What a pointless sentence. This is communication. The KDE community doesn't sit on hundreds of millions of dollars. First they get the article out, people read it, comment on it, share it and themselves market the changes to the perception of KDE - which is what this is all about. The article is very clearly stating that KDE should not be perceived as a "product they're selling" but as a community of people. If you had of read the article then you'd know what I'm talking about. But hey, I guess you can't expect that from the/. crowd.
=)
Almost. They do have this really cool technology, there are glaring deficiencies but their marketing department isn't clueless. Go read the article, look at the diagrams and think it through. This move on their part makes complete sense and only makes official what has been unofficial for many years. Plus, by using their new scheme it removes some of the confusion around where and how KDE software works.
Slightly OT, but I've made similar mistakes myself.
I remember when I was dating my wife, I introduced her to my desktop with Fedora 4 installed - I told her to play around with it and tell me what she thought. My words were, "Just play around with it, don't be scared to try stuff, its not like you're going to break anything important!"
My computer was a Compaq which still had XP installed in its own partition, along with the recovery partition that they use.
Yes, that's right, my wife booted the computer, selected the Windows recovery option from the Grub boot menu because it "looked positive/interesting" and proceeded through the menus, completely hosed my system along with over 300Gb of movies, music, photos and more important stuff.
the windows side is built to power a game console and that's all it should be used for.
This has been so true for me and many of my friends. Windows really isn't used for anything more than gaming. Everything else is done in Linux for the purposes of stability, reliability and security.
even if they *did* do it for free, it doesn't actually gain Microsoft anything.
If you've been around the industry long enough you'd know that even if they did backdoor it, Microsoft would twist it into a PR blitz about how the NSA has hardened their OS and that noone else can claim that.
That's because our founding fathers chose it to be in our law. It is our official religion after all. But hey, most people don't realise that these days.
I agree, I do get a similar feeling. And although default settings are better on an OS like Linux, I can't help but think that those same users would manage to get infected on Linux too - if everyone started to switch.
The only thing I know for certain is that I have more control over a Linux machine and as such have found them easier to diagnose and fix. Oh, and tonnes easier to reliably lock down.
I would be excited to know how they got caught. There might be an enjoyable story there.
I would have imagined that if these two were smart then they would have completely covered/obfuscated their tracks every step of the way. From propagating the first copy of the trojan to making sure any profits/information was sent through an elaborate network of communication-encrypted proxies before arriving on a remote server from which they could connect to using a similar but different network of communication-encrypted proxies and download/view the information.
I'd really love to know if they were just stupid, or if someone else was just way smarter. For the stories sake, I hope its the latter.
If they want to be a charity, register as a charity. If you want to be a religion, you should get taxed.
You're trying to separate two very integral parts of a good church's existence. The two go hand in hand in a good church. But, you're going to be hard pressed to find a good church who, for the love of money, decides to register as a charity instead. It misrepresents their goal putting them in a box.
The following is a summary of my theory, I'd like to think its mostly based on logic and fact given both party's past history (CoS in particular):
Hmm, I just read the article. It definitely looks like the CoS contacted ABC to have this article published as their first counter movement. You'll notice the first steps they take are to point out that they're shocked by the allegations and that they've already tried to 'talk' to Senator Xenophon regarding an earlier assault on public television. They attempt to position themselves as a startled innocent party in this whole thing - alleging that they have pro-actively sought resolution with Senator Xenophon to explain their innocence. What where they going to explain? Re-read the article - particularly, the following quote sums it up:
she is shocked to hear Senator Xenophon's claims, as no-one within the church seems disgruntled.
Where is their denial of all the claims? They weren't going to meet with the senator to prove them wrong - that's for sure. They were going to meet with the senator to corner him. This guy's got a good brain on his shoulders. By not allowing them to disguise their blackmail in a 'friendly' meeting, he has forced them to switch play. They certainly cant start bullying him now - because he's gone public he's protected himself from that. At least, he's slowing their movements down.
I think CoS has a number of options here, and I think their plan would be to employ more than one of these options at once to fortify themselves. Firstly, they're going to acquire the specifics of the accusations in question - they want names. From here they can formulate a plan, unique to each individual, that allows them to either bribe or scare them into silence - or even to publicly support the church. This will most definitely involve money and baseball bats - so to speak.
Secondly, another front of assault is the senator himself. Their assassination tactics on public enemies are well documented to say the least, but is this the approach they'll take? We've noticed CoS go 'quiet' lately, at least on the surface. I'm convinced this is due to a wall of lawyers instructing them on the smartest move. But, having said that, if the senator can corner them enough (this will require getting to the victims first) then he can force them to resort to their 'fair game' tactics. This would be beneficial to the senator. Don't be surprised if we receive a nice visit from a big-wig soon - I'm thinking someone like Tom Cruise, but possibly not so publicly famous. If not a visit then definitely some choice phone calls to the senator and other people in power. Nothing that proves their guilt, but just a little "hey, I'm here, I'm powerful, don't get me wrong - I like you, but...." kind of stuff.
Its up to the senator to hold his ground. He needs to cash in on his chips before its too late. This involves the victims and his friends in power - he's got to build his own fort, and jolly quick too. I certainly hope his 'evidence' holds up. But I'm not going to be surprised if the 'police' find that all the witnesses are 'found to be unreliable'.
If it ever goes to court then we'll see character assassination. Otherwise, I expect they'll wait it out to see how far he's willing to stick his neck out with these accusations.
CoS recognised that their blatant abuse of their public enemies was only cornering themselves for future destruction by the law, thus their tactics have become more subtle. More like a government actually - on good advice from lawyers I imagine.
I believe they have become more 'savvy' concerning skirting the law in an effective manner. While still being able to do this previously, it cost a lot and it was bad PR which in turn was setting the public against them - which in turn would have lead to their demise ( once people got sick of it enough).
I for one would be glad to see the CoS closed - but that isn't going to happen any time soon. I do feel sorry (but proud) for those in power who stand up to this bunch.
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I'm getting the feeling you're only going to communicate with smug retorts.
What a pointless sentence. This is communication. The KDE community doesn't sit on hundreds of millions of dollars. First they get the article out, people read it, comment on it, share it and themselves market the changes to the perception of KDE - which is what this is all about. The article is very clearly stating that KDE should not be perceived as a "product they're selling" but as a community of people. If you had of read the article then you'd know what I'm talking about. But hey, I guess you can't expect that from the /. crowd.
=)
Almost. They do have this really cool technology, there are glaring deficiencies but their marketing department isn't clueless. Go read the article, look at the diagrams and think it through. This move on their part makes complete sense and only makes official what has been unofficial for many years. Plus, by using their new scheme it removes some of the confusion around where and how KDE software works.
Serious users use kDE anyway :D
There, fixed that for you.
All better now.
Slightly OT, but I've made similar mistakes myself.
I remember when I was dating my wife, I introduced her to my desktop with Fedora 4 installed - I told her to play around with it and tell me what she thought. My words were, "Just play around with it, don't be scared to try stuff, its not like you're going to break anything important!"
My computer was a Compaq which still had XP installed in its own partition, along with the recovery partition that they use.
Yes, that's right, my wife booted the computer, selected the Windows recovery option from the Grub boot menu because it "looked positive/interesting" and proceeded through the menus, completely hosed my system along with over 300Gb of movies, music, photos and more important stuff.
I learnt my lesson that day.
Mod parent up. No pun intended.
And the KDE variant seKsy sKoolgirl.
You forgot, there is only one Matrix movie too.
This has been so true for me and many of my friends. Windows really isn't used for anything more than gaming. Everything else is done in Linux for the purposes of stability, reliability and security.
If you've been around the industry long enough you'd know that even if they did backdoor it, Microsoft would twist it into a PR blitz about how the NSA has hardened their OS and that noone else can claim that.
Ah, so thats what they said on their website. Gotta be true then.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Don't worry any more folks, NSA said they didn't do it.
What I've found interesting is that all the better hacks are focused more on the hardware. The recent Intel -2 Ring level hack comes to mind.
I completely agree with this assessment. It makes perfect sense for the NSA to do this.
Slightly off topic, but Glenn, I thought you were only into cricket?
ARM based devices have coined that term.
That's because our founding fathers chose it to be in our law. It is our official religion after all. But hey, most people don't realise that these days.
Wasn't the original goal to have these lasers mounted on satellites?
I agree, I do get a similar feeling. And although default settings are better on an OS like Linux, I can't help but think that those same users would manage to get infected on Linux too - if everyone started to switch.
The only thing I know for certain is that I have more control over a Linux machine and as such have found them easier to diagnose and fix. Oh, and tonnes easier to reliably lock down.
I would be excited to know how they got caught. There might be an enjoyable story there.
I would have imagined that if these two were smart then they would have completely covered/obfuscated their tracks every step of the way. From propagating the first copy of the trojan to making sure any profits/information was sent through an elaborate network of communication-encrypted proxies before arriving on a remote server from which they could connect to using a similar but different network of communication-encrypted proxies and download/view the information.
I'd really love to know if they were just stupid, or if someone else was just way smarter. For the stories sake, I hope its the latter.
Mum's the word. We don't want /. starting another one of those threads where everyone tries to continue the joke.
Yeah, I'm hoping I can adapt this patch to my wife's integers too.
You're trying to separate two very integral parts of a good church's existence. The two go hand in hand in a good church. But, you're going to be hard pressed to find a good church who, for the love of money, decides to register as a charity instead. It misrepresents their goal putting them in a box.
Hillsong makes a veritable books-of-congress butt-load off their bands and other various musical acts.
Hmm, I just read the article. It definitely looks like the CoS contacted ABC to have this article published as their first counter movement. You'll notice the first steps they take are to point out that they're shocked by the allegations and that they've already tried to 'talk' to Senator Xenophon regarding an earlier assault on public television. They attempt to position themselves as a startled innocent party in this whole thing - alleging that they have pro-actively sought resolution with Senator Xenophon to explain their innocence. What where they going to explain? Re-read the article - particularly, the following quote sums it up:
Where is their denial of all the claims? They weren't going to meet with the senator to prove them wrong - that's for sure. They were going to meet with the senator to corner him. This guy's got a good brain on his shoulders. By not allowing them to disguise their blackmail in a 'friendly' meeting, he has forced them to switch play. They certainly cant start bullying him now - because he's gone public he's protected himself from that. At least, he's slowing their movements down.
I think CoS has a number of options here, and I think their plan would be to employ more than one of these options at once to fortify themselves. Firstly, they're going to acquire the specifics of the accusations in question - they want names. From here they can formulate a plan, unique to each individual, that allows them to either bribe or scare them into silence - or even to publicly support the church. This will most definitely involve money and baseball bats - so to speak.
Secondly, another front of assault is the senator himself. Their assassination tactics on public enemies are well documented to say the least, but is this the approach they'll take? We've noticed CoS go 'quiet' lately, at least on the surface. I'm convinced this is due to a wall of lawyers instructing them on the smartest move. But, having said that, if the senator can corner them enough (this will require getting to the victims first) then he can force them to resort to their 'fair game' tactics. This would be beneficial to the senator. Don't be surprised if we receive a nice visit from a big-wig soon - I'm thinking someone like Tom Cruise, but possibly not so publicly famous. If not a visit then definitely some choice phone calls to the senator and other people in power. Nothing that proves their guilt, but just a little "hey, I'm here, I'm powerful, don't get me wrong - I like you, but...." kind of stuff.
Its up to the senator to hold his ground. He needs to cash in on his chips before its too late. This involves the victims and his friends in power - he's got to build his own fort, and jolly quick too. I certainly hope his 'evidence' holds up. But I'm not going to be surprised if the 'police' find that all the witnesses are 'found to be unreliable'.
If it ever goes to court then we'll see character assassination. Otherwise, I expect they'll wait it out to see how far he's willing to stick his neck out with these accusations.
CoS recognised that their blatant abuse of their public enemies was only cornering themselves for future destruction by the law, thus their tactics have become more subtle. More like a government actually - on good advice from lawyers I imagine.
I believe they have become more 'savvy' concerning skirting the law in an effective manner. While still being able to do this previously, it cost a lot and it was bad PR which in turn was setting the public against them - which in turn would have lead to their demise ( once people got sick of it enough).
I for one would be glad to see the CoS closed - but that isn't going to happen any time soon. I do feel sorry (but proud) for those in power who stand up to this bunch.