This is definitely absolute rubbish. You will notice that we are all born and all going to die - it's just a matter of when and how. Even in Western Europe within living memory a lot of people starved to death during the second world war but that sort of consideration never makes it into these reviews...
I think a lot of people are missing the point - nobody will remember steve jobs for Mac OSX.
They will remember him for the ipod, macbook air, mac mini, ipad series etc.
Whatever your views on their corporate behaviour, you have to admit it: mac laptops are shiny!;)
None of this makes him a better or worse person, but all the talk about Apple's legal disputes and software derived from UNIX is missing the point. OSX is great to use, in a dull sort of way, but I much prefer debian. However, I have seen nothing as good for its size as a mac mini - even my 2008 model is better than non-apple models.
Corporate BB users generally run their own servers, which are encrypted end-to-end and as far as I know are "secure", or at least not directly compromised by RIM. Consumer blackberries, however, rely on RIM for their servers and it is here that governments may spy on communication.
Governments have treated encryption like a WMD since enigma, and if they cannot access data simply make it illegal to either import, export or run encryption http://www.wassenaar.org/.
This makes me want to find a new continent and set up a country where the citizens are free... oh wait...
Can you imagine the equivalent chat face to face, perhaps in a bar?
Troll: "Your mother is a slut!!" Nerd: "I agree she is rather free with her morals, but what makes you think so?" Troll: "more aggressively because I like ****ing her" & punches... Nerd: "mphmph" (mouth blocked by fist)
In the real world, we pay big men in black clothing to help such "trolls" leave licensed premises.
With his history, as its publicly reported, if he wasn't seeing an oncologist even if only to rule out cancer it would be surprising. This should be expected.
Of course, he could have been going to see a friend there or any one of a thousand things... cancer patients often get to meet each other at clinics and become friends.
Since I put debian 6 on her laptop - the frequency of ubuntu updates annoyed her, and she refused to install them (windows failed her long ago - even without viruses the spyware slowed it to a crawl) - she thinks it matters a lot. And who am I to argue...?
I am slightly amused by all the insistence on its geek credentials. For the above installation I put the installation CD in and essentially pressed return until a working desktop came up. I admit I had to type 2 user names and passwords, but I didn't find it too onerous. For my other machines I might do other things - but that is me complicating matters and nothing inherently to do with debian. It seems all my hardware is so old now, it just works out of the box.
{Kindly refrain from posting "j00r m0m" jokes... heard them all before... really. Not a challenge, either.}
Even if the change in metabolic and cellular components of the blood can be handled, surely the strain on the cardiovascular system in a baby (on dialysis) must be enormous?
The thing is, that politicians will later decide if you were suitable to do pioneering operations/medical interventions based on media outcry - I give you the bristol heart scandal etc..
I bought their retail version, coz of the codecs it had with it, which was fine but the click-and-install system didn't work, the command line didn't work - no matter how often I have reinstalled it onto different boxes. Not a good use of £25 I feel...
that depends - I am a student so mine must be or you cannot buy season tickets etc: I appreciate that you can in theory buy one anonymously, but since you will be doing so in the full glare of CCTV and then using it on CCTV, I am not sure its really that anonymous...
I live in London, and its hilarious to compare the level of spying.
Here, We have "congestion charge cameras" that record every single car's numberplate in every single street (where there is no "congestion charge" they call them "autoreaders" - they are on all the motorwars, bridges, & who knows where else...): apart from this, all of central London and most public places within the M25 are covered - very extensively - by CCTV.
Furthermore, the public transport is paid for by using a ticket in the form of an electronic, registered-to-your-home-address "oyster card" which again monitors everywhere you go.
The mobile phones you carry have - by law - every single phone-call and text recorded for the government: this same law covers email and the data is available not just to MI5 & MI6, not even just to the police - but "social workers" and "local government workers" have access to it.
In short, depending on the study you choose the average Londoner is recorded on CCTV 200-450 times per day, their mobile is continously tapped (remember when people used to need a warrant? haha...) and their car is under observation all of the time...
Compare that with only when a police car is passing...
There is an old saying - if you sup with the devil, use a long spoon. Do not invite him to sit at the top table and take part in decision making, and deciding the direction of future projects.
I will believe in MS "commitment" to open-source when they release the code for their software, instead of trying to stop me using (my 100% legal version of) XP because I have reinstalled it 5 times.
However exciting this issue is, my problem is the bigger - that it will simply be the tip of the iceberg.
The reality is that within a few years it will be very difficult indeed to buy a computer, and control what, why and for whom it acts without being an uber-nerd.
Call it trusted computing, DRM, but big business wants to know, and control everything you can do: the games, music & video industries are all onto this, quite apart from the facebook + partners link-up reported on this site a few weeks ago.
Only LinuxBios can save us!:p
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This is definitely absolute rubbish. You will notice that we are all born and all going to die - it's just a matter of when and how. Even in Western Europe within living memory a lot of people starved to death during the second world war but that sort of consideration never makes it into these reviews...
Oh, for some mod points. I thought that here of all places someone would have watched and liked starwars...
RIP Carrie Fisher
my particular institution uses this:
First.last.year-of-entry@my-institution.edu
e.g. John Doe starting his course in 2010 gets:
john.doe10@my-institution.edu
And if there are more of them they use additional numbers:
john.doe101@my-institution.edu ...
john.doe102@my-institution.edu
john.doe1010@my-institution.edu
I think a lot of people are missing the point - nobody will remember steve jobs for Mac OSX.
They will remember him for the ipod, macbook air, mac mini, ipad series etc.
Whatever your views on their corporate behaviour, you have to admit it: mac laptops are shiny! ;)
None of this makes him a better or worse person, but all the talk about Apple's legal disputes and software derived from UNIX is missing the point. OSX is great to use, in a dull sort of way, but I much prefer debian. However, I have seen nothing as good for its size as a mac mini - even my 2008 model is better than non-apple models.
There is this http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/koolu/
There is a fundamental misunderstanding here.
Corporate BB users generally run their own servers, which are encrypted end-to-end and as far as I know are "secure", or at least not directly compromised by RIM.
Consumer blackberries, however, rely on RIM for their servers and it is here that governments may spy on communication.
Governments have treated encryption like a WMD since enigma, and if they cannot access data simply make it illegal to either import, export or run encryption http://www.wassenaar.org/.
This makes me want to find a new continent and set up a country where the citizens are free ... oh wait...
Can you imagine the equivalent chat face to face, perhaps in a bar?
Troll: "Your mother is a slut!!"
Nerd: "I agree she is rather free with her morals, but what makes you think so?"
Troll: "more aggressively because I like ****ing her" & punches...
Nerd: "mphmph" (mouth blocked by fist)
In the real world, we pay big men in black clothing to help such "trolls" leave licensed premises.
Perhaps its just because I mostly associate with gamers, but really, +b http://www.quakenet.org/faq/faq.php?c=52&f=62#62 was invented for trolls.
well said - oh for some mod points.
With his history, as its publicly reported, if he wasn't seeing an oncologist even if only to rule out cancer it would be surprising. This should be expected.
Of course, he could have been going to see a friend there or any one of a thousand things... cancer patients often get to meet each other at clinics and become friends.
I hope he gets well soon, in any case.
"this is obvious."
Since I put debian 6 on her laptop - the frequency of ubuntu updates annoyed her, and she refused to install them (windows failed her long ago - even without viruses the spyware slowed it to a crawl) - she thinks it matters a lot. And who am I to argue...?
I am slightly amused by all the insistence on its geek credentials. For the above installation I put the installation CD in and essentially pressed return until a working desktop came up. I admit I had to type 2 user names and passwords, but I didn't find it too onerous. For my other machines I might do other things - but that is me complicating matters and nothing inherently to do with debian. It seems all my hardware is so old now, it just works out of the box.
{Kindly refrain from posting "j00r m0m" jokes... heard them all before... really. Not a challenge, either.}
Traitorware is something that you pay for thinking that it has a specified purpose (e.g. printing) - but it betrays you.
Spyware is something that you didn't have any knowledge of (e.g. 3rd-party cookies on websites)
I agree that the end outcome isn't so different, but maybe how you get there is important sometimes?
Debian also runs nicely on them - perhaps not ideal for you but an option.
How is it possible to satirize this - did he have his fingers crossed whilst he spoke? We should be told!
$500 to avoid windows is cheap at twice the price.
Even if the change in metabolic and cellular components of the blood can be handled, surely the strain on the cardiovascular system in a baby (on dialysis) must be enormous?
The thing is, that politicians will later decide if you were suitable to do pioneering operations/medical interventions based on media outcry - I give you the bristol heart scandal etc..
I bought their retail version, coz of the codecs it had with it, which was fine but the click-and-install system didn't work, the command line didn't work - no matter how often I have reinstalled it onto different boxes. Not a good use of £25 I feel...
hahaha. -----> firehose...
I never said it was right - its VERY VERY wrong!!
;)
Its just interesting, I thought...
And yeah China might be worse, but I am not going to live there either
That is a fascinating question: here are some articles on the subject - I very much suspect that its a change in interpretation, and who are us little people to argue with that? ;)
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/07/16/super-database-proposed-in-uk-logging-every-phone-call-text-email/
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2217073/government-plans-database-phone
that depends - I am a student so mine must be or you cannot buy season tickets etc: I appreciate that you can in theory buy one anonymously, but since you will be doing so in the full glare of CCTV and then using it on CCTV, I am not sure its really that anonymous...
I live in London, and its hilarious to compare the level of spying.
Here, We have "congestion charge cameras" that record every single car's numberplate in every single street (where there is no "congestion charge" they call them "autoreaders" - they are on all the motorwars, bridges, & who knows where else...): apart from this, all of central London and most public places within the M25 are covered - very extensively - by CCTV.
Furthermore, the public transport is paid for by using a ticket in the form of an electronic, registered-to-your-home-address "oyster card" which again monitors everywhere you go.
The mobile phones you carry have - by law - every single phone-call and text recorded for the government: this same law covers email and the data is available not just to MI5 & MI6, not even just to the police - but "social workers" and "local government workers" have access to it.
In short, depending on the study you choose the average Londoner is recorded on CCTV 200-450 times per day, their mobile is continously tapped (remember when people used to need a warrant? haha...) and their car is under observation all of the time...
Compare that with only when a police car is passing...
There is an old saying - if you sup with the devil, use a long spoon. Do not invite him to sit at the top table and take part in decision making, and deciding the direction of future projects. I will believe in MS "commitment" to open-source when they release the code for their software, instead of trying to stop me using (my 100% legal version of) XP because I have reinstalled it 5 times.
However exciting this issue is, my problem is the bigger - that it will simply be the tip of the iceberg. The reality is that within a few years it will be very difficult indeed to buy a computer, and control what, why and for whom it acts without being an uber-nerd. Call it trusted computing, DRM, but big business wants to know, and control everything you can do: the games, music & video industries are all onto this, quite apart from the facebook + partners link-up reported on this site a few weeks ago. Only LinuxBios can save us! :p