I'm sure he means that he runs W2K in a virtual machine. That won't solve the Pownabilty problem but it will run with reasonable speed after you reload your snapshot. Runs great on PCLinuxOS using Nvidia drivers and VirtualBox.
Yeah, yeah, I know Nvidia is non free. So is Windows! If you must run it, and I can't imagine why, this is a way to do it.
That's an interesting analogy but it does not hold water, even in the most controversial case: airborn dope searching. There's nothing harmful about thermal energy and radiation monitoring is only applied to public areas.
The health implication is the most important distinction. Sources that can be detected at 80 feet and 70 MPH are a real health hazard. Hospital release orders will tell you to stay away from relatives for a while. Situations where thermal energy can be harmful are outlawed as arson.
The other distinction is also important. The government does not, to my knowledge, look for radiation sources in residential neighborhoods with airborn equipment. I have read about some fruitless searching for sources "lost" in Katrina and I'm told that there are satellites that could be used for the purpose. Arguments can be made against such searches but the direct public health implications of large sources would go a long way to counter them.
Radiation monitoring is useful and non invasive. Unlike real domestic spying, it only identifies things that can actually be harmful. Equipment operators have a simple purpose and can be adequately trained to distinguish real threats from false alarms but every alarm is worth following. People don't have to be identified and personal information never has to be tracked to stop threats.
Radio isotope monitoring has long been done at borders and in waste disposal. These are last ditch portions of defense in depth to protect the public from real danger. Powerful sources are required for industry and medicine. They are supposed to be carefully tracked from creation to disposal but you can never be sure. There have been several ugly incidents outside the US and at least one where an isotope ended up smelted into something that was later caught at the US border. When everything else fails, road and garbage checks help.
While nothing is impossible for a corrupt administration to abuse, this is not it. The real end of civil liberty comes from tracking and harassing dissidents and creating mechanism to lock them up.
This is why port blocks and other terms of service are evil. If you can't serve something on your own machine with bandwith you buy, you are at the mercy of others. When they want to censor you, they will. The reason for that censorship does not matter. If it can happen it will be abused.
You can have a look at what happened to me when I bothered to defend Apple in the latest Wintel crap on Apple festival. The conversation was crap flooded and then I was punished. I count no fewer than 7 "troll" points dropped onto me but the punishment is only obvious when you look at my page. Someone has obviously used two accounts worth of mod points to try and bury the whole conversation and me at the same time. It did not work at the time because the community thought well of it.
Microsoft or some big Microsoft fanboy is obviously gaming Slashdot. For some reason, they keep pointing at and saying nasty things about you. That makes you my friend.
The original term for this "Homeland Defense" monstrosity was "Total Information Awareness" and it was well underway before 9/11. It's so repulsive and unAmerican that the US Congress overwhelmingly ordered it shut down. Bush moved it to the NSA instead, so it is doing just fine.
Be advised that the terrorists who run this program think they have the right to detain and torture people without charge. When they are finished beating you they dump you in a foreign country where you might be murdered or starve before you can get back home.
If Safari was forced, you might be able to compare Apple and Microsoft. It's not, unless you fail to read the dialog, so charges of leveraging a monopoly position are bullshit. I'm also not aware of any kind of music player contract that forbids makers from supporting other file formats, except from Microsoft.
The law does not forbid monopolies for monopolies sake, it forbids harmful anti-competitive behavior. There's nothing wrong with designing a good OS or even dominating a particular market, so long as you don't get up to dirty tricks. Microsoft got busted when they punished vendors for including the then superior Netscape browser with new computers. By doing this, Microsoft reduced Netscape from 90% market share and prosperity to broke dick in a very short time. Apple including Safari as an option the user can decline is no more a monopolistic practice than Red Hat's including Firefox in it's distribution.
The only thing that raised any eyebrows was that the dialog was a little confusing. Anyone with an IQ better than that of a sponge would understand they were gettin a new browser when they click "OK". As CNet noticed the problem is that,
at some point people became conditioned to downloading anything that shows up from an official source, like Microsoft, Apple, AOL, Yahoo, or whoever.
It's my opinion that people are reduced to this stage by Window's poor package management. There is no central repository in the non free software world, so every vendor is forced to roll their own package manager if they want to keep their customers up to date. So really, this is all about how Microsoft sucks.
I can see how it might be confusing to have an "updater" give you new software but the text of the message is clear. In bold letters it says, New software is Available from Apple. Between that and the fact that you know you don't have Safari installed, anyone who's had their morning coffee would have done OK.
I also expect Apple will continue to make this available in their updater because the updater is really a package manager. If the package manager can get Safari, why should the package manager hide it?
Finally, this would not be a problem if Microsoft had it's act together. Why is it that every company has to make it's own custom package manager for Windows? Apple, Mozilla, Adobe, AV companies, freaking everyone has to include their own custom package manager on Windows. You would think that all of these companies could get together and agree on a standard repository system that gives users control. There are two big reasons that won't happen. No one trusts Microsoft and Microsoft would rather die than give users real choices. More on topic, if it were not for the games Microsoft plays, people would not be afraid to install another browser. I've got three or four on my GNU/Linux computers and all of them work well. Through Wine, or virtual machines, I could have IE if I wanted it but I have not needed that in more than five years.
that and ad hominem attacks go hand in hand with Microsoft defense, don't they? The point of my comments here was to point out how this issue has been spun and to speculate on the spinners. You have not added much to that and I wish you would shut up.
What and how I named this account is none of your business. Just imagine that I like the way it sounds.
Apple is not as evil as Microsoft. Their common interest with Mozilla is open standards. Apple has used a lot of free software such as KHTML on which Safari is built. A common burden for Apple and Mozilla is dealing with companies like Microsoft, the AAs and others who hate your freedom.
Mozilla statements have been blown out of proportion and this is not a big deal. It would be nice to see people from Mozilla weigh up the two companies or compare the IE8 force to this.
If you think about it, Apple has done what it did because Microsoft does not have it's act together. Why shouldn't Apple leverage iTunes like this? No force was involved other than Microsoft and iTunes being non free in the first place. This one time advertisement is a big fat zero next to the constant stream of intrusive Windows update popups that few dare turn off.
I'm not a big Apple fan but I can smell fake news. What happened has been highly distorted and what Apple has done is not bad at all. They offered Windows users a choice, nothing more.
If Microsoft really cared for their customers, vendors would not need custom installers. To really give users choice and convenience, Microsoft would set up a software repository and serve up things like Safari with a good package manager. They have something like this for other vendor's hardware drivers which are equally non free, so it's not impossible.
This issue is 5% real concern, 95% drama. Don't confuse a non mandatory offer with vendor manipulation and other dirty tricks. Apple, while non free and often in collusion with the Soft, is not the same kind of offender and has actually been helpful in promoting reasonable standards and free software.
Shame on Slashdot for not seeing through this. What better thing could there be for Microsoft than a flame war between Mozilla and Apple?
Even Cnet noted that this is not a mandatory install and that the brew ha ha is because:
... some point people became conditioned to downloading anything that shows up from an official source, like Microsoft, Apple, AOL, Yahoo, or whoever.
That and Microsoft can't stand competition from Apple any more than it will release new versions of IE and Office on OSX. Yes, we can expect Mozilla to not like this, but we can be sure they also hate the way IE is forced on Windows users too. It's too bad that perspective is lost in the Wintel press, isn't it?
There's more perspective missing from this story too. If you dig deeper, you find stories about how Jobs announced his intention to make Safari available on Windows though iTunes. This is exactly what has happened and it was done in a much nicer way than IE8 and Windows itself are forced onto users.
I don't like being critical of Slashdot and Slashdot editors because of all the great work done by the site. Most articles are better researched and though out than this one. Someone is asleep at the wheel this time and I hope this clears the issue up.
There's so much wrong with this thing. A thumbpad that sits to the right. A EEE PC sized screen to run Vista or a hardware switch that turns it into Windows Mobil, aka a cell phone. Why not just get what he really wants for $400?
It's got is WAN but those should be available for EEE as a USB device. Is there anything this can do that EEE does not?
Why would you go to the trouble when other solutions just work? Trusting Microsoft to run Linux... there is no propper analogy for such a stupid thing.
though slamming plans without user consent only results in bills with multiple hundred dollar charges, it's a common fraud. The provider changes your plan based on your usage to maximize their profits. Given their access to records and other tools you don't have, this is a rip off even when they call and ask in advance. The iPhone offers more services and more chances of doing that.
The "unlimited" EDGE plan was created in response to a lot of bad press about huge bills. That's a good change but it hardly amounts to a good deal per byte. The plan slam to accompany the service would be to call the customer and tell them they could save money by not using the all you can eat plan. Such calls should be regarded with great scepticism - no company would really call customers to tell them to buy less of their services.
Thanks for sharing. I did not know Xubuntu did that or that it would give accelerated graphics support. Xandros on it's own is great for most people but this video shows what is on the way. Windows mobile won't be able to hold a candle to the next generation of Linux devices.
Cellular carriers, you mean ATT - that little company that did not want people using 300 baud modems? That would explain everthing about the US market but iPhone. Even iPhone is understandable when you hear about multiple thousand dollar "data" bills.
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I bow before your perversity. Where do you get drivers?
I'm sure he means that he runs W2K in a virtual machine. That won't solve the Pownabilty problem but it will run with reasonable speed after you reload your snapshot. Runs great on PCLinuxOS using Nvidia drivers and VirtualBox.
Yeah, yeah, I know Nvidia is non free. So is Windows! If you must run it, and I can't imagine why, this is a way to do it.
Try PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu or Fedora and let me know if you still think composting window managers are slow or that you need 10GB for an OS install.
That's an interesting analogy but it does not hold water, even in the most controversial case: airborn dope searching. There's nothing harmful about thermal energy and radiation monitoring is only applied to public areas.
The health implication is the most important distinction. Sources that can be detected at 80 feet and 70 MPH are a real health hazard. Hospital release orders will tell you to stay away from relatives for a while. Situations where thermal energy can be harmful are outlawed as arson.
The other distinction is also important. The government does not, to my knowledge, look for radiation sources in residential neighborhoods with airborn equipment. I have read about some fruitless searching for sources "lost" in Katrina and I'm told that there are satellites that could be used for the purpose. Arguments can be made against such searches but the direct public health implications of large sources would go a long way to counter them.
Radiation monitoring is useful and non invasive. Unlike real domestic spying, it only identifies things that can actually be harmful. Equipment operators have a simple purpose and can be adequately trained to distinguish real threats from false alarms but every alarm is worth following. People don't have to be identified and personal information never has to be tracked to stop threats.
Radio isotope monitoring has long been done at borders and in waste disposal. These are last ditch portions of defense in depth to protect the public from real danger. Powerful sources are required for industry and medicine. They are supposed to be carefully tracked from creation to disposal but you can never be sure. There have been several ugly incidents outside the US and at least one where an isotope ended up smelted into something that was later caught at the US border. When everything else fails, road and garbage checks help.
While nothing is impossible for a corrupt administration to abuse, this is not it. The real end of civil liberty comes from tracking and harassing dissidents and creating mechanism to lock them up.
This is why port blocks and other terms of service are evil. If you can't serve something on your own machine with bandwith you buy, you are at the mercy of others. When they want to censor you, they will. The reason for that censorship does not matter. If it can happen it will be abused.
You can have a look at what happened to me when I bothered to defend Apple in the latest Wintel crap on Apple festival. The conversation was crap flooded and then I was punished. I count no fewer than 7 "troll" points dropped onto me but the punishment is only obvious when you look at my page. Someone has obviously used two accounts worth of mod points to try and bury the whole conversation and me at the same time. It did not work at the time because the community thought well of it.
Microsoft or some big Microsoft fanboy is obviously gaming Slashdot. For some reason, they keep pointing at and saying nasty things about you. That makes you my friend.
The original term for this "Homeland Defense" monstrosity was "Total Information Awareness" and it was well underway before 9/11. It's so repulsive and unAmerican that the US Congress overwhelmingly ordered it shut down. Bush moved it to the NSA instead, so it is doing just fine.
Be advised that the terrorists who run this program think they have the right to detain and torture people without charge. When they are finished beating you they dump you in a foreign country where you might be murdered or starve before you can get back home.
If Safari was forced, you might be able to compare Apple and Microsoft. It's not, unless you fail to read the dialog, so charges of leveraging a monopoly position are bullshit. I'm also not aware of any kind of music player contract that forbids makers from supporting other file formats, except from Microsoft.
The law does not forbid monopolies for monopolies sake, it forbids harmful anti-competitive behavior. There's nothing wrong with designing a good OS or even dominating a particular market, so long as you don't get up to dirty tricks. Microsoft got busted when they punished vendors for including the then superior Netscape browser with new computers. By doing this, Microsoft reduced Netscape from 90% market share and prosperity to broke dick in a very short time. Apple including Safari as an option the user can decline is no more a monopolistic practice than Red Hat's including Firefox in it's distribution.
The only thing that raised any eyebrows was that the dialog was a little confusing. Anyone with an IQ better than that of a sponge would understand they were gettin a new browser when they click "OK". As CNet noticed the problem is that,
It's my opinion that people are reduced to this stage by Window's poor package management. There is no central repository in the non free software world, so every vendor is forced to roll their own package manager if they want to keep their customers up to date. So really, this is all about how Microsoft sucks.
I can see how it might be confusing to have an "updater" give you new software but the text of the message is clear. In bold letters it says, New software is Available from Apple. Between that and the fact that you know you don't have Safari installed, anyone who's had their morning coffee would have done OK.
I also expect Apple will continue to make this available in their updater because the updater is really a package manager. If the package manager can get Safari, why should the package manager hide it?
Finally, this would not be a problem if Microsoft had it's act together. Why is it that every company has to make it's own custom package manager for Windows? Apple, Mozilla, Adobe, AV companies, freaking everyone has to include their own custom package manager on Windows. You would think that all of these companies could get together and agree on a standard repository system that gives users control. There are two big reasons that won't happen. No one trusts Microsoft and Microsoft would rather die than give users real choices. More on topic, if it were not for the games Microsoft plays, people would not be afraid to install another browser. I've got three or four on my GNU/Linux computers and all of them work well. Through Wine, or virtual machines, I could have IE if I wanted it but I have not needed that in more than five years.
that and ad hominem attacks go hand in hand with Microsoft defense, don't they? The point of my comments here was to point out how this issue has been spun and to speculate on the spinners. You have not added much to that and I wish you would shut up.
What and how I named this account is none of your business. Just imagine that I like the way it sounds.
Apple is not as evil as Microsoft. Their common interest with Mozilla is open standards. Apple has used a lot of free software such as KHTML on which Safari is built. A common burden for Apple and Mozilla is dealing with companies like Microsoft, the AAs and others who hate your freedom.
Mozilla statements have been blown out of proportion and this is not a big deal. It would be nice to see people from Mozilla weigh up the two companies or compare the IE8 force to this.
If you think about it, Apple has done what it did because Microsoft does not have it's act together. Why shouldn't Apple leverage iTunes like this? No force was involved other than Microsoft and iTunes being non free in the first place. This one time advertisement is a big fat zero next to the constant stream of intrusive Windows update popups that few dare turn off.
I'm not a big Apple fan but I can smell fake news. What happened has been highly distorted and what Apple has done is not bad at all. They offered Windows users a choice, nothing more.
If Microsoft really cared for their customers, vendors would not need custom installers. To really give users choice and convenience, Microsoft would set up a software repository and serve up things like Safari with a good package manager. They have something like this for other vendor's hardware drivers which are equally non free, so it's not impossible.
IE8 and the 1999 anti-trust trials ring a bell? This is a made up and distorted issue.
This issue is 5% real concern, 95% drama. Don't confuse a non mandatory offer with vendor manipulation and other dirty tricks. Apple, while non free and often in collusion with the Soft, is not the same kind of offender and has actually been helpful in promoting reasonable standards and free software.
Shame on Slashdot for not seeing through this. What better thing could there be for Microsoft than a flame war between Mozilla and Apple?
Even Cnet noted that this is not a mandatory install and that the brew ha ha is because:
That and Microsoft can't stand competition from Apple any more than it will release new versions of IE and Office on OSX. Yes, we can expect Mozilla to not like this, but we can be sure they also hate the way IE is forced on Windows users too. It's too bad that perspective is lost in the Wintel press, isn't it?
There's more perspective missing from this story too. If you dig deeper, you find stories about how Jobs announced his intention to make Safari available on Windows though iTunes. This is exactly what has happened and it was done in a much nicer way than IE8 and Windows itself are forced onto users.
I don't like being critical of Slashdot and Slashdot editors because of all the great work done by the site. Most articles are better researched and though out than this one. Someone is asleep at the wheel this time and I hope this clears the issue up.
Hell's business model has blown through $40 billion in three years. Looks like a loser to me.
There's so much wrong with this thing. A thumbpad that sits to the right. A EEE PC sized screen to run Vista or a hardware switch that turns it into Windows Mobil, aka a cell phone. Why not just get what he really wants for $400?
It's got is WAN but those should be available for EEE as a USB device. Is there anything this can do that EEE does not?
Buy something that works and screw it up while breaking everything else.
Why would you go to the trouble when other solutions just work? Trusting Microsoft to run Linux ... there is no propper analogy for such a stupid thing.
I could be wrong about iPhone because I don't have one. There is no doubt about international rates or slamming by ATT.
though slamming plans without user consent only results in bills with multiple hundred dollar charges, it's a common fraud. The provider changes your plan based on your usage to maximize their profits. Given their access to records and other tools you don't have, this is a rip off even when they call and ask in advance. The iPhone offers more services and more chances of doing that.
The "unlimited" EDGE plan was created in response to a lot of bad press about huge bills. That's a good change but it hardly amounts to a good deal per byte. The plan slam to accompany the service would be to call the customer and tell them they could save money by not using the all you can eat plan. Such calls should be regarded with great scepticism - no company would really call customers to tell them to buy less of their services.
Thanks for sharing. I did not know Xubuntu did that or that it would give accelerated graphics support. Xandros on it's own is great for most people but this video shows what is on the way. Windows mobile won't be able to hold a candle to the next generation of Linux devices.
Cellular carriers, you mean ATT - that little company that did not want people using 300 baud modems? That would explain everthing about the US market but iPhone. Even iPhone is understandable when you hear about multiple thousand dollar "data" bills.
Yeah, whatever.