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Is there a Scientology Microsoft connection? Their tactics seem awful similar sometimes.
Believe it or not, yes there is! Take a look at this e-mail I got. Fell free to check the sources:
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>> Well, personally I did stay away from Windows 2000 not because of product
>> activation keys, but because I do not and will not support dangerous
>> organizations like Scientology, and cannot entrust a system which
>> includes their Diskeeper disk maintenance software with any sensitive data.
>>
> WHAAAAAT???? Scientology makes software included in Windows?????
Yes, they do, unfortunately.
> Where did you get that information from?
Well, this has been in the technical press in Europe for months in 1999 and 2000 and it was part of a boycott campaign against Windows 2000 for this very reason. These are not rumours, but proven facts.
Major parts of the disk maintenance software in Microsofts Windows 2000 are written by Executive Software, a software company led by and heavily influenced by very "high" Scientologists. They even talk (or talked - I havent visited them recently) about this on their web-site.
Offical German government and church authorities asked Microsoft to remove this code or open it up so that it could be checked for possibly included malware, but Microsoft refused to do this and just said they could not understand the problem and that this would be a form of religious discrimination...
Meanwhile Microsoft has published patch instructions (at least here in Germany) how to remove this component from Windows 2000, but I am afraid I can no longer trust them.
PS. If you speak German, I suggest to check ct magazine at www.heise.de. They have backlogs of all their articles available, and you should be able to find the issue discussed in all details and with names, dates, and cites in there. Otherwise, a search engine like www.google.com might help to point you to similar info in English.
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I read at a Flash RAM manufacturer's website that their devices reach MTBF in one million writes. If a sector gets written to once a minute in average, that's about two years. Too little.
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Windows-only. Proprietary.
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One word: AutoCAD.
(Someone showed me a non-Free, relatively cheap CAD package for Linux, but I'm suggesting a GPL equivalent).
For a moderately non-technical person, she seemed to have a very good grasp of the issues, albeit with a touch of (IMHO justified) "the US is doing this because they can" spin.
They downloaded like crazy. But just CDs they owned, or artists that were dead. "How can I be stealing from a dead man?" my dad asked as he got his nth Elvis song.
Don't you ever read the Weekly World News? Your dad IS stealing! Elvis is alive and well in his home planet!
I'm new to this country and don't know much about consumer rights laws here.
I don't know the USA, but here in Brazil, consumer protection law gives you the right to return and get a full refund for any kind of durable goods (defective or not) until seven days after the purchase. So, I think the buy-and-return-rinse-repeat method would work really well here. Oooooo boy, I can hardly wait. Corporate disruption time!
Will the screensaver time be forced to a certain value? Forbidden to be changed thru Windows system policies? What about turning off the monitor when you live? What about blacklisting the companies participating in the annoyance and starting a boycott? (College students ARE of the activist type, you know.)
I'm not an USA citizen, but if I was, that's what I'd do: write an open letter to the Govt, saying I'd be happy to help if they (a) nullify the DMCA, (b) nullify the Sonny Bono Act, (c) abort the SSSCA and (d) FIRE ASHCROFT!
Publish on a Web site. Ask for signatures. Make clear that the signers DO mean to enlist if the above happens.
As I said, I'm not from the US, so it'd be weird if I made such page myself. Anyone who likes the suggestion, fell free to go ahead. The idea is hereby placed in the public domain.
How are CDs overpriced, you bought them didn't you?
If salt costed $20 a pound, mostly everyone would still be able to buy it.
If they were overpriced someone would come along and offer a CD at a lesser price wouldn't they?
All salt manufacturers gang up and fix the price; they also buy govt officials to enforce the trust by beating the tar out of anyone else who dares to evaporate sea water.
IINM, something of the sort happened in India under the British rule.
The genie of encryption is out of the bottle and the only thing laws can do is to make criminals of even more of us.
Aha. Now you're getting near it. If the incarceration rate in the USA becomes about 90%, all corporations will have FREE LABOR! Good for the nomenklatura^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heconomy!
If I was an US citizen I'd do those myself. Like in India, I think it would be most effective if done in great numbers. The final goal would be, of course, a hearing by the Supreme Court.
1) Protesting the DMCA: Purchase a CSS-encrypted DVD, preferrably of a region other than 1. Get a notebook with a DVD-ROM and make it able to play the disc, thus violating the DMCA. Go to a public place, make your speech and play the DVD for a few seconds to show it works. Distribute copies of the software (DeCSS, Linux player, crack for Windows player, whatever).
2) Protesting the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act: with the same hardware above, purchase a movie that should be public domain by now but isn't (Chaplin for instance). Go out, make your speech and distribute copies of the MOVIE itself (or announce an URL for download).
3) Protesting the DMCA II, the Sequel: Distribute copies of Elcomsoft's Advanced eBook Processor (the software that got Dmitry in jail). Public place, speech, etc, etc. Cheaper -- all it takes is diskettes (or CDs).
Couldn't you show to all those nice, God-Fearing, apple-pie Bible Belt Moral Majority Republicans how the DMCA helps Scientology silence its critics? Also, the Hollywood connection Scientology has (Travolta, Cruise etc.) makes a nice picture (those smut-peddling godless pornographers from California are in league with an anti-Christian sect to undermine the Constitution for their Satanic profit!!!)
Disclaimer: the above is not necessarily my opinion, but it might be an effective angle. Unless those so-called "Christians" actually value money more than God.
...when I read the title was "oh, another 'Armageddon-Deep-Impact-could-really-happen' story". I thought it was [fighting (fire from the sky)] instead of [(finghting fire) from the sky].
As a sad note, today I got the news that the Federal government buying a large number of computers to brazilian schools throughout the country. They will be buying only Windows machines.
Which is not to say that a thin-client network isn't a good thing. It's just that the 'thin-client' might be a brand new 900Mhz Dell.
Without CR-ROM, without floppy, and with a 32 MB Flash memory posing as an IDE disc. Cheap, fast, and best of all, QUIET! Actually, I'm working at setting up such a thing right now. (No, it's not exactly a 900 MHz Dell but you get the picture). Great fun.
Bingo. If this sticks, nobody is safe. Imagine: they can type any kind of fake e-mail, and then say it was keylogged thru their "classified technology".
"Who'll be today's suckers, Mr. Director?"
"Let's make Ralph Nader a pedophile, Noam Chomsky a crack dealer and David Touretzky... lessee... a terrorist from Hamas. No, better, Tim McVeigh's secret accomplice!"
Bzzzt. Thanks for playing. Brazil hasn't broken any law here, not our own (I'm Brazilian in case you haven't noticed), not anyone else's. We applied the Compulsory License law, which says the Govt has the power to "force" a licensing to a third entity in cases of abuses that damage the public interest.
In this case, the licensee is the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (state-run medical research center). They, and they alone, have now the right to manufacture the concoction in addition to Roche.
That's right, the patent is still valid and in full effect. I'm not the licensee, so if I go and make and sell the medicine I can be sued by Roche, and the Brazilian govt won't do a thing to stop them.
To say that Brazil trampled Intellectual Property, therefore, is megacorp-inspired FUD.
Not even that. He knocked on the door to deliver pizza and the door spontaneously opened upon knocking. He made one step forward into the house, looked left, right, up, said "hello-oooo?", went out again, closed the door, went away, and came back next day to notify (and to deliver the stale pizza). Then he was charged with B&E.
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Is there a Scientology Microsoft connection? Their tactics seem awful similar sometimes.
Believe it or not, yes there is! Take a look at this e-mail I got. Fell free to check the sources:
<old Inbox digging>
>> Well, personally I did stay away from Windows 2000 not because of product
>> activation keys, but because I do not and will not support dangerous
>> organizations like Scientology, and cannot entrust a system which
>> includes their Diskeeper disk maintenance software with any sensitive data.
>>
> WHAAAAAT???? Scientology makes software included in Windows?????
Yes, they do, unfortunately.
> Where did you get that information from?
Well, this has been in the technical press in Europe for months in 1999 and 2000 and it was part of a boycott campaign against Windows 2000 for this very reason. These are not rumours, but proven facts.
Major parts of the disk maintenance software in Microsofts Windows 2000 are written by Executive Software, a software company led by and heavily influenced by very "high" Scientologists. They even talk (or talked - I havent visited them recently) about this on their web-site.
Offical German government and church authorities asked Microsoft to remove this code or open it up so that it could be checked for possibly included malware, but Microsoft refused to do this and just said they could not understand the problem and that this would be a form of religious discrimination...
Meanwhile Microsoft has published patch instructions (at least here in Germany) how to remove this component from Windows 2000, but I am afraid I can no longer trust them.
PS. If you speak German, I suggest to check ct magazine at www.heise.de. They have backlogs of all their articles available, and you should be able to find the issue discussed in all details and with names, dates, and cites in there. Otherwise, a search engine like www.google.com might help to point you to similar info in English.
</old Inbox digging>
I read at a Flash RAM manufacturer's website that their devices reach MTBF in one million writes. If a sector gets written to once a minute in average, that's about two years. Too little.
Windows-only. Proprietary.
One word: AutoCAD.
(Someone showed me a non-Free, relatively cheap CAD package for Linux, but I'm suggesting a GPL equivalent).
Sometimes, just sometimes, spin is true.
They downloaded like crazy. But just CDs they owned, or artists that were dead. "How can I be stealing from a dead man?" my dad asked as he got his nth Elvis song.
Don't you ever read the Weekly World News? Your dad IS stealing! Elvis is alive and well in his home planet!
I'm new to this country and don't know much about consumer rights laws here.
I don't know the USA, but here in Brazil, consumer protection law gives you the right to return and get a full refund for any kind of durable goods (defective or not) until seven days after the purchase. So, I think the buy-and-return-rinse-repeat method would work really well here. Oooooo boy, I can hardly wait. Corporate disruption time!
Will the screensaver time be forced to a certain value? Forbidden to be changed thru Windows system policies? What about turning off the monitor when you live? What about blacklisting the companies participating in the annoyance and starting a boycott? (College students ARE of the activist type, you know.)
I'm not an USA citizen, but if I was, that's what I'd do: write an open letter to the Govt, saying I'd be happy to help if they (a) nullify the DMCA, (b) nullify the Sonny Bono Act, (c) abort the SSSCA and (d) FIRE ASHCROFT!
Publish on a Web site. Ask for signatures. Make clear that the signers DO mean to enlist if the above happens.
As I said, I'm not from the US, so it'd be weird if I made such page myself. Anyone who likes the suggestion, fell free to go ahead. The idea is hereby placed in the public domain.
How are CDs overpriced, you bought them didn't you?
If salt costed $20 a pound, mostly everyone would still be able to buy it.
If they were overpriced someone would come along and offer a CD at a lesser price wouldn't they?
All salt manufacturers gang up and fix the price; they also buy govt officials to enforce the trust by beating the tar out of anyone else who dares to evaporate sea water.
IINM, something of the sort happened in India under the British rule.
Are they allowed to take credit-card donations from foreigners? If so, I'm in.
The genie of encryption is out of the bottle and the only thing laws can do is to make criminals of even more of us.
Aha. Now you're getting near it. If the incarceration rate in the USA becomes about 90%, all corporations will have FREE LABOR! Good for the nomenklatura^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heconomy!
You forgot...
#5 They'll blame #4 on those few remaining Evil Linux Communist Terrorist Hackers, and tighten the vise even more.
#6 goto #4
No, Mexico is dangerous too (NAFTA). What about South America, Western Europe or even... Russia?
Which other country has a law DEMANDING the ability to make backups?
Whew, thank God. When I read "Bouncing UK children" I thought they had been thrown out of the window or something!
If I was an US citizen I'd do those myself. Like in India, I think it would be most effective if done in great numbers. The final goal would be, of course, a hearing by the Supreme Court.
1) Protesting the DMCA: Purchase a CSS-encrypted DVD, preferrably of a region other than 1. Get a notebook with a DVD-ROM and make it able to play the disc, thus violating the DMCA. Go to a public place, make your speech and play the DVD for a few seconds to show it works. Distribute copies of the software (DeCSS, Linux player, crack for Windows player, whatever).
2) Protesting the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act: with the same hardware above, purchase a movie that should be public domain by now but isn't (Chaplin for instance). Go out, make your speech and distribute copies of the MOVIE itself (or announce an URL for download).
3) Protesting the DMCA II, the Sequel: Distribute copies of Elcomsoft's Advanced eBook Processor (the software that got Dmitry in jail). Public place, speech, etc, etc. Cheaper -- all it takes is diskettes (or CDs).
Couldn't you show to all those nice, God-Fearing, apple-pie Bible Belt Moral Majority Republicans how the DMCA helps Scientology silence its critics? Also, the Hollywood connection Scientology has (Travolta, Cruise etc.) makes a nice picture (those smut-peddling godless pornographers from California are in league with an anti-Christian sect to undermine the Constitution for their Satanic profit!!!)
Disclaimer: the above is not necessarily my opinion, but it might be an effective angle. Unless those so-called "Christians" actually value money more than God.
...when I read the title was "oh, another 'Armageddon-Deep-Impact-could-really-happen' story". I thought it was [fighting (fire from the sky)] instead of [(finghting fire) from the sky].
This is being challenged (news story in Portuguese). Believe me, we won't take this without a fight.
Without CR-ROM, without floppy, and with a 32 MB Flash memory posing as an IDE disc. Cheap, fast, and best of all, QUIET! Actually, I'm working at setting up such a thing right now. (No, it's not exactly a 900 MHz Dell but you get the picture). Great fun.
Bingo. If this sticks, nobody is safe. Imagine: they can type any kind of fake e-mail, and then say it was keylogged thru their "classified technology".
"Who'll be today's suckers, Mr. Director?"
"Let's make Ralph Nader a pedophile, Noam Chomsky a crack dealer and David Touretzky... lessee... a terrorist from Hamas. No, better, Tim McVeigh's secret accomplice!"
Bzzzt. Thanks for playing. Brazil hasn't broken any law here, not our own (I'm Brazilian in case you haven't noticed), not anyone else's. We applied the Compulsory License law, which says the Govt has the power to "force" a licensing to a third entity in cases of abuses that damage the public interest.
In this case, the licensee is the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (state-run medical research center). They, and they alone, have now the right to manufacture the concoction in addition to Roche.
That's right, the patent is still valid and in full effect. I'm not the licensee, so if I go and make and sell the medicine I can be sued by Roche, and the Brazilian govt won't do a thing to stop them.
To say that Brazil trampled Intellectual Property, therefore, is megacorp-inspired FUD.
Not even that. He knocked on the door to deliver pizza and the door spontaneously opened upon knocking. He made one step forward into the house, looked left, right, up, said "hello-oooo?", went out again, closed the door, went away, and came back next day to notify (and to deliver the stale pizza). Then he was charged with B&E.
They claim what??? Last time I checked the INS was as active as ever along the Rio Grande, NAFTA or no NAFTA.
The EU, on the other hand, does allow people to move freely between countries. Thumbs up for them.