Is it a coincidence that after Microsoft has been accused to have incorporated software created by Scientology owned firms, MS Corp now starts to resort to the very same tactics that Scientology uses to bully Internet users around the world?
Both cases are roughly similar; in the CoS case, people quote from "copyrighted, internal, secret, whatnot" CoS papers to show that CoS is Bad For You.
In this case, people made public the Kerberos specs to show just how MS is trying to fuck our beloved open standards and take over the Net in a coup d'etat.
MS would be a prime target for CoS. Maybe this is just a conspiracy theory with no base to rest on - I make no claims whatsoever! - but this is actually making me feel uncomfortable.
..is something that I've been told by an IBM eployee "has been discussed before" at IBM, but he was transfereed away and didn't know the current status. He said he'd try to find out for me. Since I never heard from him again, and we haven't heard a pip out of IBM regarding this project, I assume that it's dead, dead, DEAD - or just something they never *really* seriously considered.
Since the WPS was, and still is, one of the best GUIs ever, maybe people who would like to see such a port should prod IBM gently but firmly and tell them. Heck, I'd pay good money for WPS for Linux...
...but what are they gonna do if Iran decides not to pay? Nuke Theran? Now, we all know the US legal system is silly (How much damages did McDo have to pay for that "too hot coffee"?), but this really proves that America has lost its grip on reality.
The article says the server actively seeks out identical files and replaces them with symlinks.
Anybody who's ever lost an association (program icon, whatever you clal it) in windows just because they moved the original file, will know how much trust I put in this "new technology".
Still, even if the server does automatic de-duping of files, and even if they do manage to solve the can of worms they open, and even if it does not negatively affect performance, it's still too close to symlinks to be really considered "innovative".
I don't know exactly what happens in the UK. Anyway as another example, there has been private free internet access schemes before and they didn't really work out. Why should this one?;)
Everywhere I was in the US, people always had free local calls. You mean they've been lying to me all these years?:(
As for the tax money, I'd rather have my government spend the tax money on trying to increase internet accessibility, than nuclear weapons or such nonsense.
There have already been free providers in Germany (germany.net comes to mind). As I said, the phone fees only versus phone fees plus internet fees is a very small difference indeed, add to this the fact that the "free" provieder will always be busy, have slows speeds, etc. this is more a political statement than killing private entrepreneurship. besides, modems are dead, we need higher speeds, as you said.
The problem there is that German Telecom is using it's monopoly to crush all possible competition in that market. Who can sell dsl etc to customers at Telecom rates, if you have to rent lines from Telecom for rates substantially higher than the rates Telecom charges for the complete DSL installation?
It's not governments that's the danger to business, it's monopolies that need to be squished.
And yes German Telecom also owns the television cable network.....
Nope, not flamebait at all. Here in Germany, our government of 16 years has been exposed to have been accepted illegal "contributions" (read: bribes) ranging in the tens of millions.
I am not an American citizen, I live in Germany and so far we have avoided all the crap you have with the new copyright laws and patent laws. Software Patents are not possible in Europe. And yes, I vote in every election, although with the recent corruption scandals, I sometimes wonder why I bother.
(1) Free internet access is nothing new, it exists in other countries (UK, etc) (2) We are not hard-core capitalism over here. We like to tread on a middle road, thank you very much. (3) I think the way they figure it is that by increased internet usage, they will have more skilled IT workers, more revenues by ecommerce etc. There was an initative started by our chancellor on CeBit to this effect. (4) Since local calls cost money in Germany, this internet access is not truely free (5) They'll raise the taxes anyway sooner or later, so they might as well do something "good" with the money.
And I don't really thinks this is as cool as it sounds on first glance. In Germany, local calls are rather expensive, during the day it is 12 Pfg (6 cents) per 90 seconds, in the nights and on weekends, it's 12 Pfg for 4 Minutes. Since local calls are still mostly a monopoly of German Telecom, this will not change anytime soon. Most providers only charge 2-3 Pfg per minute in addition to phone fees, so this is only helping somewhat.
Last but not least, with all "free" or cheap offers, this will probably be swamped by people and thus have problems for many years.
I still think they should start selling cable modems instead.
About a hundred bucks from me less if I hadn't bought those CDs I first noticed by DL'ing them via napster. In fact, before mp3's, I only bought one CD a year, now it's more like one or two a month.
...it's recent here in Germany, and what can I say, my GF digs Leo. So, we went to see it. I was not disappointed; the movie pretty much sucked. It had great scenes of the island, Leo wasn't too bad, but was there any plot in the movie? Nope. The Beach is just a very well camouflaged and really, really badly executed clone of "Lord of the Flies".
Now, they showed a preview of "Sleepy Hollow" which is gonna premier here in a week or two, now THAT is a movie that I expect to rock.
Well the french probably won't have much luck against the USA; except maybe to prove they (the US) is really a fascist nation and NOT a true friend of us Europeans. However I bet the case is different with the UK, who afterall is a member of the EU. I wouldn't be surprised if Echelon violates at least a dozen European laws (Privacy Protection laws immediately spring to mind).
Remember, folks, here in Europe it's illegal to spy on the citizens without reasons. And just because the US is slowly being transformed into a dictatorship of total surveillance doesn't mean the rest of the world will have to follow.
Where were you when they took freedom of speech away from the Net?
...especially when you consider the, let's say, easily irritated attitude a lot of Linux users seem to have if thing don't go exactly their way and they feel their "pet OS" is being "ignored" (and let's face it, like in most other markets, many consumers probably just pirate anyway after demanding a game for years).
My solution is simple. Instead of sending what amounts to just a lot of "me too" emails, I emailed a few Linux companies with a nice, well-typed (I hope;) text explaining:
- What products of the company I had bought when I was still using Windows (or even earlier computer - it won't hurt if you tell them you've been a customer since 1984 [but be truthful]) - Which of their games I'd like to continue playing, in Linux - What type of new games I'd like to see from them (with Linux support, naturally) - That Lokigames exists and which Loki products I have bought, and that I am so far satisfied with what they delivered
The trick here is to be very polite - And also very "modest" (for lack of a better word). Let them know you'd love to see the stuff, but NEVER, ever demand or threaten! Nothing is going to put a company off like having a half-million drooling Linux lemmings at their throats, all demanding, say, Diablo 2 for Linux; "or else". The company will just decide they're better off without these annoying wanna-be-customers and continue on as they have.
See, out here in the real world, sometimes people have to be killed -- yes, even people with families back at home. Of course, I guess you think that Adolf Hitler would've stopped invading all those countries if we sent him a nice letter asking him to behave.
Nobody would argue that Hitler was "evil". But it wasn't Germans who firebombed Hamburg and Dresden, and it wasn't Germans who nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It wasn't Germans who defoliated Vietnamese jungle and used Napalm to get rid of those pesky Charlies. And where the Germans had KZ workers, the US had african slaves. Where the Germans gassed the Jews, the US all but eradicated native americans.
Let's face it, the USA is not one iota better than most other countries of history; and worse than some. But the USA are very successful for a variety of reasons, and the victor, afterall, gets to write the history books.
A lot of people are getting very, very tired of being pushed around by the US. The US has absolutely no right to be the "policeman of the world".
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Yes... they never expected the probes to still run. Besides, Galileo isn't "out" yet, is it?
Is it a coincidence that after Microsoft has been accused to have incorporated software created by Scientology owned firms, MS Corp now starts to resort to the very same tactics that Scientology uses to bully Internet users around the world?
Both cases are roughly similar; in the CoS case, people quote from "copyrighted, internal, secret, whatnot" CoS papers to show that CoS is Bad For You.
In this case, people made public the Kerberos specs to show just how MS is trying to fuck our beloved open standards and take over the Net in a coup d'etat.
MS would be a prime target for CoS. Maybe this is just a conspiracy theory with no base to rest on - I make no claims whatsoever! - but this is actually making me feel uncomfortable.
Since the WPS was, and still is, one of the best GUIs ever, maybe people who would like to see such a port should prod IBM gently but firmly and tell them. Heck, I'd pay good money for WPS for Linux...
If someone can sue some ministry in iran before an US court, they can bloody well sue programmers operating and living in another country.
The US legal system is a farce. Sadly.
...but what are they gonna do if Iran decides not to pay? Nuke Theran? Now, we all know the US legal system is silly (How much damages did McDo have to pay for that "too hot coffee"?), but this really proves that America has lost its grip on reality.
With this and the MS story, I think the leap-year problem turned out to maee people think yesterday that it's the 1st of April, not March.
The article says the server actively seeks out identical files and replaces them with symlinks.
Anybody who's ever lost an association (program icon, whatever you clal it) in windows just because they moved the original file, will know how much trust I put in this "new technology".
Still, even if the server does automatic de-duping of files, and even if they do manage to solve the can of worms they open, and even if it does not negatively affect performance, it's still too close to symlinks to be really considered "innovative".
I don't know exactly what happens in the UK. Anyway as another example, there has been private free internet access schemes before and they didn't really work out. Why should this one? ;)
:(
Everywhere I was in the US, people always had free local calls. You mean they've been lying to me all these years?
As for the tax money, I'd rather have my government spend the tax money on trying to increase internet accessibility, than nuclear weapons or such nonsense.
If something is too good to be true, it probably is. Besides, chances are someone'll patent it sooner or later. ;-(
There have already been free providers in Germany (germany.net comes to mind). As I said, the phone fees only versus phone fees plus internet fees is a very small difference indeed, add to this the fact that the "free" provieder will always be busy, have slows speeds, etc. this is more a political statement than killing private entrepreneurship. besides, modems are dead, we need higher speeds, as you said.
The problem there is that German Telecom is using it's monopoly to crush all possible competition in that market. Who can sell dsl etc to customers at Telecom rates, if you have to rent lines from Telecom for rates substantially higher than the rates Telecom charges for the complete DSL installation?
It's not governments that's the danger to business, it's monopolies that need to be squished.
And yes German Telecom also owns the television cable network.....
Nope, not flamebait at all.
Here in Germany, our government of 16 years has been exposed to have been accepted illegal "contributions" (read: bribes) ranging in the tens of millions.
I am rather desillusioned about politicans.
I am not an American citizen, I live in Germany and so far we have avoided all the crap you have with the new copyright laws and patent laws. Software Patents are not possible in Europe. And yes, I vote in every election, although with the recent corruption scandals, I sometimes wonder why I bother.
(1) Free internet access is nothing new, it exists in other countries (UK, etc)
(2) We are not hard-core capitalism over here. We like to tread on a middle road, thank you very much.
(3) I think the way they figure it is that by increased internet usage, they will have more skilled IT workers, more revenues by ecommerce etc. There was an initative started by our chancellor on CeBit to this effect.
(4) Since local calls cost money in Germany, this internet access is not truely free
(5) They'll raise the taxes anyway sooner or later, so they might as well do something "good" with the money.
And I don't really thinks this is as cool as it sounds on first glance. In Germany, local calls are rather expensive, during the day it is 12 Pfg (6 cents) per 90 seconds, in the nights and on weekends, it's 12 Pfg for 4 Minutes. Since local calls are still mostly a monopoly of German Telecom, this will not change anytime soon. Most providers only charge 2-3 Pfg per minute in addition to phone fees, so this is only helping somewhat.
Last but not least, with all "free" or cheap offers, this will probably be swamped by people and thus have problems for many years.
I still think they should start selling cable modems instead.
About a hundred bucks from me less if I hadn't bought those CDs I first noticed by DL'ing them via napster. In fact, before mp3's, I only bought one CD a year, now it's more like one or two a month.
...it's recent here in Germany, and what can I say, my GF digs Leo. So, we went to see it. I was not disappointed; the movie pretty much sucked. It had great scenes of the island, Leo wasn't too bad, but was there any plot in the movie? Nope. The Beach is just a very well camouflaged and really, really badly executed clone of "Lord of the Flies".
Now, they showed a preview of "Sleepy Hollow" which is gonna premier here in a week or two, now THAT is a movie that I expect to rock.
Money talks, and if you kill UCITA now, they'll just come up with another bill that's just as bad.
All lobbyists should be shot on sight and corruption should be punisheable by public flogging... ;-(
Buying a Palm7 just for a vacation is a bit extreme, especially since he won't be able to use it in Europe - or in fact most of the US.
How would you know you didn't lose it? ;-)
So how long until think geek will carry nano logos of tux on a necklace?
Well the french probably won't have much luck against the USA; except maybe to prove they (the US) is really a fascist nation and NOT a true friend of us Europeans. However I bet the case is different with the UK, who afterall is a member of the EU. I wouldn't be surprised if Echelon violates at least a dozen European laws (Privacy Protection laws immediately spring to mind).
Remember, folks, here in Europe it's illegal to spy on the citizens without reasons. And just because the US is slowly being transformed into a dictatorship of total surveillance doesn't mean the rest of the world will have to follow.
Where were you when they took freedom of speech away from the Net?
When I buy Domains, they appear in the Corenic Whois database within minutes (3-5 at most). Remember, Corenic is who calls the game these days.
.mg domain name. ;) :-(
Of course the nameservers only get restarted once a day, but as soon as the Domain is in the Corenic DB, you ought to be safe.
At any rate, only third world country registries take 14 days... or more.
I am still waiting for my
...especially when you consider the, let's say, easily irritated attitude a lot of Linux users seem to have if thing don't go exactly their way and they feel their "pet OS" is being "ignored" (and let's face it, like in most other markets, many consumers probably just pirate anyway after demanding a game for years).
;) text explaining:
My solution is simple. Instead of sending what amounts to just a lot of "me too" emails, I emailed a few Linux companies with a nice, well-typed (I hope
- What products of the company I had bought when I was still using Windows (or even earlier computer - it won't hurt if you tell them you've been a customer since 1984 [but be truthful])
- Which of their games I'd like to continue playing, in Linux
- What type of new games I'd like to see from them (with Linux support, naturally)
- That Lokigames exists and which Loki products I have bought, and that I am so far satisfied with what they delivered
The trick here is to be very polite - And also very "modest" (for lack of a better word). Let them know you'd love to see the stuff, but NEVER, ever demand or threaten! Nothing is going to put a company off like having a half-million drooling Linux lemmings at their throats, all demanding, say, Diablo 2 for Linux; "or else". The company will just decide they're better off without these annoying wanna-be-customers and continue on as they have.
Just my 0.02 eur.
Domain registration should not take 14 days, it should take about 14 minutes at most....
Nobody would argue that Hitler was "evil". But it wasn't Germans who firebombed Hamburg and Dresden, and it wasn't Germans who nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It wasn't Germans who defoliated Vietnamese jungle and used Napalm to get rid of those pesky Charlies. And where the Germans had KZ workers, the US had african slaves. Where the Germans gassed the Jews, the US all but eradicated native americans.
Let's face it, the USA is not one iota better than most other countries of history; and worse than some. But the USA are very successful for a variety of reasons, and the victor, afterall, gets to write the history books.
A lot of people are getting very, very tired of being pushed around by the US. The US has absolutely no right to be the "policeman of the world".