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Truecrypt is not free software and security problems have been noted in the past. Only free software should be trusted.
every one of Microsoft's five divisions may miss the company's and analysts' sales forecasts. The world's biggest software maker won't be able to cut enough costs to meet profit goals
Things have only gotten worse, which is why Oppenheimer & Co's analyst Brad Reback advises 10% cuts and others as much as 17%. None of that can save Vista, Zune, IE and other failures.
Companies making these deals don't own the land the lines run through and are obligated to be good stewards of it. This is the basis for telco regulation, to define what a good steward is. Cutting off large chunks of the internet is harmful to the public and should be avoided with reasonable regulations. Companies that violate those regulations can and should be replaced by the public with another that will maintain infrastructure better.
I do believe that creating value for others is good. I also believe that I deserve a share of the value I create as a reward.
The economic advantages of free software are overwhelming. You are always rewarded for writing free software. Sometimes you are paid but you always get the software and your job done and that is what you get paid for in the first place. Non free software locks you and the rest of the world out of that value forever for the sake of owners who seek to control their users. M$ also uses business method patents to threaten others who might provide that value and really share it. You should not cooperate with such an evil company. The society they would create is so much poorer than a free society that your salary is no longer a personal advantage. You would be richer working for an honest company in a free society.
I can not compel you to abandon evil, but I can remove legal protection for M$'s abuse. Business method patents can and will be eliminated. Copyright law can and will be reformed. These things and the far greater value produced by free software will eliminate the non free business model. The alternatives are dysfunctional.
How many accounts and modpoints do these asses have? This has to be a very partial list. Is there an organized effort to root them out? Is it possible even?
"I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself," McCain told the New York Times in an interview that appeared Sunday. "I don't expect to be a great communicator, I donâ(TM)t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need."
It is clear the man lacks all electronic publishing clue. His attitude and experience are all too well represented by the people bringing us ACTA.
ACTA is something that has not seen public debate and that's remarkable for such sweeping and draconian legislation. Because the U SAP at RIOT ACT was passed without time for legislators to actually read it, and torture is AOK bills, I'm not surprised by much the US does anymore.
What, exactly do they tell EU and Asian officials to make shit like this happen? It looks like they convinced/bribed key legislators that this is all dry technical stuff best handled by subject matter experts and then stuffed the panels with copyright/IP warriors. The sad fact is that most legislators are too old to realize the implications of the laws they are producing. John McCain, who has never used email, may be sadly typical. Protest will surprise these legislators and start to convince them there's more to this than dry technical details.
The Vista failure has created a lot of "great deals" like your dad's $400 desktop. HP took a loss on it that they would not have had if they did not have to pay a licensing fee or had not done as M$ said and try to sell nothing but Vista while 90% of people wanted nothing to do with Vista. Even then, your dad had to use a copy of Office from work to make the thing useful to him. That is a cost which non free software will continue to impose on hardware and it's not sustainable.
Even if Vista is the technical equivalent of free software, the cheaper and more flexible stack is going to win. This one is a no brainer and there's not way that an advertiser is going to convince people otherwise.
Uh, no and this part of the site is suspect for it's treatment of Vista and Debian security. UAC was designed to be annoying and offers little if any real security. Others have questioned Vista's security improvement over XP and other versions of Windows, but the comparison is kind of like winning a gold star at the Special Olympics. To M$, monopoly power and business models are more important than your data integrity, privacy, the internet or general welfare of users and the world. If M$ spent $100,000,000 on UAC and "security" it was squandered but we can be sure the majority of it was used for advertising and other business model security. It is amazing that the knowlegable people who put the site together could claim that Vista security is "teh best ever, but bad vendors ruinz it" and then compare Debian's late problem with OpenSSL. Debian's mistake is serious but it's not in the same league as M$'s continuing failures.
Every person who's private information may have been exposed should be informed. The company screwed up in a way that could cause people who trusted them a big problem. The least the company should do is notify the victims. They should also set aside funds and resources to help anyone who is defrauded as a result. A class action suit might convince companies to do these minimal things.
Correlation testing is hypothesis testing. The statement "X and Y are related" is a hypothesis and the test is statistics. Simple models are still useful for humans.
Slashdot material will also cover accusations of LimitNone being a M$ proxy and the perills of non free software in general. The senseless accusations you are talking about will be half covered by the Wintel trade press as they did with the SCO case.
The statement:
People need to realize that Google is just another large publicly traded corporation that will do whatever it takes to increase its revenue, even if that means risking its reputation among developers." is right out of the M$ FUD book.
The alleged theft is laughable:
The lawsuit alleges that Google's product, called "Google Email Uploader" steals gMove's look, feel and functionality.
There were also Vague accusations of "trade secret theft" but there are several excellent free software tools that have been getting this kind of information for years. No further details were given by business wire. Let's look for more, shall we?
Wired, same stuff Google has not had time to look over the suit and comment.
CNet, same kind of thing with market size and potential price thrown in for fun.
The Inquirer does better with a brief statement of facts, without Google comment.
The Wall Street Journal adds insight by noticing that there is a conflict of interest between small companies and large ones in any business relationship but only applies this wisdom to Google. No comment from Google.
There are many echos in other papers and blog space which contain even less information than the Slashdot summary.
Something to spook clueless investors about "another" billion dollar suit for Google without background information about the frequency of such things.
So, we see a one sided media blitz, complete with stock market "advice", but completely lacking in input from Google, technical insight and other information. These are M$ hallmarks.
Scalar graphics work regardless of the size of your screen or resolution of your printer. These things may change drastically in the next 10 years. Bit mapped stuff already looks like poop at any but native size. A crummy 75 dpi scan is going to be the size of a postage stamp on a good monitor and it won't blow up gracefully. That might take up less storage space but the people who read it will have eyeballs that bleed and much of the size advantage is lost when you put the text in anyway. Wouldn't it be better to use software that writes high quality pdf in the first place and then just archive it?
For scientific reports, this is a big deal. Detail scales in pdf. A pdf can have eps graphs that can be place at any size and never lose any of their detail until it is printed. Don't forget about hyperlinks which most TIFFs wont' have. I can share these files as dvi, ps or pdf. Most people prefer the pdf. Converting them to TIFF would essentially ruin them.
Here's a GNU/Linux, Debian Lenny, point of comparison. You might say I'm a heavy browser user. The machine is dual core 64 bit AMD with 2GB of RAM. I have Firefox 2, Galeon and Konqueror running all for weeks with 24 days of uptime since I last did a dist-upgrade with kernel replacement.
Konqueror has about 300 MB RES, five windows dozens of tabs.
Iceweasel has about 100 MB, multiple windows and tabs.
Galeon has about 65 MB, multiple windows and tabs.
This is not a stress test. My system remains snappy for Kontact, gimp and other work. The Safari memory problem is one of Safari or Vista, it would be nice to hear from an Apple user. Vista's low uptime is Vista's alone, regardless of what component caused it.
Instead of calling me paranoid, why don't you just explain why you would recommend Microsoft's TIFF plus text metadata over PDF. The loss of scalar vector graphics is a big downside and most things Microsoft have patents, secrets and inconsistencies. I might be wrong about patents and secrets but Microsoft is famous for inconsistency.
Ewwww, he acts like a fanboy and he is. "Never had a real job," what a joke. I wonder how much that idiot has cost the companies he works for by demanding all of that buggy crap?
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But it usually comes with an email demanding money for decryption. If you want to keep something private, you should not use Windows.
Read the license again.
Truecrypt is not free software and security problems have been noted in the past. Only free software should be trusted.
"Bundling" is a lie. OEM manipulation and technical sabotage are the truth. Calling Mozilla a "Monopoly" is just plain stupid.
According to Heather Bellini, of UBS AB and the top-ranked software analyst by Institutional Investor magazine all five M$ divisions were behind expectations and most are losers.
Things have only gotten worse, which is why Oppenheimer & Co's analyst Brad Reback advises 10% cuts and others as much as 17%. None of that can save Vista, Zune, IE and other failures.
When the Wall Street Journal reports it, you know M$ is in trouble. EWeek also has an interesting write up with more technical details.
Companies making these deals don't own the land the lines run through and are obligated to be good stewards of it. This is the basis for telco regulation, to define what a good steward is. Cutting off large chunks of the internet is harmful to the public and should be avoided with reasonable regulations. Companies that violate those regulations can and should be replaced by the public with another that will maintain infrastructure better.
I do believe that creating value for others is good. I also believe that I deserve a share of the value I create as a reward.
The economic advantages of free software are overwhelming. You are always rewarded for writing free software. Sometimes you are paid but you always get the software and your job done and that is what you get paid for in the first place. Non free software locks you and the rest of the world out of that value forever for the sake of owners who seek to control their users. M$ also uses business method patents to threaten others who might provide that value and really share it. You should not cooperate with such an evil company. The society they would create is so much poorer than a free society that your salary is no longer a personal advantage. You would be richer working for an honest company in a free society.
I can not compel you to abandon evil, but I can remove legal protection for M$'s abuse. Business method patents can and will be eliminated. Copyright law can and will be reformed. These things and the far greater value produced by free software will eliminate the non free business model. The alternatives are dysfunctional.
How many accounts and modpoints do these asses have? This has to be a very partial list. Is there an organized effort to root them out? Is it possible even?
If it were not for your tireless effort and dedication, I'd never be able to remember who I was!
"I don't e-mail. I've never felt the particular need to e-mail." also:
It is clear the man lacks all electronic publishing clue. His attitude and experience are all too well represented by the people bringing us ACTA.
ACTA is something that has not seen public debate and that's remarkable for such sweeping and draconian legislation. Because the U SAP at RIOT ACT was passed without time for legislators to actually read it, and torture is AOK bills, I'm not surprised by much the US does anymore.
What, exactly do they tell EU and Asian officials to make shit like this happen? It looks like they convinced/bribed key legislators that this is all dry technical stuff best handled by subject matter experts and then stuffed the panels with copyright/IP warriors. The sad fact is that most legislators are too old to realize the implications of the laws they are producing. John McCain, who has never used email, may be sadly typical. Protest will surprise these legislators and start to convince them there's more to this than dry technical details.
You must already have good IP laws where you live. I hope that changes and you get out of jail soon.
The Vista failure has created a lot of "great deals" like your dad's $400 desktop. HP took a loss on it that they would not have had if they did not have to pay a licensing fee or had not done as M$ said and try to sell nothing but Vista while 90% of people wanted nothing to do with Vista. Even then, your dad had to use a copy of Office from work to make the thing useful to him. That is a cost which non free software will continue to impose on hardware and it's not sustainable.
Even if Vista is the technical equivalent of free software, the cheaper and more flexible stack is going to win. This one is a no brainer and there's not way that an advertiser is going to convince people otherwise.
As soon as service providers realize there's a buck to be made, say good bye to that feature and this questionable service.
Uh, no and this part of the site is suspect for it's treatment of Vista and Debian security. UAC was designed to be annoying and offers little if any real security. Others have questioned Vista's security improvement over XP and other versions of Windows, but the comparison is kind of like winning a gold star at the Special Olympics. To M$, monopoly power and business models are more important than your data integrity, privacy, the internet or general welfare of users and the world. If M$ spent $100,000,000 on UAC and "security" it was squandered but we can be sure the majority of it was used for advertising and other business model security. It is amazing that the knowlegable people who put the site together could claim that Vista security is "teh best ever, but bad vendors ruinz it" and then compare Debian's late problem with OpenSSL. Debian's mistake is serious but it's not in the same league as M$'s continuing failures.
WTF?
Nuclear laptop. That's hot.
Every person who's private information may have been exposed should be informed. The company screwed up in a way that could cause people who trusted them a big problem. The least the company should do is notify the victims. They should also set aside funds and resources to help anyone who is defrauded as a result. A class action suit might convince companies to do these minimal things.
EU privacy laws are about to take a dive, so citizens and customers will be shafted more often.
Ultimately, this will cause great harm to all commerce. If enough innocent people get shafted, others will lose confidence.
Correlation testing is hypothesis testing. The statement "X and Y are related" is a hypothesis and the test is statistics. Simple models are still useful for humans.
Slashdot material will also cover accusations of LimitNone being a M$ proxy and the perills of non free software in general. The senseless accusations you are talking about will be half covered by the Wintel trade press as they did with the SCO case.
The statement:
The alleged theft is laughable:
There were also Vague accusations of "trade secret theft" but there are several excellent free software tools that have been getting this kind of information for years. No further details were given by business wire. Let's look for more, shall we?
So, we see a one sided media blitz, complete with stock market "advice", but completely lacking in input from Google, technical insight and other information. These are M$ hallmarks.
Scalar graphics work regardless of the size of your screen or resolution of your printer. These things may change drastically in the next 10 years. Bit mapped stuff already looks like poop at any but native size. A crummy 75 dpi scan is going to be the size of a postage stamp on a good monitor and it won't blow up gracefully. That might take up less storage space but the people who read it will have eyeballs that bleed and much of the size advantage is lost when you put the text in anyway. Wouldn't it be better to use software that writes high quality pdf in the first place and then just archive it?
For scientific reports, this is a big deal. Detail scales in pdf. A pdf can have eps graphs that can be place at any size and never lose any of their detail until it is printed. Don't forget about hyperlinks which most TIFFs wont' have. I can share these files as dvi, ps or pdf. Most people prefer the pdf. Converting them to TIFF would essentially ruin them.
Here's a GNU/Linux, Debian Lenny, point of comparison. You might say I'm a heavy browser user. The machine is dual core 64 bit AMD with 2GB of RAM. I have Firefox 2, Galeon and Konqueror running all for weeks with 24 days of uptime since I last did a dist-upgrade with kernel replacement.
This is not a stress test. My system remains snappy for Kontact, gimp and other work. The Safari memory problem is one of Safari or Vista, it would be nice to hear from an Apple user. Vista's low uptime is Vista's alone, regardless of what component caused it.
Instead of calling me paranoid, why don't you just explain why you would recommend Microsoft's TIFF plus text metadata over PDF. The loss of scalar vector graphics is a big downside and most things Microsoft have patents, secrets and inconsistencies. I might be wrong about patents and secrets but Microsoft is famous for inconsistency.
If you look down a little more you see the same person slamming TIFF for inconsitency but still recomending it witout saying why. This would only be strange if he did not also say, "searchable text (a Microsoft addition, but something that actually adds value)."
Ewwww, he acts like a fanboy and he is. "Never had a real job," what a joke. I wonder how much that idiot has cost the companies he works for by demanding all of that buggy crap?