I have done on few occasions (I make sure my emails and such are exportable), but not even nearly always. And I'm a geek, so do you think 'casual' people will do that? Yes, it's about user stupidity. And that's exactly what Google is going for (and MS too).
I suspect that cheap pizza out-competes good pizza.
This is actually a fairly common thing in Europe too. There's lots of kebab/pizza places that are run by people coming from Turkey or the area around. They directly compete with prices; cheap prices, but also cheap ingredients and somewhat bad service (there are exceptions tho, but in general). Those pizzas aren't that good, you'll find a lot better pizzas in the actual italian like pizza restaurants or the local pizza chain. But many people still use those because it's cheap, even if its just a $2-3 difference.
People are stupid when money comes in to question. Many choose a little bit cheaper, but more crappier thing over a quality product. That will probably happen to computers too, and is most likely already happening.
It's quite clear. When all of your data is "in the cloud", it's hard to move it elsewhere. It's even more bad than MS having it's own file formats in Word files - you don't have a control of the data either.
And what do people do when it's "too much work" to move to other service? They stay using that same old service where their data is. Hence the lock-in.
The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other,' concludes Lyons. 'Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money we all spend to buy computers and surf the Internet.
For anyone else joining the real world, enjoy your stay. A business making money? This is madness!
This seem to be just an another story of a Google fanboy in his basement discovering that their do-no-evil "friend" is a normal company, a normal business which purpose is to generate revenue. He hasn't yet understood that money doesn't grow in trees and this is how our economy works. For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price. Google is the 'cool and hippy' friend who offers everything for free. And what he doesn't understand is that the revenue is just generated other way, and he loses her privacy to an advertisement company. Google is not a search engine company, it's an advertisement company that uses internet searching to 1) gather very detailed information and usage statistics about people all over the internet 2) sell targeted ads to advertisers.
It's unnecessary to blame the companies how it is. "Making cool products" and not caring about business sounds more like a public service or some teenagers naive thinking before he comes contact with the real world. Of course two competing companies are going to.. eh, compete. That's how it works, that's how they generate income, but that's also how they're always on a run to improve their products.
If there weren't competing companies, it would be a lot worse situation. Just look at how the adsl and cable internet is in USA. People pretty much have only one choice of operator, and it's shitty. In lots of European countries there's many competing ISP's and you get faster and better service.
At the end of the day, they both seem like overgrown nerdy schoolboys fighting over each other's toys.
They're the exact opposite. They're businesses that have a clean plan and understand what they are doing. Microsoft wants more marketshare on search, Google wants more users locked in to their services to keep their 70% marketshare. Oh, you though Google wants to fight for OS marketshare? Just see how limited Chrome OS is. It's designed to offer people Google's services so they will be locked down in them. That's the whole idea behind it, not fighting to destroy Windows.
That's what I actually always wonder. People always like to go for a guys/girls night out, while it's actually a lot more fun to get drunk with your girlfriend. Make some drinks, get naked, play wii, have sex and go out. And have sex again when getting back.
A lot nicer than hanging out in some bar drinking beer.
We don't have "Black Friday" here, but I noticed Steam has also been having five-day-long every-day-new-games discount on games, usually ranging as 33-75% discount. Since they actually have good games there on sale, with a good percentage off, it's been leading me and many of my friends to buy the games that look interesting now. People have been buying those LucasArts and THQ Complete Packs and many single games (I bought Borderlands, City of Heroes and LucasArts pack last night) Since PayPal also processes purchases for Steam, some of the increase probably comes from it too - there are hundred thousands players buying those games now.
I didn't buy more because I didn't even know about the special day. But I bought when I saw the discounts. I'm a lazy guy so I wouldn't go fighting in stores anyway (and I hate all that crowd), but these discounts surely lead to some impulse buying on Steam. And it still continues for a few days, oh man.
Exactly. It's not about gambling, it's about the person. People get addicted to things, but they need to know where to draw the line.
If government based on addiction and the possibility of losing money on it, they should also ban entrepreneurs and business, because they are also taking huge risks in their life. A person should evaluate the risks and act upon results. If you are driven by money, it's still the same with business, same with gambling. And are you going to ban businesses?
To be fair, they aren't asking to stop providing internet. They are just saying that the ISP's should be handling copyright notices, because it should be their responsibility. It is not ISP's responsibility to monitor for such activity, but they should deal with copyright notices when they are send one. Of course, IMO it should be courts decision.
But if we're going for analogies, lets at least keep them on the same level.
Uh? Read some history about USSR. Whole communism aspect was directly used to labor tons of tanks, trucks, weapons, planes and so on. Russia still only uses their own technology, mig's, ak-47..
Or even pay a visit to Russia or any ex-soviet country. It's culturally a totally different world and it can be seen that US has and has had a little effect to them. Even McDonald's only landed in the largest cities 2000+.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
It was actually the Russians who saved Europe during WW2. And they lost millions of people doing so. If USSR wouldn't had kept Germans from spreading and taking over the east, no one could had done anything to them anymore, and eventually they would had been strong enough to take over American continent too.
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in Pripyat happened because one of its reactors was running at a higher capacity than allowed and after its designed life cycle. It was in process of shut down, but it was too late already then. This caused the chain reaction in one of the cores to grow out of control (the same thing that happens when you initiate a nuclear weapon). This however doesn't initiate a nuclear blast like a nuclear weapon does, it just pours the radioactive all over the air (and it can travel thousands of kilometers).
This is why the nearest city Pripyat wasn't even evacuated first and Soviet Union didn't admit anything happening. They only did after the radioactive fallout reached northern Europe. The whole city is still just like it was left there, with peoples items and toys. It's just a ghost town. It will take 200 years before you can live anywhere near it again. And over half of that radioactive fallout landed over Belarus, but also over northern European countries.
Yeah, it's a great idea to run nuclear plants over their designed capacity.
As a kid we also pulled lan cables with my brother from my room to his room. Every day, because it didn't fit under the doors and wasn't built-in to the house. Then we played Counter-Strike beta 6 and GTA 2.
Yep, if they are worried, just push it out to Cydia. Of course most (before someone comes whining, I did not say all!) of the users with jailbroken phones use pirated software, so there's no money in that.
Mac OS X has security problems because it allows running executables and non-signed programs too. iPhone on the other hand doesn't, so trojans and such wont work. The only possible way is to exploit a vulnerability, but that doesn't happen every day and should be pretty quickly patched by Apple (doesn't the phone network push updates automatically?). And if there's a new exploit, antivirus software are just as bad in protecting against it.
At the moment, the only worms faced by the iPhone have targeted unlocked, jailbroken devices — so Apple's not too bothered protecting users of such phones.
Of course, it's just better for Apple if the viruses do go around in jailbroken devices.
And how would iphone support antivirus anyway? It can only run one program at a time.
How do you twist word suspected in to that? They aren't suspected of using BitTorrent, they are suspected of using BitTorrent for spreading copyrighted content without a right to do so. And now the copyright owners are suing them.
Well, you can improve though. AnoNET looks interesting and works too. And it's actually a quite nice community.
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Please note that any resource listed in this section can only be reached when your connection to the VPN is active. If it is not, you will get unexpected results.
Once you have connected to the VPN itself, you may do any number of things: To get the full anoNet experience, use one of our cache DNS servers (1.0.9.53 or 1.10.11.1) so that you can resolve anoNet domains! Getting your own domain such as example.ano is no problem, just ask! - Visit our Wiki, wiki.ano (http://1.0.9.3). - Visit our IRC network using 1.0.9.1 or 1.0.1.1 port 6667 (6697 for SSL) with your favourite IRC client. Join #anonet and we can help you get started with anoNet. - If you would like a more secure form of communication, you can use our SILC server at silc.ano:706 - Visit our message forum talk.ano (http://1.0.9.4), where you can discuss anything under the sun! Literally. That is what this network is about -- free speech. - Use the anoNet jabber network (jabber.ano port 5222 or 5223 ssl for v1 clients), where you can chat with others using your favourite Jabber client! Jabber directory at users.jabber.ano - Grab yourself a webmail account mail.ano (http://1.0.9.6) if you don't want to run your own mail server. anoNet has no spam. - Search anoNet using our spidering search engine search.ano (http://1.0.9.8). - Use our Bittorrent tracker anotorrent.ano (http://1.0.9.200) - There is an open Icecast streaming server at stream.icecast.ano (1.0.9.16) port 8000, password anonet. It supports 20 streams and 200 listeners. The directory server is at icecast.ano (http://1.0.9.16) - Once again to promote free speech we have a multi-user blog at anojournal.ano (http://1.0.9.13) - If file sharing is your thing we have ed2k and dc++ servers. - If gaming is for you, there is a bnetd server. (Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood Wars, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Diablo, Diablo II) - We also have World of Warcraft server setup (Running MaNGOS and a combination of SDB and Modb) Remember, you can be a server too! Do you want to play a multi-player game? Go ahead! Install a game server, advertise it around (if you like), and get people to play with you! Not only can you be a game server, but you can offer files, stream media, host your own web page, or anything else you want! There is far too much to the network to list here, if it sounds like something you would be interested in, then connect up.
But will you actually do anything about it? It's easy to just shout loud works and then go back to watch the latest blockbuster movie you've just pirated because it's "free speech".
btw, internet itself is a decentralized network, so what would building an another one help?
Bah. Remember Suprnova? It is only a matter of time until something else replaces it.
I've always wondered about this. Pirates get all upset and "they are traitors!" when the website operators give up and move on with their lives under heavy pressure from lots of multinational corporations and governments.
But when something bad happens to the guys running these websites, everyone goes "bah. someone else will replace it" and everyone turns their back to them.
Is this a growth some few persons like to fight for on their free time against such a power?
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I have done on few occasions (I make sure my emails and such are exportable), but not even nearly always. And I'm a geek, so do you think 'casual' people will do that? Yes, it's about user stupidity. And that's exactly what Google is going for (and MS too).
I suspect that cheap pizza out-competes good pizza.
This is actually a fairly common thing in Europe too. There's lots of kebab/pizza places that are run by people coming from Turkey or the area around. They directly compete with prices; cheap prices, but also cheap ingredients and somewhat bad service (there are exceptions tho, but in general). Those pizzas aren't that good, you'll find a lot better pizzas in the actual italian like pizza restaurants or the local pizza chain. But many people still use those because it's cheap, even if its just a $2-3 difference.
People are stupid when money comes in to question. Many choose a little bit cheaper, but more crappier thing over a quality product. That will probably happen to computers too, and is most likely already happening.
It's quite clear. When all of your data is "in the cloud", it's hard to move it elsewhere. It's even more bad than MS having it's own file formats in Word files - you don't have a control of the data either.
And what do people do when it's "too much work" to move to other service? They stay using that same old service where their data is. Hence the lock-in.
The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other,' concludes Lyons. 'Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves to a bigger slice of the money we all spend to buy computers and surf the Internet.
For anyone else joining the real world, enjoy your stay. A business making money? This is madness!
This seem to be just an another story of a Google fanboy in his basement discovering that their do-no-evil "friend" is a normal company, a normal business which purpose is to generate revenue. He hasn't yet understood that money doesn't grow in trees and this is how our economy works. For him Microsoft seems like a bad guy because they dare to sell products at a price. Google is the 'cool and hippy' friend who offers everything for free. And what he doesn't understand is that the revenue is just generated other way, and he loses her privacy to an advertisement company. Google is not a search engine company, it's an advertisement company that uses internet searching to 1) gather very detailed information and usage statistics about people all over the internet 2) sell targeted ads to advertisers.
It's unnecessary to blame the companies how it is. "Making cool products" and not caring about business sounds more like a public service or some teenagers naive thinking before he comes contact with the real world. Of course two competing companies are going to.. eh, compete. That's how it works, that's how they generate income, but that's also how they're always on a run to improve their products.
If there weren't competing companies, it would be a lot worse situation. Just look at how the adsl and cable internet is in USA. People pretty much have only one choice of operator, and it's shitty. In lots of European countries there's many competing ISP's and you get faster and better service.
At the end of the day, they both seem like overgrown nerdy schoolboys fighting over each other's toys.
They're the exact opposite. They're businesses that have a clean plan and understand what they are doing. Microsoft wants more marketshare on search, Google wants more users locked in to their services to keep their 70% marketshare. Oh, you though Google wants to fight for OS marketshare? Just see how limited Chrome OS is. It's designed to offer people Google's services so they will be locked down in them. That's the whole idea behind it, not fighting to destroy Windows.
That's what I actually always wonder. People always like to go for a guys/girls night out, while it's actually a lot more fun to get drunk with your girlfriend. Make some drinks, get naked, play wii, have sex and go out. And have sex again when getting back.
A lot nicer than hanging out in some bar drinking beer.
We don't have "Black Friday" here, but I noticed Steam has also been having five-day-long every-day-new-games discount on games, usually ranging as 33-75% discount. Since they actually have good games there on sale, with a good percentage off, it's been leading me and many of my friends to buy the games that look interesting now. People have been buying those LucasArts and THQ Complete Packs and many single games (I bought Borderlands, City of Heroes and LucasArts pack last night) Since PayPal also processes purchases for Steam, some of the increase probably comes from it too - there are hundred thousands players buying those games now.
I didn't buy more because I didn't even know about the special day. But I bought when I saw the discounts. I'm a lazy guy so I wouldn't go fighting in stores anyway (and I hate all that crowd), but these discounts surely lead to some impulse buying on Steam. And it still continues for a few days, oh man.
Exactly. It's not about gambling, it's about the person. People get addicted to things, but they need to know where to draw the line.
If government based on addiction and the possibility of losing money on it, they should also ban entrepreneurs and business, because they are also taking huge risks in their life. A person should evaluate the risks and act upon results. If you are driven by money, it's still the same with business, same with gambling. And are you going to ban businesses?
To be fair, they aren't asking to stop providing internet. They are just saying that the ISP's should be handling copyright notices, because it should be their responsibility. It is not ISP's responsibility to monitor for such activity, but they should deal with copyright notices when they are send one. Of course, IMO it should be courts decision.
But if we're going for analogies, lets at least keep them on the same level.
I agree, Buffalo makes good routers and modems. I have one on my 100mbit and it's always worked great, behind NAT too.
Also remember that windows TCP/IP stack is horrible and pre-Win7 you have to modify it to reach faster than like 30-40mbit.
Uh? Read some history about USSR. Whole communism aspect was directly used to labor tons of tanks, trucks, weapons, planes and so on. Russia still only uses their own technology, mig's, ak-47..
Or even pay a visit to Russia or any ex-soviet country. It's culturally a totally different world and it can be seen that US has and has had a little effect to them. Even McDonald's only landed in the largest cities 2000+.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
It was actually the Russians who saved Europe during WW2. And they lost millions of people doing so. If USSR wouldn't had kept Germans from spreading and taking over the east, no one could had done anything to them anymore, and eventually they would had been strong enough to take over American continent too.
Thank you guys, now I have to go get a pizza.
Theres none good sides on it. Or why do you think US wont open their banking data back to EU?
It's just another case of USA forcing their laws, ideas and politics to other countries. Only taking, and not giving back. Fuck yeah!
I'm a supporter of nuclear energy, but don't let anyone dumb too close a nuclear power plant.
It's good we have this guy in control of a nuclear power plant.
The Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in Pripyat happened because one of its reactors was running at a higher capacity than allowed and after its designed life cycle. It was in process of shut down, but it was too late already then. This caused the chain reaction in one of the cores to grow out of control (the same thing that happens when you initiate a nuclear weapon). This however doesn't initiate a nuclear blast like a nuclear weapon does, it just pours the radioactive all over the air (and it can travel thousands of kilometers).
This is why the nearest city Pripyat wasn't even evacuated first and Soviet Union didn't admit anything happening. They only did after the radioactive fallout reached northern Europe. The whole city is still just like it was left there, with peoples items and toys. It's just a ghost town. It will take 200 years before you can live anywhere near it again. And over half of that radioactive fallout landed over Belarus, but also over northern European countries.
Yeah, it's a great idea to run nuclear plants over their designed capacity.
But it does protect you, because after the resources Norton Antivirus takes, there's none left to actually run anything!
As a kid we also pulled lan cables with my brother from my room to his room. Every day, because it didn't fit under the doors and wasn't built-in to the house. Then we played Counter-Strike beta 6 and GTA 2.
And no government in our darknet!
Yep, if they are worried, just push it out to Cydia. Of course most (before someone comes whining, I did not say all!) of the users with jailbroken phones use pirated software, so there's no money in that.
Mac OS X has security problems because it allows running executables and non-signed programs too. iPhone on the other hand doesn't, so trojans and such wont work. The only possible way is to exploit a vulnerability, but that doesn't happen every day and should be pretty quickly patched by Apple (doesn't the phone network push updates automatically?). And if there's a new exploit, antivirus software are just as bad in protecting against it.
At the moment, the only worms faced by the iPhone have targeted unlocked, jailbroken devices — so Apple's not too bothered protecting users of such phones.
Of course, it's just better for Apple if the viruses do go around in jailbroken devices.
And how would iphone support antivirus anyway? It can only run one program at a time.
How do you twist word suspected in to that? They aren't suspected of using BitTorrent, they are suspected of using BitTorrent for spreading copyrighted content without a right to do so. And now the copyright owners are suing them.
Well, you can improve though. AnoNET looks interesting and works too. And it's actually a quite nice community.
Activities
Please note that any resource listed in this section can only be reached when your connection to the VPN is active. If it is not, you will get unexpected results.
Once you have connected to the VPN itself, you may do any number of things:
To get the full anoNet experience, use one of our cache DNS servers (1.0.9.53 or 1.10.11.1) so that you can resolve anoNet domains! Getting your own domain such as example.ano is no problem, just ask!
- Visit our Wiki, wiki.ano (http://1.0.9.3).
- Visit our IRC network using 1.0.9.1 or 1.0.1.1 port 6667 (6697 for SSL) with your favourite IRC client. Join #anonet and we can help you get started with anoNet.
- If you would like a more secure form of communication, you can use our SILC server at silc.ano:706
- Visit our message forum talk.ano (http://1.0.9.4), where you can discuss anything under the sun! Literally. That is what this network is about -- free speech.
- Use the anoNet jabber network (jabber.ano port 5222 or 5223 ssl for v1 clients), where you can chat with others using your favourite Jabber client! Jabber directory at users.jabber.ano
- Grab yourself a webmail account mail.ano (http://1.0.9.6) if you don't want to run your own mail server. anoNet has no spam.
- Search anoNet using our spidering search engine search.ano (http://1.0.9.8).
- Use our Bittorrent tracker anotorrent.ano (http://1.0.9.200)
- There is an open Icecast streaming server at stream.icecast.ano (1.0.9.16) port 8000, password anonet. It supports 20 streams and 200 listeners. The directory server is at icecast.ano (http://1.0.9.16)
- Once again to promote free speech we have a multi-user blog at anojournal.ano (http://1.0.9.13)
- If file sharing is your thing we have ed2k and dc++ servers.
- If gaming is for you, there is a bnetd server. (Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood Wars, Warcraft II, Warcraft III, Diablo, Diablo II)
- We also have World of Warcraft server setup (Running MaNGOS and a combination of SDB and Modb)
Remember, you can be a server too! Do you want to play a multi-player game? Go ahead! Install a game server, advertise it around (if you like), and get people to play with you!
Not only can you be a game server, but you can offer files, stream media, host your own web page, or anything else you want!
There is far too much to the network to list here, if it sounds like something you would be interested in, then connect up.
But will you actually do anything about it? It's easy to just shout loud works and then go back to watch the latest blockbuster movie you've just pirated because it's "free speech".
btw, internet itself is a decentralized network, so what would building an another one help?
Bah. Remember Suprnova? It is only a matter of time until something else replaces it.
I've always wondered about this. Pirates get all upset and "they are traitors!" when the website operators give up and move on with their lives under heavy pressure from lots of multinational corporations and governments.
But when something bad happens to the guys running these websites, everyone goes "bah. someone else will replace it" and everyone turns their back to them.
Is this a growth some few persons like to fight for on their free time against such a power?