A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday...
Apologies for the awful heading, but this conference was initially to discuss the above. It could be noted that certain countries preferred talking about the easy to bash US point, rather than the complex issues involving the intended focal point of the conference. Perhaps some of these afore mentioned countries have their own issues regarding who of their own people can see, and what their people can and cannot see, using this US - Rest Of World argument as an easy way of getting out of discussing their own policies towards internet governance.
but I wonder: assuming he has to pay for medical care (I'm British, sorry) - I hope he makes enough money from this project to adequately cover these costs.
Here is my real beef - I love open source, but it pisses me off when I speak to people in business when they talk about free software in terms of monetary cost. I believe that if you regularly use and rely on certain software - OS or not - that you should be obliged to pay something in return to the support the process.
Frankly, there are a number of businesses who really rely on this software and refuse to believe that they owe anything in return - money or code.
Looking for an American based site for objective coverage may not be that enlightening.
To get a global perspective of the impact of the election result and overall good quality coverage, keep an eye on http://news.bbc.co.uk/. I know that in the UK there will be a "Through The Night" results program broadcast, and in the past these "News Specials" have been simultaneously broadcast via Real Player on the BBC site. No guarantees, but they do tend to do this with big news stories.
The San Francisco Chronicle are inviting burglers and property defacers to alter as many homes and businesses as possible on july 7th, with an apparent limit of 6,000 properties per contestant. Looks like this would be a good time to make sure that your private arsenal is fully functional, loaded and well stocked with ammo and your Doberman Pinscher has an elastic band around its private parts in preparation for the fucked-up "friendly" fire-fest! See you in the shit!
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A summit focusing on narrowing the digital divide between the rich and poor residents and countries opened Wednesday...
Apologies for the awful heading, but this conference was initially to discuss the above. It could be noted that certain countries preferred talking about the easy to bash US point, rather than the complex issues involving the intended focal point of the conference. Perhaps some of these afore mentioned countries have their own issues regarding who of their own people can see, and what their people can and cannot see, using this US - Rest Of World argument as an easy way of getting out of discussing their own policies towards internet governance.
but I wonder: assuming he has to pay for medical care (I'm British, sorry) - I hope he makes enough money from this project to adequately cover these costs.
Here is my real beef - I love open source, but it pisses me off when I speak to people in business when they talk about free software in terms of monetary cost. I believe that if you regularly use and rely on certain software - OS or not - that you should be obliged to pay something in return to the support the process.
Frankly, there are a number of businesses who really rely on this software and refuse to believe that they owe anything in return - money or code.
Sorry folks, rant over...
Looking for an American based site for objective coverage may not be that enlightening.
To get a global perspective of the impact of the election result and overall good quality coverage, keep an eye on http://news.bbc.co.uk/. I know that in the UK there will be a "Through The Night" results program broadcast, and in the past these "News Specials" have been simultaneously broadcast via Real Player on the BBC site. No guarantees, but they do tend to do this with big news stories.
The San Francisco Chronicle are inviting burglers and property defacers to alter as many homes and businesses as possible on july 7th, with an apparent limit of 6,000 properties per contestant. Looks like this would be a good time to make sure that your private arsenal is fully functional, loaded and well stocked with ammo and your Doberman Pinscher has an elastic band around its private parts in preparation for the fucked-up "friendly" fire-fest! See you in the shit!
...does the thought of microsoft 2020 running on a series of atoms fill me with fear and dread. Discuss.