It is now 22hours since I saw it in Denmark.
Our theater had cut the show in two halfs.
Personally I fell asleep in 2nd half.
But I certainly dreamt nicely.
something about elves, dwarfes, and tall men with long white beards. did your version also contain sex?
a pattern is emerging in the linux market
on
Linux 2001 Timeline
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· Score: 2, Interesting
and its not a new one at all
The linux market is maturing and on its path from hobbyism to professionalism a long way has been completed, yet running is still necessary to catch up.
Nonetheless the dices are showing its eyes and business it is.
The OpenSource EVOLUTION are successful. At least in my eyes. The purpose was to me, to establish a foundation of a counterpart to the monopolistic software business we all love and hate as Microsoft.
No single company was capable of establishing such a counterpart, not even Sun or IBM, yet they have tried, I'll grant them that. So instead companies and people have fought hand in hand in spawning an alternative to MS that could survive and co-exist with Windows. We have succeeded.
Linux will be continue to be free thanks to the GPL and the support, so will the BSD's.
But one thing to acknowledge is that we will see more and more services based on paid subscriptions to be introduced.
As the dark ages matures and the warlords loses their strength due to long lasting battles, threaties are signed and peace and prosperity grows.
Rivers of blood was to be seen, but the blood have not been wasted, it has found new purpose. It ripped up existence, to seed the changes.
We have a new market now. But it is still young.
Compared to before the dark ages, Romans were in control, and Romans alone. Rome collapsed, but still it exist today. But things are different, won't you say?
I didn't say this one was going to be easy to understand. The software and business markets are only a small pocket in time. So are world history. - Open your eyes.
Quote from the LA times story:
"As a major employer and a leader in our industry, we take our legal obligations very seriously," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.
"These new compliance officers will help us do an even better job of understanding our responsibilities under the law and ensuring that all our people know what's expected of them. We are committed to full compliance with the antitrust settlement, as well as all the other laws and regulations affecting our business."
hehe I find it quite ironic. They take the law very seriously they say, yeah.. their law. Especially when they themselves are writing it.
my mother has an IBM laptop with norton antivirus preinstalled. Thats good. You've paid for the software once. That was one of the motivators for her to buy the laptop. All she now need to do is to upgrade her access to the virus definition updates. Thats good. Now just recently her last subscription ran out and she wanted to renew this. She couldn't. There were nolonger an option to update order a new subscription to that version of Norton Antivirus. She have to upgrade the whole software package though all she need is the antivirus definition subscription to be updated. Something they did not say wasn't possible in the marketing. Now she can't and is running without antivirus.
She has lost her trust in the Antivirus company who's most important issue is trust in their service.
Similar cases are seen with small business clients of mine who were promised the same from the marketing of Norton.
They have been left out in the open as well.
Fact is that eg. the marketing of Norton antivirus have not lived up to its promises = false marketing in my book, and in law in Europe/Denmark it means a crime.
So I'm now wondering if we will see class action suits in America sooner or later knowing this is going on.
And just to finish it off.. Where are the companies strategy? it definately do not seem to be in quality when quality is defined by:
what is delivered / what is expected = 1
if the result is not 1, quality is questionable.
its like a criminal who have been found guilty in raping your goat. everyone in court knows about it, but since you are in bed with the funds of this criminal you can't laugh due to the implications it can forsake.
or take this one..
we have a criminal who have been found guilty for raping your goat, and since the judge is speechless and is holding back his laughs of the above reasons, the criminal can suggest his/her own verdict, and since noone dare talking reality about the case, the criminal looks to get his/her way.
so yes if you can understand the above mumbo jumbo of course the criminal should not have a say in these matters. they have been found guilty and shall receive its penalty. If justice is blind and noone call the cards in this situation, MS abused its monopoly, US LAW is in an even worse state than we fear.
"ohh your honor, so you have evidence that I did rape the girls, but because of my life is an integrated part of your system, hurting me, would be hurting yourself, and therefore you should let me state the penalty, cause I know better. Remember who run your computer systems, who's your dady"
I agree, the future isn't in the handsets, its in the wearables.
But I disagree that the size should matter.
Size doesn't matter, usage and implementation does.
I believe we will see even smaller devices that will succeed, but not just for any application or in any environment.
In the US and many other places you can forget about any 'real' data communication using a pda device until the service issue has been sorted out. But in Europe where GSM is good and you can almost smell the 3G networks, and Japan where the networks are extraordinaire, its the other way around. The service is there. We scream for devices that are not just a mobile phone with a game and some SMS features. Here the market are ripe, so if the American manufacturers wants some business, all they need to do is deliver the advances products and launch it here with the same initiatives they would have done in the States. But mark my words if they are not going for keeps they should rather stay away and leave it up to japs and eurotrash such as yours truely:)
Here we have the service and even if the device is the size of a wristwatch, if only implemented with the right applications to suit the environment, it will rock the blueeyed danish and swedish blondes panties off.
my favourite fantasy, should I have the opportunity, would be my own personal modified version of the wristwatch from IBM labs in Zurich which are equipped with microphone, bluetoothed earplugs, linux, sandisc flashcard, 1.3inches color display and camera combined with webservices applications for advanced management (and later on blessed with a projector or visor and 'virtual keyboard'). Even without the wishware in the parantheses you would have a client device that in collaboration with web services would give you so many new advantages to make you daily life simpler and more organized, that leaves you with more time for real fun.
imagine the applications with the programmable device connected to the internet utilizing administration and communication software that sorts and organize all the information and makes it available to and for you, on your command.
when the IBM wristwatch with linux was covered here on slashdot a while back I posted some of my fantasies as well and I made a small note about if IBM, Nokia, Ericsson should be interested, I would be happy to cooperate. Amazingly some good IBM professor from Zurich wrote me an email encouraging me to take contact. Greetings to you, if you should read this again. I would love to at least initiate some sort of communication regarding the subject. Unfortunately I lost your address when my thinkpad's harddrive suddenly said: NO MORE. so just to leave it up to mr. chance here is my address again: caspera@sophistic.com
Since the postings related to this article thanks to chrisd's layup are highly centered around advertizing for registrar's, here's mine..
DKK 156,-(195,- = 25% Danish VAT included where applicaable) for.com.net.org.info(.biz) a year including DNS service and you get an actual invoice shipped to your address from Denmark.
at http://sophistic.dk
.. ok that was it, and to chrisd thanks for the advertizement oportunity, but please I can live with out the layups on/. in the future - they are not the reason I read the article's and they sort of distort my view on/. as a relaxed resort of recreation:)
Changing our infrastructures, Governments included, is easier in smaller organisations than larger ones. This I believe is one of the main reasons, that smaller organisations are better suited for innovations and why larger organisations follow, incorporate and acquire them in order not to become obsolete and replaced.
If major changes are to be expected in the way we live and organize ourselves, then I believe the chance for that is higher by supporting and learning from the smaller entities (on their terms), compared to start dancing with the big old lady.
if this was any other larger community site, be assured you would find it covered on slashdot in either a post or an article.
Many of us concider/. as one of the last outposts of the digital frontier.
But who are we kidding, most of all ourselves I should say.
Before today, Slashdot, to me, would be a community which strongest urge was to protect values,
not profit.
But I kid you not. The values of idealism has just been bought by the need of capitalism.
So what is now different about/. ? The atmosphere made/. different.
Now/. are no different than any other community/content/media site.
The content is still the data - like other sites.
The framework/atmosphere is now for profit not for value - like most other sites.
Who are we kidding?
Take a look at history.
Evolution of civilization.
Evolution of trade/economy.
Evolution of ideas.
Evolution.
Evolution happens due to a change, not complete replacement - that would be revolution.
Even Microsoft wanted to make a change.
In their youth, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and comrades, saw IBM as one of the big evil
dominant corporations controlling innovation. Now MS themselves has grown into an IBM of the past.
The new breed/. and the likes, house many dreamers with a desire to change. This time IBM
wasn't the big active opponent (yet silently they at some are concidered belonging to the passive
group) - Microsoft is.
Now in what direction are/. moving ? = towards economical survival secured by the massive supportive ressources they have build as a oart of the anti-XdominaX movement. An inevetable path
in a world based on economics, and any world at all where there are differences and changes.
Have no doubt. There will be a day, when/. itself will be be challenged if it survives the move
from amateurism to professionalism. Which I believe it will. I for one will probably contribute to make it happen.
..notes from inside the outside. oct 23. 2001 by Casper Andersen
Seems to me the only single logon system that would be acceptable to most of us here would be one that offered all these possibilities to EVERY USER -- applied to ANY AND ALL personal data associated with his/her profile.
That I believe is so very true. The user must be able to control who will be given access to the information. The personal information management system must have the user/owner of the information in charge.
But still it is a very very very complicated task. The user are to take a stand, "whom will I grant my trust of what information and for how long and how will I allow the receiver to use the information I chose to make available".
Furthermore a factor to include is that different information will be needed for different needs/situations.
And another big problem I can think of is how to we deal with the problem of centralized administration versus decentralized administration - how do we combine the two in order to get the best of both. They are both vulnerable in more facettes than I can think of off the hip. central=vulnerable for single attacks & distributed=vulnerable due to the widespread information and more angles to attack/enter from.
Yet it must be solved. A hell of a research must be completed. It is not impossible, but its a major major major task. The system must be very sophisticated to deal with all the factors, and yet the simplicity must be there so everyone can actually use it for their purpose.
Sophisticated Simplicity - thats a tough one.
But best of luck to us all.
The user needs only is not paramount here, it also has to be viable for any commercial entity to join or participate in such a system. Mass marketing etc is definitely irritating and irrational for the consumer but is a visible requirement from the Marcomm types. Other requirement could be access to information stored for a user, how the user is allowed to control such access is debatable.
No we do not want a mass marketing system to aid the companies like my own and even bigger and filthier competitors.
We would like a system to aid the companies like my and even bigger and filthier competitors to aid our customers with more simplicity and tailored solutions to their likenings - but remember it must be the users choice and the user must not be enslaved by the corporate world just in the name of growth. You and I are users too sometimes.
A challange for the designers of this or any similar system shall be to keep the conflicts of interest at bay.
Like it is in all aspects of life. But when the mass marketing is over the top already we have to pull in the other direction - we simply must.
As a community developer, participating in different projects where we in each single one of them are facing login&account management in order to help our users so they can customize each community to their preferences, a unified identity system is very fortunate.
We have refused the microsoft hailstorm/passport project from day one due to the one company dominates all issues. Yet we are open to the idea of a unified identity system.
It is still too early to say whether the Liberty Alliance project will be a viable solution. Our most important concerns are:
The unified identity system must be 'open', not controlled by one entity that one way or the other can be concidered a competitor to our products. (Microsoft is - they are so dominant that they are in one way or the other a competitor to nearly every IT organisation I can think of, and that is the same reason why passport/hailstorm can not evolve).
The unified identity system must be developed according to users needs and not beyond. It must not be abused for mass marketing. So a major task is to develop the system avoiding any of the participating or non-participating interests to be able to abuse it. How to do that? I do not have the solution, but I don't want the system without one. What I can conclude is that the system must be developed in open. Where everyone can assist in the 'code' review in assuring nothing is being overlooked in the best possible way. An 'opensource' perhaps applicant to the rules of FSF if suitable. Here the extreme rules of FSF are indeed very suitable as this must be a public interest project.
The unified identity system must be implementable/joinable by all interests accross platforms. It must me implementable/joinable by all developers and users in spite of financial status. And for that reason again, unexploitable. Thats a major system development task - but is required. Security bust be built into the system. A socalled social solution will not be adequate, as it is possible that not everyone are playing straight.
I have signed up for the mailing list at http://projectliberty.org/interest.html and I am looking forward to the see how it evolves. Maybe even try to contribute. But if the openness in the solution does not apply and the concerns/issues above are not resolved and perhaps others as well, I can not approve, and I can't imagine anyone who can without having a special agenda that is not favouring the public interest.
best regards
Vspirit - Casper Andersen
Administrative Manager - Sophistic Systems
Wise words, well spoken.
We're in a situation where one must thread carefully, a 'barfight' easily starts when we have our temper triggered by our emotions, and then the real war could kick off. Yet it is important to strike HARD and SEVERE on those responsible. I'm curious to find out who is behind this. The truth MUST be revealed.
have to throw in this piece as well.. pardon me if its already among these thousands of posts..
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
while the fortress endures,
the great leader will succumb
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- Nostradamus 1554
I am not going to enter a dispute about whether the US is good or bad, as in general, US and all the rest are both.
What I do like to comment on, is that the US arms industry is to my experience the most exporting in the world. And even though the US has supported rebels or government troops in various countries depending on which they felt was most useable to the US, the same US arms industry has also been supplying the counterpart.
The US arms industry welcomes George W. Bush
there is no such thing as a combative president to aid the export, by creating a demand.
I'm no commie, and I'm not capitalist either.. I'm just one of the people stuck in between.
According to TecsChange faq, here is their wishlist:
What equipment can you accept?
As of the spring of 2001, we are looking for Pentium computers (working motherboards, OK if they are missing parts). We are also looking for spare parts that can be used for repairing/upgrading this class of computers - no 5.25" floppy drives or mono monitors please! Specifically, we are looking for:
* Desktop Computers: at least 233 MHz Pentium II processors, working motherboards
* Laptop Computers: Working Pentium laptops with at least 24 MB of memory
* Monitors: 17-inch color SVGA, good working condition
* Printers: laser, deskjet, or letter-quality dot matrix, working condition
* Hard Disks: IDE hard drives of 4 GB capacity or larger
* Memory: 16 MB or larger, SIMMS/DIMMS
* Modems: 33.6 KBPS speed or faster
* CD-ROM drives: any speed IDE drives, also IDE CD burners
* Zip Drives: any capacity, also Zip Disks
* Networking Equipment: especially 10-Base-T hubs and ethernet switches
* Overhead Projectors: VGA compatible plug
* Software Licenses: the "Certificate of Authenticity" for Windows 95, 98, or any version of Microsoft Office that comes with your donated computer
In particular I noted the Software Licenses issue.
Something about that is fishy, but I'm not sure I can put my fingers on it, can you?
I think my main concerns are that, why not install Linux/BSD/OSS instead of the windows software which will only make the computers more expensive in maintenance and upgrades. Also strategically from many various interests, this windows stuff on these free computers seems weird.
I see no reason to support TecsChange until they have worked out their priorities. Bundling these free computers for low income interest groups with an expensive software platform doesn't provide much space for growth.
So a little recommendation to TecsChange, be smarter or I and many others see no reason to support you, as we would not feel cofident that you have the brains to do the job properly.
"only people with something to hide care about their privacy". A sentence I've heard before, but there are others who for legitimate reasons have something that they do not wish to have publicly available.
Very good example with the medical record there Michael. It reminds me of a movie with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman called "GATTACA".
Microsoft is just another bubble.
Imagine what will happen when it blows.
All people and economy that is dependent on M$.
Lots of people pushing and pulling to keep the ship afloat.. just wait to see the crash.
and all their illusions will overcome them.
..William Gibson
Neuromancer and the lots.
--
What goes up must come down.. - Tom Petty
the harder the proprietary software is to get hold of, the more success open source / free software will get.
so this will lower the windows activity, cause less users will get accustomed to the software as it become more inaccessible than before.
which leaves the software that you can access to be the stuff that the masses can get reach the easiest.
a win win situation I would say. when it comes to OSS over PS. but also I am concerned with the fact that no system is bullet proff unless it does not have only two simple different choices to sort. one way or the other way.
Why should a non citizen of the U.S. be afforded the same rights as a citizen?
if a non U.S. citizen are to be judged by U.S. law, that same non U.S. citizen must also be protected by the same rights and law under which he is being judged.
if this is not so, then there is something rotten in the state of denmark, and in the U.S. as well.
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It is now 22hours since I saw it in Denmark.
Our theater had cut the show in two halfs.
Personally I fell asleep in 2nd half.
But I certainly dreamt nicely.
something about elves, dwarfes, and tall men with long white beards. did your version also contain sex?
and its not a new one at all
:)
The linux market is maturing and on its path from hobbyism to professionalism a long way has been completed, yet running is still necessary to catch up.
Nonetheless the dices are showing its eyes and business it is.
The OpenSource EVOLUTION are successful. At least in my eyes. The purpose was to me, to establish a foundation of a counterpart to the monopolistic software business we all love and hate as Microsoft.
No single company was capable of establishing such a counterpart, not even Sun or IBM, yet they have tried, I'll grant them that. So instead companies and people have fought hand in hand in spawning an alternative to MS that could survive and co-exist with Windows. We have succeeded.
Linux will be continue to be free thanks to the GPL and the support, so will the BSD's.
But one thing to acknowledge is that we will see more and more services based on paid subscriptions to be introduced.
As the dark ages matures and the warlords loses their strength due to long lasting battles, threaties are signed and peace and prosperity grows.
Rivers of blood was to be seen, but the blood have not been wasted, it has found new purpose. It ripped up existence, to seed the changes.
We have a new market now. But it is still young.
Compared to before the dark ages, Romans were in control, and Romans alone. Rome collapsed, but still it exist today. But things are different, won't you say?
I didn't say this one was going to be easy to understand. The software and business markets are only a small pocket in time. So are world history. - Open your eyes.
Once I had karma, now I have none.
good thing to be able to correct your own mistakes before they become a problem for others and a liability to you.
something Microsoft should seriously concider in their strategy. But they probably won't know how to make just as much money that way.
Quote from the LA times story:
"As a major employer and a leader in our industry, we take our legal obligations very seriously," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.
"These new compliance officers will help us do an even better job of understanding our responsibilities under the law and ensuring that all our people know what's expected of them. We are committed to full compliance with the antitrust settlement, as well as all the other laws and regulations affecting our business."
hehe I find it quite ironic. They take the law very seriously they say, yeah.. their law. Especially when they themselves are writing it.
my mother has an IBM laptop with norton antivirus preinstalled. Thats good. You've paid for the software once. That was one of the motivators for her to buy the laptop. All she now need to do is to upgrade her access to the virus definition updates. Thats good. Now just recently her last subscription ran out and she wanted to renew this. She couldn't. There were nolonger an option to update order a new subscription to that version of Norton Antivirus. She have to upgrade the whole software package though all she need is the antivirus definition subscription to be updated. Something they did not say wasn't possible in the marketing. Now she can't and is running without antivirus.
She has lost her trust in the Antivirus company who's most important issue is trust in their service.
Similar cases are seen with small business clients of mine who were promised the same from the marketing of Norton.
They have been left out in the open as well.
Fact is that eg. the marketing of Norton antivirus have not lived up to its promises = false marketing in my book, and in law in Europe/Denmark it means a crime.
So I'm now wondering if we will see class action suits in America sooner or later knowing this is going on.
And just to finish it off.. Where are the companies strategy? it definately do not seem to be in quality when quality is defined by:
what is delivered / what is expected = 1
if the result is not 1, quality is questionable.
spoken like a European :0)
I know I'm way off base, but so is the patent.
ahh come on...
of course microsoft need a say in these matters.
its like a criminal who have been found guilty in raping your goat. everyone in court knows about it, but since you are in bed with the funds of this criminal you can't laugh due to the implications it can forsake.
or take this one..
we have a criminal who have been found guilty for raping your goat, and since the judge is speechless and is holding back his laughs of the above reasons, the criminal can suggest his/her own verdict, and since noone dare talking reality about the case, the criminal looks to get his/her way.
so yes if you can understand the above mumbo jumbo of course the criminal should not have a say in these matters. they have been found guilty and shall receive its penalty. If justice is blind and noone call the cards in this situation, MS abused its monopoly, US LAW is in an even worse state than we fear.
"ohh your honor, so you have evidence that I did rape the girls, but because of my life is an integrated part of your system, hurting me, would be hurting yourself, and therefore you should let me state the penalty, cause I know better. Remember who run your computer systems, who's your dady"
It's a difficult situation.
Maybe now we can have an OPEN Government :)
I agree, the future isn't in the handsets, its in the wearables.
:)
But I disagree that the size should matter.
Size doesn't matter, usage and implementation does.
I believe we will see even smaller devices that will succeed, but not just for any application or in any environment.
In the US and many other places you can forget about any 'real' data communication using a pda device until the service issue has been sorted out. But in Europe where GSM is good and you can almost smell the 3G networks, and Japan where the networks are extraordinaire, its the other way around. The service is there. We scream for devices that are not just a mobile phone with a game and some SMS features. Here the market are ripe, so if the American manufacturers wants some business, all they need to do is deliver the advances products and launch it here with the same initiatives they would have done in the States. But mark my words if they are not going for keeps they should rather stay away and leave it up to japs and eurotrash such as yours truely
Here we have the service and even if the device is the size of a wristwatch, if only implemented with the right applications to suit the environment, it will rock the blueeyed danish and swedish blondes panties off.
my favourite fantasy, should I have the opportunity, would be my own personal modified version of the wristwatch from IBM labs in Zurich which are equipped with microphone, bluetoothed earplugs, linux, sandisc flashcard, 1.3inches color display and camera combined with webservices applications for advanced management (and later on blessed with a projector or visor and 'virtual keyboard'). Even without the wishware in the parantheses you would have a client device that in collaboration with web services would give you so many new advantages to make you daily life simpler and more organized, that leaves you with more time for real fun.
imagine the applications with the programmable device connected to the internet utilizing administration and communication software that sorts and organize all the information and makes it available to and for you, on your command.
when the IBM wristwatch with linux was covered here on slashdot a while back I posted some of my fantasies as well and I made a small note about if IBM, Nokia, Ericsson should be interested, I would be happy to cooperate. Amazingly some good IBM professor from Zurich wrote me an email encouraging me to take contact. Greetings to you, if you should read this again. I would love to at least initiate some sort of communication regarding the subject. Unfortunately I lost your address when my thinkpad's harddrive suddenly said: NO MORE. so just to leave it up to mr. chance here is my address again: caspera@sophistic.com
Why did I just write all this again?
Since the postings related to this article thanks to chrisd's layup are highly centered around advertizing for registrar's, here's mine..
.com.net.org.info(.biz) a year including DNS service and you get an actual invoice shipped to your address from Denmark.
/. in the future - they are not the reason I read the article's and they sort of distort my view on /. as a relaxed resort of recreation :)
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at http://sophistic.dk
.. ok that was it, and to chrisd thanks for the advertizement oportunity, but please I can live with out the layups on
Changing our infrastructures, Governments included, is easier in smaller organisations than larger ones. This I believe is one of the main reasons, that smaller organisations are better suited for innovations and why larger organisations follow, incorporate and acquire them in order not to become obsolete and replaced.
If major changes are to be expected in the way we live and organize ourselves, then I believe the chance for that is higher by supporting and learning from the smaller entities (on their terms), compared to start dancing with the big old lady.
me thinking.
/. as one of the last outposts of the digital frontier.
/. ? The atmosphere made /. different.
/. are no different than any other community/content/media site.
/. and the likes, house many dreamers with a desire to change. This time IBM
/. moving ? = towards economical survival secured by the massive supportive ressources they have build as a oart of the anti-XdominaX movement. An inevetable path
/. itself will be be challenged if it survives the move
if this was any other larger community site, be assured you would find it covered on slashdot in either a post or an article.
Many of us concider
But who are we kidding, most of all ourselves I should say.
Before today, Slashdot, to me, would be a community which strongest urge was to protect values,
not profit.
But I kid you not. The values of idealism has just been bought by the need of capitalism.
So what is now different about
Now
The content is still the data - like other sites.
The framework/atmosphere is now for profit not for value - like most other sites.
Who are we kidding?
Take a look at history.
Evolution of civilization.
Evolution of trade/economy.
Evolution of ideas.
Evolution.
Evolution happens due to a change, not complete replacement - that would be revolution.
Even Microsoft wanted to make a change.
In their youth, Bill Gates and Paul Allen and comrades, saw IBM as one of the big evil
dominant corporations controlling innovation. Now MS themselves has grown into an IBM of the past.
The new breed
wasn't the big active opponent (yet silently they at some are concidered belonging to the passive
group) - Microsoft is.
Now in what direction are
in a world based on economics, and any world at all where there are differences and changes.
Have no doubt. There will be a day, when
from amateurism to professionalism. Which I believe it will. I for one will probably contribute to make it happen.
..notes from inside the outside. oct 23. 2001 by Casper Andersen
Its odd how strikening the similarity between SOME rotten parts of the linux community and Microsoft really is.
/. if /. does not preserve freedom for all, but Linux. Where are the philosophy?
These fanatics doesn't know about the concept of simplicity and using the right tool for the right job and preserving freedom for all and everything.
They celebrate others hard times and fight other projects with marketing bias.
Do they want Linux for all and everything? Do they want to control others? Are they to decide what is good for others?
Where is their spirit of freedom?
Freedom doesn't come with a license to enslave you. Freedom exists in our hearts and in our minds. Freedom exist and is worth preserving.
If SOME Linux fanatics fight everything but Linux, as it appears, they are no better than Microsoft.
Ever heard about 'The right tool for the right job'?
We are all the same while at the same time nothing is the same, and the concept of freedom lies within.
I am a developer.
I approve of all systems and their right to exist.
I mess with linux, bsd, beos, windows - its all the same.
The bias from SOME people who CALL themselves part of the Linux community despite of not understanding what Linux is a part of, are sad.
Set yourself free, remove you chains.
The more dominant one group becomes and enslaves others, the more the others will gain in energy to evolve.
Who from the BSD community want to be a part of
Is freedom only reality when you break free until you grow and become biased and end up with freedom as an illusion.
REMEMBER YOUR ROOTS ???
smile to your next of kin.
s/he needs it as much as you do.
you are both the same.
After the 'war' you are a treat to the military. They have trained you, empowered you and introduced you to their secrets.
Just look at SOME of the afghans.
and anywhere else US have drafted on location/inside human fighting power.
Not saying they shouldn't either. But don't come and say you didn't knew afterwards - history reveals.
hehe I searched for this in the thread without finding it, weird.. well here goes then..
"You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
my questions are few and my answers are even lesser - yet I live and smile.
---
HACKERS MANIFESTO
The Conscience of a Hacker
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.
"Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal",
"Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's
technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did
you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what
may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter
than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers
explain forthe fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I
understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it
in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second,
this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake,
it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me... Or thinks I'm a smart ass...
Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing
through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an
electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day
incompetencies is sought... a board is found.
"This is it... this is where I belong..."
I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you
did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been
dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that
had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are
like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch,
the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already
existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't
run by profiteering gluttons, and you callus criminals. We
explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge...
and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without
nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie
to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're
the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they
look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that
you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this
individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
+++The Mentor+++
Seems to me the only single logon system that would be acceptable to most of us here would be one that offered all these possibilities to EVERY USER -- applied to ANY AND ALL personal data associated with his/her profile.
That I believe is so very true. The user must be able to control who will be given access to the information. The personal information management system must have the user/owner of the information in charge.
But still it is a very very very complicated task. The user are to take a stand, "whom will I grant my trust of what information and for how long and how will I allow the receiver to use the information I chose to make available".
Furthermore a factor to include is that different information will be needed for different needs/situations.
And another big problem I can think of is how to we deal with the problem of centralized administration versus decentralized administration - how do we combine the two in order to get the best of both. They are both vulnerable in more facettes than I can think of off the hip. central=vulnerable for single attacks & distributed=vulnerable due to the widespread information and more angles to attack/enter from.
Yet it must be solved. A hell of a research must be completed. It is not impossible, but its a major major major task. The system must be very sophisticated to deal with all the factors, and yet the simplicity must be there so everyone can actually use it for their purpose.
Sophisticated Simplicity - thats a tough one.
But best of luck to us all.
The user needs only is not paramount here, it also has to be viable for any commercial entity to join or participate in such a system. Mass marketing etc is definitely irritating and irrational for the consumer but is a visible requirement from the Marcomm types. Other requirement could be access to information stored for a user, how the user is allowed to control such access is debatable.
No we do not want a mass marketing system to aid the companies like my own and even bigger and filthier competitors.
We would like a system to aid the companies like my and even bigger and filthier competitors to aid our customers with more simplicity and tailored solutions to their likenings - but remember it must be the users choice and the user must not be enslaved by the corporate world just in the name of growth. You and I are users too sometimes.
A challange for the designers of this or any similar system shall be to keep the conflicts of interest at bay.
Like it is in all aspects of life. But when the mass marketing is over the top already we have to pull in the other direction - we simply must.
We need solutions that preserves freedom.
We have refused the microsoft hailstorm/passport project from day one due to the one company dominates all issues. Yet we are open to the idea of a unified identity system.
It is still too early to say whether the Liberty Alliance project will be a viable solution. Our most important concerns are:
The unified identity system must be 'open', not controlled by one entity that one way or the other can be concidered a competitor to our products. (Microsoft is - they are so dominant that they are in one way or the other a competitor to nearly every IT organisation I can think of, and that is the same reason why passport/hailstorm can not evolve).
The unified identity system must be developed according to users needs and not beyond. It must not be abused for mass marketing. So a major task is to develop the system avoiding any of the participating or non-participating interests to be able to abuse it. How to do that? I do not have the solution, but I don't want the system without one. What I can conclude is that the system must be developed in open. Where everyone can assist in the 'code' review in assuring nothing is being overlooked in the best possible way. An 'opensource' perhaps applicant to the rules of FSF if suitable. Here the extreme rules of FSF are indeed very suitable as this must be a public interest project.
The unified identity system must be implementable/joinable by all interests accross platforms. It must me implementable/joinable by all developers and users in spite of financial status. And for that reason again, unexploitable. Thats a major system development task - but is required. Security bust be built into the system. A socalled social solution will not be adequate, as it is possible that not everyone are playing straight.
I have signed up for the mailing list at http://projectliberty.org/interest.html and I am looking forward to the see how it evolves. Maybe even try to contribute. But if the openness in the solution does not apply and the concerns/issues above are not resolved and perhaps others as well, I can not approve, and I can't imagine anyone who can without having a special agenda that is not favouring the public interest.
best regards
Vspirit - Casper Andersen
Administrative Manager - Sophistic Systems
Wise words, well spoken.
We're in a situation where one must thread carefully, a 'barfight' easily starts when we have our temper triggered by our emotions, and then the real war could kick off. Yet it is important to strike HARD and SEVERE on those responsible. I'm curious to find out who is behind this. The truth MUST be revealed.
have to throw in this piece as well.. pardon me if its already among these thousands of posts..
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
while the fortress endures,
the great leader will succumb
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- Nostradamus 1554
I am not going to enter a dispute about whether the US is good or bad, as in general, US and all the rest are both.
What I do like to comment on, is that the US arms industry is to my experience the most exporting in the world. And even though the US has supported rebels or government troops in various countries depending on which they felt was most useable to the US, the same US arms industry has also been supplying the counterpart.
The US arms industry welcomes George W. Bush
there is no such thing as a combative president to aid the export, by creating a demand.
I'm no commie, and I'm not capitalist either.. I'm just one of the people stuck in between.
TecsChange
According to TecsChange faq, here is their wishlist:
What equipment can you accept?
As of the spring of 2001, we are looking for Pentium computers (working motherboards, OK if they are missing parts). We are also looking for spare parts that can be used for repairing/upgrading this class of computers - no 5.25" floppy drives or mono monitors please! Specifically, we are looking for:
* Desktop Computers: at least 233 MHz Pentium II processors, working motherboards
* Laptop Computers: Working Pentium laptops with at least 24 MB of memory
* Monitors: 17-inch color SVGA, good working condition
* Printers: laser, deskjet, or letter-quality dot matrix, working condition
* Hard Disks: IDE hard drives of 4 GB capacity or larger
* Memory: 16 MB or larger, SIMMS/DIMMS
* Modems: 33.6 KBPS speed or faster
* CD-ROM drives: any speed IDE drives, also IDE CD burners
* Zip Drives: any capacity, also Zip Disks
* Networking Equipment: especially 10-Base-T hubs and ethernet switches
* Overhead Projectors: VGA compatible plug
* Software Licenses: the "Certificate of Authenticity" for Windows 95, 98, or any version of Microsoft Office that comes with your donated computer
In particular I noted the Software Licenses issue.
Something about that is fishy, but I'm not sure I can put my fingers on it, can you?
I think my main concerns are that, why not install Linux/BSD/OSS instead of the windows software which will only make the computers more expensive in maintenance and upgrades. Also strategically from many various interests, this windows stuff on these free computers seems weird.
I see no reason to support TecsChange until they have worked out their priorities. Bundling these free computers for low income interest groups with an expensive software platform doesn't provide much space for growth.
So a little recommendation to TecsChange, be smarter or I and many others see no reason to support you, as we would not feel cofident that you have the brains to do the job properly.
"only people with something to hide care about their privacy". A sentence I've heard before, but there are others who for legitimate reasons have something that they do not wish to have publicly available.
Very good example with the medical record there Michael. It reminds me of a movie with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman called "GATTACA".
where are we heading?
Microsoft is just another bubble.
Imagine what will happen when it blows.
All people and economy that is dependent on M$.
Lots of people pushing and pulling to keep the ship afloat.. just wait to see the crash.
and all their illusions will overcome them.
..William Gibson
Neuromancer and the lots.
--
What goes up must come down.. - Tom Petty
the harder the proprietary software is to get hold of, the more success open source / free software will get.
so this will lower the windows activity, cause less users will get accustomed to the software as it become more inaccessible than before.
which leaves the software that you can access to be the stuff that the masses can get reach the easiest.
a win win situation I would say. when it comes to OSS over PS. but also I am concerned with the fact that no system is bullet proff unless it does not have only two simple different choices to sort. one way or the other way.
Why should a non citizen of the U.S. be afforded the same rights as a citizen?
if a non U.S. citizen are to be judged by U.S. law, that same non U.S. citizen must also be protected by the same rights and law under which he is being judged.
if this is not so, then there is something rotten in the state of denmark, and in the U.S. as well.