Speaking of which, expect to spend more for sewer and water taxes in the future. Any utility that has a 'pipe' to you is a perfect mechanism for governments
to extract money from you.
Yes it's a vector. And MS wants to control that vector. If you don't see the parallels to how
MS pushed IE on the masses, you haven't been
paying attention.
When things start getting messy down the road,
and the TPTB want to hide the truth from the
masses, what better way than to control RSS feeds.
MS would not want to buy my business because I only
use GPLed software. Sure, they could make me a great offer, but even if I were to take it, it
would not prevent me from just starting another
business. MS only wants to buy companies that
they can kill.
Nice report. As to publishing a list of opportunities for sneaky stuff, please do.
They can't change their procedures (not yet anyway),
and there are going to be many more machinations
going on that need to be thwarted.
I believe you are confusing free as in beer and
free as in freedom. MS does not want free (as in
freedom) software to even exist.
Anything they (MS) propose to offer that has a catch
regarding free software means that free (as in GPL)
software could not use it.
Charging a nominal cost will not solve anything.
A retail loans arm of Citigroup was ferrying the data via UPS to Experian, the credit-checking arm of GUS, the UK retail and logistics group. But one box of data failed to arrive at Experian's Texas offices and was presumed lost en route by UPS.
Experian said last night that it was moving ahead with plans to shift from transporting hard copies of data overland and was working with customers to allow all data to be sent electronic ally.
Citigroup has already agreed to the plan and is expected to cease overland transportation of most customer data within the next month.
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It's very close to the engineered value (50 or 60) but is constantly fluctuating.
That is why AC powered clocks that use the HZ to drive them tend to need adjustment over time.
And as a user, I am free to write or modify the software I use. That means the software has to be free, not controlled by some entity.
It does mean that the software has to be free as in freedom.
When things start getting messy down the road, and the TPTB want to hide the truth from the masses, what better way than to control RSS feeds.
Thanks for sharing the story.
Probably a good chance that a windows machine was involved.
And you don't allow access to it from un-trusted machines (i.e., the Internet), right?
Otherwise, in theory, it could get pwned. It is running Linux and tools such as busybox.
?
(Interesting that the Secret Service is involved)
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209- 1645235,00.html
A retail loans arm of Citigroup was ferrying the data via UPS to Experian, the credit-checking arm of GUS, the UK retail and logistics group. But one box of data failed to arrive at Experian's Texas offices and was presumed lost en route by UPS.
Experian said last night that it was moving ahead with plans to shift from transporting hard copies of data overland and was working with customers to allow all data to be sent electronic ally.
Citigroup has already agreed to the plan and is expected to cease overland transportation of most customer data within the next month.