This whole Greed thing is getting out of hand and it will be the end of us all.
The climate gate issue is incredibly damning.
There they all are in Copenhagen, just pretending like nothing happened.
Everyone first has to realize that these people working on "Climate Change" in Copenhagen do not care about people, plants, polar bears or anything else for that matter except control and the unlimited supply of money an entire world economy enslaved under a carbon credit ponzy scheme.
Well, if it is 24x7, I would immediately demand 2 extra weeks paid vacation per year, and a tier one health plan. (No deductables for anything, including prescriptions.)
After just 2 years of 24x7 calls, your health will be a lot worse. Lots of studies show people who do not get good nights sleep have a DOUBLE the cancer risk, psychological problems and get the flu way way more often than people who get a good nights sleep.
Second I would demand a health spa at the place of work, cardio vascular machines, and a shower locker room facilities simply because rushing out of bed, and going to work and not looking professional if the on call brings you into the work day, is unprofessional on your employers part.
Finally, of course, I would demand a night premium for all 24x7 calls serviced.
I due 24x7 support for companies for $120 and hour on the weekends, and $100 an hour on the weekdays.
If you make less that that per hour, I would say NO WAY.
Hey I got a great idea? Lets make everyone pay for a crummy E-Reader at high prices PLUS make them pay for the book subscriptions, PLUS sell advertising to make the reading even less enjoyable after the user gets the bill!!
PLUS we can just kill the book we sell, so the customer can never have a copy and of course, we can sell the same book to them twice!!!
-Signed...your average everday greedy American Corporate Scum.
Yeah, go ahead and mod me down and call me a troll I do not care.
Fact of the matter is, the media isn't even reporting on this because they won't touch it. Seems this "momentous and serious" challenge issue facing humanity is not as important as what Obama and his cronies had for dinner last night.
Why? Most of the media is about control, and this control doesn't want people to know the science of carbon credits and its ilk called "Global Warming" or now, since they subtly changed the name to "Cimate Change" because even the stupidest person sees there is not evidence for man induced warming.
So they changed the name of this ridiculous power grab to Climate Change because climate does change, and always has so you cannot argue against it.
Oh, didn't snow last year? That is due to climate change and we have to have a special tax for that.
Anyone who is researching our planets climate record and current climate HONESTLY, knew this whole carbon tax thing was a money making scam.
What does that tell you by the way how deep this corruption runs when Al Gore gets a NOBEL prize for the "research" these people did?
Actually, if you follow the money, the people behind this could care less about our planet, or anyone on it. What they are more concerned about are:
1) How can I make trillions of dollars a year?
2) How can I control more people?
The first step is to get a world body that taxes all nations and peoples on the earth as a precedent. Since these shadowy figures behind all of this know that they could never outright tax everyone without a huge political hurdle, they are using the guise of the environmental movement to facilitate this tax so people think it is saving trees, snails and whales.
Yeah, sure it is.
You people who believe in this stuff reading this post are stupid sheepeople.
Once the system is setup, more taxes can then easily be added and now you have a government fully sustained by taxes that reaches world wide.
That is the real goal.
If they succeed, they will begin with the next part of their agenda's, which I won't get into right here because nobody would believe me....yet....so I will wait till its about to happen.
But if just 10 years ago, I was saying to you that a government body is going to be created that would tax all nations, you would have claimed I had a screw loose.
Well, its on the verge of happening, and once it does happen these very evil people will have the resources of an entire planet to accomplish even more evil.
First of all, alleged is an understatement. How they would link bogus accounts, addresses and phone numbers to these 9 people I think would be very hard to do. (i.e. impossible.)
Secondly, really? The most advanced criminal ring in the world? If so, how did they get caught if they are that good? I would be more inclined to believe that they are amateurs.
Why would I think that?
1) Well, first of all, the government cannot look like a putz in public, which is strictly an image problem. So best to dress up the criminals to be world class.
2) #1 reenforces number two, which is, they have NO CHOICE but to capture SOMEONE. The public cannot know that the electronic banking system is so easy to steal money, without direct authorization of course from Congress or the Federal Reserve. (Who by the way, make laws that are illegal (Constitutionally), so they can steal your money legally.)
Loss of confidence in the electronic banking system simply cannot be permitted.
3) Finally as in all fascist states where business and government are basically the same, crimes of this fashion are not considered illegal, they are considered a threat to power.
So keep in mind if you do steal money from the crooks themselves, be aware they may imprison someone who is innocent just because they can't catch you.
Which means you might want to pick a different target.
and other such things our government engages in, could ultimately be exposed on a P2P network rather easily.
I can see why lawmakers...excuse me, corporations are rather in a hurry to pass laws to make software of any kind, not approved by the government...(sorry...there I go again....I mean corporations of course....living in the past I guess...) illegal, punishable by long prison sentences, hard labour or both.
As I see it, whenever a calendar marks the changing of an age and in particular the Mayan calendar which, make no mistake these stone agers knew their mathematics, I take pause.
Secondly, I find it odd, all of a sudden now, after what 200 years of studying this calendar someone with "never before seen insight into Mayan calendar mathematics and observational astronomy" says "Woops, everyone goofed its actually XXXX."
That is sort of like myself declaring, well...all of you guys thought Octover 27th was tomorrow, but I am smarter than you all, and everyone in the last 200 years that looked at the problem, and I say its 200 years from now.
The mathematics has been beaten like a dead horse, and indeed the age ends on December 21st on the solstice marker.
Now, I am not so sure anything dire is going to happen, but I do believe at the end of any age, its closing represents a judgement on the future path time will proceed.
Be it good or bad, I hope humanity gets exactly what it deserves.
There is no decision made about vaccines any more unless a politician has stock or the company making the vaccine gets hundreds of millions under the table.
Just imagine what they can do now, make a virus, release it, have it kill a few people, then make the vaccine for it.
Which is what I believe is exactly what is happening with H1N1.
Corruption is so widespread in government and business right now I wouldn't be surprised if the people in question where not on the boards of the companies making the vaccine in some manner of capacity.
But suprised, not at all. Logical outcome of events in my opinion.
Nobody here thinks that now that we cannot make or build anything anymore (not even cars), that the wealth selling all of those things stayed here, I hope.
The act of moving jobs and manufacturing out of the country is not just good business or free competition, its about destroying the USA ability to remain free and sovereign. (don't build anything, can't tax anything which means a bankrupt government.)
Which, I would say is mission accomplished.
We have about 5 years before our currency is shit, I figure. Have you looked at the Stock Market? Still up to their old antics, they claim the recession is over.
Oh REALLY? What I want to know is how can the stock market be so great when more and more people lose their jobs everyday to the tune of STILL over half a million every 3 weeks.
You know why?
Because they missed a few of you smart folks that have lots of money and pulled it out of the market last time. They are trying to convince you to go ahead, put it back in there, everything is fine!
That is so when the next crash comes, and it WILL COME shortly, the idiots who put their money back into the market get wiped out. These Wall Street guys think they missed some people, last time around, and want to make sure they get everyone's money.
Which is exactly what they are trying to do, to insure they destroy the middle class. The whole stock market is a ponzy scheme when you think about it because we don't make anything in the country that anybody else wants, that is China's territory.
Even the idiots studying for business degrees to that teach them how to find ever more efficient ways of legally stealing little old ladies pensions, know what the deal is.
I laughed the other day when I went to make a deposit at the bank, and the banker at the window said, oh, someone wants to talk to you from investment services.
I said: "Really?"
I sat and waited and out popped this guy, who said, we have been wanting to talk to customers about a stock who have bank accounts over 20K.
I said: "You know why I have a bank account over 20K?"
he said: "Cause you save!"
I said: "Thats right! So why would I put it into the stock market so you can destroy it like everyone elses?"
I continued I said: "The day the currency in the account is worthless, you do realize what that means right?"
The guy chuckled and said, no, what does that mean?
"Take a look at why people are buying so much ammunition for example. On that day, I would not tell anyone your a banker."
He did not find that amusing, and I really don't care.
that backups where not done, and no process existed to test the backups. What I would like to know, is what does Microsoft gain or T-Mobile gain by not having to do infrastructure improvements or upgrades if all of the data is suddenly lost.
I think it would prove interesting to know, if someone made the decision to destroy the data, and save potentially millions in infrastructure upgrades.
I find the whole thing rather improbable as many have pointed out here, that backups suddenly failed, or even the off site backups are bad.
I think it is more likely, they (T-Mobile) decided not to do infrastructure improvements and to dump the data due to the fact the management cannot compete in the mobile space, in order to show a profit at the end of the year.
1) Deliberately trying to destroy the GNOME desktop project by taking key developers out of the project to work on MONO, specifically at Microsoft's request. Next time GNOME sucks, thank Miguel for it. 2) The introduction of MONO into distributions, technology everyone knows is patent encumbered, and serves no use, except to provide Microsoft with a stick one day to whack distros over the head with it, once it "infects" everything it touches. 3) His attacks on Richard Stallman for simply being upfront and truthful by declaring the emperor HAS NO CLOTHES.
MONO is so naked, I can see the pimples on its ass from here.
4) Accepting money from Microsoft, which has made no secret it wants open source destroyed of any kind, GPL or otherwise and being a mouth piece to stir up trouble in the open source community.
Those are my top 4 reasons, which I have a list as long as my left arm about this guys private and public antics behind the scenes, which is two faced to be kind.
Microsoft is not to be permitted into the Open Source community until its board is destroyed, its holdings are destroyed and the company is on its knees, suitable for purchase at pennies on the dollar by Redhat.
At which point, I would like to see Ballmer enshrined along with the other list of "so greasy you can't light a match near'em" CEO's like Darling Mcbride. (McBride, if you ever get a job working for any other company besides McDonalds, I will insure they don't get a red cent, penny!)
Or......some other suitable company.....Ubuntosoft?:-)
Microsoft is more than welcome to join the open source community, as a pleb where it belongs.
I do not wish to be a poo poo, but since dynamic libraries and shared libraries have been around for just about forever, when even a second year CS major would immediately notice this could be done, is such big news now?
The first thing I would have done is built a cache for the library system. LINUX has one, why not the Mac?
So certainly I congratulate the Mac community. But wow, DUH, a cache for the linkage editor.:-)
Keep patenting and extending copyrights out to the wealthy so they can decide what is innovation and what will hurt their grand children's profits.
Keep greasing the rails so that the train of "progress" stays on the "lobbyist and collusion of government and business" tracks to monopolies so they can have ludicrous warchests of cash, locked up and not doing anything due to lack of competition. One of the great challenges Microsoft has is how to keep its enourmous cash funds out of the capital markets so it doesn't end up in a start up which would put them out of business, for example.
Then wonder why there is no capital to do any start ups or research with.
Welcome to wonderful world of corporate fascism. You play what they want to hear, you buy and use goods on their terms and the government throws you in jail if you dare otherwise.
Its here. Right now.
So when the day comes and you have to help your loved ones through hospice because we use the same protocols for cancer for the past 30 years, with corporations that deny you early prevention care because it is more profitable to make you buy extensive chemo drugs in stage 3 cancer, ask yourself this question:
What would happen if science and technology wasn't driven by greed and power to control peoples lives? No secrets about who had what idea. Everything was open, and information was freely shared. One big freaking Open Source project with one goal: improve the human condition and advance science and technology at a pace comparable to waking up and finding out tomorrow a asteroid was going to hit the earth in 24 months and destroy everything.
Science as a societal effort, pursued like every last persons life depended on it.
Its a dream right now, but I bet in 100 years we would be sending people to colonize distant star systems, with round trip journeys measurable in hours. Not millions of years.
-Hack
PS: Oh, and I bet the expansion for WoW would look just really cool.:-)
Even the NAZI concentration camp occupants chose to live, in a hell none of us could possibly imagine for many many MANY years, far longer than this gentleman had to live it sounds like.
if and when science turns to answering the real questions with real answers, not simply commercial products.
I am afraid the way we apply and use science is increasingly for things that keep us in the dark about the bigger questions of, what gravity truly is? Is free energy obtainable? If not how close can we get?
If we turned to these questions as a species looking for answers, instead of dismissing them outright because the answer doesn't include a 5 car garage, and a vacation home or stock options I believe we could conquer the distances in ways that are not obvious because we simply refuse to look without a cash incentive.
This new science as I call it, is not really science, but "consumerism science". Which, pretty much offers nothing too society except gadgets which don't last and just one more thing to spend money on, which is the main goal.
But, this "consumerism science" and its "technology" it produces is not really improving your life at all.
I personally believe that Earth's, like ours are rare. Maybe 100 in the galaxy.
Here is an awesome book which should rattle the brain:
So, although I doubt the galaxy is like Star Trek, it is probably somewhere in between only us and Star Trek.
I think 10 earth's with complex life is a good guess.
Good Book, read it and try and refute Dr. Ward's argument points. If your a Star Trek fan like I am you will find a lot of the book depressing because I think we would like to believe that the Universe has all sorts of aliens in it we can talk too AND his points are VERY hard to compromise on.
I can tell you one thing. If it ever is held up in court and program output becomes copyrighted in any way, I am basically going to quit the industry and open up an Italian restaurant.
I have no intention of participating in a field that is seething with greed and sowing the seeds of its own darkness.
The restrictions of IP are so catastrophic right now, that real advances in computer usability are essentially being delayed and in their place, anything that you can create with pretty bitmap graphics is declared a HUGE ADAVANCE or some how "cool".
This whole mess is because we do not make anything worth a damn any more. In my opinion everyone wants to live like a king and do little if any real work, which is what the whole idea of extending copyrights and IP to ludicrous ends is all about.
Computers suck right now, and I do not see it getting any better if this sort of restriction is placed on the industry. Can't f'in own anything any more because some rich arse has a army of lawyers to bribe congressional leaders and grease the rails for new extensions to IP laws.
Perhaps we should target Wolfram in earnest, and simple remove the incentive to buy Wolfram products. We did it with UNIX, (we=open source community). Mathematica could be rebuilt in 5 years with a good focus.
Some projects such as Sage already have made large strides:
So, seems like Microsoft for SEVERAL MONTHS has been on the GPL path to compliance?
I would like to point out, that if you pirated several Microsoft so called "Intellectual Property" binaries and eventually paid for them all, you would land in court with some fairly large fines.
Furthermore, this idea that companies cannot show source code for violations in the GPL rules seems a bit, well, warped.
This loop hole allows companies to hide behind IP rules, to protect their violations of copyright.
It is well known that Microsoft is in the HABIT of taking OTHER companies/individual works and using them for thier own gains, fairly shamelessly in some cases, and in others covertly.
1) For over 100 years Jupiter has been observed with fairly good equipment and we have not see such large changes such as these impacts.
2) It is possible we are in the middle of a Comet Swarm. The frequency of these sorts of large impacts seems to be out of the ordinary, considering the last one was in 1992. (Shoemaker-Levy)
I bring this to the communities attention because the gravitational behaviour of the Galaxy as a whole, seems to be at odds with how we understand gravity on a large scale.
For example, when Astronomers look at the velocities of Stars on the outside of the Galactic Core, too many of them are moving at a speed or the same speed as those closer inward.
I contracted this disease in 1992, when I was working on some server equipment that had critical up time issues.
I must tell you all, it is a fairly debilitating disease.
My symptoms included blown budgets, server up times measured in weeks instead of years and a pager that would go off at 2AM to wake me up to take my medication.
I had to literally take a meal of different medications "Reboot" pills where the worst.
I tried everything. Finally a treatment was found by a guy named Richard M Stallman.
Well, ever since I tried the GNU Treatment program I have made a full recovery!
I thought I would tell everyone and you can get more information here:
Slashdot Mirror
This whole Greed thing is getting out of hand and it will be the end of us all.
The climate gate issue is incredibly damning.
There they all are in Copenhagen, just pretending like nothing happened.
Everyone first has to realize that these people working on "Climate Change" in Copenhagen do not care about people, plants, polar bears or anything else for that matter except control and the unlimited supply of money an entire world economy enslaved under a carbon credit ponzy scheme.
That is what they really want.
-Hack
Well, if it is 24x7, I would immediately demand 2 extra weeks paid vacation per year, and a tier one health plan.
(No deductables for anything, including prescriptions.)
After just 2 years of 24x7 calls, your health will be a lot worse. Lots of studies show people who do not get good nights sleep have a DOUBLE the cancer risk, psychological problems and get the flu way way more often than people who get a good nights sleep.
Second I would demand a health spa at the place of work, cardio vascular machines, and a shower locker room facilities simply because rushing out of bed, and going to work and not looking professional if the on call brings you into the work day, is unprofessional on your employers part.
Finally, of course, I would demand a night premium for all 24x7 calls serviced.
I due 24x7 support for companies for $120 and hour on the weekends, and $100 an hour on the weekdays.
If you make less that that per hour, I would say NO WAY.
-Hack
Sounds like a wonderful investment plan...
to soak yet another bunch of little old ladies out of their pensions.
-Hack
and BURN baby....burn!
Hey I got a great idea? Lets make everyone pay for a crummy E-Reader at high prices PLUS make them pay for the book subscriptions, PLUS sell advertising to make the reading even less enjoyable after the user gets the bill!!
PLUS we can just kill the book we sell, so the customer can never have a copy and of course, we can sell the same book to them twice!!!
-Signed...your average everday greedy American Corporate Scum.
Yeah, go ahead and mod me down and call me a troll I do not care.
Fact of the matter is, the media isn't even reporting on this because they won't touch it. Seems this "momentous and serious" challenge issue facing humanity is not as important as what Obama and his cronies had for dinner last night.
Why? Most of the media is about control, and this control doesn't want people to know the science of carbon credits and its ilk called "Global Warming" or now, since they subtly changed the name to "Cimate Change" because even the stupidest person sees there is not evidence for man induced warming.
So they changed the name of this ridiculous power grab to Climate Change because climate does change, and always has so you cannot argue against it.
Oh, didn't snow last year? That is due to climate change and we have to have a special tax for that.
I really HOPE nobody is surprised about this.
Anyone who is researching our planets climate record and current climate HONESTLY, knew this whole carbon tax thing was a money making scam.
What does that tell you by the way how deep this corruption runs when Al Gore gets a NOBEL prize for the "research" these people did?
Actually, if you follow the money, the people behind this could care less about our planet, or anyone on it. What they are more concerned about are:
1) How can I make trillions of dollars a year?
2) How can I control more people?
The first step is to get a world body that taxes all nations and peoples on the earth as a precedent. Since these shadowy figures behind all of this know that they could never outright tax everyone without a huge political hurdle, they are using the guise of the environmental movement to facilitate this tax so people think it is saving trees, snails and whales.
Yeah, sure it is.
You people who believe in this stuff reading this post are stupid sheepeople.
Once the system is setup, more taxes can then easily be added and now you have a government fully sustained by taxes that reaches world wide.
That is the real goal.
If they succeed, they will begin with the next part of their agenda's, which I won't get into right here because nobody would believe me....yet....so I will wait till its about to happen.
But if just 10 years ago, I was saying to you that a government body is going to be created that would tax all nations, you would have claimed I had a screw loose.
Well, its on the verge of happening, and once it does happen these very evil people will have the resources of an entire planet to accomplish even more evil.
-Hack
Well, this is how I see it.
First of all, alleged is an understatement. How they would link bogus accounts, addresses and phone numbers to these 9 people I think would be very hard to do. (i.e. impossible.)
Secondly, really? The most advanced criminal ring in the world? If so, how did they get caught if they are that good? I would be more inclined to believe that they are amateurs.
Why would I think that?
1) Well, first of all, the government cannot look like a putz in public, which is strictly an image problem. So best to dress up the criminals to be world class.
2) #1 reenforces number two, which is, they have NO CHOICE but to capture SOMEONE. The public cannot know that the electronic banking system is so easy to steal money, without direct authorization of course from Congress or the Federal Reserve. (Who by the way, make laws that are illegal (Constitutionally), so they can steal your money legally.)
Loss of confidence in the electronic banking system simply cannot be permitted.
3) Finally as in all fascist states where business and government are basically the same, crimes of this fashion are not considered illegal, they are considered a threat to power.
So keep in mind if you do steal money from the crooks themselves, be aware they may imprison someone who is innocent just because they can't catch you.
Which means you might want to pick a different target.
FYI.
-Hackus
It is called Fascism.
It is when corporations merge with governments to make laws dictating how much wealth the consumer/citizen shall have.
So, since this is actually already being legislated, what does that say about the USA form of government?
-Hack
and other such things our government engages in, could ultimately be exposed on a P2P network rather easily.
I can see why lawmakers...excuse me, corporations are rather in a hurry to pass laws to make software of any kind, not approved by the government...(sorry...there I go again....I mean corporations of course....living in the past I guess...) illegal, punishable by long prison sentences, hard labour or both.
-Hack
As I see it, whenever a calendar marks the changing of an age and in particular the Mayan calendar which, make no mistake these stone agers knew their mathematics, I take pause.
Secondly, I find it odd, all of a sudden now, after what 200 years of studying this calendar someone with "never before seen insight into Mayan calendar mathematics and observational astronomy" says "Woops, everyone goofed its actually XXXX."
That is sort of like myself declaring, well...all of you guys thought Octover 27th was tomorrow, but I am smarter than you all, and everyone in the last 200 years that looked at the problem, and I say its 200 years from now.
The mathematics has been beaten like a dead horse, and indeed the age ends on December 21st on the solstice marker.
Now, I am not so sure anything dire is going to happen, but I do believe at the end of any age, its closing represents a judgement on the future path time will proceed.
Be it good or bad, I hope humanity gets exactly what it deserves.
-Hack
There is no decision made about vaccines any more unless a politician has stock or the company making the vaccine gets hundreds of millions under the table.
Just imagine what they can do now, make a virus, release it, have it kill a few people, then make the vaccine for it.
Which is what I believe is exactly what is happening with H1N1.
Corruption is so widespread in government and business right now I wouldn't be surprised if the people in question where not on the boards of the companies making the vaccine in some manner of capacity.
But suprised, not at all. Logical outcome of events in my opinion.
-Hack
of course planned.
Nobody here thinks that now that we cannot make or build anything anymore (not even cars), that the wealth selling all of those things stayed here, I hope.
The act of moving jobs and manufacturing out of the country is not just good business or free competition, its about destroying the USA ability to remain free and sovereign.
(don't build anything, can't tax anything which means a bankrupt government.)
Which, I would say is mission accomplished.
We have about 5 years before our currency is shit, I figure. Have you looked at the Stock Market? Still up to their old antics, they claim the recession is over.
Oh REALLY? What I want to know is how can the stock market be so great when more and more people lose their jobs everyday to the tune of STILL over half a million every 3 weeks.
You know why?
Because they missed a few of you smart folks that have lots of money and pulled it out of the market last time. They are trying to convince you to go ahead, put it back in there, everything is fine!
That is so when the next crash comes, and it WILL COME shortly, the idiots who put their money back into the market get wiped out. These Wall Street guys think they missed some people, last time around, and want to make sure they get everyone's money.
Which is exactly what they are trying to do, to insure they destroy the middle class. The whole stock market is a ponzy scheme when you think about it because we don't make anything in the country that anybody else wants, that is China's territory.
Even the idiots studying for business degrees to that teach them how to find ever more efficient ways of legally stealing little old ladies pensions, know what the deal is.
I laughed the other day when I went to make a deposit at the bank, and the banker at the window said, oh, someone wants to talk to you from investment services.
I said: "Really?"
I sat and waited and out popped this guy, who said, we have been wanting to talk to customers about a stock who have bank accounts over 20K.
I said: "You know why I have a bank account over 20K?"
he said: "Cause you save!"
I said: "Thats right! So why would I put it into the stock market so you can destroy it like everyone elses?"
I continued I said: "The day the currency in the account is worthless, you do realize what that means right?"
The guy chuckled and said, no, what does that mean?
"Take a look at why people are buying so much ammunition for example. On that day, I would not tell anyone your a banker."
He did not find that amusing, and I really don't care.
-Hack
Oh I don't know....GPL V2 has been in and out of the court all over in Europe.
Most settle without a hitch.
Some, need to have it explained in front of a judge.
This guy doesn't know what he is talking about, and if the GPLv2 was unsound legally, it would have long been over turned.
GPLv2 even scares Microsoft's lawyers.
The guy just wants attention.
Send him a cookie.
-Hackus
that backups where not done, and no process existed to test the backups. What I would like to know, is what does Microsoft gain or T-Mobile gain by not having to do infrastructure improvements or upgrades if all of the data is suddenly lost.
I think it would prove interesting to know, if someone made the decision to destroy the data, and save potentially millions in infrastructure upgrades.
I find the whole thing rather improbable as many have pointed out here, that backups suddenly failed, or even the off site backups are bad.
I think it is more likely, they (T-Mobile) decided not to do infrastructure improvements and to dump the data due to the fact the management cannot compete in the mobile space, in order to show a profit at the end of the year.
-Hack
I won't forgive:
1) Deliberately trying to destroy the GNOME desktop project by taking key developers out of the project to work on MONO, specifically at Microsoft's request. Next time GNOME sucks, thank Miguel for it.
2) The introduction of MONO into distributions, technology everyone knows is patent encumbered, and serves no use, except to provide Microsoft with a stick one day to whack distros over the head with it, once it "infects" everything it touches.
3) His attacks on Richard Stallman for simply being upfront and truthful by declaring the emperor HAS NO CLOTHES.
MONO is so naked, I can see the pimples on its ass from here.
4) Accepting money from Microsoft, which has made no secret it wants open source destroyed of any kind, GPL or otherwise and being a mouth piece to stir up trouble in the open source community.
Those are my top 4 reasons, which I have a list as long as my left arm about this guys private and public antics behind the scenes, which is two faced to be kind.
Microsoft is not to be permitted into the Open Source community until its board is destroyed, its holdings are destroyed and the company is on its knees, suitable for purchase at pennies on the dollar by Redhat.
At which point, I would like to see Ballmer enshrined along with the other list of "so greasy you can't light a match near'em" CEO's like Darling Mcbride.
(McBride, if you ever get a job working for any other company besides McDonalds, I will insure they don't get a red cent, penny!)
Or......some other suitable company.....Ubuntosoft? :-)
Microsoft is more than welcome to join the open source community, as a pleb where it belongs.
-Hack
I do not wish to be a poo poo, but since dynamic libraries and shared libraries have been around for just about forever, when even a second year CS major would immediately notice this could be done, is such big news now?
The first thing I would have done is built a cache for the library system. LINUX has one, why not the Mac?
So certainly I congratulate the Mac community. But wow, DUH, a cache for the linkage editor. :-)
-Hack
No Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaalllly?
Such a surprise!
Keep patenting and extending copyrights out to the wealthy so they can decide what is innovation and what will hurt their grand children's profits.
Keep greasing the rails so that the train of "progress" stays on the "lobbyist and collusion of government and business" tracks to monopolies so they can have ludicrous warchests of cash, locked up and not doing anything due to lack of competition. One of the great challenges Microsoft has is how to keep its enourmous cash funds out of the capital markets so it doesn't end up in a start up which would put them out of business, for example.
Then wonder why there is no capital to do any start ups or research with.
Welcome to wonderful world of corporate fascism. You play what they want to hear, you buy and use goods on their terms and the government throws you in jail if you dare otherwise.
Its here. Right now.
So when the day comes and you have to help your loved ones through hospice because we use the same protocols for cancer for the past 30 years, with corporations that deny you early prevention care because it is more profitable to make you buy extensive chemo drugs in stage 3 cancer, ask yourself this question:
What would happen if science and technology wasn't driven by greed and power to control peoples lives? No secrets about who had what idea. Everything was open, and information was freely shared. One big freaking Open Source project with one goal: improve the human condition and advance science and technology at a pace comparable to waking up and finding out tomorrow a asteroid was going to hit the earth in 24 months and destroy everything.
Science as a societal effort, pursued like every last persons life depended on it.
Its a dream right now, but I bet in 100 years we would be sending people to colonize distant star systems, with round trip journeys measurable in hours. Not millions of years.
-Hack
PS: Oh, and I bet the expansion for WoW would look just really cool. :-)
Bravery or cowardice?
Its easy to die, very difficult to live life.
Even the NAZI concentration camp occupants chose to live, in a hell none of us could possibly imagine for many many MANY years, far longer than this gentleman had to live it sounds like.
They DID NOT commit suicide, and chose to fight.
Who is really brave here?
-Hack
Can America GET any FATTER?
Keep pushing SEGWAYS to find out.
-Hack
if and when science turns to answering the real questions with real answers, not simply commercial products.
I am afraid the way we apply and use science is increasingly for things that keep us in the dark about the bigger questions of, what gravity truly is? Is free energy obtainable? If not how close can we get?
If we turned to these questions as a species looking for answers, instead of dismissing them outright because the answer doesn't include a 5 car garage, and a vacation home or stock options I believe we could conquer the distances in ways that are not obvious because we simply refuse to look without a cash incentive.
This new science as I call it, is not really science, but "consumerism science". Which, pretty much offers nothing too society except gadgets which don't last and just one more thing to spend money on, which is the main goal.
But, this "consumerism science" and its "technology" it produces is not really improving your life at all.
I personally believe that Earth's, like ours are rare. Maybe 100 in the galaxy.
Here is an awesome book which should rattle the brain:
http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/dp/0387987010
So, although I doubt the galaxy is like Star Trek, it is probably somewhere in between only us and Star Trek.
I think 10 earth's with complex life is a good guess.
Good Book, read it and try and refute Dr. Ward's argument points. If your a Star Trek fan like I am you will find a lot of the book depressing because I think we would like to believe that the Universe has all sorts of aliens in it we can talk too AND his points are VERY hard to compromise on.
-Hack
Well,
I can tell you one thing. If it ever is held up in court and program output becomes copyrighted in any way, I am basically going to quit the industry and open up an Italian restaurant.
I have no intention of participating in a field that is seething with greed and sowing the seeds of its own darkness.
The restrictions of IP are so catastrophic right now, that real advances in computer usability are essentially being delayed and in their place, anything that you can create with pretty bitmap graphics is declared a HUGE ADAVANCE or some how "cool".
This whole mess is because we do not make anything worth a damn any more. In my opinion everyone wants to live like a king and do little if any real work, which is what the whole idea of extending copyrights and IP to ludicrous ends is all about.
Computers suck right now, and I do not see it getting any better if this sort of restriction is placed on the industry. Can't f'in own anything any more because some rich arse has a army of lawyers to bribe congressional leaders and grease the rails for new extensions to IP laws.
Perhaps we should target Wolfram in earnest, and simple remove the incentive to buy Wolfram products. We did it with UNIX, (we=open source community). Mathematica could be rebuilt in 5 years with a good focus.
Some projects such as Sage already have made large strides:
http://www.sagemath.org/tour-quickstart.html
Sage has similar capabilities to Mathematica including the separation of client and server for example.
-Hack
And NOW they are starting to complain?
Apparently Davis was last seen 12 months ago, in contact with developers.
NOW they are complaining he is "missing".
Does anyone for a moment believe that?
-Hack
So, seems like Microsoft for SEVERAL MONTHS has been on the GPL path to compliance?
I would like to point out, that if you pirated several Microsoft so called "Intellectual Property" binaries and eventually paid for them all, you would land in court with some fairly large fines.
Furthermore, this idea that companies cannot show source code for violations in the GPL rules seems a bit, well, warped.
This loop hole allows companies to hide behind IP rules, to protect their violations of copyright.
It is well known that Microsoft is in the HABIT of taking OTHER companies/individual works and using them for thier own gains, fairly shamelessly in some cases, and in others covertly.
-Hack
Possible Conjecture on my part: :-)
1) For over 100 years Jupiter has been observed with fairly good equipment and we have not see such large changes such as these impacts.
2) It is possible we are in the middle of a Comet Swarm. The frequency of these sorts of large impacts seems to be out of the ordinary, considering the last one was in 1992. (Shoemaker-Levy)
3) What is caused by this? Could it be the alignment of our Solar System with respect to the Galactic plane:
http://www.optcorp.com/edu/articleDetailEDU.aspx?aid=1114
I bring this to the communities attention because the gravitational behaviour of the Galaxy as a whole, seems to be at odds with how we understand gravity on a large scale.
For example, when Astronomers look at the velocities of Stars on the outside of the Galactic Core, too many of them are moving at a speed or the same speed as those closer inward.
Which should not be the case.
http://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/topics/galaxies/Spiral.html
This could suggest that we are in the middle of a comet swarm.
Which of course, would be right on schedule as we ARE over due for a major impact.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGF-47314XP-1C0&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=ab7211f1bb44a0d677303b1cc08eb8c8
-Hack
I contracted this disease in 1992, when I was working on some server equipment that had critical up time issues.
I must tell you all, it is a fairly debilitating disease.
My symptoms included blown budgets, server up times measured in weeks instead of years and a pager that would go off at 2AM to wake me up to take my medication.
I had to literally take a meal of different medications "Reboot" pills where the worst.
I tried everything. Finally a treatment was found by a guy named Richard M Stallman.
Well, ever since I tried the GNU Treatment program I have made a full recovery!
I thought I would tell everyone and you can get more information here:
http://stallman.org/
-Hack