The problem I see, is that the badguys will be able to hide just as well as they are now (by for using a machine they do not own, like with a botnet), but the goodguys and -gals will have less anonimity.
Doing custom kernel builds has a few disadvantages: - possible no easy updates/upgrades/security-patches - with Linux it's really easy to change hardware in case of a failure, if you compile a custom kernel, you can't just copy the filesystems and start it up on different hardware (which is an option I prefer to keep open)
You are missing one thing. 95% of the software people use is probably pretty much the same (yes it maybe Safari or IE or firefox or Google Chrome or Opera, but they all have milions of users). The other 5% is specialised software. Software that was created for the business or industry. Lukily a lot of it is moving to a webbased system, hopefully not the IE-only kind, but it's moving in the right direction.
Dell already choose Ubuntu as it's Linux supplier, it would be good if HP did the same (they already have a good relationship with Debian). But I think HP want to distinguish themselfs from Dell.
Just guessing, could also just be they want a better deal from MS.
Also it already does this, the headers usually include a lot of information already internal (behind the firewall) IP-addresses and/or computer names, etc.
There is also spam that just resends your own emails to different people you didn't send it to before.
Google is big, see how much they can track with just a few cookies, because they have: google-analytics, google-adwords and doubleclick. That's a really large part of all websites out there already. If you visit such a site, some refferer & cookie combination is send to Google. I do consider this to be a real problem.
They should place the javascipts at the end of the body-tag. For example I see a lot of sites have a google-analytics script at the top. That's just stupid.
Very little as most of sugar is build with Python-code and it's already available for other distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo & more). Debian unstable can already do: aptitude install sugar
The Debian-project is the largest Linux-distribution available. It has compiled almost all it's packages for MIPS. I doubt you can find easily a (not-platform specific like: silo or something) package in Debian which isn't avaiable for MIPS.
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Also this proposal will only be "on the table" in a year from now, by that time the 2008 elections have already been held.
The problem I see, is that the badguys will be able to hide just as well as they are now (by for using a machine they do not own, like with a botnet), but the goodguys and -gals will have less anonimity.
This is not a good proposal.
Doing custom kernel builds has a few disadvantages:
- possible no easy updates/upgrades/security-patches
- with Linux it's really easy to change hardware in case of a failure, if you compile a custom kernel, you can't just copy the filesystems and start it up on different hardware (which is an option I prefer to keep open)
Step 12 would be "Profit !" ?
KDE/QT, Java, .Net/Mono it is then.
You are missing one thing. 95% of the software people use is probably pretty much the same (yes it maybe Safari or IE or firefox or Google Chrome or Opera, but they all have milions of users). The other 5% is specialised software. Software that was created for the business or industry. Lukily a lot of it is moving to a webbased system, hopefully not the IE-only kind, but it's moving in the right direction.
Dell already choose Ubuntu as it's Linux supplier, it would be good if HP did the same (they already have a good relationship with Debian). But I think HP want to distinguish themselfs from Dell.
Just guessing, could also just be they want a better deal from MS.
HP does service & support & all kinds of contracts for Debian on HP-hardware.
I'm guessing it's a carfactory ?
Also it already does this, the headers usually include a lot of information already internal (behind the firewall) IP-addresses and/or computer names, etc.
There is also spam that just resends your own emails to different people you didn't send it to before.
Those are the really scary ones.
Google is big, see how much they can track with just a few cookies, because they have: google-analytics, google-adwords and doubleclick. That's a really large part of all websites out there already. If you visit such a site, some refferer & cookie combination is send to Google. I do consider this to be a real problem.
I'm sorry, but Mozilla had already announced to do this ages ago.
Us usual slashdot is slow to report and also wrong in this case as they have the chronology wrong.
In your face ! :-)
They do operate there own network ( ASN 15169 ).
Maybe you should have added this as well: internet is short for interconnected-networks.
I use libswfdec in Firefox and it doesn't download or start the flash-movie by default that saves quiet a bit of loading.
They should place the javascipts at the end of the body-tag. For example I see a lot of sites have a google-analytics script at the top. That's just stupid.
That was not quiet what I had in mind, but I do agree with it.
My guess is, there is no Linux/Skype for MIPS ?
Very little as most of sugar is build with Python-code and it's already available for other distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo & more). Debian unstable can already do: aptitude install sugar
The problem with this is, the people who fix computers are moving to Linux and don't care about Windows anymore.
There was a mistake in your sentence, I fixed it for you:
Basically, a companies willingness to work with MS is <removed>becoming</removed> a predictive value of how long the company will last.
The point of the Open Source and proprietary debate is that if it's Open Source and something breaks (not hardware ofcourse !) someone can fix it.
Would it be politically-incorrect to say they also have smaller hands ?
The Debian-project is the largest Linux-distribution available. It has compiled almost all it's packages for MIPS. I doubt you can find easily a (not-platform specific like: silo or something) package in Debian which isn't avaiable for MIPS.