simply track every transaction on the internet and allow law enforcement to invade and abuse it whever they will it...
Considering we can break anything we make, no matter what is done, it comes down to this.
giving access to personal and private information to other humans...
May as well just start installing gps tracking and personal data recording chips in all humans... Then it really won't matter what internet or other future tech we make use of.
Of course included is a punishment system of shock therapy and AI second guessing what you do to stop you from doing anything on the list of things not to do..... A list created by a few faulty humans of course....
The point is, there is nothing we can build that we cannot break.
Making this whole "better internet" just a carrot to get the donkey to move...... in circles.
what the hell is all this attacking Google ....
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...really all about?
in comparison to a few other computer industry companies, google still ain't very big. In fact they are rather small.
What was Bill Gates last estimated personal worth? 30 Billion or so?
And this 4 billion company stock... compairs to that how?
And lets not forget the oil business... don't forget the price of oil is rising as the US free up a country rich in oil and we all know its money going to terrorist who want to kill us...(rolls eyes)
Get a perspective people, I'm sure those blowing this google grain of sand into a mountain are really just trying to suppress competition before it really become competition in their ballpark.
Maybe there should be a more genuine measure of why this is happening. Such that might just expose googles support for open source to be a reason for such an attack by proprietary forces...
I can easily think of half a dozen things Google could be up to that would really and genuinely threaten the half ass sudo programmer and "how to deceive the public to spoon feed tech" industry....
Considering MS is a marketing company first and formost, second a legal research "what can we get away with or pay small fines compaired to what we gain" market backing and a innovation buyer (not an innovator)...is it really that hard to be better than that?
IS being better than that something for that to fear?
Sure!
So where is this attack on google really comming from?
the world of the slashdot web now revolves around Redmond? Or more specifically Microsoft? Or maybe its revolves around Bill Gates?
Next in the News, the world is flat and the center is wherever bill gates is...
virus at MS is more likely a slow news day and a play on virus terms at a well known and disliked software company...
Try reading your local newspaper or local web news for health warnings, not slashdot...
Or maybe, to be fair, slashdot should report air quality level in Atlanta (its probably orange today - inhealthy)... seeings how the CDC is located here..
lies and deception contribute to shorter life spans. those contributing to such are of course war mongers, as the machinery of war is itself anti-life in its inherent nature. Of course we have other anti-life machinery as well, such as many religions which promote disconnection with this world, and other excuses to say lies, deception and such are ok so long as you ask for forgiveness.
The human mind is a rather powerful device, as what you think and believe has alot to do with how you interact with hard reality. And it is hard reality of which the body lives.
The general lifespan of the population, the better it is intouch with reality, the greater its ability to work in accord with it.
So many deceptions upon deceptions, is it really any wonder how something simple like the statement "time is at hand" can be so distorted away from what was ment? Where what was ment was simply "time is in our hands". The beings we are, we have the capability of extending our lives and a great deal more.
How real is the damage you cannot see, because you don't have better to compair it to? By keeping others blind to what could be, you can always say "how do you know it could be better? there is no proof"
To truely understand the impact of the dated information (our capabilities of making this happen have only improved) is to understand "terrorism" is a phanton, a fabrication made real by war mongers and many other deceivers.
This is only an example of what we are capable of.
Life extension? Geee, if we weren't spending so fucking much on anti-life machinery.....
My doctor told me that by the time the colesterol meds he has me on become not good for me anymore, they will have come up with something else...
Working in accord with reality might just be in part, stepping stones from one thing to another.
Some of The big softdrink companies have willinginly chosen to remove all high frutose corn suryp softdrink from schools and replace them with real fruit juice drinks.... in effort to reduce child obesity (high frutose corn suryp hase been found to increase triglicerides by 1/3...)
Something simple like this helps to extend life...
Don't drink the sugarwater... cause its not really a drink that works in accord with the human body/
This anti-life sweetner A much smaller example....
Life extension is not going to be found in some majic manipulation of a gene, of fountain of youth... but instead found in doing the things that make your body say "hey, life is good" as it naturally turns the right genes on and off to support longer life.
I recall some article of research that stated that ther more you genuinely enjoy sex with your partner, the more your body tries to keep you young. Pro life acts contributing to longer life?
Who'd thunk dat?
Not war mongers and other deceivers.... who spend fucking obscene amounts of money being anti-life.
Whats the percentage of these people, in comparison to the 6+ billion people on this planet?
Who "really" wants to live in a world of war?
As in "starship troopers" do you really want to live forever?
The dupe comment was funny enough to make up for the lame article. To bad it can't be modded higher, as it'd probably make the ranks of the top ten comments of all time.
But of course with MS as an advertiser, the deal is that slashdot publish so many MS articles a month. Problem is MS is just running out of interesting things to write about.
Next news article will be about what tolit paper the MS campus uses. "Microsoft, they got plenty of shit, but do they wipe?"
Slow Newsday at MS...
In the news with stupid stuff is better than not being in the news at all..
Given the US came about software patents thru small squablings in court rooms and not public awareness and feedback and is now considering changing patent law to allow first to file to get patents on the works of slower to apply or those not wanting to patent their work...
From a British point of view, maybe this is a good thing, just make Science and Technology rewards attractive in the EU to get the talent to move there.
Isn't that similiar to Einstiens move away from his homeland, the motherland? And what was then accomplished to end a war amd establishing the winners...
Bush in many ways is a little hitler... He doesn't seem to understand the words of Benjamin Franklin or FDR, which was to the effect - a country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchange for security neither deserves either nor will it have either...
Science understands the concept of not being able to prove a negitive..... So Bush wanted Iraq to prove it had no weapons of mass destruction....
Science and Bush just don't mix.
Technology??? Bill Gates and anti-trust.... A first and formost marketing company named Microsoft, second focus being law and something like playing chess in business, willing to sacrifice its own, take a smaller hit if it brings a bigger return. Not even is innovation a third priority of Microsoft, but rather buying it from others and calling it their genius..
What did the US government get in exchange for letting MS off the anti-trust hook, with only a public slapping of the wrist?
It should be obvious. The knowledge of how to well mislead the public at large, for what ever purpose it might... Anthrax used to get the Media VOICE inline???? Probably! Though Richard Jewell was blamed for the Olympic Park Bombing in Atlanta, they did eventually find the real guilt party..... But the Real party guilty of the Anthrax letters to the press..... Seems to have dropped out of public sight...
The most terrorism I have seen has come from the Bush Administration. How terrorising is it to see such power out of control, abusive?
The only science Bush seems to know is the science of marketing his will..
Do a google search on "Trillion dollar bet" to see the probably excuse for the WTC...
... flipping lies.... claims of the opposite of what is.
Such as statement of getting inline with the rest of the world and claims of supporting the "common view"
Neither of which has anything to do with what the by far majority of the population of the world wants but rather is a back and forth game between the few at the microphone trying to dictate what the world wants via telling you lies about what the world wants.
The jump on the band wagon that doesn't actually exist, in an effort to make it exist.
these tactics were attempted in Europe regarding effort to pass software patents.... claims of getting inline with the US and the use of "common view" that wasn't common at all. Not to mention the very questionable history of the effort..
....DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in the spirit of the human right to contribute to the advancement of mankind?
What we have here, in the US, is fraud in the claims of software being patentable. If this isn't bad enough, now they want to remove the incentive from inventors and pass it to the theives of inventors.
Except for software which is by far more based upon the unique human conscious ability to create and use higher level abstractions. That which falls into the category of what is not patentable in all regards.
Just how deep does such political shit get before the public says no and in essence writes another statement of human rights to advance, stripping the frauds of the power they have managed to get the public to give them?
If you are going to strip the natural rights away from those who advance mankind, then who is going to? Frauds, theives, etc...
What would anyone in their right mind expect of such control? Childish greed and abuse of course... just can't get enough from the pieons....to satisify the corrupt...
two objects moving in opposite directions at just over half the speed of light. relative to each other, they are traveling faster then the speed of light. That's why they can't see each other.
Internet Explorer is default set to download a page, even if its in the cache. This of course causes internet explorer to appear to be doing more than a browser that uses the cache, when both are doing the same user speed...
Also if you are downloading firefox via wget then you may find you downloaded a windows version regardless if you were wanting a linux version. They may have fixed this "default" oversite by now, but it went on for several versions of Firefox.
In short, Internet explorer isn't as popular as MS marketing has caused to appear and Firefox downloads are not as high if you were counting intentional downloads....
Claiming software is patentable is like claiming man is center of teh universe, the earth is flat, the universe revolves around the earth, etc..
It wasn't until the early 1990s that the catholic church exonerated Galileo for his honesty about some such things. Showing how ignorant and dishonest some can be.
THIS IS IMPORTANT: The exoneration came as a result of the church losing followers over this denial of honesty of reality. Important because it sets an example and solution direction for the software patents deception.
Software is NOT patentable. There is no comprimise here, only frauds. Those in denial of honesty about software trying to convince others of their dillusions.... pretty much most of the computer industry,
This is no differnt than the suppression of the hindu arabic decimal system and its, how can nothing have value, zero place holder, by the roman catholic church in its persistant elitism of the roman numeral system of accounting and math.
Today we know better, that there are btter ways to do math, simpler, easier, etc...
Software is no different, only the symbols used go beyond numerical assigned value...
What is not patentable, universally accepted, include physical phenomenon, natural law, abstract ideas. Software is composed of all of these, is created and works on the foundation of these. Even the idea of algorythims (something else really not patentable and has been on the list of "NOT PATENTABLES") is itself of these top primary things not patentable.
Copyright is appropriate, so software is not without some form of IP protection.
The fact of the matter is: As soon as we get past the roman numeral way of programming, programming will become as common place as the application of the hindu arabic decimal system is. Even being taught in primary school.
Software is the automation of complexity so as to make that complexity usable and reusable to the users of that complexity through a simplified interface, like how a calculator automates mathmatics, simplifying and providing accurate calculation, as opposed to doing it in a non-automated manner, manually..
Software creation is also recursive in this. Rarely does any programmer not use the automations of another before them, in their creation of some program.
Automation via abstraction is a natural product of conscious beings, as it take conscious ability to comprehend abstractions of such a level to enable automation.
In other words, its not only our natural human right, but duty, to make use of abstractions that allow us to advance our understanding of reality and control over it.
Yes the economy, the incentive behind the deception of the fraudlent promotion of "software patents" needs to change to remove the incentive to try to, or continue to, deceive the public.
World economy, along with other related factors, is reaching a level of well being that its getting to be time to step off the current stepping stone of incentives to advance and onto the next one. I believe Free Open Source Software is mans first recognition of that next stepping stone.
Software patents are bad because the very essence of them is dishonest and anti-productive of man and his contribution to human advancement.
It really is that simple.
Software patents in the US came about thru small courtroom squablings of who the best lier/fraud was. Who was best able to use "Abstractions" to mislead others.
In Europe, not only was the european public allowed in on the decission process, but the world. OPEN, again OPEN, to the intelligence of the population.
If it affects the population, then the population only rightfully has a say. Otherwise its not being honest about human ability and intelligence as a whole.
it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that software is NOT patentable.
Just like how it wasn't until the early 1990's that the catholic church exonerated Galileo for saying the earth revolves around the sun.
only when the truth becomes so popular will the fools give it up. Simply because it is losing them followers.
The simplicity of which proves Software is not patentable but still IP protectable via copyright, is so obvious that the only reason anyone even thinks to question it, is because you have people able to take the very essence of software and language (abstraction - which clearly stated as not patentable) and make a contridictary but good sounding arguement WITH IT for what ever they want to convince you of.
Its called FRAUD!
Just like the church was a fraud against Galileo's honesty.
On the flip side of this arguement, neither side of the software community wants to admit the obvious, as that would be like the roman numeral accountants admiting the hindu-arabic decimal system with it nothingness that can't possibly have value (zero place holder), not only does have value even a child can out do them in their roman numeral math, with it.
So the battle of software patents is a seamingly endless and tiring fraud.
Even Richard Stallman knows it!!!
for software will only be genuinely free with it is easy enought to creat that anyone can and typically does.... just like math is today.
Develope a technology and if anything goes wrong with it blame the users.
I didn't really much know about wireless stuff until recently when a friend wanted me to fix his computer. After much debugging I was able to determine it was his wireless card, not being compatable with a PII, etc..
But to determine this I tried it on another computer I had gotten as a toss out (this whole thing inspired me to finally take a look at this a nd a few other toss outs I had collected but did nothing with).
So It fire up and connects with "access4free" in teh title bar of firefox... go figure as I had done alot of cleaning of that systems drive including something along the lines of access4free...
grabage ontop of garbage in this case would have lead anyone to think it really was free...
But I know nothing is for free and questioned it, where many people wouldn't have...
Its a tech failure, plain and simple, not a user fault.
oh hell they just want to make sure you're not going to use the cable to make a terrorist bomb...
All I get from radio shack is simple direct marketing flyers about stuff they have on sale.
And with teh do not call list, my name isn't worth much.
Whats really going on is that the telemarketers want to reach those who cannot say no to a sales pitch. the DNC is a way for those people to protect themselves.
Otherwise, of what value is it for telemarketers to to have a list that contains alot more numbers of people who won't buy. You'd think they'd like the list cause it should make their successful sales per hundred calls increase --- to have a filtered list from those on teh DNC list.
But again, they want to reach those who cannot say no. And damn if the government gives those people a way to protect themselves.... right?
.. they are first and formost a marketing company, They will say, in their marketing any thing they can that they believe will help them "market" their products.
Second, they are a marketing company that uses law as the game rules they play by, like in chess where you typically sacrifice some of your own players in effort to win. This is verified over and over again with their persistant effort to try and distort the law enough to get away with acts of anti-trust. They simply prefer to not play fair. And this is undersandable as they are least of all a company of innovation, but rather a company buying out innovation of others and then either closing it down or marketing it as their innovation.
The more the general public understands this, sees MS for what MS really is, a marketing company with a legal team to help them figure out what they can get away with, the better it is for the general public in making an operating system choice.
If an operating system was more like a car then each person could carry the keys with them and be able to drive on any highway, free road or toll.
with that analogy converted to something more descriptive of computer technology, including OS's.
Yeah sure, we should be able to take our prefered setup/os with us like car keys (usb drives or similiar) and this would be the all the security needed of the OS, no multiuser security overhead needed as you would be the only driver of it.
roads: shared resources, applications, etc that live on perhaps a company network of which you access with your USB based OS via plugging it into a company terminal. Administrator/traffic cop, street signs, lights, etc.. are set to either allow you to do given things on the network of not, perhaps with a toll to pay (yuck).
Some have commented on the short comming of Development. Yeah, its true that development in software has been badly detoured by the carrot of money. I'm sure that's also what is biasing him.
We should have had even ten years ago a much higher level of user accessible development automation and clearer and simpler control of port access to one own computer.
What we should have today is very small and efficient OS's that don't need the multiuser security over head and a way to translate a program on the fly to work on various OS's and user ease in autiomation at all levels.
Why don't we have it, cause of the carrot of money.
To understand this you too will know how much of a contridiction he himself is babeling.
Since Software is not patentable for all the reasons things are not patentable, and the US court system (not the general public) decided to ignore these things and allow software patents (fraudulent as it is) there is something of a faulty foundation in this matter.
Add to this the incapable mindset of Microsoft to comprehend what it is to play fair and the consumers rights to have full control over their own property... want to change software on my system remotely, without my knowledge or approval? Better be sure you don't break my system or use the hardware I own to do it. And if I'm using a linux box, I don't suppose licensing can be used as a defence for doing it.
Cracks in the foundation will allow acidic sewage of patent fraud to leak up and rot the rest of that foundation.
I believe in giving credit where it belongs, be it royalities to artist for their work, or jail time to criminals.
Has Peter Jackson been fully paid for LOTR, yet?
Apparently what Musicians are now learning, that they can, thanks to the internet and computer technology, produce, sale and distribute their music themselves.... And should they build a large following they then have power to deal with the music industry in a label vs. label (competition) better deal for them (the artist).... The movie industry will learn.
Now that it is apparent that digital resolution is surpassing film resolution....
Whats to become of the studios and related industry old business methodology? Those making movies will still need some financing, some sets built, studio rental, etc... but rather than being at the mercy of the studio "control" of the distribution process...
MS "marketing software" is in the business of making people need them. How different is that to the current music and movie industry?
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simply track every transaction on the internet and allow law enforcement to invade and abuse it whever they will it...
Considering we can break anything we make, no matter what is done, it comes down to this.
giving access to personal and private information to other humans...
May as well just start installing gps tracking and personal data recording chips in all humans...
Then it really won't matter what internet or other future tech we make use of.
Of course included is a punishment system of shock therapy and AI second guessing what you do to stop you from doing anything on the list of things not to do..... A list created by a few faulty humans of course....
The point is, there is nothing we can build that we cannot break.
Making this whole "better internet" just a carrot to get the donkey to move...... in circles.
...really all about?
in comparison to a few other computer industry companies, google still ain't very big. In fact they are rather small.
What was Bill Gates last estimated personal worth? 30 Billion or so?
And this 4 billion company stock... compairs to that how?
And lets not forget the oil business... don't forget the price of oil is rising as the US free up a country rich in oil and we all know its money going to terrorist who want to kill us...(rolls eyes)
Get a perspective people, I'm sure those blowing this google grain of sand into a mountain are really just trying to suppress competition before it really become competition in their ballpark.
Maybe there should be a more genuine measure of why this is happening. Such that might just expose googles support for open source to be a reason for such an attack by proprietary forces...
I can easily think of half a dozen things Google could be up to that would really and genuinely threaten the half ass sudo programmer and "how to deceive the public to spoon feed tech" industry....
Considering MS is a marketing company first and formost, second a legal research "what can we get away with or pay small fines compaired to what we gain" market backing and a innovation buyer (not an innovator)...is it really that hard to be better than that?
IS being better than that something for that to fear?
Sure!
So where is this attack on google really comming from?
the world of the slashdot web now revolves around Redmond? Or more specifically Microsoft? Or maybe its revolves around Bill Gates?
... seeings how the CDC is located here..
Next in the News, the world is flat and the center is wherever bill gates is...
virus at MS is more likely a slow news day and a play on virus terms at a well known and disliked software company...
Try reading your local newspaper or local web news for health warnings, not slashdot...
Or maybe, to be fair, slashdot should report air quality level in Atlanta (its probably orange today - inhealthy)
VC's don't come up with ideas, but rather decide to invest upon your ideas or not.
Which explains why I and some others here are not impressed with the ideas list.
Apparently the search for a "what do you want to invest in" response lead to some VC's realizing the opportunity to mention themselves.
Simple logic:
I'm a VC and I have this idea.... Hmmm, why don't I just invest in myself and hire those who can impliment my ideas???
Duh!
lies and deception contribute to shorter life spans.
2 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml
... but instead found in doing the things that make your body say "hey, life is good" as it naturally turns the right genes on and off to support longer life.
those contributing to such are of course war mongers, as the machinery of war is itself anti-life in its inherent nature. Of course we have other anti-life machinery as well, such as many religions which promote disconnection with this world, and other excuses to say lies, deception and such are ok so long as you ask for forgiveness.
The human mind is a rather powerful device, as what you think and believe has alot to do with how you interact with hard reality. And it is hard reality of which the body lives.
The general lifespan of the population, the better it is intouch with reality, the greater its ability to work in accord with it.
So many deceptions upon deceptions, is it really any wonder how something simple like the statement "time is at hand" can be so distorted away from what was ment? Where what was ment was simply "time is in our hands". The beings we are, we have the capability of extending our lives and a great deal more.
How real is the damage you cannot see, because you don't have better to compair it to? By keeping others blind to what could be, you can always say "how do you know it could be better? there is no proof"
Try this:
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod0
To truely understand the impact of the dated information (our capabilities of making this happen have only improved) is to understand "terrorism" is a phanton, a fabrication made real by war mongers and many other deceivers.
This is only an example of what we are capable of.
Life extension? Geee, if we weren't spending so fucking much on anti-life machinery.....
My doctor told me that by the time the colesterol meds he has me on become not good for me anymore, they will have come up with something else...
Working in accord with reality might just be in part, stepping stones from one thing to another.
Some of The big softdrink companies have willinginly chosen to remove all high frutose corn suryp softdrink from schools and replace them with real fruit juice drinks.... in effort to reduce child obesity (high frutose corn suryp hase been found to increase triglicerides by 1/3...)
Something simple like this helps to extend life...
Don't drink the sugarwater... cause its not really a drink that works in accord with the human body/
This anti-life sweetner A much smaller example....
Life extension is not going to be found in some majic manipulation of a gene, of fountain of youth
I recall some article of research that stated that ther more you genuinely enjoy sex with your partner, the more your body tries to keep you young. Pro life acts contributing to longer life?
Who'd thunk dat?
Not war mongers and other deceivers.... who spend fucking obscene amounts of money being anti-life.
Whats the percentage of these people, in comparison to the 6+ billion people on this planet?
Who "really" wants to live in a world of war?
As in "starship troopers" do you really want to live forever?
The dupe comment was funny enough to make up for the lame article. To bad it can't be modded higher, as it'd probably make the ranks of the top ten comments of all time.
But of course with MS as an advertiser, the deal is that slashdot publish so many MS articles a month. Problem is MS is just running out of interesting things to write about.
Next news article will be about what tolit paper the MS campus uses. "Microsoft, they got plenty of shit, but do they wipe?"
Slow Newsday at MS...
In the news with stupid stuff is better than not being in the news at all..
RIght guys?
Draining the available talent pool?????
Who's being arrogant here?
... but only maybe how to market things...
2 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml
Given the US came about software patents thru small squablings in court rooms and not public awareness and feedback and is now considering changing patent law to allow first to file to get patents on the works of slower to apply or those not wanting to patent their work...
From a British point of view, maybe this is a good thing, just make Science and Technology rewards attractive in the EU to get the talent to move there.
Isn't that similiar to Einstiens move away from his homeland, the motherland? And what was then accomplished to end a war amd establishing the winners...
Bush in many ways is a little hitler...
He doesn't seem to understand the words of Benjamin Franklin or FDR, which was to the effect - a country willing to sacrifice freedom in exchange for security neither deserves either nor will it have either...
Science understands the concept of not being able to prove a negitive..... So Bush wanted Iraq to prove it had no weapons of mass destruction....
Science and Bush just don't mix.
Technology??? Bill Gates and anti-trust.... A first and formost marketing company named Microsoft, second focus being law and something like playing chess in business, willing to sacrifice its own, take a smaller hit if it brings a bigger return. Not even is innovation a third priority of Microsoft, but rather buying it from others and calling it their genius..
What did the US government get in exchange for letting MS off the anti-trust hook, with only a public slapping of the wrist?
It should be obvious. The knowledge of how to well mislead the public at large, for what ever purpose it might... Anthrax used to get the Media VOICE inline???? Probably! Though Richard Jewell was blamed for the Olympic Park Bombing in Atlanta, they did eventually find the real guilt party..... But the Real party guilty of the Anthrax letters to the press..... Seems to have dropped out of public sight...
The most terrorism I have seen has come from the Bush Administration. How terrorising is it to see such power out of control, abusive?
The only science Bush seems to know is the science of marketing his will..
Do a google search on "Trillion dollar bet" to see the probably excuse for the WTC...
When is it not about money?
Do another party wrong, expect revenge?
The real solution to world problems is found @
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod0
Remove the excuses....
Which only leaves one question:
Why are genuine solutions NOT happening?
Science knows how to do it. Politicians Don't!
... flipping lies.... claims of the opposite of what is.
Such as statement of getting inline with the rest of the world and claims of supporting the "common view"
Neither of which has anything to do with what the by far majority of the population of the world wants but rather is a back and forth game between the few at the microphone trying to dictate what the world wants via telling you lies about what the world wants.
The jump on the band wagon that doesn't actually exist, in an effort to make it exist.
these tactics were attempted in Europe regarding effort to pass software patents.... claims of getting inline with the US and the use of "common view" that wasn't common at all. Not to mention the very questionable history of the effort..
....DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in the spirit of the human right to contribute to the advancement of mankind?
What we have here, in the US, is fraud in the claims of software being patentable. If this isn't bad enough, now they want to remove the incentive from inventors and pass it to the theives of inventors.
Except for software which is by far more based upon the unique human conscious ability to create and use higher level abstractions. That which falls into the category of what is not patentable in all regards.
Just how deep does such political shit get before the public says no and in essence writes another statement of human rights to advance, stripping the frauds of the power they have managed to get the public to give them?
If you are going to strip the natural rights away from those who advance mankind, then who is going to? Frauds, theives, etc...
What would anyone in their right mind expect of such control? Childish greed and abuse of course... just can't get enough from the pieons....to satisify the corrupt...
...just don't buy into it... don't support the ....Hmmm terrorist who want to take our freedom away from us.
...gone to far...
I think We have bigger concerns today... like the price of gas to move alot more in a day than algie ever will.
two objects moving in opposite directions at just over half the speed of light. relative to each other, they are traveling faster then the speed of light. That's why they can't see each other.
Internet Explorer is default set to download a page, even if its in the cache. This of course causes internet explorer to appear to be doing more than a browser that uses the cache, when both are doing the same user speed...
Also if you are downloading firefox via wget then you may find you downloaded a windows version regardless if you were wanting a linux version. They may have fixed this "default" oversite by now, but it went on for several versions of Firefox.
In short, Internet explorer isn't as popular as MS marketing has caused to appear and Firefox downloads are not as high if you were counting intentional downloads....
software is honestly patentable,
Its NOT, I've commented on this enough recently, just look at my previous posts...
In short, those who support software patents inherently support fraud and public deception.
And I don't give a shit who does. They are wrong.
Claiming software is patentable is like claiming man is center of teh universe, the earth is flat, the universe revolves around the earth, etc..
It wasn't until the early 1990s that the catholic church exonerated Galileo for his honesty about some such things. Showing how ignorant and dishonest some can be.
THIS IS IMPORTANT:
The exoneration came as a result of the church losing followers over this denial of honesty of reality. Important because it sets an example and solution direction for the software patents deception.
Software is NOT patentable. There is no comprimise here, only frauds. Those in denial of honesty about software trying to convince others of their dillusions.... pretty much most of the computer industry,
This is no differnt than the suppression of the hindu arabic decimal system and its, how can nothing have value, zero place holder, by the roman catholic church in its persistant elitism of the roman numeral system of accounting and math.
Today we know better, that there are btter ways to do math, simpler, easier, etc...
Software is no different, only the symbols used go beyond numerical assigned value...
What is not patentable, universally accepted, include physical phenomenon, natural law, abstract ideas. Software is composed of all of these, is created and works on the foundation of these. Even the idea of algorythims (something else really not patentable and has been on the list of "NOT PATENTABLES") is itself of these top primary things not patentable.
Copyright is appropriate, so software is not without some form of IP protection.
The fact of the matter is: As soon as we get past the roman numeral way of programming, programming will become as common place as the application of the hindu arabic decimal system is. Even being taught in primary school.
Software is the automation of complexity so as to make that complexity usable and reusable to the users of that complexity through a simplified interface, like how a calculator automates mathmatics, simplifying and providing accurate calculation, as opposed to doing it in a non-automated manner, manually..
Software creation is also recursive in this. Rarely does any programmer not use the automations of another before them, in their creation of some program.
Automation via abstraction is a natural product of conscious beings, as it take conscious ability to comprehend abstractions of such a level to enable automation.
In other words, its not only our natural human right, but duty, to make use of abstractions that allow us to advance our understanding of reality and control over it.
Yes the economy, the incentive behind the deception of the fraudlent promotion of "software patents" needs to change to remove the incentive to try to, or continue to, deceive the public.
World economy, along with other related factors, is reaching a level of well being that its getting to be time to step off the current stepping stone of incentives to advance and onto the next one. I believe Free Open Source Software is mans first recognition of that next stepping stone.
Software patents are bad because the very essence of them is dishonest and anti-productive of man and his contribution to human advancement.
It really is that simple.
Software patents in the US came about thru small courtroom squablings of who the best lier/fraud was. Who was best able to use "Abstractions" to mislead others.
In Europe, not only was the european public allowed in on the decission process, but the world. OPEN, again OPEN, to the intelligence of the population.
If it affects the population, then the population only rightfully has a say. Otherwise its not being honest about human ability and intelligence as a whole.
The US is way out of line and being frauduelent.
it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that software is NOT patentable.
Just like how it wasn't until the early 1990's that the catholic church exonerated Galileo for saying the earth revolves around the sun.
only when the truth becomes so popular will the fools give it up. Simply because it is losing them followers.
The simplicity of which proves Software is not patentable but still IP protectable via copyright, is so obvious that the only reason anyone even thinks to question it, is because you have people able to take the very essence of software and language (abstraction - which clearly stated as not patentable) and make a contridictary but good sounding arguement WITH IT for what ever they want to convince you of.
Its called FRAUD!
Just like the church was a fraud against Galileo's honesty.
On the flip side of this arguement, neither side of the software community wants to admit the obvious, as that would be like the roman numeral accountants admiting the hindu-arabic decimal system with it nothingness that can't possibly have value (zero place holder), not only does have value even a child can out do them in their roman numeral math, with it.
So the battle of software patents is a seamingly endless and tiring fraud.
Even Richard Stallman knows it!!!
for software will only be genuinely free with it is easy enought to creat that anyone can and typically does.... just like math is today.
Develope a technology and if anything goes wrong with it blame the users.
I didn't really much know about wireless stuff until recently when a friend wanted me to fix his computer. After much debugging I was able to determine it was his wireless card, not being compatable with a PII, etc..
But to determine this I tried it on another computer I had gotten as a toss out (this whole thing inspired me to finally take a look at this a nd a few other toss outs I had collected but did nothing with).
So It fire up and connects with "access4free" in teh title bar of firefox... go figure as I had done alot of cleaning of that systems drive including something along the lines of access4free...
grabage ontop of garbage in this case would have lead anyone to think it really was free...
But I know nothing is for free and questioned it, where many people wouldn't have...
Its a tech failure, plain and simple, not a user fault.
oh hell they just want to make sure you're not going to use the cable to make a terrorist bomb...
All I get from radio shack is simple direct marketing flyers about stuff they have on sale.
And with teh do not call list, my name isn't worth much.
Whats really going on is that the telemarketers want to reach those who cannot say no to a sales pitch. the DNC is a way for those people to protect themselves.
Otherwise, of what value is it for telemarketers to to have a list that contains alot more numbers of people who won't buy. You'd think they'd like the list cause it should make their successful sales per hundred calls increase --- to have a filtered list from those on teh DNC list.
But again, they want to reach those who cannot say no. And damn if the government gives those people a way to protect themselves.... right?
... so I told the whole office about this article.
the main purpose of a trade show is to collect name, to make a contact list.
Nike spent million if not more doing this in the trade show business, then they stopped. Why?
Cause they had everyones name.
At what point does pay per click become pointless?
For google, don't most of us already know about www.google.com? not to mention how its becomming rather integrated with the internet in many ways.
.. they are first and formost a marketing company, They will say, in their marketing any thing they can that they believe will help them "market" their products.
Second, they are a marketing company that uses law as the game rules they play by, like in chess where you typically sacrifice some of your own players in effort to win. This is verified over and over again with their persistant effort to try and distort the law enough to get away with acts of anti-trust. They simply prefer to not play fair. And this is undersandable as they are least of all a company of innovation, but rather a company buying out innovation of others and then either closing it down or marketing it as their innovation.
The more the general public understands this, sees MS for what MS really is, a marketing company with a legal team to help them figure out what they can get away with, the better it is for the general public in making an operating system choice.
... not quite.
If an operating system was more like a car then each person could carry the keys with them and be able to drive on any highway, free road or toll.
with that analogy converted to something more descriptive of computer technology, including OS's.
Yeah sure, we should be able to take our prefered setup/os with us like car keys (usb drives or similiar) and this would be the all the security needed of the OS, no multiuser security overhead needed as you would be the only driver of it.
roads: shared resources, applications, etc that live on perhaps a company network of which you access with your USB based OS via plugging it into a company terminal. Administrator/traffic cop, street signs, lights, etc.. are set to either allow you to do given things on the network of not, perhaps with a toll to pay (yuck).
Some have commented on the short comming of Development. Yeah, its true that development in software has been badly detoured by the carrot of money. I'm sure that's also what is biasing him.
We should have had even ten years ago a much higher level of user accessible development automation and clearer and simpler control of port access to one own computer.
What we should have today is very small and efficient OS's that don't need the multiuser security over head and a way to translate a program on the fly to work on various OS's and user ease in autiomation at all levels.
Why don't we have it, cause of the carrot of money.
To understand this you too will know how much of a contridiction he himself is babeling.
He simply cannot have his cake and eat it too.
...explaination of this bashing of the Creative commons by John,
He's getting senile...
Since Software is not patentable for all the reasons things are not patentable, and the US court system (not the general public) decided to ignore these things and allow software patents (fraudulent as it is) there is something of a faulty foundation in this matter.
Add to this the incapable mindset of Microsoft to comprehend what it is to play fair and the consumers rights to have full control over their own property... want to change software on my system remotely, without my knowledge or approval? Better be sure you don't break my system or use the hardware I own to do it. And if I'm using a linux box, I don't suppose licensing can be used as a defence for doing it.
Cracks in the foundation will allow acidic sewage of patent fraud to leak up and rot the rest of that foundation.
I believe in giving credit where it belongs, be it royalities to artist for their work, or jail time to criminals.
Has Peter Jackson been fully paid for LOTR, yet?
Apparently what Musicians are now learning, that they can, thanks to the internet and computer technology, produce, sale and distribute their music themselves.... And should they build a large following they then have power to deal with the music industry in a label vs. label (competition) better deal for them (the artist).... The movie industry will learn.
Now that it is apparent that digital resolution is surpassing film resolution....
Whats to become of the studios and related industry old business methodology? Those making movies will still need some financing, some sets built, studio rental, etc... but rather than being at the mercy of the studio "control" of the distribution process...
MS "marketing software" is in the business of making people need them. How different is that to the current music and movie industry?