Estonia is a shining example of that. They have implemented online voting with smartcards and system is even more tamper-proof, than pen-and-paper voting, as a person can re-vote any number of times he/she wants to and only the last one will count.
And yet, once again company is trying to make a profit by f***ing with the customers instead of giving them what they want. In Estonia, for example, cable provider has taken a completely different approach — for 3$/month they will record any broadcast you'd like to watch and will stream it to you, when _you_ want to see, not just when it's shown on tv. You can even record whole shows and watch them whenever you feel like it, and watch them again should you feel the need to. But Time Warner thinks that if you don't let people do what they want with their hardware — they will as gladly keep paying up and watching commercials, good luck with that.
No, you have clearly not gone far enough. What we should do, is tax information exchanged. Every last bit of it. Just think of all the nice taxes telecoms could get extra. Especially for any information that bypasses their network therefore depriving them of money. For example everytime you speak to someone in person you deprive your phone company of profit therefore you should be taxed.
I see this problem being solved by ISP by selling IPv6 access with old prices and declare IPv4 access "legacy" and charge extra. That would surge demand for end-user IPv6 capable devices, which, in it's turn would cause an increase in manufacture of such devices (if people want it, why not slap a new shiny sticker on it "Killer IPv6 feature" and sell them to all the users, that had once bought IPv4 devices.
> The Gnome Live extensions integration is quite nice
Are you kidding me? The sole fact, that the only place where you can turn extensions on and off is website is somewhat strange, if not you use a stronger word. Imagine me installing an extension and then needing to disable it later on — I need internet connection to disable an extension that is already installed on my system. This whole web-centric touch-ui with special disabilities support policy is leaving majority of users with unusable interface. Well, I guess, at least those people with special needs, that use Gnome3 on a x86 tablet while having a 24/7 internet connection will be delighted.
You can restart gnome-shell without logging out. Just type ALT+F2, type in "r" without the quotes, just the letter r, and hit enter.
What seems to really be the problem — is failure to implement plugin-based dash search. Unity is doing a stellar job at providing "lences", wish there was a similar thing for gnome 3. Or, better yet — support for unity lences.
Way to go Sony, that ought to teach those pesky customers of yours!
Actually, I think Stallman should thank Sony for reenacting every scary story he is telling when explaining horrors of verdor lock-ins and proprietary format traps. This ought to stick it to those, who kept saying that no company would be suicidal enough to treat their customers this way.
The point is not to go into guerilla war with your police, but to control it. The state was created in order to serve people and police was created to enforce common rules for everyone regardless of their position or income. I'm quite aware, that cops are prone to bending the rules, but it is up to the public to keep them in check and remind from time to time about the nessesity to follow the rules they protect.
Well, sorry that Canonical gave you a free GNU/Linux distribution, that you used. FYI Canonical has absolutely nothing to do with Gnome3, that's exactly why they developed Unity.
Exactly. Aso, targeted ads could be less in numbers so people could give up their privacy in exchange for less ads. Don't see any reason for this article to appear other than self-promotion.
And more people wanting to install truly free software on their computers, making them aware of the problem. Turning a country into a concentration camp didn't work out for anybody in the long run, let alone a whole world, so the wannabe overlords better have their poison ready in their secret bunker when people won't go along with their plan.
You should fight the abuse, not the excuse for the abuse that govermnent and copyright abusers give you. Or we will end up with telling "you brought it on yourself" to all rape victims. Pirating is a copyright violation, not a justification for imporsing corporate censorship on the internet. There, you argument works both ways.
You can also laugh at the thought, that government, passing laws nobody is taking seriously is controlling anything. Try to enforce it — and get a crapstorm, plus the next official that will promise to get rid of this law will get your chair in no time.
Yeah. Sure it is. Untill mesh networks are made illegal. If you cave in every time someone tries to deprive you of your rights — there soon be no rights at all. The polititians must be educated about the concequences of their action for both public and them personally (the latter even more important) or we will end up with a chinese style firewall and laws that outlaw any kind of encrypted connection.
As does IPv6. Face it, the IPv6 brings back the basic principle of the internet: direct connectivity. No more NATs (ofcourse unless there is an idiot out there, that thinks that NAT makes everything secure), no more STUN servers and other workarounds for piercing NATs. We would finally be able to use internet to it's fullest: VOIP (i'm well aware of Skype and it's state-of-the-art NAT traversal and piercing techniques, but I want a free and open source technology.)
There's an old game, some of IT admins like to play. It involves calling any of the ISP and asking when they would provide IPv6 connectivity for large businesses. And after hearing the answer "not yet" you reply with "OK, we'll have to keep looking then".
If he is guilty of any crimes by UK law, then he should be tried in the UK, not in the US. How would american citizens like if they were extradited to Russia. For breaking Russian laws, that forbid owning a firearm. What do you mean "it is ridiculous"? Then why is a man extradited to US for not breaking the law in the UK ?
The point is not how much money he made. The point is he didn't break any of the british laws. And yet he is being extradited to be sued in another country. How would you feel if you were extradited to Iran to be tried for blasphemy or any of their laws?
The problem now is even if everyone stops watching movies and listening to music RIAA and MPAA wil simply claim that it is because of the piracy and we need a media tax. Say 20% of your total income. Or 50%. That sounds fair. And if you don't like it, there is nowhere you can go, as US is expanding their policies bought by RIAA and MPAA and paid for by your money to other countries as well.
Well then, getting your name on the watch list is a good thing. Heck, if they have more than a half of population on the watch list, then what do they do, employ the other half to watch those, who are on the list?
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Estonia is a shining example of that. They have implemented online voting with smartcards and system is even more tamper-proof, than pen-and-paper voting, as a person can re-vote any number of times he/she wants to and only the last one will count.
And yet, once again company is trying to make a profit by f***ing with the customers instead of giving them what they want. In Estonia, for example, cable provider has taken a completely different approach — for 3$/month they will record any broadcast you'd like to watch and will stream it to you, when _you_ want to see, not just when it's shown on tv. You can even record whole shows and watch them whenever you feel like it, and watch them again should you feel the need to. But Time Warner thinks that if you don't let people do what they want with their hardware — they will as gladly keep paying up and watching commercials, good luck with that.
No, you have clearly not gone far enough. What we should do, is tax information exchanged. Every last bit of it. Just think of all the nice taxes telecoms could get extra. Especially for any information that bypasses their network therefore depriving them of money. For example everytime you speak to someone in person you deprive your phone company of profit therefore you should be taxed.
I see this problem being solved by ISP by selling IPv6 access with old prices and declare IPv4 access "legacy" and charge extra. That would surge demand for end-user IPv6 capable devices, which, in it's turn would cause an increase in manufacture of such devices (if people want it, why not slap a new shiny sticker on it "Killer IPv6 feature" and sell them to all the users, that had once bought IPv4 devices.
> The Gnome Live extensions integration is quite nice
Are you kidding me? The sole fact, that the only place where you can turn extensions on and off is website is somewhat strange, if not you use a stronger word. Imagine me installing an extension and then needing to disable it later on — I need internet connection to disable an extension that is already installed on my system. This whole web-centric touch-ui with special disabilities support policy is leaving majority of users with unusable interface. Well, I guess, at least those people with special needs, that use Gnome3 on a x86 tablet while having a 24/7 internet connection will be delighted.
You can restart gnome-shell without logging out. Just type ALT+F2, type in "r" without the quotes, just the letter r, and hit enter.
What seems to really be the problem — is failure to implement plugin-based dash search. Unity is doing a stellar job at providing "lences", wish there was a similar thing for gnome 3. Or, better yet — support for unity lences.
Way to go Sony, that ought to teach those pesky customers of yours!
Actually, I think Stallman should thank Sony for reenacting every scary story he is telling when explaining horrors of verdor lock-ins and proprietary format traps. This ought to stick it to those, who kept saying that no company would be suicidal enough to treat their customers this way.
The point is not to go into guerilla war with your police, but to control it. The state was created in order to serve people and police was created to enforce common rules for everyone regardless of their position or income. I'm quite aware, that cops are prone to bending the rules, but it is up to the public to keep them in check and remind from time to time about the nessesity to follow the rules they protect.
Well, sorry that Canonical gave you a free GNU/Linux distribution, that you used. FYI Canonical has absolutely nothing to do with Gnome3, that's exactly why they developed Unity.
Exactly. Aso, targeted ads could be less in numbers so people could give up their privacy in exchange for less ads. Don't see any reason for this article to appear other than self-promotion.
And more people wanting to install truly free software on their computers, making them aware of the problem. Turning a country into a concentration camp didn't work out for anybody in the long run, let alone a whole world, so the wannabe overlords better have their poison ready in their secret bunker when people won't go along with their plan.
You should fight the abuse, not the excuse for the abuse that govermnent and copyright abusers give you.
Or we will end up with telling "you brought it on yourself" to all rape victims. Pirating is a copyright violation, not a justification for imporsing corporate censorship on the internet. There, you argument works both ways.
You can also laugh at the thought, that government, passing laws nobody is taking seriously is controlling anything. Try to enforce it — and get a crapstorm, plus the next official that will promise to get rid of this law will get your chair in no time.
You sir, are brilliant. Shame you are posting it anonymously, calling anonymous terrorists.
Well, then most of the citizens deserve the government they get.
There is i2p too. They have up-and-running BitTorrent trackers and are working on a distributed file-system as well.
If only we weren't standing by the same wall
Yeah. Sure it is. Untill mesh networks are made illegal. If you cave in every time someone tries to deprive you of your rights — there soon be no rights at all. The polititians must be educated about the concequences of their action for both public and them personally (the latter even more important) or we will end up with a chinese style firewall and laws that outlaw any kind of encrypted connection.
As does IPv6. Face it, the IPv6 brings back the basic principle of the internet: direct connectivity. No more NATs (ofcourse unless there is an idiot out there, that thinks that NAT makes everything secure), no more STUN servers and other workarounds for piercing NATs. We would finally be able to use internet to it's fullest: VOIP (i'm well aware of Skype and it's state-of-the-art NAT traversal and piercing techniques, but I want a free and open source technology.)
There's an old game, some of IT admins like to play. It involves calling any of the ISP and asking when they would provide IPv6 connectivity for large businesses. And after hearing the answer "not yet" you reply with "OK, we'll have to keep looking then".
Unfortunately educated, sensible people are the extremely small minority.
If he is guilty of any crimes by UK law, then he should be tried in the UK, not in the US. How would american citizens like if they were extradited to Russia. For breaking Russian laws, that forbid owning a firearm. What do you mean "it is ridiculous"? Then why is a man extradited to US for not breaking the law in the UK ?
The point is not how much money he made. The point is he didn't break any of the british laws. And yet he is being extradited to be sued in another country. How would you feel if you were extradited to Iran to be tried for blasphemy or any of their laws?
The problem now is even if everyone stops watching movies and listening to music RIAA and MPAA wil simply claim that it is because of the piracy and we need a media tax. Say 20% of your total income. Or 50%. That sounds fair. And if you don't like it, there is nowhere you can go, as US is expanding their policies bought by RIAA and MPAA and paid for by your money to other countries as well.
Well then, getting your name on the watch list is a good thing. Heck, if they have more than a half of population on the watch list, then what do they do, employ the other half to watch those, who are on the list?