It is a winner if your goal is to fight a war on terror (U.S.). You appear to view spying as some kind of negative? The American government thinks Australia adopting Data retention is a wonderful policy.
BTW the EU is rapidly passing the ACTA. Apparently they don't care aboot privacy either.
The original IBM PC, Apple Mac, Commodore Amiga browser wasn't particularly informative either
Mosaic.
Of the browsers listed in the article, the only useful ones appear to be Chromium (no google spying) and Rockmelt (social media integrated). They could have shorted this to a 2 item list. 3 if they included Flock.
A story about Mozilla/Gecko would be far more interesting. There are about 15 different browsers which use that as its base.
Chrome, includes Flash and PDF plugins, no extra functionality, 82MB installed. Mozilla/Firefox, no Flash, no PDF, no extra functionality, 38MB. Opera, no Flash, no PDF, built-in news reader/mail, URL-based adblocker and a bunch of other stuff... fits it all in 35MB
Mozilla/seaMonkey, no Flash, no PDF, built-in news reader/mail, built-in HTML editor, built-in Javascript editor, website debugging, built-in IRC, 42MB (Basically it's an updated version of the old Netscape.)
Copyright is BS. Just as Microsoft or Google do not deserve to have a monopoly over OSes and search engines, neither do photogs deserve grants of monopoly over images of the world.
Furthermore stealing means depriving a person of his item (like when I steal a baker's bread). But if I clone the bread, leaving the baker with his original loaf, then the baker has not been deprived of anything. No theft occurred.
"The thinking power of an idea cannot then, by natural right, be exclusive property. It has been peculiarly designed by nature, like fire, to be shared and light all of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson.
I do not comprehend your point? Why does it matter where the modern RIAA/MPAA originated from?
As for SOPA spreading from the U.S. to Canada to Britain to Australia and so on, I think it's clear that the People protesting won't do crap to stop this law. Instead we should do to the MPAA CEO what the Libyans did to Gaddafi. That will silence him once and for all (and scare the shit out of the next MPAA CEO) -
Senator Chris Dodd, CEO of MPAA - "Technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging. It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power, given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today."
Yeah he sounds like someone who should be silenced. Corporate sellout politician.
I don't think MAFIAA is juvenile because it describes their tactics perfectly (sending-out millions of extortionate letters demanding $5000 or else be dragged to court). However it's certainly confusing to newbies so I try to say RIAA/MPAA for clarity.
As for SOPA spreading from the U.S. to Canada to Britain to Australia and so on, I think it's clear that protests won't do crap. We should do to the MPAA CEO what the Libyans did to Gaddafi. That will silence him once and for all (and scare the shit out of the next MPAA CEO) -
Senator Chris Dodd, CEO of MPAA - "Technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging. It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power, given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today."
Yeah he sounds like someone who should be silenced. Fucking political sellout.
The EU's currency is on the verge of collapse. This would not be the time to move there. Maybe wait 10 years until things have blown-over, and then join the EU.
They also force new users to open Youtube and Google+ social accounts they don't want. (And then post your activities from Youtube/Google+ to stranger's search results of your name.)
>>>"quite disturbing 'treat corporations like ballclubs' complete with cheering and booing"
This is nothing new. In technology it goes all the way back to the Atari versus Commodore versus IBMPC versus Apple battles. Nintendo versus Sega. Or even earlier: Atari versus Intellivision. Or among rednecks: Ford vs. Dodge. Battling over corporations is a favorite passtime.
"Do no evil"
doesn't work because most evil is performed by people who think they are doing good. Google execs probably thinks the unified tracking policy is genuinely a good thing for the users.
Also government spy resource and censorship: âoeUS government authorities called for the removal of 113 videos from YouTube, including several documenting alleged police brutality which Google refused to take down..... The reason listed for the removal of one You Tube video in one instance is âoegovernment criticismâ. The exact identity or content of the video is not divulged. The report states that the removal requests pertaining to âoepolice brutalityâ were done on the grounds of âoedefamationâ.....
"The number of âoeItems requested to be removedâ by US authorities was almost seven-fold the number requested to be removed by Chinese authorities, a country much maligned for its Internet censorship policies....."
"These figures illustrate how governments, particularly the United States and Britain, are getting more aggressive in pushing for web censorship as the state increasingly tries to strangle the last bastion of true free speech, the Internet"
At least I can use fake names. They've created a really nice email/youtube/google profile of a guy named Hick Dead (until either Google or Congress outlaws that practice)
While that stat is true, it ignores the amount of mercury being spewed by the Recycling trucks as they drive around* collecting the dead CFLs. Or the mercury spewed from the CFLs having to be transported from China (where they're built) and then back to China (where they get recycled). Replacing old incandescents with CFLs has generated MORE pollution not less.
This reminds me of the EV car debate. "EVs are perfectly clean" the proponents claim. Until someone like ACEEE.org well-to-junkyard study, and finds that EVs are not any cleaner than a Prius. (And more dirty than a CNG Civic or 70mpg Insight or 80mpg Lupo.) We need to look at the WHOLE picture when we make decisions like these, not just a shallow analysis.
>>>It's about everyone making a very small change in their lives which results in a very large change for us all
But the amount of energy saved (~1%) is so small as to be pointless. And the amount of additonal pollution generated by the CFLs (mercury and fumes from recycling trucks) actually HARMS the environment instead of helping it.
The biggest things in our homes that waste energy are Heat and A/C. It represents ~90% of total energy burned. This is what congress should have been regulating instead of counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a lightbulb (i.e. a pointless endeavor).
>>>"99% of people just thow the CFLs in the garbage."
Thus polluting the environment with mercury. Congress made things WORSE for our environment when they outlawed the old incandescents, not better. No wonder their approval rating is below 10%
And my internet comes through Verizon which is MUCH better than Comcast (no caps, no blocking of espn360, and 30 dollars cheaper). So yes there is a difference between a bad company and a good company.
>>>"You bring up an example from the fucking 80s as a reason not to do it?"
I know of no other way to predict the future and make wise decisions, than to look at the past.
Also you're wrong when you say European is lightyears ahead. The U.S. average speed 12 Megabit/s and the EU average is 11.5 Mbit/s. So basically we are neck-and-neck.
I've never seen those "designed for appliances" LEDs. All the bulbs I've seen resemble regular bulbs, but with huge cooling fans.
With CFLs my experience has been that if you use them in an enclosed fixture, or an upside ceiling fixture that traps heat, they die within just months (the electronics overheat). I have no reason to think the 60 watt-replacement LEDs would be any different.
>>>It won't save you pennies, just tens of dollars per year.
Replacing a 40 with a 10 watt CFL is nothing in terms of savings. Let's say it's on the 4 hours after I get home from work (which is actually not correct because most of the time my only light is my TV and CRT)
Between 4 and 5 dollars saved per year. Minus the $3.33 cost of the bulb. A mere 1 to 2 dollars saved. Not impressed. Especially when I have to take that mercury-laden CFL and drive it to the landfill after it burns-out, thus wasting ~4 dollars in gasoline and spewing pollution into the air. (So net savings is actually a LOSS.) Just give me the damn incandescent bulb.:-)
Maybe Google should change its name to Microsoft. They are acting increasingly evil (forcing people to open google+ and youtube accounts they don't want).
>>>"Just let the market correct itself."
Just let the consumers dump Google and pick another search engine.
That's a better way of putting it. We free market proponents need to be more careful how we phrase things, because there are idiots like Thom Hartmann who say we believe in fairies and "invisible magic hands".
It's not an invisible hand. It's the People casting votes with dollars. That is the corrective mechanism that drives lousy companies out of business.
>>>"sn't it hypocritical to be advocating for complete openness and then go ahead and selectively release leaks that fit your particular political agenda while spicing them up with biased and false editorial comments? Wouldn't it be better to shut up and let the leaks speak for themselves?"
Whatever.
Just show me the stuff, so we can see American soldiers killing children and the Pentagon hiding their bodies in landfills. I don't care who or how it's released. I just want the damn secrets exposed.
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>>>I can only use so many CFLs at one time.
Now that they've outlawed incandescents, you have no choice. When your old bulbs die you won't be able to replace them with anything but CFLs.
It is a winner if your goal is to fight a war on terror (U.S.). You appear to view spying as some kind of negative? The American government thinks Australia adopting Data retention is a wonderful policy.
BTW the EU is rapidly passing the ACTA. Apparently they don't care aboot privacy either.
The original IBM PC, Apple Mac, Commodore Amiga browser wasn't particularly informative either
Mosaic.
Of the browsers listed in the article, the only useful ones appear to be Chromium (no google spying) and Rockmelt (social media integrated). They could have shorted this to a 2 item list. 3 if they included Flock.
A story about Mozilla/Gecko would be far more interesting. There are about 15 different browsers which use that as its base.
Using your previous chart:
Chrome, includes Flash and PDF plugins, no extra functionality, 82MB installed.
Mozilla/Firefox, no Flash, no PDF, no extra functionality, 38MB.
Opera, no Flash, no PDF, built-in news reader/mail, URL-based adblocker and a bunch of other stuff... fits it all in 35MB
Mozilla/seaMonkey, no Flash, no PDF, built-in news reader/mail, built-in HTML editor, built-in Javascript editor, website debugging, built-in IRC, 42MB (Basically it's an updated version of the old Netscape.)
Copyright is BS. Just as Microsoft or Google do not deserve to have a monopoly over OSes and search engines, neither do photogs deserve grants of monopoly over images of the world.
Furthermore stealing means depriving a person of his item (like when I steal a baker's bread). But if I clone the bread, leaving the baker with his original loaf, then the baker has not been deprived of anything. No theft occurred.
"The thinking power of an idea cannot then, by natural right, be exclusive property. It has been peculiarly designed by nature, like fire, to be shared and light all of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson.
I do not comprehend your point? Why does it matter where the modern RIAA/MPAA originated from?
As for SOPA spreading from the U.S. to Canada to Britain to Australia and so on, I think it's clear that the People protesting won't do crap to stop this law. Instead we should do to the MPAA CEO what the Libyans did to Gaddafi. That will silence him once and for all (and scare the shit out of the next MPAA CEO) -
Senator Chris Dodd, CEO of MPAA - "Technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging. It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power, given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today."
Yeah he sounds like someone who should be silenced. Corporate sellout politician.
I don't think MAFIAA is juvenile because it describes their tactics perfectly (sending-out millions of extortionate letters demanding $5000 or else be dragged to court). However it's certainly confusing to newbies so I try to say RIAA/MPAA for clarity.
As for SOPA spreading from the U.S. to Canada to Britain to Australia and so on, I think it's clear that protests won't do crap. We should do to the MPAA CEO what the Libyans did to Gaddafi. That will silence him once and for all (and scare the shit out of the next MPAA CEO) -
Senator Chris Dodd, CEO of MPAA - "Technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns, rather than coming to the table to find solutions to a problem that all now seem to agree is very real and damaging. It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services. It is also an abuse of power, given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today."
Yeah he sounds like someone who should be silenced. Fucking political sellout.
The EU's currency is on the verge of collapse. This would not be the time to move there. Maybe wait 10 years until things have blown-over, and then join the EU.
They also force new users to open Youtube and Google+ social accounts they don't want. (And then post your activities from Youtube/Google+ to stranger's search results of your name.)
>>>"quite disturbing 'treat corporations like ballclubs' complete with cheering and booing"
This is nothing new. In technology it goes all the way back to the Atari versus Commodore versus IBMPC versus Apple battles. Nintendo versus Sega. Or even earlier: Atari versus Intellivision. Or among rednecks: Ford vs. Dodge. Battling over corporations is a favorite passtime.
"Do no evil"
doesn't work because most evil is performed by people who think they are doing good. Google execs probably thinks the unified tracking policy is genuinely a good thing for the users.
>>>It's the world's greatest Blackmail Engine.
Also government spy resource and censorship: âoeUS government authorities called for the removal of 113 videos from YouTube, including several documenting alleged police brutality which Google refused to take down..... The reason listed for the removal of one You Tube video in one instance is âoegovernment criticismâ. The exact identity or content of the video is not divulged. The report states that the removal requests pertaining to âoepolice brutalityâ were done on the grounds of âoedefamationâ.....
"The number of âoeItems requested to be removedâ by US authorities was almost seven-fold the number requested to be removed by Chinese authorities, a country much maligned for its Internet censorship policies....."
"These figures illustrate how governments, particularly the United States and Britain, are getting more aggressive in pushing for web censorship as the state increasingly tries to strangle the last bastion of true free speech, the Internet"
http://www.infowars.com/feds-order-you-tube-to-remove-video-for-containing-government-criticism/
At least I can use fake names. They've created a really nice email/youtube/google profile of a guy named Hick Dead (until either Google or Congress outlaws that practice)
While that stat is true, it ignores the amount of mercury being spewed by the Recycling trucks as they drive around* collecting the dead CFLs. Or the mercury spewed from the CFLs having to be transported from China (where they're built) and then back to China (where they get recycled). Replacing old incandescents with CFLs has generated MORE pollution not less.
This reminds me of the EV car debate. "EVs are perfectly clean" the proponents claim. Until someone like ACEEE.org well-to-junkyard study, and finds that EVs are not any cleaner than a Prius. (And more dirty than a CNG Civic or 70mpg Insight or 80mpg Lupo.) We need to look at the WHOLE picture when we make decisions like these, not just a shallow analysis.
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*Or personal car - driving to a disposal area.
>>>It's about everyone making a very small change in their lives which results in a very large change for us all
But the amount of energy saved (~1%) is so small as to be pointless. And the amount of additonal pollution generated by the CFLs (mercury and fumes from recycling trucks) actually HARMS the environment instead of helping it.
The biggest things in our homes that waste energy are Heat and A/C. It represents ~90% of total energy burned. This is what congress should have been regulating instead of counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a lightbulb (i.e. a pointless endeavor).
>>>"99% of people just thow the CFLs in the garbage."
Thus polluting the environment with mercury. Congress made things WORSE for our environment when they outlawed the old incandescents, not better. No wonder their approval rating is below 10%
I used an antenna to get my TV for free.
And my internet comes through Verizon which is MUCH better than Comcast (no caps, no blocking of espn360, and 30 dollars cheaper). So yes there is a difference between a bad company and a good company.
>>>"You bring up an example from the fucking 80s as a reason not to do it?"
I know of no other way to predict the future and make wise decisions, than to look at the past.
Also you're wrong when you say European is lightyears ahead. The U.S. average speed 12 Megabit/s and the EU average is 11.5 Mbit/s. So basically we are neck-and-neck.
I've never seen those "designed for appliances" LEDs. All the bulbs I've seen resemble regular bulbs, but with huge cooling fans.
With CFLs my experience has been that if you use them in an enclosed fixture, or an upside ceiling fixture that traps heat, they die within just months (the electronics overheat). I have no reason to think the 60 watt-replacement LEDs would be any different.
Luminous efficiency. Look it up. Incandescents are 3% and CFLs are 8%. The rest of the energy is wasted as heat or invisible light (UV rays).
>>>It won't save you pennies, just tens of dollars per year.
Replacing a 40 with a 10 watt CFL is nothing in terms of savings. Let's say it's on the 4 hours after I get home from work (which is actually not correct because most of the time my only light is my TV and CRT)
4 * 30 == 120 watt hours saved/day * 365 == 43.8 kWh * 0.10
Between 4 and 5 dollars saved per year. :-)
Minus the $3.33 cost of the bulb.
A mere 1 to 2 dollars saved.
Not impressed. Especially when I have to take that mercury-laden CFL and drive it to the landfill after it burns-out, thus wasting ~4 dollars in gasoline and spewing pollution into the air. (So net savings is actually a LOSS.) Just give me the damn incandescent bulb.
Apple's not really an American company. Almost all of their staff are located in China building the phones, computers, tablets, ...
And you're right Apple didn't get subsidies, but I can't find any indication that Exxon received subsidies either? Can you provide citations?
More about Apple's not-so-shiny image -
http://www.rifuture.org/apple-the-company-no-american-should-be-proud-of.html
They rolled-over a lot and damaged the driver. (Then the company went bankrupt.)
"So now we can spend money on stupid stuff (like segway clones) that were already proven failures by other companies (Segway)." - GM
No I'm not trolling.
This is my honest opinion.
Though their Volt car seems like a decent idea; not sure why it isn't selling better?
Maybe Google should change its name to Microsoft. They are acting increasingly evil (forcing people to open google+ and youtube accounts they don't want).
>>>"Just let the market correct itself."
Just let the consumers dump Google and pick another search engine.
That's a better way of putting it. We free market proponents need to be more careful how we phrase things, because there are idiots like Thom Hartmann who say we believe in fairies and "invisible magic hands".
It's not an invisible hand. It's the People casting votes with dollars. That is the corrective mechanism that drives lousy companies out of business.
>>>"sn't it hypocritical to be advocating for complete openness and then go ahead and selectively release leaks that fit your particular political agenda while spicing them up with biased and false editorial comments? Wouldn't it be better to shut up and let the leaks speak for themselves?"
Whatever.
Just show me the stuff, so we can see American soldiers killing children and the Pentagon hiding their bodies in landfills. I don't care who or how it's released. I just want the damn secrets exposed.