People here seem to have forgotten that "Do no evil" is a lame-ass motto. Why wouldn't we want one of the most powerful companies in the world to do some good?
Palestinians returning to their homeland can hardly be called an invasion.
Israel has the biggest military budget in the middle east and the support of the most powerful military power in the world (the US). Israel could have made peace with it's neighbors (including the Palestinians, it's internal neighbors) decades ago through honesty, peaceful diplomacy, and recognition of the principles of democracy and self-determination. But most of the Israeli people instead chose to bleed the Palestinians and Lebanese for decades, just as they are today, often taking more than a dozen Palestinians lives for a single Israeli life.
Iran and N. Korea live in justified fear of US invasion, and for no agression of their own. Just look at what's happening in Iraq right now, the first member of the "axis of evil". If the US were interested in justice, it would have invaded Israel, seized their weapons of mass destruction and installed a democractic regime that either included the Palestinians, or let the Palestinians have a recognized government.
Why don't you try to back that up? With all the uproar about Iran and N. Korea's potential nuclear capability, it's about time Israel and the US faced the world about their own reckless militarism that currently has nuclear weapons in the hands of their unaccountable governments, particularly considering the occupation of Iraq and the recent invasion of Lebanon. It's pretty clear from these examples alone that Israel and the USA are the biggest threats to the world at this time. Who have Iran and N. Korea invaded recently?
In response to this, I think the USA should suspend all fiscal and military aid, impose economic sanctions and require that Israel allow in IAEA inspectors to view all nuclear facilities and aid in the dismantling of their nuclear arsenal. This would make the world much safer than spying bugs.
Actually, it would take very little money to feed the hungry of the world. The money that third world countries pay out ever year in debt maintenance is greater than the cost of feeding the hungry.
I think we should back up and consider this differently. While I support the national (and personal) sovereignty of all nations (and individuals), we should compare two asian countries: China and Myanmar (or Burma).
Both countries have proven track records of jailing political dissidents, allowing child labor, preventing unions from forming,
However, Myanmar is an international pariah both politically and economically. But China? They are the darlings of every businessman and diplomat lately.
The question I'm posing is: should Google (MS, Yahoo, etc...) do business with Myanmar? or stop doing business with China?
How does Thurrot get off comparing Microsoft's unreleased OS to Apple's released update - which has been in user's hands for while now? He should be comparing Vista beta to the next release of OS X, not Tiger.
And this crap about the feature only being valid when exposed to a wide audience? So the OS don't work if Microsoft doesn't sell 200 million copies? WTF?
This things should not be legally binding. Consumers should have a standard, mandated set of rights when purchasing software and other products. EULAs only exist for the benefit of companies that don't tend to give a shit about the interests of their customers (spyware as the perfect example, microsoft as another).
Except that our inflated incomes were brought about by exploitation of a global resource/ labor pool that is being increasingly decimated and impoverished. Having no forethought is not worse, I think, than having no idea why you have the status, wealth and privileges to be able to demand a house, SUV and countless useless consumer goods at the expense of the rest of the world (literally).
Currency exchange rates are highly manipulated. It might make sense to have the rupee be on par with the dollar, but then we might have to admit that the 500 or 600 million desperately impoverished people in India might need a break from our financial manipulation.
The US government has the power to regulate the corporations that are sucking the jobs, money and life out of this country, but then their profit rates would go down and we might have to admit that they're destroying the earth and most of the people (with the exception of W's and Kerry's buddies).
As much as I believe that most politicians are horse thieves and some things should be less regulated (radio frequencies for public use, for example), I think I'd be pissed if I got VoIP home phone service and wasn't able to call 911 in an emergency.
Why don't we just amend our foreign policy so that the rest of the world doesn't hate us, pay a small amount of attention (anything would help) to domestic policy so that the growing underclass doesn't find it advantageous to become a terrorist, and vote out the fascists currently in charge? Then we could all just take longer vacations and not have to work on fancy aviation software. Sounds like a win-win situation to me, even if you're wealthy, corrupt or stupid.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a simple upgrade of TCP/IP fix the problem of faked headers and open relays? Then most of this discussion and regulation would become useless and unnecessary...?
"As cheap as PCs are, you'd think that TVA would have separate internet/email PCs on every desktop..."
Wow, that's what I call a silly statement. Do they need an extra pc on every desk for internet access (so no sensitive data from other PC is exposed)??? Or do they need an extra pc on every desk to run dedicated SETI processing?
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People here seem to have forgotten that "Do no evil" is a lame-ass motto. Why wouldn't we want one of the most powerful companies in the world to do some good?
Fortunately, people do care about more than products. We're not all morons that only respond to marketing (as effective as we know it is).
Land of the Free, Home of the,... Woops, Land of the Uninformed, Home of the Brave.
How is this different than a degree in English in the US?
Still didn't back it up. Maybe because you can't?
Palestinians returning to their homeland can hardly be called an invasion.
Israel has the biggest military budget in the middle east and the support of the most powerful military power in the world (the US). Israel could have made peace with it's neighbors (including the Palestinians, it's internal neighbors) decades ago through honesty, peaceful diplomacy, and recognition of the principles of democracy and self-determination. But most of the Israeli people instead chose to bleed the Palestinians and Lebanese for decades, just as they are today, often taking more than a dozen Palestinians lives for a single Israeli life.
Iran and N. Korea live in justified fear of US invasion, and for no agression of their own. Just look at what's happening in Iraq right now, the first member of the "axis of evil". If the US were interested in justice, it would have invaded Israel, seized their weapons of mass destruction and installed a democractic regime that either included the Palestinians, or let the Palestinians have a recognized government.
Why don't you try to back that up? With all the uproar about Iran and N. Korea's potential nuclear capability, it's about time Israel and the US faced the world about their own reckless militarism that currently has nuclear weapons in the hands of their unaccountable governments, particularly considering the occupation of Iraq and the recent invasion of Lebanon. It's pretty clear from these examples alone that Israel and the USA are the biggest threats to the world at this time. Who have Iran and N. Korea invaded recently?
In response to this, I think the USA should suspend all fiscal and military aid, impose economic sanctions and require that Israel allow in IAEA inspectors to view all nuclear facilities and aid in the dismantling of their nuclear arsenal. This would make the world much safer than spying bugs.
Actually, it would take very little money to feed the hungry of the world. The money that third world countries pay out ever year in debt maintenance is greater than the cost of feeding the hungry.
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I think we should back up and consider this differently. While I support the national (and personal) sovereignty of all nations (and individuals), we should compare two asian countries: China and Myanmar (or Burma).
Both countries have proven track records of jailing political dissidents, allowing child labor, preventing unions from forming,
However, Myanmar is an international pariah both politically and economically. But China? They are the darlings of every businessman and diplomat lately.
The question I'm posing is: should Google (MS, Yahoo, etc...) do business with Myanmar? or stop doing business with China?
How does Thurrot get off comparing Microsoft's unreleased OS to Apple's released update - which has been in user's hands for while now? He should be comparing Vista beta to the next release of OS X, not Tiger.
And this crap about the feature only being valid when exposed to a wide audience? So the OS don't work if Microsoft doesn't sell 200 million copies? WTF?
China will be just like the US when they get their military spending adusted upward a little.
This things should not be legally binding. Consumers should have a standard, mandated set of rights when purchasing software and other products. EULAs only exist for the benefit of companies that don't tend to give a shit about the interests of their customers (spyware as the perfect example, microsoft as another).
Except that our inflated incomes were brought about by exploitation of a global resource/ labor pool that is being increasingly decimated and impoverished. Having no forethought is not worse, I think, than having no idea why you have the status, wealth and privileges to be able to demand a house, SUV and countless useless consumer goods at the expense of the rest of the world (literally).
Currency exchange rates are highly manipulated. It might make sense to have the rupee be on par with the dollar, but then we might have to admit that the 500 or 600 million desperately impoverished people in India might need a break from our financial manipulation.
The US government has the power to regulate the corporations that are sucking the jobs, money and life out of this country, but then their profit rates would go down and we might have to admit that they're destroying the earth and most of the people (with the exception of W's and Kerry's buddies).
As much as I believe that most politicians are horse thieves and some things should be less regulated (radio frequencies for public use, for example), I think I'd be pissed if I got VoIP home phone service and wasn't able to call 911 in an emergency.
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Why don't we just amend our foreign policy so that the rest of the world doesn't hate us, pay a small amount of attention (anything would help) to domestic policy so that the growing underclass doesn't find it advantageous to become a terrorist, and vote out the fascists currently in charge? Then we could all just take longer vacations and not have to work on fancy aviation software. Sounds like a win-win situation to me, even if you're wealthy, corrupt or stupid.
P2P works. Linux works. Let's try it and see what happens.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a simple upgrade of TCP/IP fix the problem of faked headers and open relays? Then most of this discussion and regulation would become useless and unnecessary...?
I think if we just got rid of pennies (since they're not worth crap) and rounded everything to the nearest 5 cents, it would be the most efficient.
"As cheap as PCs are, you'd think that TVA would have separate internet/email PCs on every desktop..." Wow, that's what I call a silly statement. Do they need an extra pc on every desk for internet access (so no sensitive data from other PC is exposed)??? Or do they need an extra pc on every desk to run dedicated SETI processing?
They cost nothing if you don't use recent M$ products. ;)
I think echelon has blocked that web site (http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg2/hearings/20000222/ ). We better watch out. They'll be blocking /. next.
I think government employees deserve lots of perks for doing mindless jobs dealing with dumbass citizens like you.