> some (the "Microsoft people") want everything there now, want it easy to maintain and setup just by clicking a few dialogs, don't want to fiddle with config files or memorize commands,
More or less.. no...
I honnestly don't know what Microsoft people want. What ever it is Microsoft is delivering.
Microsoft people admit you need to know what you are doing to make Windows work. You need to memoerize commands and fiddle with config files.. or at least one big config file.
Thats no diffrent than Linux.
However Windows is very diffrent from Linux.
Yeah Windows has it's problems and truth is those problems are NOT found in Linux.
The inverse is also true..
People put up with limitations to get something they value more.
If they could they'd go for something lacking the problems of Linux and Windows.
For now it's a choice.
If you want easy use Mac.
If power is all you want.. they all are..
Just a matter of picking the trade offs..
User friendlyness in trade for stability is NOT a tradeoff offered by Windows...
> I wonder if myoelectric fibers(a technology pulled straight from my ass that sounds plausible)
Ouch.. sounds painful... pulling technology from that part of the body is not a good idea.
(Actually the bad idea is putting it there to start with)
Re:Slashdot: News for Stoners?
on
First Arcology?
·
· Score: 1
I found that some city officials can not tell the difference between apartment living and homeless.
As far as they are concerned if you don't own a house you are a transient.
historically I have shared information with just about anyone who asked.
Credit card numbers excluded (of course)
More recently I have started to get bills in the mail for publications I never ordered.
I don't know where this is coming from but it seems the source has my "spam" e-mail address.
(This is the address I use when asked for no reason.. such as when downloading the latest version of Real Player)
They also have my real name (I'm fairly open about this... Hi I'm Jeffery "Felinoid" McLean) and my postal address.
My shopping habits are at best erratic if non-existent.
I'm one of those idiots who will buy soda at a 7-11 because it costs less than McDonald's.
Then buy the rest of my meal at McDonald's.
My shopping habits make no sense at all.
Here is something that can happen.. at least with me...
Say I've been buying junk on e-bay all month.
Now some idiot gets my credit card number and buys a computer.
I reject the charges.
I look up same computer.
I buy it for myself...
See the problem?
My buying habits show I buy exclusively on e-bay.
Also someone has tried to buy the exact computer with my card before.
I'm baka some times.
But wouldn't you reject my order?
I like matching name and address to delivery name and address...
That is the only consistency for me.
And yes to spite my insane shopping I keep track of it all.
DNA testing itself... good idea...
Secretly done by employer.. bad...
Anyway anyone can get CTS.. gentic predisposition isn't going to make much diffrence in the long run. If they are going to bother with prevention it shouldn't matter if they are geneticly predisposed or not.
So you won't mind if you get fired for posting on Slashdot?
You won't becouse you can not be discriminated against.
But think about this...
The very thing that you are advocating could put you out of work...
Is it a valid test?
You could run a DNA test and come up with random results.
At the very least an employee should know they are being tested.
I honnestly don't want my DNA tested as part of my employment at any place.
If you are geneticly predisposed then you should take some precaution. If your not? Well you should take some precaution anyway.
Are you stealing TV? Rabbit ears is theft
on
Calling Out TiVo
·
· Score: 2
Most people watch TV vea cable or digital sat.
Today TV stations can be "must carry" or "must pay". If it's worth watching it's "must pay"...
When you pay your cable bill you are paying the TV stations to let the cable company carry the signal.
So you people who don't pay for cable are stealing?
No...
TV ads are a convent relationship... you are under no obligation to watch.
The TV industry is having problems and none are the fault of TiVo...
More and more people are getting content and entertainment from the Internet... They don't watch TV or read newspapers anymore.
Advertisers are cutting back. TV is having a hard time finding advertisers where as they'd have no problems in the past.
Internet is having the same problems.. amplifyed by the fact that many are just fearful of banner ads.
So TV is seeking to blame TiVO...
But the ability to zap past TV ads is nothing new.
TV cards give your home PC most of the abilitys of a TiVo... They have existed for 10 years...
(I use mine for a web cam)
VCR.. The TV industry has long complained about the ability to zap past TV ads using a VCR. Is this theft? Have we stolen from TV for nearly 30 years now?
I think not...
The TV industry adapts. TV ads have become amusing. We continue to watch.
The trick is to make people WANT to watch TV ads.
Accually.. the trick is to make people want to watch TV... TiVo or no....
TiVo is a solution...
Internet content is without scedual. You can watch it anytime. TiVo gives TV that advantage.... admittedly so dose a VCR but TiVo is a lot easyer to use.
Government snooping includes collecting peoples computers and holding them for years.
Entering your home and turning it into a disaster.
Tapping your telephone (land line) by adding a device to your phone line. If you find this device in your box and remove it not knowing it was a government authorized tap you are in serious trouble.
Corporate will not physically enter your home unless with a salesmen. They will tap your phone at the phone company side or listen in over the wireless or cell phone signal.
If you catch and thwart corporate snooping your not in any trouble.
Corporate snoops are far more polite. You are not purely innocent but a potential costumer and will bend over backwards to be nice to you.
Government snoops develop a point of view of "if he wasn't guilty we wouldn't be checking him out".
Over all government snoops are big nasty thugs.. Storm Troopers...
Corporate snoops are more akin to space balls dark helmet...
Being snooped by anyone is a painful experience.
But I'd much rather deal with corporate snoops...
For a while now some of the lisseners to clear channel radio stations have been asking for net feed.
One talk show host has his own web chat system set up and people post and interact with the host that way.
They keep asking for the same thing.. streaming audio.
Now we FINALLY get it...
I sereously doupt the on air tallent asked for this.
Just some burrocrat got a bug up his butt...
Hay... pay those burrocrats 300% when you have a website... can not do it can you....
Why not? Same deal right?
Your paying someone for exactly the same job becouse you have a better system...
This is bogus... I'm really really not happy...
For those who don't know why this is helpful...
Basicly a lot of people work in areas with bad radio reception. It's very commen. Largish office buildings with thick walls block radio signals. Offices loaded with PCs have similer problems.
Office workers are basicly stuck. One of the early streaming audio experements (using Linux.. it's on the old Sunsite Linux archives) feed radio signal into a lan to rebrodcast into an office where radio signal couldn't be picked up.
Now people can pick up radio stations the like. IF they netcast. No radio distortion or anything. It's really neat...
So here comes a burrocrat and kills all that...
The consummers.. um well no.... Microsoft just kinda stuffed Windows down the consummers throats.
The PC makers... well no... same problem...
IBM? Maybe... and even IBM was tricked...
It seems Bill Gates made Microsoft god...
To bad he isn't running the show.. Or maybe it's a good thing...
To the dislusioned Windows masses...
I recomend looking between Linux and Mac Os...
If your idea of upgrade means openning the case.. Linux... if your idea of upgrade means buying a new system.. Mac Os X...
Before anyone gets the wrong ideas...
Mac Os us very powerful and Linux is easy.
Linux however was designed for the expert/programmer/hacker from ground up and just caters better to the expert userbase better. Experts won't find MacOs lacking...
Linux is easy but it's still stiff in the learning area... New users will find Linux lacking...
This is why I recomend this way...
There was an artical on Motly fools detailing a conversation between a Mac user and a Windows user.
The Windows user was trying to convert the Mac user. He failed.
The Mac user was defending his choice. His defence was the same issue detailed in this artical.
The Windows user insisted that this was not so. The Mac user had to have gotten it from a propaganda website (this is Ms FUD-Speak for "Slashdot")... Now here is the kicker...
Here is the artical... he COULD NOT HAVE gotten it from Slashdot... It's only been Slashdotted... just now...
Your right he isn't truely untracable.
However it is quite likely for a given cracker to be unaware of ALL the ways he may be cought.
Crackers are less aware of ALL the ways a person may be cought and more aware of the tactics law enforcment uses.
As such if a sysadmin takes on the task and tracks the cracker without law enforcment there is a pritty good chance the sysadmin will catch his/her target.
It is also likely a good precentage of his cracks are brags.. Works of fiction
When I was a kid a friend of mine was a cracker. Most of his cracks were fictional. Likely based on real events and just extended them into the unreal.
The Fort Knox story probably did happen however it wasn't Fort Knox but a dumpster in the back of a company throwing away Sun Sparcs or Pentium 2s for Xeons or UltraSparcs. Or something on that mesure.
First and formost this kid is a con.. so even the storys are cons. Sure he did something similer.. Makes the story believable.. sorta...
Just as when a con sells you rechargable batterys you get used non-rechargables.
There was a time when AT&T was the phone company (for the United States) only we called it Ma Bell. (AT&T was a segment of Ma Bell)
Ma Bell was the phone network. The allowed other phone companys in other nations to connect in. They didn't have to they did it becouse it was the right thing. They could say "No we want to run OUR lines in your nation".
AIM is AoLs property.. They have a larg market share.
I have AIM becouse getting the people I need to keep contact with to chat on IRC or SpeakFreely has been a major pain in the rump. I also have Yahoo Messanger and ICQ.
On a side note I use AoLs offical IM client (the Linux beta they have out) so if I must then I'll use it.
The "it's free don't bitch" arguemnt is abused far to often. "I don't like the software" "I don't like the policy" "You don't update enough" ok it's free don't bitch...
But "You shouldn't ask your users to steal software for you" (A website accually did this once.. the reply?) "It's free don't bitch" and "I don't make any money"....
Blocking alternitive AoL IM clients is doing an end run around the AoL/TW merger deal where the FCC basicly told AoL to open the protocal.
This smacks of when Microsoft signed a consent decree basicly saying Microsoft couldn't pacage Windows and Dos. Using a loophole Microsoft continued to do the very thing the consent decree was made to prevent.
True Linux is a multiuser os...
This dosn't exclude it from "personal"
A Linux system can be used as a personal computer just fine and this is all that is needed.
A note of symantics...
Unless they clarify... this could easly refer to any WinTel type box.
Rember the term "Personal Computer" was originally coinned not to refer to a class of computers but to IBMs product... and later to all computers based on it. WinTel boxes...
This is a perficly valid term today and as such a law using this term could effectively ban Linux on the PC.
What a stupid reason to pass a law.
He can not download and install software. I guess he is using Linux becouse he sure is hell isn't using Windows.
Hay someone e-mail this idiot some censorware and give it the title "I love u" I mean gezz...
Think about this. What is an e-mail virus? It's a program that tricks users into installing the virus without knowing that they are doing it.
So as a public service to morons everywhere...
Felinoids "How to install software"
On Windows: Click on the link. Let it download. When a window pops up click on the box saying "run after downloading".
A few moments later the software will install itself.
On MacOs: Download software. decompress using unstuffit or something along those lines (I don't use Macs) and run the stupid installer.
On Linux/Unix: Download. Decompress using tar -zxf filename. Read the "INSTALL" file. Compile and install according to that file.
Debian: Use getapt (I don't use Debian so for more info type on the command line "man getapt")
I'm skipping around a bit on Linux and Unix and Mac but you get the idea.
I heard a wonderful term that fits people who can not install censorware themselfs...
12 o clock flashers....
The VCR clock is flashing 12 o clock all the time...
Not everyone over 30 is a 12 o clock flasher... most people over 30 can set VCR clocks... and install software.
I sure hope this guy dosn't take the same approch to driving or governing that he takes tword using a computer.
Who sells software for $2? $50 at the very least.
The avrage tech dosn't need this software. afford or not your asking him to pay $50 for someone else stupdity.
The avrage user dosn't need this. Most people can install software. The whole premis of this law is to help those who can't.
The avrage user dosn't have $50 (or even $2 in todays economy where people are forgoing lunch to save money) to thow away on stupid software.
The avrage tech is also out of work right now. A lot of tech companys are letting go of people so finding a tech job isn't easy. That last weeks paycheck has to last for the next few years while techs look for work.
It's not $2 on a $2K purchase....
It's $50 on a $300 purchase....
Yes this means your TiVo, Aibo, CyberFridge and Axis cam will need e-mail filtering software.
Or in better prospective...
Yes it will be $2 on a $2k purchase... Becouse after all.. it's not that hard to make filtering software for the dignostics computer on your car.
First. Means consummers (reguardless of user) will be paying for more software.
Second. This will eliminate existing Linux preinstalled machines. BSD makes some money by selling BSD preinstalled machines. Not anymore...
Sun will be forced to create and install filter software for computers that will never need it.
Third. EA and IBM have perfected techniques to eliminate software from a given operating system or computer platform.
Any company with enough money could crush compeating operating systems by just eliminating filter software.
[Yes I am refering to Microsoft here but realisticly speaking VA Linux could do this as well... There is no monopoly on this...]
Forth and final: The whole basis of this law is some politician dosn't know how to use his computer.
What an outragously stupid reason for a law.
A short lesson in stocks by Jeffery "Felinoid" McLean.
The economy dumps. All stocks dump.
Microsoft bad mouths Linux.. Linux stocks dump.
Microsoft is sued into oblivion.. All tech stock dump "including Linux stock".
Linux makes money.. Stock dumps.
VA Linux loses billions and on brink of death....
Stock shoots the roof.
Slashdot Mirror
> some (the "Microsoft people") want everything there now, want it easy to maintain and setup just by clicking a few dialogs, don't want to fiddle with config files or memorize commands,
More or less.. no...
I honnestly don't know what Microsoft people want. What ever it is Microsoft is delivering.
Microsoft people admit you need to know what you are doing to make Windows work. You need to memoerize commands and fiddle with config files.. or at least one big config file.
Thats no diffrent than Linux.
However Windows is very diffrent from Linux.
Yeah Windows has it's problems and truth is those problems are NOT found in Linux.
The inverse is also true..
People put up with limitations to get something they value more.
If they could they'd go for something lacking the problems of Linux and Windows.
For now it's a choice.
If you want easy use Mac.
If power is all you want.. they all are..
Just a matter of picking the trade offs..
User friendlyness in trade for stability is NOT a tradeoff offered by Windows...
What if Gnome sues him for including the restriction?
Standard open source clause forbids making this kind of liccens restriction...
> I wouldn't doubt that RedHat does that. SuSE might, but since they are not a total American company I don't know.
Any of those limitations would be in violation of the GPL...
In simpler language... it would be illegal..
A whole state is banned from Microsofts on-line services... .Net and a whole line of Microsoft products will also be banned from same..
Add
This is a bad thing?
It means a whole state will have to use Linux or Mac eventually.
This means a rather larg jump in the user count...
Want costumers in Maryland? Support something other than Windows...
> I wonder if myoelectric fibers(a technology pulled straight from my ass that sounds plausible)
Ouch.. sounds painful... pulling technology from that part of the body is not a good idea.
(Actually the bad idea is putting it there to start with)
I found that some city officials can not tell the difference between apartment living and homeless.
As far as they are concerned if you don't own a house you are a transient.
> So why shouldn't they block unofficial clients?
It's bad PR...
Legally it is ok...
> and since OSS doesn't make any money,
Nither do free services
Free ISPs are going down, banner ads aren't paying for websites anymore, Where is AoL going to make money off it's AiM clients?
AiM is only good for PR...
Blocking open clients is bad PR.
Yes and no...
No. If they gather it from places who can gather such data on you.
Yes. If you contract that information out to statistic gathering websites who pay you to take surveys.
s/on Slashdot/with slashdot posters
historically I have shared information with just about anyone who asked.
Credit card numbers excluded (of course)
More recently I have started to get bills in the mail for publications I never ordered.
I don't know where this is coming from but it seems the source has my "spam" e-mail address.
(This is the address I use when asked for no reason.. such as when downloading the latest version of Real Player)
They also have my real name (I'm fairly open about this... Hi I'm Jeffery "Felinoid" McLean) and my postal address.
My shopping habits are at best erratic if non-existent.
I'm one of those idiots who will buy soda at a 7-11 because it costs less than McDonald's.
Then buy the rest of my meal at McDonald's.
My shopping habits make no sense at all.
Here is something that can happen.. at least with me...
Say I've been buying junk on e-bay all month.
Now some idiot gets my credit card number and buys a computer.
I reject the charges.
I look up same computer.
I buy it for myself...
See the problem?
My buying habits show I buy exclusively on e-bay.
Also someone has tried to buy the exact computer with my card before.
I'm baka some times.
But wouldn't you reject my order?
I like matching name and address to delivery name and address...
That is the only consistency for me.
And yes to spite my insane shopping I keep track of it all.
They could..
They aren't
They won't.
DNA testing itself... good idea...
Secretly done by employer.. bad...
Anyway anyone can get CTS.. gentic predisposition isn't going to make much diffrence in the long run. If they are going to bother with prevention it shouldn't matter if they are geneticly predisposed or not.
So you won't mind if you get fired for posting on Slashdot?
You won't becouse you can not be discriminated against.
But think about this...
The very thing that you are advocating could put you out of work...
Is it a valid test?
You could run a DNA test and come up with random results.
At the very least an employee should know they are being tested.
I honnestly don't want my DNA tested as part of my employment at any place.
If you are geneticly predisposed then you should take some precaution. If your not? Well you should take some precaution anyway.
Most people watch TV vea cable or digital sat.
Today TV stations can be "must carry" or "must pay". If it's worth watching it's "must pay"...
When you pay your cable bill you are paying the TV stations to let the cable company carry the signal.
So you people who don't pay for cable are stealing?
No...
TV ads are a convent relationship... you are under no obligation to watch.
The TV industry is having problems and none are the fault of TiVo...
More and more people are getting content and entertainment from the Internet... They don't watch TV or read newspapers anymore.
Advertisers are cutting back. TV is having a hard time finding advertisers where as they'd have no problems in the past.
Internet is having the same problems.. amplifyed by the fact that many are just fearful of banner ads.
So TV is seeking to blame TiVO...
But the ability to zap past TV ads is nothing new.
TV cards give your home PC most of the abilitys of a TiVo... They have existed for 10 years...
(I use mine for a web cam)
VCR.. The TV industry has long complained about the ability to zap past TV ads using a VCR. Is this theft? Have we stolen from TV for nearly 30 years now?
I think not...
The TV industry adapts. TV ads have become amusing. We continue to watch.
The trick is to make people WANT to watch TV ads.
Accually.. the trick is to make people want to watch TV... TiVo or no....
TiVo is a solution...
Internet content is without scedual. You can watch it anytime. TiVo gives TV that advantage.... admittedly so dose a VCR but TiVo is a lot easyer to use.
Government snooping includes collecting peoples computers and holding them for years.
Entering your home and turning it into a disaster.
Tapping your telephone (land line) by adding a device to your phone line. If you find this device in your box and remove it not knowing it was a government authorized tap you are in serious trouble.
Corporate will not physically enter your home unless with a salesmen. They will tap your phone at the phone company side or listen in over the wireless or cell phone signal.
If you catch and thwart corporate snooping your not in any trouble.
Corporate snoops are far more polite. You are not purely innocent but a potential costumer and will bend over backwards to be nice to you.
Government snoops develop a point of view of "if he wasn't guilty we wouldn't be checking him out".
Over all government snoops are big nasty thugs.. Storm Troopers...
Corporate snoops are more akin to space balls dark helmet...
Being snooped by anyone is a painful experience.
But I'd much rather deal with corporate snoops...
For a while now some of the lisseners to clear channel radio stations have been asking for net feed.
One talk show host has his own web chat system set up and people post and interact with the host that way.
They keep asking for the same thing.. streaming audio.
Now we FINALLY get it...
I sereously doupt the on air tallent asked for this.
Just some burrocrat got a bug up his butt...
Hay... pay those burrocrats 300% when you have a website... can not do it can you....
Why not? Same deal right?
Your paying someone for exactly the same job becouse you have a better system...
This is bogus... I'm really really not happy...
For those who don't know why this is helpful...
Basicly a lot of people work in areas with bad radio reception. It's very commen. Largish office buildings with thick walls block radio signals. Offices loaded with PCs have similer problems.
Office workers are basicly stuck. One of the early streaming audio experements (using Linux.. it's on the old Sunsite Linux archives) feed radio signal into a lan to rebrodcast into an office where radio signal couldn't be picked up.
Now people can pick up radio stations the like. IF they netcast. No radio distortion or anything. It's really neat...
So here comes a burrocrat and kills all that...
Gee... thanks a frigen lot...
The consummers.. um well no.... Microsoft just kinda stuffed Windows down the consummers throats.
The PC makers... well no... same problem...
IBM? Maybe... and even IBM was tricked...
It seems Bill Gates made Microsoft god...
To bad he isn't running the show.. Or maybe it's a good thing...
To the dislusioned Windows masses...
I recomend looking between Linux and Mac Os...
If your idea of upgrade means openning the case.. Linux... if your idea of upgrade means buying a new system.. Mac Os X...
Before anyone gets the wrong ideas...
Mac Os us very powerful and Linux is easy.
Linux however was designed for the expert/programmer/hacker from ground up and just caters better to the expert userbase better. Experts won't find MacOs lacking...
Linux is easy but it's still stiff in the learning area... New users will find Linux lacking...
This is why I recomend this way...
There was an artical on Motly fools detailing a conversation between a Mac user and a Windows user.
The Windows user was trying to convert the Mac user. He failed.
The Mac user was defending his choice. His defence was the same issue detailed in this artical.
The Windows user insisted that this was not so. The Mac user had to have gotten it from a propaganda website (this is Ms FUD-Speak for "Slashdot")... Now here is the kicker...
Here is the artical... he COULD NOT HAVE gotten it from Slashdot... It's only been Slashdotted... just now...
Ops...
Your right he isn't truely untracable.
However it is quite likely for a given cracker to be unaware of ALL the ways he may be cought.
Crackers are less aware of ALL the ways a person may be cought and more aware of the tactics law enforcment uses.
As such if a sysadmin takes on the task and tracks the cracker without law enforcment there is a pritty good chance the sysadmin will catch his/her target.
It is also likely a good precentage of his cracks are brags.. Works of fiction
When I was a kid a friend of mine was a cracker. Most of his cracks were fictional. Likely based on real events and just extended them into the unreal.
The Fort Knox story probably did happen however it wasn't Fort Knox but a dumpster in the back of a company throwing away Sun Sparcs or Pentium 2s for Xeons or UltraSparcs. Or something on that mesure.
First and formost this kid is a con.. so even the storys are cons. Sure he did something similer.. Makes the story believable.. sorta...
Just as when a con sells you rechargable batterys you get used non-rechargables.
There was a time when AT&T was the phone company (for the United States) only we called it Ma Bell. (AT&T was a segment of Ma Bell)
Ma Bell was the phone network. The allowed other phone companys in other nations to connect in. They didn't have to they did it becouse it was the right thing. They could say "No we want to run OUR lines in your nation".
AIM is AoLs property.. They have a larg market share.
I have AIM becouse getting the people I need to keep contact with to chat on IRC or SpeakFreely has been a major pain in the rump. I also have Yahoo Messanger and ICQ.
On a side note I use AoLs offical IM client (the Linux beta they have out) so if I must then I'll use it.
The "it's free don't bitch" arguemnt is abused far to often. "I don't like the software" "I don't like the policy" "You don't update enough" ok it's free don't bitch...
But "You shouldn't ask your users to steal software for you" (A website accually did this once.. the reply?) "It's free don't bitch" and "I don't make any money"....
Blocking alternitive AoL IM clients is doing an end run around the AoL/TW merger deal where the FCC basicly told AoL to open the protocal.
This smacks of when Microsoft signed a consent decree basicly saying Microsoft couldn't pacage Windows and Dos. Using a loophole Microsoft continued to do the very thing the consent decree was made to prevent.
True Linux is a multiuser os...
This dosn't exclude it from "personal"
A Linux system can be used as a personal computer just fine and this is all that is needed.
A note of symantics...
Unless they clarify... this could easly refer to any WinTel type box.
Rember the term "Personal Computer" was originally coinned not to refer to a class of computers but to IBMs product... and later to all computers based on it. WinTel boxes...
This is a perficly valid term today and as such a law using this term could effectively ban Linux on the PC.
What a stupid reason to pass a law.
He can not download and install software. I guess he is using Linux becouse he sure is hell isn't using Windows.
Hay someone e-mail this idiot some censorware and give it the title "I love u" I mean gezz...
Think about this. What is an e-mail virus? It's a program that tricks users into installing the virus without knowing that they are doing it.
So as a public service to morons everywhere...
Felinoids "How to install software"
On Windows: Click on the link. Let it download. When a window pops up click on the box saying "run after downloading".
A few moments later the software will install itself.
On MacOs: Download software. decompress using unstuffit or something along those lines (I don't use Macs) and run the stupid installer.
On Linux/Unix: Download. Decompress using tar -zxf filename. Read the "INSTALL" file. Compile and install according to that file.
Debian: Use getapt (I don't use Debian so for more info type on the command line "man getapt")
I'm skipping around a bit on Linux and Unix and Mac but you get the idea.
I heard a wonderful term that fits people who can not install censorware themselfs...
12 o clock flashers....
The VCR clock is flashing 12 o clock all the time...
Not everyone over 30 is a 12 o clock flasher... most people over 30 can set VCR clocks... and install software.
I sure hope this guy dosn't take the same approch to driving or governing that he takes tword using a computer.
Who sells software for $2? $50 at the very least.
The avrage tech dosn't need this software. afford or not your asking him to pay $50 for someone else stupdity.
The avrage user dosn't need this. Most people can install software. The whole premis of this law is to help those who can't.
The avrage user dosn't have $50 (or even $2 in todays economy where people are forgoing lunch to save money) to thow away on stupid software.
The avrage tech is also out of work right now. A lot of tech companys are letting go of people so finding a tech job isn't easy. That last weeks paycheck has to last for the next few years while techs look for work.
It's not $2 on a $2K purchase....
It's $50 on a $300 purchase....
Yes this means your TiVo, Aibo, CyberFridge and Axis cam will need e-mail filtering software.
Or in better prospective...
Yes it will be $2 on a $2k purchase... Becouse after all.. it's not that hard to make filtering software for the dignostics computer on your car.
First. Means consummers (reguardless of user) will be paying for more software.
Second. This will eliminate existing Linux preinstalled machines. BSD makes some money by selling BSD preinstalled machines. Not anymore...
Sun will be forced to create and install filter software for computers that will never need it.
Third. EA and IBM have perfected techniques to eliminate software from a given operating system or computer platform.
Any company with enough money could crush compeating operating systems by just eliminating filter software.
[Yes I am refering to Microsoft here but realisticly speaking VA Linux could do this as well... There is no monopoly on this...]
Forth and final: The whole basis of this law is some politician dosn't know how to use his computer.
What an outragously stupid reason for a law.
A short lesson in stocks by Jeffery "Felinoid" McLean.
The economy dumps. All stocks dump.
Microsoft bad mouths Linux.. Linux stocks dump.
Microsoft is sued into oblivion.. All tech stock dump "including Linux stock".
Linux makes money.. Stock dumps.
VA Linux loses billions and on brink of death....
Stock shoots the roof.