OK, the guy is soon to become another martyr for freedom of speech and all that, so could someone please post a.wav on how to actually pronounce his name properly?;)
Theyll never go after the search engines for one important reason: THEY NEED THEM!
How else are they going to find all the offending pages to go after? Where do you think they got that list of 500 defendants in the California (?) case!?
Isnt it a shame? There we are wanking about liberty, freedom, democracy, and how many of us have registered for the polls? 5000? 10000? Lets compare that number to the number of people that took the latest poll: 21350 at the time of writing! Same goes for the number of posts of course...
Is the only way to get people to vote a one-click solution? OK, it was a pain to get registered, the whole process is screwed up, but its a first step damnit, and only by showing up in big numbers can we establish that there *is* an interest in the democratization in the first place. ICANN fared poorly in these elections, but I think the electorate (or rather, lack of it) fared even more poorly.
I just cant get past the fact that the IP adress of my kitchen sink warrants a click whereas the future of the internet wasnt worth the 5 minutes it took to register for the majority here...:(
PS: Apologies to those that tried to get registered but couldnt because of the traffic. I had no problem whatsover though.
I think it is very important for HavenCo to get the issues about jurisdiction and security of their data tested in court ASAP. Heck, if the/. crowd is sceptical that Sealand can uphold its soverenity and thus HavenCos data is save from government tampering, what will usually conservative companies think/do? Does anyone believe they will actually trust in this unclear legal situation, especially after the saber-rattling that the home office seems to be doing after HavenCo announced their plans? Their change of policies with regard to inquiries about the legal status of Sealand after the announcement is a clear indication where this is going. This is a much more relevant and realistic threat to data integrity than any gunboat-riding mutant ninja-commandos that seem to be the main point of interest here.
To get trust and thus paying customers there needs to be some legal precedent with the UK authorities with regard to data integrity and weathering a legal storm and not just the north sea variety that theyre already dealing with...
Theres an easy way to go about this: As soon as technically possible (probably already) get some frontent organisation (Im sure theres volunteers here) to put up legally volatile material and host it and see what happens. Get the issue into the courts with the added side effect of tons of free publicity, especially if they defy the UK...;) I can think of two easy things to do, hosting DeCSS which has already been proposed earlier but even better have someone put up some nasty material about serial litigant Laurence Godfrey of Godfrey vs Demon Internet fame.
The latter should be especially effective testing the legal waters in the UK which probably is the most important thing at the moment. Judging by his track record hell go after this like a raging pitbull and will want to have the material removed immediately.
It would be an interesting test to take two people who have never used a computer before and see if they can more easily learn MS Office or StarOffice. You could use the results of that test to improve the interface of whatever product performed worse. My point is that these big, bloated office suites are becoming indistiguishable from one another.
Interesting aspect and definetely worth looking into.
But contrary to the claim that office suites are becoming indistinguishable IMHO there are differences between the various office suites and even though they offer much of the same functionality the handling and implementation is quite different.
But the more common problem instead of new users learning the basics is teaching people to switch over from MS to SO. Things just dont work the way they are used to.
At the moment we are trying to migrate our lab from MS Office to Star Office (were soooo tired of the constant file format changes and the upgrade spiral that even our profs noticed it..;) ) and as sysadmin I get loads of questions related to that area. But more and more people that took the step and switched over and invested some effort into actually reading the help pages found that Star Office is in many cases equal if not superior to MS Office. The 5.2 release is definetely one to look into, hope they took care of some other minor complaints that I had with it... Now if only I could get my people to switch to gnuplot...;)
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OK, the guy is soon to become another martyr for freedom of speech and all that, so could someone please post a .wav on how to actually pronounce his name properly? ;)
Keep in mind that you can also use the same linquid nitrogen to overclock your PC to kingdom come! ;)
How else are they going to find all the offending pages to go after? Where do you think they got that list of 500 defendants in the California (?) case!?
Is the only way to get people to vote a one-click solution? OK, it was a pain to get registered, the whole process is screwed up, but its a first step damnit, and only by showing up in big numbers can we establish that there *is* an interest in the democratization in the first place. ICANN fared poorly in these elections, but I think the electorate (or rather, lack of it) fared even more poorly.
I just cant get past the fact that the IP adress of my kitchen sink warrants a click whereas the future of the internet wasnt worth the 5 minutes it took to register for the majority here... :(
PS: Apologies to those that tried to get registered but couldnt because of the traffic. I had no problem whatsover though.
To get trust and thus paying customers there needs to be some legal precedent with the UK authorities with regard to data integrity and weathering a legal storm and not just the north sea variety that theyre already dealing with...
Theres an easy way to go about this: As soon as technically possible (probably already) get some frontent organisation (Im sure theres volunteers here) to put up legally volatile material and host it and see what happens. Get the issue into the courts with the added side effect of tons of free publicity, especially if they defy the UK... ;) I can think of two easy things to do, hosting DeCSS which has already been proposed earlier but even better have someone put up some nasty material about serial litigant Laurence Godfrey of Godfrey vs Demon Internet fame.
The latter should be especially effective testing the legal waters in the UK which probably is the most important thing at the moment. Judging by his track record hell go after this like a raging pitbull and will want to have the material removed immediately.
Interesting aspect and definetely worth looking into.
But contrary to the claim that office suites are becoming indistinguishable IMHO there are differences between the various office suites and even though they offer much of the same functionality the handling and implementation is quite different.
But the more common problem instead of new users learning the basics is teaching people to switch over from MS to SO. Things just dont work the way they are used to.
At the moment we are trying to migrate our lab from MS Office to Star Office (were soooo tired of the constant file format changes and the upgrade spiral that even our profs noticed it.. ;) ) and as sysadmin I get loads of questions related to that area. But more and more people that took the step and switched over and invested some effort into actually reading the help pages found that Star Office is in many cases equal if not superior to MS Office. The 5.2 release is definetely one to look into, hope they took care of some other minor complaints that I had with it... Now if only I could get my people to switch to gnuplot... ;)