I'm usually against censorship of the media like Apple's quest against Mac bloggers. But after looking at New Media Journal I could see why Google would decide to be picky on its news aggregator. I can not comment on the other sites mentioned but New Media Journal is full of hate-speech the likes that would make a KKK member bashful. It always surprises me to see how hateful people can be even against their fellow Americans (in New Media Journal the author actually hints at physically harming "left" wing Americans which is suppose to be like 50%+/- of the U.S. population). Some people need to take their medicine.
why would people with nothing to hide want to have their personal conversations listened to? And why would we want to spend our tax money to spy on people who have nothing to hide? Shouldn't we be after the terrorists instead?
I take their (Sun's) message as not a tentative step but rather a step to see when, or if, the OSS community will bite. They will also probably do something like they did with OpenOffice and make developers agree to a JCA in order to contribute code. If you are not familiar with this contract I'll summarize it for you: it legally negates the LGPL that comes with OpenOffice, prevents forking, and allows Sun to close source the codebase and claim all work as sole IP owner. People are sometimes so blinded by their hate for Microsoft that they ignore that Sun is really just a competitor that wants to be more of the same.
Certainly they have weapons systems and aircraft technology not available to anyone else.
Why? And why do these weapons and aircraft never surface in times of war? Are they saved for a very special day? And, in what quantity do we have them? Couldn't be much, since military aircraft and weapon systems are large objects (difficult to move or hide), very expensive, and require massive resources (ie lots of personnel) in order to manufacture. Since said personnel are apt to quiting, like in every other job in the world, it is only a matter of time before the secret project is leaked to the public.
Leaks and declassification of everything from the atom bomb to the SR-71 have proven that pretty well.
Neither is very secret actually since many countries have said technology. But in both cases they are one important thing: very expensive to produce. This expense is usually the limiting factor known as a "cost of entry". Even having the knowledge on how to build one, I do not have the funds to do it.
There is no "big gun" technology with the NSA. Why do people hype the technology of the government and its agencies when they are shown time and time again that the tech they actually have and use is rather common stuff.
There is no mysterious super technology being used by our government. This is for very simple reasons:
1) Government workers are pretty average, or below average, in the tech field. And like every U.S. company they employ contractors for any technical work past putting an Excel spreadsheet together.
2) Contractors for the government fit in to two categories: the high tech and the overpaid. The high tech contractors never work exclusively for the government and the technology they peddle has already been in the market a few years. The overpaid are exclusive government contractors whose technology is, in truth, a collection of the high tech sub-contractors I just spoke of.
Did you even read what you just wrote? Read it again. Here, I'll point out the problem:
My point, and my only point, is that the leakers knew the consequences of what they were doing
Which was followed by:
If they believe what they were doing is right, why do they hide?
Why in the hell would someone openly try to be punished for doing the right thing from those who are doing wrong or evil? Have you ever heard of the Witness Protection Program? Why do you think they hide witnesses?
Guess people shouldn't expect someone with a sig of "666" to understand right from wrong or complex subjects like morality.
Divulging classified information is not "whistleblowing",
Yes it is. Watergate? Deep throat? What are you, like 12 years old? You are apparently in a subject that is way over your head.
There are policies in place to report corruption or illegal activities in regards to classifired material.
You never worked in the government.
Honestly, people who who security clearance know better than this.
Some people let their morals override their work duties. These individuals take the risk of being fired or jailed because they ultimetly feel that their first duty, as a member of our government and an American citizen, is to answer to the people and not the government they work for. The U.S. government is a representation of the people, not the owner or ruler there of.
Whether or not a program is illegal or unconstittutional, leakers have to expect to take a hit.
Leakers know they will probably get hit for leaking information. But they are just brave, selfless individuals.
I can summarize it even more: the author felt that Sony was doomed due to its arrogance. So what? Apple is snobbish and arrogant as hell but people buy their products by the truck loads. Microsoft doesn't give a crap about their customers and they are still own the operating system market. So what if he didn't get to play with a PS3 at E3. Get over it! There were plenty of other demos by various companies there and to cry over the lack of a playable PS3 is just childish.
I tried Rails for a bit. Found it nice. I found the language Ruby more interesting than the Rails framework. Rails code I looked at looked very much like JSP/ASP/PHP gone bad. All sorts of code in HTML land. Then their was the compilation oddities.
I still believe that Java and PHP are better though. They also perform a hell of a lot faster and scale much better. For example, a friend was creating a site with Rails and wanted to put in integrated search. Several people attempted creating something like Apache's Lucene in Ruby but found that the Ruby's poor performance made the search incredible slow (you could time out before it finished getting your search results).
What I would think would be really cool is a Lua plugin for Apache. That would be sweet.
Oh, they are free game. Ofcourse, you will be marked a terrorist and sent on a secret CIA plane to some place in Europe to be secretly tortured if caught. You can get this also by paying down your credit cards too. Zie Heil King Chimpy.
There is illegal wiretapping going on currently. The extent of which is unknown since the same day this USAToday article appeared lawyers from the Justice Department were denied clearance to inquire the scope of the NSA wiretapping program. Since it is impossible to investigate we have no idea exactly what, or I should say whom, they are wiretapping. The president and many GOP supporters in both houses keep telling us it is for investigating terrorist suspects. This is rather funny since no one besides the president and the NSA have clearence to information on the NSA wiretapping. For example, today in the news:
Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., said the NSA was using the data to analyze calling patterns in order to detect and track suspected terrorist activity, according to information provided to him by the White House.
That is funny since Sen. (R-Nebraska) Chuck Hagel had this to say:
Hagel, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he supports Hayden but was "concerned" about the reports of the NSA collecting phone call records and that "the issue needs to be clearly aired."
So how is Sen. Wayne Allard more informed than Sen. Chuck Hagel since Chuck is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee that oversees the FBI, CIA, and NSA? Is Allard in some unknown super secret group of senators that supercede the Senate Intelligence Committee? Me thinks Allard is a liar who supports tyranny at its finest.
My only concern is that it appears the plugin is not going to be made widely available, in order to avoid removing the pressure for people to migrate away from Office,
Its NOT free speech, get off your fucking high horse and learn something about US law before you come in thinking you know everything.
Oh, please site the laws that were broken. A NDA is not a law binding document. By breaking it, you are only breaking a contractual agreement with said party. SomethingAweful, as many have noted, only linked to the document in question. The "offending" document was hosted from an outside site. Linking is not punishable (see Microsoft vs. Ticketmaster) or else companies like Google would be out of business. Hell, I'm not even a lawyer and I know more about U.S. law than you do. Thats pretty bad.
Jesus fucking christ I hope morons like you arnt allowed to vote in the US. People like you are the reason Bush won.
It's very un-American to tell people to not vote. Besides getting a basic understanding of the laws in this country, maybe you should learn a little about a little thing known as democracy.
Hmmm. I'm getting pretty tired of Apples attempts to stifle free speech. Does anyone know which page of the manual was the offending page? Please let me know. People should post this single page EVERYWHERE they can. And only that one page. If Apple lawyers complain, drop the image. Make sure it's difficult for them to get a hold of you though. That should teach Apple censorship is costly and pointless.
I see less of this but rather Microsoft doing one of two things:
1) Embrace the plugin and create it as a standard feature of MS Office. Make sure this integration solution falls behind the standard and start including special Microsoft initiated ideas. When standards people complain about the new features, yell at them stating that the standard people are holding the product back from its true capabilities that customers keep demanding of Microsoft.
2) Include a warning message when loading or saving documents to special plugins that they may include viruses, have missing features, or that data may be lost. If people complain, Microsoft will state that feature X in Word is not in the standard.
Ignore the bullcrap you are hearing. Apparently there are a bunch of analysts out there who are pissed off that Google didn't acquire company X when they said they would. So, to keep their "insider" title they are releasing more steaming piles of wild guesses such as "eBay will join Microsoft" or "Amazon set to deal with Microsoft". One common line I am seeing is that they keep pointing to Microsoft to merge with someone else to do something about Google. The only thing I can guess is that these "insiders" probably have some Microsoft stock and are hating the recent decline due to Vista delays and advertisers flocking to Google. Screw em and don't pay these people mind.
Last time I looked, Dell was not the owner of Internet Explorer. Sure, the OEM route has been tried before. And time and time again Microsoft has threatened OEMs with increasing the cost of Windows per unit if they bundled competitor products. A good example is AOL working with OEMs back in 2001 for perferred placement over MSN:
Microsoft executives countered that AOL is being heavy-handed with PC makers. "The stuff AOL is doing now is just limiting market choice. It's unbelievably egregious," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the company's financial analyst meeting at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters. Chairman Bill Gates said AOL is "trying to get OEMs to delete the features of Windows."
Sun also tried this with Java. In both cases OEMs abrubtly stop negotiations without disclosing their reasoning. Later in Microsoft's antitrust trials, several OEMs, particularly Gateway, disclosed this tactic by Microsoft. Later judgements said Microsoft shouldn't strongarm OEMs. EU current findings show that Microsoft has continued this policy.
Firefox could default to MSN in all future releases. Since Firefox is not owned by Google they can do whatever they want. True, Firefox makes money because they point to Google as default. I never disputed that. Google gives the Mozilla Foundation thousands of dollars. And also, Google makes money if a browsers defaults to their website. Some of the money goes to Firefox since they default to Google. I never disputed that either. What Microsoft wants is IE7 pointing to MSN as the default. You can also bet that switching the default in IE7 is not an option that can be purchased by the likes of Yahoo or Google since Microsoft has a finacial interest that all browsers point to MSN. Thats a closed market or small example of a monopoly.
There is a major difference between Firefox or Opera defaulting to Google and IE7 defaulting to MSN: neither Firefox or Opera are owned by Google. Google makes no money in the sell of either. Firefox and/or Opera could change their default to MSN if they so desired. Microsoft could even pay them to do that. But Microsoft deploys IE7 and Microsoft makes money on MSN. That is a problem.
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I would help fix the speed and memory usage of OpenOffice but the JCA Sun makes you sign to submit code prevents me from contributing.
Hmmm, I think PNG and MNG answers these.
I'm usually against censorship of the media like Apple's quest against Mac bloggers. But after looking at New Media Journal I could see why Google would decide to be picky on its news aggregator. I can not comment on the other sites mentioned but New Media Journal is full of hate-speech the likes that would make a KKK member bashful. It always surprises me to see how hateful people can be even against their fellow Americans (in New Media Journal the author actually hints at physically harming "left" wing Americans which is suppose to be like 50%+/- of the U.S. population). Some people need to take their medicine.
Yes, I know that we are spending tax money to spy on people who have nothing to hide rather than on fighting terrorism.
why would people with nothing to hide want to have their personal conversations listened to? And why would we want to spend our tax money to spy on people who have nothing to hide? Shouldn't we be after the terrorists instead?
I take their (Sun's) message as not a tentative step but rather a step to see when, or if, the OSS community will bite. They will also probably do something like they did with OpenOffice and make developers agree to a JCA in order to contribute code. If you are not familiar with this contract I'll summarize it for you: it legally negates the LGPL that comes with OpenOffice, prevents forking, and allows Sun to close source the codebase and claim all work as sole IP owner. People are sometimes so blinded by their hate for Microsoft that they ignore that Sun is really just a competitor that wants to be more of the same.
Must be another slow news day. I mean, Microsoft exploits are as regular as I am after eating Mexican food.
They don't have to teleport anymore thanks to the wonders of Bush's new guest worker program!
Certainly they have weapons systems and aircraft technology not available to anyone else.
Why? And why do these weapons and aircraft never surface in times of war? Are they saved for a very special day? And, in what quantity do we have them? Couldn't be much, since military aircraft and weapon systems are large objects (difficult to move or hide), very expensive, and require massive resources (ie lots of personnel) in order to manufacture. Since said personnel are apt to quiting, like in every other job in the world, it is only a matter of time before the secret project is leaked to the public.
Leaks and declassification of everything from the atom bomb to the SR-71 have proven that pretty well.
Neither is very secret actually since many countries have said technology. But in both cases they are one important thing: very expensive to produce. This expense is usually the limiting factor known as a "cost of entry". Even having the knowledge on how to build one, I do not have the funds to do it.
There is no "big gun" technology with the NSA. Why do people hype the technology of the government and its agencies when they are shown time and time again that the tech they actually have and use is rather common stuff.
There is no mysterious super technology being used by our government. This is for very simple reasons:
1) Government workers are pretty average, or below average, in the tech field. And like every U.S. company they employ contractors for any technical work past putting an Excel spreadsheet together.
2) Contractors for the government fit in to two categories: the high tech and the overpaid. The high tech contractors never work exclusively for the government and the technology they peddle has already been in the market a few years. The overpaid are exclusive government contractors whose technology is, in truth, a collection of the high tech sub-contractors I just spoke of.
I think Microsoft's losses in certain segments is not due to its handling of customers but rather being beaten by better technology.
Did you even read what you just wrote? Read it again. Here, I'll point out the problem:
My point, and my only point, is that the leakers knew the consequences of what they were doing
Which was followed by:
If they believe what they were doing is right, why do they hide?
Why in the hell would someone openly try to be punished for doing the right thing from those who are doing wrong or evil? Have you ever heard of the Witness Protection Program? Why do you think they hide witnesses?
Guess people shouldn't expect someone with a sig of "666" to understand right from wrong or complex subjects like morality.
Divulging classified information is not "whistleblowing",
Yes it is. Watergate? Deep throat? What are you, like 12 years old? You are apparently in a subject that is way over your head.
There are policies in place to report corruption or illegal activities in regards to classifired material.
You never worked in the government.
Honestly, people who who security clearance know better than this.
Some people let their morals override their work duties. These individuals take the risk of being fired or jailed because they ultimetly feel that their first duty, as a member of our government and an American citizen, is to answer to the people and not the government they work for. The U.S. government is a representation of the people, not the owner or ruler there of.
Whether or not a program is illegal or unconstittutional, leakers have to expect to take a hit.
Leakers know they will probably get hit for leaking information. But they are just brave, selfless individuals.
I can summarize it even more: the author felt that Sony was doomed due to its arrogance. So what? Apple is snobbish and arrogant as hell but people buy their products by the truck loads. Microsoft doesn't give a crap about their customers and they are still own the operating system market. So what if he didn't get to play with a PS3 at E3. Get over it! There were plenty of other demos by various companies there and to cry over the lack of a playable PS3 is just childish.
I tried Rails for a bit. Found it nice. I found the language Ruby more interesting than the Rails framework. Rails code I looked at looked very much like JSP/ASP/PHP gone bad. All sorts of code in HTML land. Then their was the compilation oddities.
I still believe that Java and PHP are better though. They also perform a hell of a lot faster and scale much better. For example, a friend was creating a site with Rails and wanted to put in integrated search. Several people attempted creating something like Apache's Lucene in Ruby but found that the Ruby's poor performance made the search incredible slow (you could time out before it finished getting your search results).
What I would think would be really cool is a Lua plugin for Apache. That would be sweet.
Oh, they are free game. Ofcourse, you will be marked a terrorist and sent on a secret CIA plane to some place in Europe to be secretly tortured if caught. You can get this also by paying down your credit cards too. Zie Heil King Chimpy.
There is illegal wiretapping going on currently. The extent of which is unknown since the same day this USAToday article appeared lawyers from the Justice Department were denied clearance to inquire the scope of the NSA wiretapping program. Since it is impossible to investigate we have no idea exactly what, or I should say whom, they are wiretapping. The president and many GOP supporters in both houses keep telling us it is for investigating terrorist suspects. This is rather funny since no one besides the president and the NSA have clearence to information on the NSA wiretapping. For example, today in the news:
Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., said the NSA was using the data to analyze calling patterns in order to detect and track suspected terrorist activity, according to information provided to him by the White House.
That is funny since Sen. (R-Nebraska) Chuck Hagel had this to say:
Hagel, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he supports Hayden but was "concerned" about the reports of the NSA collecting phone call records and that "the issue needs to be clearly aired."
So how is Sen. Wayne Allard more informed than Sen. Chuck Hagel since Chuck is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee that oversees the FBI, CIA, and NSA? Is Allard in some unknown super secret group of senators that supercede the Senate Intelligence Committee? Me thinks Allard is a liar who supports tyranny at its finest.
My only concern is that it appears the plugin is not going to be made widely available, in order to avoid removing the pressure for people to migrate away from Office,
What limited availability?!
Its NOT free speech, get off your fucking high horse and learn something about US law before you come in thinking you know everything.
Oh, please site the laws that were broken. A NDA is not a law binding document. By breaking it, you are only breaking a contractual agreement with said party. SomethingAweful, as many have noted, only linked to the document in question. The "offending" document was hosted from an outside site. Linking is not punishable (see Microsoft vs. Ticketmaster) or else companies like Google would be out of business. Hell, I'm not even a lawyer and I know more about U.S. law than you do. Thats pretty bad.
Jesus fucking christ I hope morons like you arnt allowed to vote in the US. People like you are the reason Bush won.
It's very un-American to tell people to not vote. Besides getting a basic understanding of the laws in this country, maybe you should learn a little about a little thing known as democracy.
Hmmm. I'm getting pretty tired of Apples attempts to stifle free speech. Does anyone know which page of the manual was the offending page? Please let me know. People should post this single page EVERYWHERE they can. And only that one page. If Apple lawyers complain, drop the image. Make sure it's difficult for them to get a hold of you though. That should teach Apple censorship is costly and pointless.
I see less of this but rather Microsoft doing one of two things:
1) Embrace the plugin and create it as a standard feature of MS Office. Make sure this integration solution falls behind the standard and start including special Microsoft initiated ideas. When standards people complain about the new features, yell at them stating that the standard people are holding the product back from its true capabilities that customers keep demanding of Microsoft.
2) Include a warning message when loading or saving documents to special plugins that they may include viruses, have missing features, or that data may be lost. If people complain, Microsoft will state that feature X in Word is not in the standard.
Ignore the bullcrap you are hearing. Apparently there are a bunch of analysts out there who are pissed off that Google didn't acquire company X when they said they would. So, to keep their "insider" title they are releasing more steaming piles of wild guesses such as "eBay will join Microsoft" or "Amazon set to deal with Microsoft". One common line I am seeing is that they keep pointing to Microsoft to merge with someone else to do something about Google. The only thing I can guess is that these "insiders" probably have some Microsoft stock and are hating the recent decline due to Vista delays and advertisers flocking to Google. Screw em and don't pay these people mind.
Last time I looked, Dell was not the owner of Internet Explorer. Sure, the OEM route has been tried before. And time and time again Microsoft has threatened OEMs with increasing the cost of Windows per unit if they bundled competitor products. A good example is AOL working with OEMs back in 2001 for perferred placement over MSN:
Microsoft executives countered that AOL is being heavy-handed with PC makers. "The stuff AOL is doing now is just limiting market choice. It's unbelievably egregious," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday at the company's financial analyst meeting at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters. Chairman Bill Gates said AOL is "trying to get OEMs to delete the features of Windows."
Sun also tried this with Java. In both cases OEMs abrubtly stop negotiations without disclosing their reasoning. Later in Microsoft's antitrust trials, several OEMs, particularly Gateway, disclosed this tactic by Microsoft. Later judgements said Microsoft shouldn't strongarm OEMs. EU current findings show that Microsoft has continued this policy.
Firefox could default to MSN in all future releases. Since Firefox is not owned by Google they can do whatever they want. True, Firefox makes money because they point to Google as default. I never disputed that. Google gives the Mozilla Foundation thousands of dollars. And also, Google makes money if a browsers defaults to their website. Some of the money goes to Firefox since they default to Google. I never disputed that either. What Microsoft wants is IE7 pointing to MSN as the default. You can also bet that switching the default in IE7 is not an option that can be purchased by the likes of Yahoo or Google since Microsoft has a finacial interest that all browsers point to MSN. Thats a closed market or small example of a monopoly.
There is a major difference between Firefox or Opera defaulting to Google and IE7 defaulting to MSN: neither Firefox or Opera are owned by Google. Google makes no money in the sell of either. Firefox and/or Opera could change their default to MSN if they so desired. Microsoft could even pay them to do that. But Microsoft deploys IE7 and Microsoft makes money on MSN. That is a problem.