country, it's people and current political situation.
He's been in hospital for 2 years, he's around 86 years old. The internet is the least of his problems let alone having to personally denounce every moron that pretends to do something in his name.
I've been to both the red shirt and yellow shirt demonstrations and seen how the leaders of both repeat the same "facts" over and over again till the point that the people there believe that they are the true saviours while the other side is pure evil.
I've seen the red shirt demonstrators with guns and performing illegal searches on peoples cars. I saw them burning buildings after the government told them to leave. Yet you wonder why people have such a low opinion of them in Bangkok when they are burning their work places down or throwing explosives at the anti-demonstrators protesting them to leave bangkok?
You realise that both the yellow and red shirt demonstrators only make up 5% of the population right? So no, they are not a majority. They're a bunch of violent thugs that wish to blame Bangkok citizens for their poverty.
You'd do better insulting the people who use him to get their political opponents arrested then insulting an 86 year old man who has been in hospital for the last 2 years and has no idea what anyone is doing or why people are still being arrested after he said he's not above criticism.
So why isn't gay marriage allowed in all of America? It's not because of the majority of the people disagree, right?
because that's a over dramatised fiction movie. A lot of Thai people despise this movie for it's non-facts.
It's like I tried passing off "Team America" as a factual representation of America.
The red shirts of who you speak only have one goal which is to re-elect Taksin the former prime minister who is currently on the run from corruption charges.
You spew bullshit about his democratically elected brother-inlaw which became prime minister after him and now his sister is going to try to become prime minister. What other country allows one family to continue becoming the prime minister? None, because he and his followers are corrupt. Also democratically elected doesn't mean vote buying which is what he is guilty of hence why their political party was banned for five years.
It's nice that you try to come on slashdot and convince the ignorant that the king is all evil and eats babies but the simple fact is it has nothing to do with him.
The red shirts did no such thing. They're not a political party, they're rioters that burned down half of bangkok last year. They fired grenades at the train and anti-supporters in silom. They killed lots of people in their "demonstrations" including police officers. I've walked through their demonstations, I've seen their supporters with m16s so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about unlike you, some foreigner that gets all their news from his country wife.
It's true that they too have been killed but it's pretty much their own fault, you don't start a gun fight then complain about being shot.
No he doesn't, he's a monarch like in England. He has no power to make laws or tell people what to do and he has already spoken out that he's not above criticism. Any laws in Thailand have to be voted in or out by its people and no one will propose to get rid of such laws because their political careers would be over; hence the reason there are so many fucked up rules here.
He HAS made speeches publicly about how he is not above criticism it doesn't matter because he's the king and everyone respects him to a level that is just beyond a westerners understanding. It doesn't matter what he does because it has very little to do with what the king does or doesn't do and more about what the people that use him as a political tool do.
Even getting rid of the law is an impossibility because the king can't do that, it's people must vote it in. Who the hell is going to commit political suicide by proposing to get rid of the les majesty laws? No one because their opponents would be quick to take advantage of it to gather support.
I live in Thailand now (not in the past like your did) and I've never once seen that happen or experienced that and I usually just keep walking in Train stations regardless of national anthem or not, but then I guess I am wrong because of your "expert" advice from 20 years ago.
Also I think your story is bullshit because there aren't soldiers with machine guns at train stations.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Also I am not from the US so I have no idea about what Illinois is or isn't doing. You seem to completely miss my point regardless.
I live in the third world so I have first hand experience. No one walks, they'd rather take a boat across a river then walk across the bridge right next to it. Going down the street? They take a motorcycle taxi, regardless of distance. Even the petrol (gas) prices are cheaper here. There are so many damn cars that everyone keeps their hand breaks off so others can move cars about when parking, in fact it's considered rude not to.
The air quality is terrible when there is no wind and it all comes from the cars, motorcycles and boats.
I have to say you're wrong. It's no one those things which is "grass is greener on the other side". It simply isn't as no one cares about the environment. You could try and make a point there I more people in third world countries but from what I've seen that has very little factor to it. Even if there were less people they'd still not care and continue doing what they're doing.
I'm not trying to deny the existence of what you're talking about but you have to see it from an outsiders point of view. Stupid scare stories about how wifi won't work from people who don't know their ass from their elbow only makes people turn away from what you're saying. How can anyone take these government institutions seriously when they branch into subjects that it's obvious they have no clue what they're talking about.
This isn't the first stupid scare story attached to the "because of global warming" trend. It's not difficult to see why no one cares anymore about what people in these positions are saying.
You want to release some software under BSD, go right ahead but don't bitch about what others are doing. Since GPL is more popular is seems like you're on the losing side, so sorry about that.
It's not only found in america or europe. Thailand (Buddhist) and Malaysia (Muslim) are exactly the same and both are Asian countries. In fact most countries in asia are like this.
Slashdot article says development kernel, not stable. So does the parent.