If Google told on Microsoft, I have no problem with that. Now, Google should inform on Microsoft on trying to control the entire PC market and squash Operating System competition with "their" hated "Trusted computing" platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing..
Based on Microsoft's track record, how can you a) Trust Microsoft b) Trust ANY company.c) Leave control of your hardware to a corporation that does bidding of governments / media cartel - especially if they are foreign governments.
Let's see. With cash, it's in your hand. In the digital world, you could have a certain company beginning with P (who think they are a bank but aren't) who decides that it doesn't like your haircut, then suspends your account without notice so the money you need for your business is now frozen. You might get it back some day, who knows when.
If you don't want to take cash in store, don't cry when a card company stops payments and your cash flow freezes up. Litigate for the money? After your business has collapsed?
Cashless will never happen, although it's many governments wet dream as it will be able to track everything you spend your money on, and that's what they want.
Why would anyone trust a company that pretends to be a bank, but is not regulated like a bank, and so can disappear your money in an instant and leave you whistling in the wind for YOUR money? Did the government somehow find if difficult to find a company more trusted?
I'm no fan of what is widely seen as America pulling the internet this way and that, especially with the media cartels having politicians in their pockets, but the thought of the UN controlling the internet is even worse. Think of free speech, and kiss that goodbye.
Freedom of Speech should NEVER be joined with smashing people up / killing them because they got "offended" by a comment. This is the trouble with politicians, because they are attacking Free Speech by linking the two.
Cracking down on Free Speech also helps politicians cover up the crimes by them and the bankers that bankroll them.
As a Linux user, Mozilla should be targetting Adobe not me. For example, Adobe released a not working version of their flash player, it changes the colours of video on places like Youtube if you have hardware acelleration enabled. To get proper colours you have to disable hardware accelleration, which has a massive impact on system performance, even on a dual core machine.
To add to the problem, Adobe said they will no longer be working on Flash for Linux (at least the 64 bit version). So they released a known buggy version, and refuse to revert to previous version that worked.
Me updating is not the problem, it's companies like Adobe that need to be targetted.
You can thank the Federal Reserve and President. All that quantitative easing (money printing) is doing wonders to the US Dollar, making your imports more expensive, pushing up your energy imports.
No wonder the US economy is tanking when all companies do are applying for and being granted stupid patents like thiis, and most the world don't care about these kind of patents anyway.
One day the illegal media cartels might actually get it, that the "pirates" provide a better product. No adverts for other films (Disney is top culprit but there are others), no trailers accusing you of being a crook despite buying a legit DVD / BluRay, no DRM... no regiuon coding, in other words, it just works. The illegal media cartels just p people off with their crappy product.
The problem is, the politicians in many countries that can sort this out have been bought and paid for by the illegal media cartels, so expect no change to their tactics.
U.S., meanwhile, has been investing in its Waverider program since 2004, and the last test of the X-51A scramjet-powered missile failed after just 15 seconds
So with the Russians just starting on hypersonic engine design, looks to me like they are only 15 seconds behind the US:)
For such expensive projects, would it not make sense to have two EPROM's, one containing the original known working system, and one for the new one. If the new version fails, the machine can fall back to the older version, switch between the two if there are more OS upgrades planned. If they have watchdog times on board to keep the rover going, surely they could do similar setup for the OS?
I propose that Yahoo gets it's finger out of it's backside and fix Flickr. For months I've been trying to get a "pro" account to upload more photograhs than the standard freebie 200. However like many other complaints in the forums, Yahoo seem to not be bothered in fixing the billing system, many can't log in to even create a billing account, others can't pay or renew what they have. Sounds a bigger problem then just re-arranging how the chairs and desks are in an office for better Feng shui.
This is a question of trust. Remember how Intel released in one of their Pentium line of processors that deliberately leaked the processor ID. Oh sure, you could switch it off in the BIOS, but users DIDN'T trust that, and sales did not go well until the next processor.
Now you're willing to trust Microsoft with an "off switch" to their competition killing lock-out "secure boot" loader. More fool you.
And where are the alternate BIOS manufactureres? About time to shove Phoenix and the rest up their secure behinds.
The UK already said they will allow access to the information to the USA and to Brussles (EU). Think of all the other crooks, I mean corporations that could do with this information. See, now YOU have to PAY the corporations to prove you're innocent...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18594105
I have had to make a compromise in using the Nvidia driver. It's a "black box", so you don't know what is in it or how others might be able to improve on it, but on the other hand, it does the 3D work for stuff like KDE, Google Earth or 3D games like Brutal Chess or BZflag.
In Mageia, there is the Nouveau free driver, it works very well for 2D stuff, but does not work for 3D stuff.
So it depends on your requirements, and how wedded you are to the "Free" concept. Having said that, if there was a free driver that does 3D on Nvidia cards, I'd take it.
Considering Skype STILL have not released a 64bit* version or one that works properly with Phonon, I can guess the Linux users will be safe from adverts too.
* Static or dynamic are NOT 64bit versions, they drag a whole pile of 32bit junk. It's pathetic as the only application in Linux that refuses to be designed / built for 64bit systems.
So the US steals legitimate users data, and now holding these people to ransom for money to get their data back. Sounds like a mafia gangster mob scheme, or is that what the American government has become, because that's what it looks like to non-US citizens.
Land of the free!!!
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If Google told on Microsoft, I have no problem with that. Now, Google should inform on Microsoft on trying to control the entire PC market and squash Operating System competition with "their" hated "Trusted computing" platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing ..
Based on Microsoft's track record, how can you a) Trust Microsoft b) Trust ANY company .c) Leave control of your hardware to a corporation that does bidding of governments / media cartel - especially if they are foreign governments.
"Your Cloud Provider (Probably) Isn't Spying On You"......
But your government probably is.
Let's see. With cash, it's in your hand. In the digital world, you could have a certain company beginning with P (who think they are a bank but aren't) who decides that it doesn't like your haircut, then suspends your account without notice so the money you need for your business is now frozen. You might get it back some day, who knows when.
If you don't want to take cash in store, don't cry when a card company stops payments and your cash flow freezes up. Litigate for the money? After your business has collapsed?
Cashless will never happen, although it's many governments wet dream as it will be able to track everything you spend your money on, and that's what they want.
Why would anyone trust a company that pretends to be a bank, but is not regulated like a bank, and so can disappear your money in an instant and leave you whistling in the wind for YOUR money? Did the government somehow find if difficult to find a company more trusted?
Control of internet numbering.. so these countries don't want to move from IPv4 to IPv6 to aid in their controlling of device / service blocks?
I'm no fan of what is widely seen as America pulling the internet this way and that, especially with the media cartels having politicians in their pockets, but the thought of the UN controlling the internet is even worse. Think of free speech, and kiss that goodbye.
How can you trust a computer when it can't be examined what the code is actually doing? How can you trust a computer when Microsoft are involved?
Won't be buying a PC with that "trusted" junk on it.
Freedom of Speech should NEVER be joined with smashing people up / killing them because they got "offended" by a comment. This is the trouble with politicians, because they are attacking Free Speech by linking the two.
Cracking down on Free Speech also helps politicians cover up the crimes by them and the bankers that bankroll them.
As a Linux user, Mozilla should be targetting Adobe not me. For example, Adobe released a not working version of their flash player, it changes the colours of video on places like Youtube if you have hardware acelleration enabled. To get proper colours you have to disable hardware accelleration, which has a massive impact on system performance, even on a dual core machine.
To add to the problem, Adobe said they will no longer be working on Flash for Linux (at least the 64 bit version). So they released a known buggy version, and refuse to revert to previous version that worked.
Me updating is not the problem, it's companies like Adobe that need to be targetted.
You can thank the Federal Reserve and President. All that quantitative easing (money printing) is doing wonders to the US Dollar, making your imports more expensive, pushing up your energy imports.
Tried to figure out where the "I prefer Windows 7" button moved to and gave up.
That's because you're supposed to be looking for a tile not button!
Never mind you being forced to delete an account, will Facebook wipe an account of their servers?
No wonder the US economy is tanking when all companies do are applying for and being granted stupid patents like thiis, and most the world don't care about these kind of patents anyway.
One day the illegal media cartels might actually get it, that the "pirates" provide a better product. No adverts for other films (Disney is top culprit but there are others), no trailers accusing you of being a crook despite buying a legit DVD / BluRay, no DRM... no regiuon coding, in other words, it just works. The illegal media cartels just p people off with their crappy product.
The problem is, the politicians in many countries that can sort this out have been bought and paid for by the illegal media cartels, so expect no change to their tactics.
U.S., meanwhile, has been investing in its Waverider program since 2004, and the last test of the X-51A scramjet-powered missile failed after just 15 seconds
So with the Russians just starting on hypersonic engine design, looks to me like they are only 15 seconds behind the US :)
For such expensive projects, would it not make sense to have two EPROM's, one containing the original known working system, and one for the new one. If the new version fails, the machine can fall back to the older version, switch between the two if there are more OS upgrades planned. If they have watchdog times on board to keep the rover going, surely they could do similar setup for the OS?
I propose that Yahoo gets it's finger out of it's backside and fix Flickr. For months I've been trying to get a "pro" account to upload more photograhs than the standard freebie 200. However like many other complaints in the forums, Yahoo seem to not be bothered in fixing the billing system, many can't log in to even create a billing account, others can't pay or renew what they have. Sounds a bigger problem then just re-arranging how the chairs and desks are in an office for better Feng shui.
This is a question of trust. Remember how Intel released in one of their Pentium line of processors that deliberately leaked the processor ID. Oh sure, you could switch it off in the BIOS, but users DIDN'T trust that, and sales did not go well until the next processor.
Now you're willing to trust Microsoft with an "off switch" to their competition killing lock-out "secure boot" loader. More fool you.
And where are the alternate BIOS manufactureres? About time to shove Phoenix and the rest up their secure behinds.
Skype is about as secure as your mobile phone's GSM chip which has a deliberate flaw (backdoor) to allow hacking of your phone call.
The UK is leading the charge once again in destroying freedom and democracy http://www.channel4.com/news/black-boxes-to-monitor-all-internet-and-phone-data , with their plan to install "black boxes" in all internet providers.. it's for your protection you see, so many nasty terrorists out there http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134333/Why-allowed-spy-Facebook-Twitter-Whitehall-intelligence-chief.html If you don't allow your internet connection to be spied up, you'll be killed....do you want that? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159041/Snoopers-Charter-matter-life-death-says-Met-Police-chief-Home-Secretary-unveils-plans-monitor-website-use.html
The UK already said they will allow access to the information to the USA and to Brussles (EU). Think of all the other crooks, I mean corporations that could do with this information. See, now YOU have to PAY the corporations to prove you're innocent...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18594105
I have had to make a compromise in using the Nvidia driver. It's a "black box", so you don't know what is in it or how others might be able to improve on it, but on the other hand, it does the 3D work for stuff like KDE, Google Earth or 3D games like Brutal Chess or BZflag.
In Mageia, there is the Nouveau free driver, it works very well for 2D stuff, but does not work for 3D stuff.
So it depends on your requirements, and how wedded you are to the "Free" concept. Having said that, if there was a free driver that does 3D on Nvidia cards, I'd take it.
Considering Skype STILL have not released a 64bit* version or one that works properly with Phonon, I can guess the Linux users will be safe from adverts too. * Static or dynamic are NOT 64bit versions, they drag a whole pile of 32bit junk. It's pathetic as the only application in Linux that refuses to be designed / built for 64bit systems.
So the US steals legitimate users data, and now holding these people to ransom for money to get their data back. Sounds like a mafia gangster mob scheme, or is that what the American government has become, because that's what it looks like to non-US citizens. Land of the free!!!
Red Hat has faith in Microsoft. More fool them!