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  1. Re:Ugg... on Nvidia Waiting In the Wings In FTC-Intel Dispute · · Score: 1

    I agree. There are many potential players in the market that will get involved once the licensing issues are removed.

    The internet has become so important to the the world daily lives, and yet a huge percentage of it is dependent on a platforms that is monopolized. Thats very dangerous.

    Stirring up this pot, will have huge unknown ramifications in the world of computing in general.
    For example, ARM dual core CPUS are getting to the point of competing with Intel Atoms. This will put pressure on the ARM platform then if many more intel CPU and chipset producers exist.

    Another aspect is the environment. More competition will allow many players to enter the market to build cpus and chipsets that use much less amps and volts. This is really so important now as electricity prices go up and up.
    I remember reading that the high use of electricity is not in intels chips, but more in their chipset.

  2. Re:This sounds like wishful thinking on Building a Global Cyber Police Force · · Score: 1

    Please. They use trade agreement force sign up.

    "Legislate these treaties into your law, or you cant trade with use ! "

  3. Re:read your history books, corporate goons on Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA · · Score: 1

    agree here.

    check out the world bank and how it uses treaties as qualification and compliance requirements in order to get loans from them.

    this is another way of forcing treaties onto countries.

  4. Re:and this changes what? on Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Patents and intellectual property are one things.

    But this treaty and others go further than that.

    Dont be so simplistic.

    they already enforce that all countries that trade with the US, must respect international treaties. Copyright and intellectual property was one of the first many many years ago.

    the stuff they are pushing through now is much more focused on addressing open information leakage. They want to gain some level of control over information spread.

    Its not just the US. Its the EU. The EU tends to be more socialist in their agenda, and able to also interpret these treaties for what they are.

    But again, the pressure to sign up to these treaties is on the EU parliament too, because they need to trade with the US.

    Now that the EU has a more solid power base, and the US economy has started to falter it does allow the EU much more wriggle room and negotiation room.

    The danger of course is of the EU simply embraces whole heartedly what the US is trying to achieve with these treaties. In essence the EU then becomes just as draconian as the US.

  5. Re:Pro-ACTA arguments are disingenuous on Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, fully agree here. Once the treaty is in place, the nations will be not allowed to trade unless they support and hence legislate the principles of the treaty into their laws. This is exactly how its worked in the past. Countries sign up, and then realize that the US and others cant or wont trade with them unless they too legislate the treaty. No country can afford to be out of the world trade economy and so is forced to act on the treaty and put it in effect as legislation. Its very sneaky and effective and have been used for decades. The world bank also uses this to their advantage as a rule. "You must implement this treaty in order to qualify for this loan". The pattern of how they get this ratified and legislated is all around us. History teaches us. I want countries and people to learn from these patterns that history has shown us again and again.

  6. sneaky... on Secret Copyright Treaty Timeline Shows Global DMCA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lets face it. The "authorities" have now realised that the internet allows people to collaborate and learn openly whats really going on in the world, and how the puzzle fits togther. this to them is danderous. the cat is out of the bag, and now they are trying to gain control over it so they can manage the leaks as it were. Its crucial that the internet remain fully open !!!! Its thats simple. More groups that support open information should be targettting these groups hard. This is the type of thing that the authorities will try to slide in to legislation as part of trade agreements like they do with all the other things. Dont support treaty x, y and z - Sorry you cant trade with us. Its really insidious and smart tactic they use.

  7. this scans AND turns pages on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/user/bookscanner#p/c/14E09F2A975DB14F I think that it would be easy to actually make this. It uses vacuum to simply pull the pages up, and then whenit gets to the end of the page, turns off one of the vacuums t toss the page over.

  8. "BFilter" does a fair job on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 1

    "BFilter" does a fair job of removing so of the things people have listed above. For example: ads, google analytics, etc. I have been using it for 6 months, and it does work well.

  9. Re:Christ, AGAIN!? on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    I agree. Where the hell are the arm based networks with a graphics card, and 64 GB SSD. NVideo Ion & Ion2 is nowhere to be seen. I think there are 4 laptops in existence only. The market for these is huge i think. I have been waiting a year for a decent one to come to market.

  10. Re:OS is nothing. Apps are everything. on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    I expect that if ARM netbooks take off, then running own apps on a simple linux server at home will also perhaps take off. Everyone has a dsl connection, and a dynaci DNS is a no brainer. Then with the advent of JS common etc for server apps and nosql databases; installing your software on your home Ubuntu Linux server will be a drag and drop exercise. i can image many people running their own Google like apps at home. gmail, documents, etc Ged

  11. Re:So what the FUCK does it do? on Red Hat Open Sources SPICE Desktop Virtualization · · Score: 1

    The difference is HUGE. They are able to export the opengl command to the client or not to the client. so its not just compressed jpegs like all the others. google virtualGL as this did it too. G

  12. Re:VDI here we come on Red Hat Open Sources SPICE Desktop Virtualization · · Score: 1

    wow. got a url or project name for these ? Or are they backed into the SPICE code ? I went through their web site. there is not a lot of info on their wiki yet.

  13. VDI here we come on Red Hat Open Sources SPICE Desktop Virtualization · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This really solves the last remaining hurdle for VDI thin client vertical engineering domain. Going to grab the git source tonight and test it out. Would be cool if an in browser NSAPI based plugin architecture was built on this. Run your thin clients on Google OS ( or something else), and then you can run all your legacy fat clients on your virtual servers and your uses just access them through a browser. I noticed that people have even worked on Javascript level RDP and No-machine client implementations. Obviously a bit slow for real world. Anyone know if KVM has dedicated VDI infrastructure servers yet ? Ged

  14. gedw99 on Court Rules For Software Ownership Over Licensing · · Score: 0, Troll

    Autodesk are Â/Â&Â&'s. Really. I had an AutoCAD licesne that i sold eventually with the hardware dongle years ago. They really stink. 4,000 for a single license is crazy

  15. Re:Despite the prevailing skepticism here, this is on SGI Rolls Out "Personal Supercomputers" · · Score: 1

    EXACTLY. Its just a box. It woudl be very easy to build on of these yourself i my opinion. And a bunch of ARM chips on mini arm motherboards and you have yourself a large capable web cluster. etc.

  16. VirtualGL does this NOW - http://www.virtualgl.org on Promised Platform-Independent GPU Tech Is Getting Real · · Score: 1

    http://www.virtualgl.org/ Will scale across many GPUS on the same board or across the world.

  17. Re:can it be done in software? on Promised Platform-Independent GPU Tech Is Getting Real · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes VirtualGL can do this easily. it can attach to any window also and then use GPUS on multiple machines at once. Its very stable and easy to use also

  18. Re:Tor can be blocked as well. on Iranian Government Cuts Off Internet Access Again · · Score: 1

    They have a right to be how ever they want to be. if you dont get that yet, god help you. Iran was a melting pot of European / western and Islamic culture. Hence it has a huge mix in reality. I would say it has a much more eclectic mix then you have seen in your life so far, hence why you reacted the way you did. Its a shame you cant see this about the way you react

  19. Why not allow paying users to set their own QOS on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 1

    Exactly. i pay 20 USD a month for 100 mbit fibre here in Stockholm. Yes its cheap, but i had to pay 2,000 USD to have the fibre put in. So i can stuff as much as i want into that pipe. The network provider should ensure that they can handle the load. They are selling 100 mbit, and so i should be able to use it. Now the next step is the QOS. Why not let me the consumer paying for the pipe choose my own QOS rules ? It would be a simple Web user interface where i assign priority levels based on protocol and/or IP addresses. Here in Sweden with most major network providers you have some control of this, but not at QOS levels yet. They should

  20. Re:92% efficiency?? on Lichtblick and Volkswagen To Build 'Swarm' Power Plants · · Score: 1

    The idea od generating everything you need at home is great - no doubt about that. Some aspects to considr though: 1. Noise. Its a generator and last time i ran a genset, it was still pretty noisy. 2. Using Natural Gas instead of nuclear or coal. Are we not just substituting another non sustainable fule here ? 3. Reliablility. You electricity and hot water are pretty important ? i applaud the fact that they are using the ecconomoy of scale principle by partnering with an automotive manufacturer so the system can be scaled and affordable.

  21. Brain based hacking possible ?? on Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    Hacking your brain remotely is also a possibility. See this interview with a further "Stargate" member, that remotely viewed various locations using brain power. http://www.viddler.com/explore/monkeyclaus/videos/1/