You know what's going to happen? They are going to pay you a visit one night, rob you, rape you, then point a crowbar satellite at your house.
Get a grip already, for fuck's sake! The data is scrubbed of personally identifiable data, and you'll be lost in the sea of 'targets' anyway. Nobody wants to know your address, you have nothing anybody wants! And before you respond with "Burglars!", they're not going to track your phone, they'll go up to your house and look at it to see if you're home, and then rob you anyway.
My father is a professional photographer. He studied in a time when photography started in the brain, not in the camera, and you had to develop the film and images yourself. When I was five or so, he gave me a bunch of lab-grade equipment to use as I please: beakers, Petri dishes, test tubes, a rack for them, cleaning equipment, graduated cylinders, glass pipettes (the kind they use in a real lab, with precise markings), the works.
It wasn't before long that the carpet in my bedroom had several stains and outright holes around the part where I played with the stuff. I mixed up all sorts of crazy stuff: glue from vegetable oil, some green acid that ate right through the carpet, and some sort of caustic foam from god knows what components comes to mind. My parents didn't mind it that much, because was learning. My father didn't even bat an eye when I took a mouthful of that green acid because I couldn't see it creep up in the pipette, he just told me that I should do that facing the light so I can see it. The caustic foam got all over my hand, yet my parents weren't suing anyone.
I was barely ten when I helped him develop film in the lab. If anyone did that before, they know that the stuff used is not kid-friendly, and can kill you in a heartbeat. Why didn't I die? Because I didn't fuck around with them. I did what my father told me to do, and didn't do what he told me not to do. I also had the common sense to approach stuff cautiously. I don't try stuff that looks dangerous just to see what happens.
There's probably a lesson in here for what appears to be the majority of American parents: kids need their freedom. Why not let him endanger himself a bit, just enough to teach him that it's not good. The more sheltered a child is, the less likely to be able to cope in the outside world. If the kid is allowed to explore and learn on its own, it'll become that much stronger and adaptable. Thus, removing 'dangerous chemicals' from a chem set is not the answer, nor is absurd supervision. The answer is to teach him properly.
While commendable, the EFF initiative is fatally flawed on two points.
- Protection from liability: the law is always dual, it states not just rights, but obligations too. If opening up my WiFi makes me an ISP, I may be immune to DMCA notices, but I WILL be obligated to provide the uptime, speed, etc. I may not be able to, because of problems or changes further upstream, but nevertheless, I will be breaching my obligations, making me vulnerable on a different front.
- Security: remember the ruckus that went down when Google sniffed the wireless routers along their routes? And how some people said their open connections carried confidential data? Does anyone else see what I'm driving at? I'd rather have my easily accessible wireless link encrypted with a nice, strong WPA2 password, and not have every other guy walking by with a sniffer in their pocket see what I'm browsing, whether it's Slashdot, Wikipedia, research for my thesis, Flash games or porn.
And if I don't want to want to spend an extra $20 to make a program I use cut down on screen real estate? I'd rather have a fully skinnable program, whose interface I can customize, then you can have your ribbons and I can have my icons.
XP was decent, Vista was a flaming train wreck, Win7 fixed most (but certainly not all) of Vista's horrors, so they were due to release another abomination.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. XP+Office 2003 for me, never mind how many newer versions came out, the UI in ALL of those were shit.
To be honest, not locking your front door/car will penalize itself in the long run. So will not encrypting your router. Which should pretty much be the norm, an open router is an invitation: "I'm free, use me!"
Most likely that way, but that can also be handled by your run-of-the-mill webcam with some machine vision, especially that most webcams also carry a mike. I don't really see how 3D vision can improve video playback experience...
What the hell do you mean "red herring" on the Nexus S?
As for the "released source code" business, even if you compile that, how can you be sure that your compiler is not compromised and inserting some sort of backdoor? Did you write and compile it yourself? Do you trust the compiler compiling your compiler? This can be continued ad nauseam...
If that's your aim, why not try making logically supported claims instead of using old memes, calling those who like the product 'shills', and attacking people left, right, and center.
Right, so why did you leave out the fact that you don't own an android device that doesn't have a locked bootloader and hence could not run any kernel but the one your carrier installed?
Because I have a Nexus S, where it's relatively easy to unlock the bootloader. The fact that I don't want to bother with this, because it offers me no benefits, is another topic entirely.
And why are you pretending I meant "create a custom kernel from scratch" when everyone knows "your custom kernel" means your custom kernel configuration? Is that due to ignorance or is it denial?
Neither. I don't know how to compile a custom kernel nor how to write a new one. Making that distinction is pointless in this case, since I already state I'm not a programmer, so both are out of my league.
Now you answer me this: how do you hope to prove that I'm shilling with these questions?
Because I'm not a Unix kernel hacker who can write his own kernel. I'm just a student, whose interest in technology doesn't extend to rewriting Unix kernels, as that's too much learning and way out of may chosen career path.
I am not corporate shill, Google and Apple can mutually destroy each other for all I care. But if your post is a single sentence of five words with no grammar or punctuation, and you don't even bother to make a defined, supported, coherent point, then yes, I AM going to mod you down, and with the "Troll" marker, as there is no "Moron" marker in the moderation system. This refers to the Anonymous Coward of the opening post, but could also be applied to you, jangle. If you are going to make a point, support it with something, and have a goddamn point to make in the first place. Your post is informative, yes: it informs me that you're only capable of blindly trashing some product that you don't agree with, using an old, outdated meme, without being able to support your points with logical arguments.
attack and undermine the most successful American companies
You paint it as a foreign attack. Umm, let's see what we have here: - Hewlett-Packard: American, headquartered at Palo Alto, CA - IBM: American, headquartered at Armonk, New York (Trivia: HAL of 2001: Space Odyssey was named by transposing IBM one letter back through the alphabet) - Intel: American, headquartered at Santa Clara, CA - Google: American, headquartered at Mountain View, CA - NEC: Japanese - Novell: multinational, headquartered at Waltham, Massachusetts - Red Hat: American, headquartered at Raleigh, North Carolina
Are we seeing a pattern here? It's not like the US as a whole has anything to lose out of this, given that both the "attackers" and the "defenders" are American...
forming a CARTEL against Microsoft and Apple to try to destroy them using patents rather than competing with products that people, you know, actually want to buy
Again, let's see what we have here.
Apple is suing Samsung for the Galaxy series of Android-powered phones. Reason: they look too much like the iPhone. This didn't come as much of a surprise to me after seeing the Galaxy S, Galaxy S Mk.II and the still Samsung-made Nexus S trounce the iPhone in reviews. Microsoft was trounced long ago by Apple in the smartphone market, after they failed to make a snappy comeback to the iPhone Mk.I. Windows Phone 7 came too late and just doesn't cut it in the face of Android and iOS together. And neither one is better than the other, for using patents equally frivolously to make attacks on one another and stifle competition, in your analogy, by being cartels unto themselves by virtue of their sheer size. In this regard, they deserve to have the book thrown at them using one of IBM's patents: they patented patents! It doesn't get any better than this, you gotta admit that...
forming a CARTEL
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
FYI: "A cartel is a formal (explicit) agreement among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production.", according to Arthur Sullivan and Steven M. Sheffrin. The OIN is an association to pool patents, and protect one another from abuse. I see no evidence of fixing prices, marketing strategy or production strategy here. What I see is that now, instead of the Microsoft/Apple ogres going up against several dwarves, they get to face a single ogre trumping them in size, given that the strength of an IT company these days is measured by the number of patents it owns, no matter how frivolous they are.
When will N-Obama stand up against this kind of market abuse?
He won't. Simply because it's not his job. According to the Constitution of the United States of America (I dare you to find a higher law than that in the States!), "The Congress shall have Power [...] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;" I think the IT trade pretty much fits those two criteria, even if it's not actually commerce, nor "market abuse" the way you paint it. Regardless, if it's market, the Congress will regulate, not the President.
Likewise with my Nexus S. I know it tracks itself, because I have joined Latitude and keep my GPS turned on, but I can opt out of Latitude and disable the GPS, so it can't track itself. And at least I own that device, unlike the iStuff, which I apparently only lease from Apple...
Why not use flexible circuitry and AMOLEDs to build the screen and a modicum of a body, while the main processing and storage is handled in a separate package communication over encrypted wireless. That way you could even wrap it around your arm for easy access, and look pretty sci-fi with it, while still being useful.
Yes, I know this probably has a hundred and one kinks in the design that need to be worked out. But it still sounds fun...
Looks like I didn't have to wait long (see my reply #35872778)...
And yes, we do, but they're prohibitively expensive, and very, very noisy, being operated by simple gas turbines, not anti-grav. "[...] The future is not what it seems [...]"
My street is one way, but Google Maps displays it one way in the wrong direction. I've submitted a report oh, about five years ago, and still no change. I'm looking forward to opening this up for Hungary as well, so I can make that goddamn change, since it breaks all routes planned by Maps.
What parent said. To take something like this up the chain is usually synonymous with sacking. He just put a rouge unit on the network, one that IT did not have the chance to audit and certify clean and fit to connect beforehand. Regardless of the OS, he might as well put a virus on the network, opened it up for intrusion, or worse, be the intrusion himself. A rouge entity is every admin's/security officer's nightmare: it's there, but you don't know what's in it, or what it's doing.
The best course of action in this case is to give IT that account, complete with root, and buy them a beer while begging them not to report it to management, lest you lose your job really really fast. Next time, leave this stuff to the right department, by asking them nicely to deploy something for you. Or if you're such a hotshot, why aren't you in IT as well?
Theoretically, I should be free as in 'no money asked', but I'm not sure about that, it might allow for charging for the code. If it doesn't, you 'pay' back the copying by returning your efforts/improvements/contributions to the commons.
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You know what's going to happen? They are going to pay you a visit one night, rob you, rape you, then point a crowbar satellite at your house.
Get a grip already, for fuck's sake! The data is scrubbed of personally identifiable data, and you'll be lost in the sea of 'targets' anyway. Nobody wants to know your address, you have nothing anybody wants!
And before you respond with "Burglars!", they're not going to track your phone, they'll go up to your house and look at it to see if you're home, and then rob you anyway.
My father is a professional photographer. He studied in a time when photography started in the brain, not in the camera, and you had to develop the film and images yourself. When I was five or so, he gave me a bunch of lab-grade equipment to use as I please: beakers, Petri dishes, test tubes, a rack for them, cleaning equipment, graduated cylinders, glass pipettes (the kind they use in a real lab, with precise markings), the works.
It wasn't before long that the carpet in my bedroom had several stains and outright holes around the part where I played with the stuff. I mixed up all sorts of crazy stuff: glue from vegetable oil, some green acid that ate right through the carpet, and some sort of caustic foam from god knows what components comes to mind. My parents didn't mind it that much, because was learning. My father didn't even bat an eye when I took a mouthful of that green acid because I couldn't see it creep up in the pipette, he just told me that I should do that facing the light so I can see it. The caustic foam got all over my hand, yet my parents weren't suing anyone.
I was barely ten when I helped him develop film in the lab. If anyone did that before, they know that the stuff used is not kid-friendly, and can kill you in a heartbeat. Why didn't I die? Because I didn't fuck around with them. I did what my father told me to do, and didn't do what he told me not to do. I also had the common sense to approach stuff cautiously. I don't try stuff that looks dangerous just to see what happens.
There's probably a lesson in here for what appears to be the majority of American parents: kids need their freedom. Why not let him endanger himself a bit, just enough to teach him that it's not good. The more sheltered a child is, the less likely to be able to cope in the outside world. If the kid is allowed to explore and learn on its own, it'll become that much stronger and adaptable. Thus, removing 'dangerous chemicals' from a chem set is not the answer, nor is absurd supervision. The answer is to teach him properly.
While commendable, the EFF initiative is fatally flawed on two points.
- Protection from liability: the law is always dual, it states not just rights, but obligations too. If opening up my WiFi makes me an ISP, I may be immune to DMCA notices, but I WILL be obligated to provide the uptime, speed, etc. I may not be able to, because of problems or changes further upstream, but nevertheless, I will be breaching my obligations, making me vulnerable on a different front.
- Security: remember the ruckus that went down when Google sniffed the wireless routers along their routes? And how some people said their open connections carried confidential data? Does anyone else see what I'm driving at? I'd rather have my easily accessible wireless link encrypted with a nice, strong WPA2 password, and not have every other guy walking by with a sniffer in their pocket see what I'm browsing, whether it's Slashdot, Wikipedia, research for my thesis, Flash games or porn.
And if I don't want to want to spend an extra $20 to make a program I use cut down on screen real estate? I'd rather have a fully skinnable program, whose interface I can customize, then you can have your ribbons and I can have my icons.
XP was decent, Vista was a flaming train wreck, Win7 fixed most (but certainly not all) of Vista's horrors, so they were due to release another abomination.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. XP+Office 2003 for me, never mind how many newer versions came out, the UI in ALL of those were shit.
I could sell the entire 192.168.x.x domain. If it wasn't unroutable, therefore worthless on the inert net, that is...
No, but just like the router, anyone trying to get in will find out pretty soon that it is, even if there's no padlock icon next to the door.
To be honest, not locking your front door/car will penalize itself in the long run. So will not encrypting your router. Which should pretty much be the norm, an open router is an invitation: "I'm free, use me!"
Most likely that way, but that can also be handled by your run-of-the-mill webcam with some machine vision, especially that most webcams also carry a mike. I don't really see how 3D vision can improve video playback experience...
What the hell do you mean "red herring" on the Nexus S?
As for the "released source code" business, even if you compile that, how can you be sure that your compiler is not compromised and inserting some sort of backdoor? Did you write and compile it yourself? Do you trust the compiler compiling your compiler? This can be continued ad nauseam...
If that's your aim, why not try making logically supported claims instead of using old memes, calling those who like the product 'shills', and attacking people left, right, and center.
Right, so why did you leave out the fact that you don't own an android device that doesn't have a locked bootloader and hence could not run any kernel but the one your carrier installed?
Because I have a Nexus S, where it's relatively easy to unlock the bootloader. The fact that I don't want to bother with this, because it offers me no benefits, is another topic entirely.
And why are you pretending I meant "create a custom kernel from scratch" when everyone knows "your custom kernel" means your custom kernel configuration? Is that due to ignorance or is it denial?
Neither. I don't know how to compile a custom kernel nor how to write a new one. Making that distinction is pointless in this case, since I already state I'm not a programmer, so both are out of my league.
Now you answer me this: how do you hope to prove that I'm shilling with these questions?
Because I'm not a Unix kernel hacker who can write his own kernel. I'm just a student, whose interest in technology doesn't extend to rewriting Unix kernels, as that's too much learning and way out of may chosen career path.
I can afford to have this point undone.
I am not corporate shill, Google and Apple can mutually destroy each other for all I care. But if your post is a single sentence of five words with no grammar or punctuation, and you don't even bother to make a defined, supported, coherent point, then yes, I AM going to mod you down, and with the "Troll" marker, as there is no "Moron" marker in the moderation system.
This refers to the Anonymous Coward of the opening post, but could also be applied to you, jangle. If you are going to make a point, support it with something, and have a goddamn point to make in the first place. Your post is informative, yes: it informs me that you're only capable of blindly trashing some product that you don't agree with, using an old, outdated meme, without being able to support your points with logical arguments.
attack and undermine the most successful American companies
You paint it as a foreign attack. Umm, let's see what we have here:
- Hewlett-Packard: American, headquartered at Palo Alto, CA
- IBM: American, headquartered at Armonk, New York (Trivia: HAL of 2001: Space Odyssey was named by transposing IBM one letter back through the alphabet)
- Intel: American, headquartered at Santa Clara, CA
- Google: American, headquartered at Mountain View, CA
- NEC: Japanese
- Novell: multinational, headquartered at Waltham, Massachusetts
- Red Hat: American, headquartered at Raleigh, North Carolina
Are we seeing a pattern here? It's not like the US as a whole has anything to lose out of this, given that both the "attackers" and the "defenders" are American...
forming a CARTEL against Microsoft and Apple to try to destroy them using patents rather than competing with products that people, you know, actually want to buy
Again, let's see what we have here.
Apple is suing Samsung for the Galaxy series of Android-powered phones. Reason: they look too much like the iPhone. This didn't come as much of a surprise to me after seeing the Galaxy S, Galaxy S Mk.II and the still Samsung-made Nexus S trounce the iPhone in reviews.
Microsoft was trounced long ago by Apple in the smartphone market, after they failed to make a snappy comeback to the iPhone Mk.I. Windows Phone 7 came too late and just doesn't cut it in the face of Android and iOS together.
And neither one is better than the other, for using patents equally frivolously to make attacks on one another and stifle competition, in your analogy, by being cartels unto themselves by virtue of their sheer size. In this regard, they deserve to have the book thrown at them using one of IBM's patents: they patented patents! It doesn't get any better than this, you gotta admit that...
forming a CARTEL
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
FYI: "A cartel is a formal (explicit) agreement among competing firms. It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production.", according to Arthur Sullivan and Steven M. Sheffrin. The OIN is an association to pool patents, and protect one another from abuse. I see no evidence of fixing prices, marketing strategy or production strategy here. What I see is that now, instead of the Microsoft/Apple ogres going up against several dwarves, they get to face a single ogre trumping them in size, given that the strength of an IT company these days is measured by the number of patents it owns, no matter how frivolous they are.
When will N-Obama stand up against this kind of market abuse?
He won't. Simply because it's not his job. According to the Constitution of the United States of America (I dare you to find a higher law than that in the States!),
"The Congress shall have Power [...] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
I think the IT trade pretty much fits those two criteria, even if it's not actually commerce, nor "market abuse" the way you paint it. Regardless, if it's market, the Congress will regulate, not the President.
Likewise with my Nexus S. I know it tracks itself, because I have joined Latitude and keep my GPS turned on, but I can opt out of Latitude and disable the GPS, so it can't track itself. And at least I own that device, unlike the iStuff, which I apparently only lease from Apple...
Why not use flexible circuitry and AMOLEDs to build the screen and a modicum of a body, while the main processing and storage is handled in a separate package communication over encrypted wireless. That way you could even wrap it around your arm for easy access, and look pretty sci-fi with it, while still being useful.
Yes, I know this probably has a hundred and one kinks in the design that need to be worked out. But it still sounds fun...
Looks like I didn't have to wait long (see my reply #35872778)...
And yes, we do, but they're prohibitively expensive, and very, very noisy, being operated by simple gas turbines, not anti-grav. "[...] The future is not what it seems [...]"
And here I was, thinking someone will aim for the military-style time, and interpret it as a year, like my friends often do. :D
Probably not CET, it's already 2117 here in Budapest...
My street is one way, but Google Maps displays it one way in the wrong direction. I've submitted a report oh, about five years ago, and still no change. I'm looking forward to opening this up for Hungary as well, so I can make that goddamn change, since it breaks all routes planned by Maps.
What parent said.
To take something like this up the chain is usually synonymous with sacking. He just put a rouge unit on the network, one that IT did not have the chance to audit and certify clean and fit to connect beforehand. Regardless of the OS, he might as well put a virus on the network, opened it up for intrusion, or worse, be the intrusion himself. A rouge entity is every admin's/security officer's nightmare: it's there, but you don't know what's in it, or what it's doing.
The best course of action in this case is to give IT that account, complete with root, and buy them a beer while begging them not to report it to management, lest you lose your job really really fast. Next time, leave this stuff to the right department, by asking them nicely to deploy something for you. Or if you're such a hotshot, why aren't you in IT as well?
I was just referring to the operating principle of torrents: get more by giving back what you have.
That's free, like speech. This is free, like beer. Big difference.
If you've got something against it, use the BSD license, or write your own for all we care.
If there's one thing that should be included there, it's that the 'ocean' isn't a surface ocean, like Earth's, but a SUBSURFACE one, like Europa's!
Editors, for fuck's sake, please check the submissions, not only for grammar, but for factual accuracy too!
Theoretically, I should be free as in 'no money asked', but I'm not sure about that, it might allow for charging for the code. If it doesn't, you 'pay' back the copying by returning your efforts/improvements/contributions to the commons.