Um, your capitalist overlords are not interested in which product has the better security. They are interested in forming strategic partnerships with other evil organizations. Like, when the ID card implementation comes, do you really want some wacko cryptome-reading Linux hacker running the show? No, you want the Borg.
Scientists Paid by Monsanto != Scientists
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Dear Scientists and your stupid pet projects like putting vitamin in the rice of some far-off peoples:
You are selling the earth and food to multinational corporations that will use this power to extort and tyrannically rule. Ever think of that? I doubt it. Time to go cash your paycheck.
GMO Sympathizers: READ THIS
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Some of the comments on this board boil down to "i'm a smart masters-degree educated geneticist, and *i* know that GMO's are okay, and eco-terrorists are stupid." it is exactly this kind of attitude that people are protesting against.
the fact is scientists don't KNOW much. many think they know and many know enough to make some useful applications. but do they know enough to be given billions and billions of dollars, free reign to do whatever they want, and a massive police force available to beat the hell out of anyone who disagrees? no.
Do you know your history? For instance, in San Diego at the biotech industry conference last week, your tax dollars paid for a huge police presence so that cops could dress up as black bloc and march next to peaceful protesters. Your tax dollars paid for hundreds to be ticketed for holding signs and walking down the sidewalk.
At UC Berekely, Novartis is paying millions and millions to convert their "academic" research lab in to a corporate research lab.
In Oakland, two popular redwood forest activists were bombed in their car. The FBI's involvement in the case is highly suspect, and the FBI blamed the activists themselves for planting the bomb! The trial against the FBI finally begins this fall, and I highly doubt any "concerned" geneticists will be coming out to support this or even know what it is.
In the Pacific Northwest, police repression against environmental groups is huge, and is backed by right-wing industry front groups. Police in Humboldt County watch as industry thugs come down and physically attack protesters. Police themselves are trained to hold a protesters eye open to apply pepper spray with a cotton swab.
Who are the terrorists again?
Meanwhile, the timber industry is buying off congresspeople left and right. The oil/energy industry just purchased a whole damn presidential election.
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have realized that people have the power to overthrow the corporate institutions that are ruling our life. And they are doing something about it. Are you still just sitting on your ass reading some website?? For more news see SF Indymedia
If you think that violent repression, misinformation, and terrorism does not occur by the U.S. Government on U.S. soil against U.S. citizens, then you do not understand why eco-terrorism is happening. In fact, you probably don't understand much. Please try to find out what is happening, and don't just rely on CNN and Slashdot as your news source.
By far, the most under-reported or distorted story of the year is: "anti-globalization and anti-capitalist protests suppressed by draconian police response around the world"
this is the independent category, general excellence in journalism (first category).
in addition, the independent media centers have extended the community of the web by creating collaborative, non-commercial, consensus-based collectives in cities around the world for web, print, video, and audio media distribution. i'd say IMC is making history.
I think what is funny is that corporate-sponsored or dot-com sites are dropping off like flies, and the counter-corporate internet's infrastructure is being strengthened again. maybe capitalism doesnt have the stuff to make it online? or maybe the internet really *is* anarchy, and so their stupid models of doing things (profit) just aren't going to work.
either way, i would like to report that TAO is still functioning, indymedia continues to grow as an example of how open collaborative publishing can form real-life networks, and those who *really* need information and communication structures are using them. corporations don't need them. smarmy suck.com writers don't need them.
anyway, good riddance. for me, there isn't much option when it comes to getting local reporting.
is slashdot's editorial policy that the more evil a company is, the more exciting the news when they use open source software? personally i'd like to see news stories about groups using open source to do something cool that they could not afford to do otherwise. but i guess that isnt as good as something that disney does huh. by the way, my use of the word disney throughout this post is probably illegal. fight corporate media! don't become corporate media!
Bruce's article is good and shows a lot of different viewpoints on the California "power crisis"... but maybe if Bruce was more involved with everything that is going on, or if he talked to some people about it... in a nutshell, PG&E is scamming everyone and outright threatening blackouts if they don't get their way (and they have had rolling blackouts here). San Francisco, in particular, is the only city in the entire country that is federally mandated to have cheap, public power... so PG&E has spent a lot of money to keep that law out of its way. And there's so much more. PG&E can go to hell, and there is a growing ratepayers strike happening in the SF Bay Area. For more information that is more specific than what Bruce writes, check out the SF Bay Guardian coverage or SF Independent Media Center coverage. The corporate media is just reciting press releases from PG&E and Gov. Davis.
A more "newsy" source is needed? By now, everyone should know that Independent Media Center provides live coverage of the anti-globalization, anti-corporatization protests, as well as continuing coverage of local issues that are censored by corporate media.
So the whole of anarchist theory = Lord of the Flies. Highly astute.
Sigh. I will reiterate my point and try to cut out the subtleties which you are obviously missing. First, you claim that you want moderator status to censor some opinions, then you go on to accuse anarchists of being fascists. Then you insist that Jello is a fascist because he wants to "ban SUVs". I counter by explaining that Jello is mostly anarchist, and so the scenario of an end to SUVs could be interpreted as some statist plot to confiscate SUVs... but more realistically, from an anarchist viewpoint, the switch to a society based on human need instead of overconsumption would naturally mean that the gas-guzzling, resource-hogging, unsafe, expensive sport-utility vehicle would probably go the way of mass markets, idiotic consumers who waste their disposable income, etc.
But its okay. You just keep ranting and raving and huffing and puffing and all these confusing messages that conflict with your years of corporate advertising won't bother you anymore.
Re:Non-Corporate, Community Journalism: IMC
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Then maybe it is time for you to grow up and realize that there is no such thing as objective journalism. The difference is that some people spend a lot of money pretending that they are objective and non-biased, and some people (a la IMC) flat out admit that they aren't. Now, which one do you trust more?
Independent Media Centers: We Need Servers!
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IMC uses nearly all GPL'ed software (although there is a debate between FreeBSD vs. Linux on our production servers). Anyway, after posting the above message on the IMC's, I figured this is Slashdot, so I would post a general plea to wealthy free software-oriented companies:
IMC's are desperately in need of webservers! We have a few servers that are taking all of the load of dozens of cities around the world. When the Prague protests occurred, we were all in IRC trying to patch things up, keep Postgres alive, etc. If we could get a few more boxes to distribute the workload, or even BANDWIDTH!, it would make life a lot easier and help the project along greatly.
If you can help out, please drop Ryan an email at techp@techpiracy.org
The emergence of the Independent Media Centers is really re-defining not only what we mean by journalism, but also more specifically online journalism. A Slashdot format is one where a small group of people hype themselves and their website and eventually sell it to a larger corporate interest which (arguably) influences the stories reported. The Independent Media Center model builds on traditions in anarchist self-organization, and so far has been the most democratic journalism that USA has seen in recent decades.
Working class and community-centered journalism is almost totally extinct. In a country where there were thousands of union-sponsored and community-organized newspapers, all that is left are a few fledgling papers in a few cities. Corporatization and illegal union smashing took care of the working class movement to provide working class news and discussion.
The model for IMC is: 1) a website which allows anonymous, self-publishing of audio, video, images, hyperlinks or text, 2) a counterpart, organized in some kind of collective method (there are a million different methods from organic to consensus, etc), that meets face-to-face and plans editorial changes (i.e. what stories are on the homepage), organizes print versions, organizes co-operation with pirate radio and other independent media sources.
Our hits are through the roof, and the goal is that within a year or so, many people will be looking to democratic news sources instead of corporate news sources. At least a distinction should be made. The idea of objective journalism outside of scientific publications seems to be a quaint throwback or corporate PR. The idea is that other voices and other biases can be heard through the onslaught of corporate BS.
yeah and maybe that would be a good point if biafra (not nader) was mostly left-anarchist leaning, which would mean that biafra is really advocating a) no government to regulate the precious SUV in question but also b) no corporation to produce the SUV in question and also c) no underpaid, overworked assemblyline workers to make your fucking SUV. now, if you still can't understand why you and the original poster are so full of shit you can't even see straight, maybe you should do less posting and more reading.
there's a difference between welfare-state leftists and anarchists who want the end of government, dumbass. next time you get out your little libertarian politics-o-meter chart, maybe you can stuff it down your throat and kill yourself with it.
believe it or not, everyday at your geek job there are other geeks around you who are there undercover, secretly plotting the massive and horrible end to all of this corporate bullshit. we are distributed guerrillas, and jello is just summarizing the agenda. witness the national association of broadcasters protest in san francisco. unfortunately for the corporation-state, they are completely networking their organizations and the people who know how to actually work the equipment are socially-conscious at least, anarchist revolutionaries at worst (for them). in solidarity!
Please. Jon Katz, do you believe that what you are writing is relevant outside of a small group of naive geeks who have never seen beyond a suburban home or a dorm room? I would halfway consider your sincerity if you ever worked on anything besides advancing a journalism career that ends you up in Time Magazine more than anywhere else. When there are protests or movements to organize, neither slashdot nor jon katz appear to be willing to put themselves on the line. I guess that has to do with a certain corporate ownership, huh. Anyway. As Jon Katz pleads with Time and Newsweek to do one more introspective piece on columbine, the independent media movement will be doing exactly what slashdot and katz claim to be doing.
slashdot... you post these stories about how horrible the fcc is and everything else yet you steadfastly refuse to post a story about the protest effort going on against them and the NAB in san francisco this week. why? don't want to seem too radical and ruin your chances of andover.net being bought out by someone REALLY big? fuck slashdot! http://sf.indymedia.org/
wow, only 15 years or so to wait for the discourse to change? sounds good to me!
i think ralph nader is an easy way for hipster politics to seem different. it is hard for liberals these day to get radical cred if they are behind al gore, huh.
for people whose have real problems under this stinking system, the time has always been now. the problem is motivating those who sympathize to give up their comfort and security that the stinking system offers them.
anyway, this next week in san francisco, the NAB and the FCC will get a chance to see what this sense of urgency means when hundreds of like-minded people all decide to fuck with them.
so to get involved, organize with other humans. why waste your time volunteering for a nader campaign or casting a vote when you can cast your vote every damn day...
Hey, pissed off at the FCC or NAB and don't have any way to release your anger except posting on slashdot?
Come to the huge protest/counterculture party outside and hopefully inside the annual National Association of Broadcasters meeting in San Francisco next week!
Tons of pirate radio. Tons of pirating of corporate copyrighted muzak. Drown out corporate radio in San Francisco on the Day of a Million Microradio Broadcasts.
Brought you by the same discontent which was at Seattle, Washington, Philly, LA, the list goes on and on. The police have already been in touch to "work out details" and they were told to fuck off.
I think the emerging independent media centers present a real threat to the commercials disguised as corporate media.
During the conventions, CNN could barely come up with one or two boring comments a day about nothing, or just re-hashing press releases. The real news was on the IMC for LA, which showed audio, video and text of the convention as it was happening. When the police started a riot in a subway station, CNN still has not reported on this. IMC had reports online within 3-4 hours. When the police were firing rubber bullets at everyone, IMC readers knew almost immediately. CNN readers had to wait until sometime the next day.
Whoever still thinks that CNN or ABCNEWS or whatever has any kind of use in our society besides another commercial/advertising venue is gullible at best.
Meanwhile, execs at commercial media outlets should understand that their days are numbered. They can join the record industry execs on the welfare rolls (which will coincide with a decrease of the welfare-recipient-bashing stories in the commercial media) because with cool, internet alternatives, corporate media just cannot compete.
Maybe the shock here comes from a few too many geeks buying into Apple's marketing hype. Sure, Apple looks all warm & fuzzy next to Microsoft... but at the end of the day, they are a secretive, proprietary stronghold who WOULD act like Microsoft if they were in a position to do so.
Since Apple included a huge poster insert of the cube in the latest issue of Newsweek, everyone should by now realize that the 'cube' is an overpriced piece of junk with no expandable slots and is designed for Apple designer freaks who will buy anything, as long as it is packaged in a cute way. Only $1800 for the cube... $500 for the cheapest monitor... combined with Apple's lock-tight marketing campaign = new summer homes all around for Apple execs.
Hot news on slashdot today: Corporations trying to consolidate and micromanage internet! Discussion: When did this happen?!
Come on... the entire landscape of the internet and networked communications has been struggling against a domineering corporate presence for about 5-6 years now.
I'm personally interested in what we are going to do, rather than endlessly talking about every new consolidation story that comes down the pike.
As engineers who build and maintain the corporate infrastructure, I find that we never lack direct action ideas and opportunities.
Or are we just far more content hiding in the sysadmin cubicle, silently snickering as we catch up on the latest slashdot news?
Slashdot Mirror
Um, your capitalist overlords are not interested in which product has the better security. They are interested in forming strategic partnerships with other evil organizations. Like, when the ID card implementation comes, do you really want some wacko cryptome-reading Linux hacker running the show? No, you want the Borg.
Dear Scientists and your stupid pet projects like putting vitamin in the rice of some far-off peoples:
You are selling the earth and food to multinational corporations that will use this power to extort and tyrannically rule. Ever think of that? I doubt it. Time to go cash your paycheck.
Some of the comments on this board boil down to "i'm a smart masters-degree educated geneticist, and *i* know that GMO's are okay, and eco-terrorists are stupid." it is exactly this kind of attitude that people are protesting against.
the fact is scientists don't KNOW much. many think they know and many know enough to make some useful applications. but do they know enough to be given billions and billions of dollars, free reign to do whatever they want, and a massive police force available to beat the hell out of anyone who disagrees? no.
Do you know your history? For instance, in San Diego at the biotech industry conference last week, your tax dollars paid for a huge police presence so that cops could dress up as black bloc and march next to peaceful protesters. Your tax dollars paid for hundreds to be ticketed for holding signs and walking down the sidewalk.
At UC Berekely, Novartis is paying millions and millions to convert their "academic" research lab in to a corporate research lab.
In Oakland, two popular redwood forest activists were bombed in their car. The FBI's involvement in the case is highly suspect, and the FBI blamed the activists themselves for planting the bomb! The trial against the FBI finally begins this fall, and I highly doubt any "concerned" geneticists will be coming out to support this or even know what it is.
In the Pacific Northwest, police repression against environmental groups is huge, and is backed by right-wing industry front groups. Police in Humboldt County watch as industry thugs come down and physically attack protesters. Police themselves are trained to hold a protesters eye open to apply pepper spray with a cotton swab.
Who are the terrorists again?
Meanwhile, the timber industry is buying off congresspeople left and right. The oil/energy industry just purchased a whole damn presidential election.
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have realized that people have the power to overthrow the corporate institutions that are ruling our life. And they are doing something about it. Are you still just sitting on your ass reading some website?? For more news see SF Indymedia
If you think that violent repression, misinformation, and terrorism does not occur by the U.S. Government on U.S. soil against U.S. citizens, then you do not understand why eco-terrorism is happening. In fact, you probably don't understand much. Please try to find out what is happening, and don't just rely on CNN and Slashdot as your news source.
... during the aforementioned FTAA protests
By far, the most under-reported or distorted story of the year is: "anti-globalization and anti-capitalist protests suppressed by draconian police response around the world"
as reported on a daily basis by the independent media center.
this is the independent category, general excellence in journalism (first category).
in addition, the independent media centers have extended the community of the web by creating collaborative, non-commercial, consensus-based collectives in cities around the world for web, print, video, and audio media distribution. i'd say IMC is making history.
I think what is funny is that corporate-sponsored or dot-com sites are dropping off like flies, and the counter-corporate internet's infrastructure is being strengthened again. maybe capitalism doesnt have the stuff to make it online? or maybe the internet really *is* anarchy, and so their stupid models of doing things (profit) just aren't going to work.
either way, i would like to report that TAO is still functioning, indymedia continues to grow as an example of how open collaborative publishing can form real-life networks, and those who *really* need information and communication structures are using them. corporations don't need them. smarmy suck.com writers don't need them.
anyway, good riddance. for me, there isn't much option when it comes to getting local reporting.
is slashdot's editorial policy that the more evil a company is, the more exciting the news when they use open source software? personally i'd like to see news stories about groups using open source to do something cool that they could not afford to do otherwise. but i guess that isnt as good as something that disney does huh. by the way, my use of the word disney throughout this post is probably illegal. fight corporate media! don't become corporate media!
Bruce's article is good and shows a lot of different viewpoints on the California "power crisis" ... but maybe if Bruce was more involved with everything that is going on, or if he talked to some people about it ... in a nutshell, PG&E is scamming everyone and outright threatening blackouts if they don't get their way (and they have had rolling blackouts here). San Francisco, in particular, is the only city in the entire country that is federally mandated to have cheap, public power... so PG&E has spent a lot of money to keep that law out of its way. And there's so much more. PG&E can go to hell, and there is a growing ratepayers strike happening in the SF Bay Area. For more information that is more specific than what Bruce writes, check out the SF Bay Guardian coverage or SF Independent Media Center coverage. The corporate media is just reciting press releases from PG&E and Gov. Davis.
A more "newsy" source is needed? By now, everyone should know that Independent Media Center provides live coverage of the anti-globalization, anti-corporatization protests, as well as continuing coverage of local issues that are censored by corporate media.
See: Philadelphia IMC
See: R2K Support Site
See: Independent Media Center
So the whole of anarchist theory = Lord of the Flies. Highly astute.
Sigh. I will reiterate my point and try to cut out the subtleties which you are obviously missing. First, you claim that you want moderator status to censor some opinions, then you go on to accuse anarchists of being fascists. Then you insist that Jello is a fascist because he wants to "ban SUVs". I counter by explaining that Jello is mostly anarchist, and so the scenario of an end to SUVs could be interpreted as some statist plot to confiscate SUVs... but more realistically, from an anarchist viewpoint, the switch to a society based on human need instead of overconsumption would naturally mean that the gas-guzzling, resource-hogging, unsafe, expensive sport-utility vehicle would probably go the way of mass markets, idiotic consumers who waste their disposable income, etc.
But its okay. You just keep ranting and raving and huffing and puffing and all these confusing messages that conflict with your years of corporate advertising won't bother you anymore.
Then maybe it is time for you to grow up and realize that there is no such thing as objective journalism. The difference is that some people spend a lot of money pretending that they are objective and non-biased, and some people (a la IMC) flat out admit that they aren't. Now, which one do you trust more?
IMC uses nearly all GPL'ed software (although there is a debate between FreeBSD vs. Linux on our production servers). Anyway, after posting the above message on the IMC's, I figured this is Slashdot, so I would post a general plea to wealthy free software-oriented companies:
IMC's are desperately in need of webservers! We have a few servers that are taking all of the load of dozens of cities around the world. When the Prague protests occurred, we were all in IRC trying to patch things up, keep Postgres alive, etc. If we could get a few more boxes to distribute the workload, or even BANDWIDTH!, it would make life a lot easier and help the project along greatly.
If you can help out, please drop Ryan an email at techp@techpiracy.org
Thanks!
The emergence of the Independent Media Centers is really re-defining not only what we mean by journalism, but also more specifically online journalism. A Slashdot format is one where a small group of people hype themselves and their website and eventually sell it to a larger corporate interest which (arguably) influences the stories reported. The Independent Media Center model builds on traditions in anarchist self-organization, and so far has been the most democratic journalism that USA has seen in recent decades.
Working class and community-centered journalism is almost totally extinct. In a country where there were thousands of union-sponsored and community-organized newspapers, all that is left are a few fledgling papers in a few cities. Corporatization and illegal union smashing took care of the working class movement to provide working class news and discussion.
The model for IMC is: 1) a website which allows anonymous, self-publishing of audio, video, images, hyperlinks or text, 2) a counterpart, organized in some kind of collective method (there are a million different methods from organic to consensus, etc), that meets face-to-face and plans editorial changes (i.e. what stories are on the homepage), organizes print versions, organizes co-operation with pirate radio and other independent media sources.
Our hits are through the roof, and the goal is that within a year or so, many people will be looking to democratic news sources instead of corporate news sources. At least a distinction should be made. The idea of objective journalism outside of scientific publications seems to be a quaint throwback or corporate PR. The idea is that other voices and other biases can be heard through the onslaught of corporate BS.
Your Vote Doesn't Count If They Don't Count It
ah, it seems like everyone is waking up from a really calm, scary dream... welcome to the gibson/sterling novel of your choice.
none of this is new in florida or anywhere else i don't think.
Your Vote Doesn't Count If They Don't Count It: U.S. Election Fraud
yeah and maybe that would be a good point if biafra (not nader) was mostly left-anarchist leaning, which would mean that biafra is really advocating a) no government to regulate the precious SUV in question but also b) no corporation to produce the SUV in question and also c) no underpaid, overworked assemblyline workers to make your fucking SUV. now, if you still can't understand why you and the original poster are so full of shit you can't even see straight, maybe you should do less posting and more reading.
http://www.infoshop.org/octo/tabd.html
there's a difference between welfare-state leftists and anarchists who want the end of government, dumbass. next time you get out your little libertarian politics-o-meter chart, maybe you can stuff it down your throat and kill yourself with it.
believe it or not, everyday at your geek job there are other geeks around you who are there undercover, secretly plotting the massive and horrible end to all of this corporate bullshit. we are distributed guerrillas, and jello is just summarizing the agenda. witness the national association of broadcasters protest in san francisco. unfortunately for the corporation-state, they are completely networking their organizations and the people who know how to actually work the equipment are socially-conscious at least, anarchist revolutionaries at worst (for them). in solidarity!
Please. Jon Katz, do you believe that what you are writing is relevant outside of a small group of naive geeks who have never seen beyond a suburban home or a dorm room? I would halfway consider your sincerity if you ever worked on anything besides advancing a journalism career that ends you up in Time Magazine more than anywhere else. When there are protests or movements to organize, neither slashdot nor jon katz appear to be willing to put themselves on the line. I guess that has to do with a certain corporate ownership, huh. Anyway. As Jon Katz pleads with Time and Newsweek to do one more introspective piece on columbine, the independent media movement will be doing exactly what slashdot and katz claim to be doing.
Independent Media Center
SF Bay Area IMC
slashdot... you post these stories about how horrible the fcc is and everything else yet you steadfastly refuse to post a story about the protest effort going on against them and the NAB in san francisco this week. why? don't want to seem too radical and ruin your chances of andover.net being bought out by someone REALLY big? fuck slashdot! http://sf.indymedia.org/
wow, only 15 years or so to wait for the discourse to change? sounds good to me!
i think ralph nader is an easy way for hipster politics to seem different. it is hard for liberals these day to get radical cred if they are behind al gore, huh.
for people whose have real problems under this stinking system, the time has always been now. the problem is motivating those who sympathize to give up their comfort and security that the stinking system offers them.
anyway, this next week in san francisco, the NAB and the FCC will get a chance to see what this sense of urgency means when hundreds of like-minded people all decide to fuck with them.
so to get involved, organize with other humans. why waste your time volunteering for a nader campaign or casting a vote when you can cast your vote every damn day...
to get involved, checkout the san francisco independent media center...
Hey, pissed off at the FCC or NAB and don't have any way to release your anger except posting on slashdot?
Come to the huge protest/counterculture party outside and hopefully inside the annual National Association of Broadcasters meeting in San Francisco next week!
For details, see Media Democracy Now! and the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center.
Tons of pirate radio. Tons of pirating of corporate copyrighted muzak. Drown out corporate radio in San Francisco on the Day of a Million Microradio Broadcasts.
Brought you by the same discontent which was at Seattle, Washington, Philly, LA, the list goes on and on. The police have already been in touch to "work out details" and they were told to fuck off.
Be there, be creative, fuck shit up!
I think the emerging independent media centers present a real threat to the commercials disguised as corporate media.
During the conventions, CNN could barely come up with one or two boring comments a day about nothing, or just re-hashing press releases. The real news was on the IMC for LA, which showed audio, video and text of the convention as it was happening. When the police started a riot in a subway station, CNN still has not reported on this. IMC had reports online within 3-4 hours. When the police were firing rubber bullets at everyone, IMC readers knew almost immediately. CNN readers had to wait until sometime the next day.
Whoever still thinks that CNN or ABCNEWS or whatever has any kind of use in our society besides another commercial/advertising venue is gullible at best.
Meanwhile, execs at commercial media outlets should understand that their days are numbered. They can join the record industry execs on the welfare rolls (which will coincide with a decrease of the welfare-recipient-bashing stories in the commercial media) because with cool, internet alternatives, corporate media just cannot compete.
Maybe the shock here comes from a few too many geeks buying into Apple's marketing hype. Sure, Apple looks all warm & fuzzy next to Microsoft... but at the end of the day, they are a secretive, proprietary stronghold who WOULD act like Microsoft if they were in a position to do so.
Since Apple included a huge poster insert of the cube in the latest issue of Newsweek, everyone should by now realize that the 'cube' is an overpriced piece of junk with no expandable slots and is designed for Apple designer freaks who will buy anything, as long as it is packaged in a cute way. Only $1800 for the cube... $500 for the cheapest monitor... combined with Apple's lock-tight marketing campaign = new summer homes all around for Apple execs.
Apple & Microsoft can both go to hell.
Hot news on slashdot today: Corporations trying to consolidate and micromanage internet! Discussion: When did this happen?!
Come on... the entire landscape of the internet and networked communications has been struggling against a domineering corporate presence for about 5-6 years now.
I'm personally interested in what we are going to do, rather than endlessly talking about every new consolidation story that comes down the pike.
As engineers who build and maintain the corporate infrastructure, I find that we never lack direct action ideas and opportunities.
Or are we just far more content hiding in the sysadmin cubicle, silently snickering as we catch up on the latest slashdot news?