Thank god the US has a good constitution to prevent crap like that.
Oh yea, that great consitution. Seems our rights go straight out the door when other laws get used against us anyway. The U.S. constitution is being bent in every direction it can by our government and corporations. It only takes time till those wealthy and powerful few gain enough to send us back to the days of kings. Very ironic that during the middle ages, the royalty thought their lives were so great. Yet as we see today, the middle class enjoys more luxury than those wealthy in the middle ages. Of course those were bad times and technology improves people's lives. It should still be quite obvious that more equality brings about a better life for everyone. Poor want what the rich have, the rich want more. It all becomes conflict. Call me what you want, say whatever you want, and live your happy little life the way you want until that pissed off terrorist blows up another building which you may just be in and your voice will no longer be heard, you will no longer be able to say what you want, or do what you want. You cannot deny the facts. I want something more than profit, I want more than a happy life. I want peace and equality among all. You really want to know what the biggest problem is in our world? Do you really have any idea what it could be? I'll tell you, it's intellectual property. Yes, the great tool of suppression. It is on the top of the list on causing societies problems. It would not have been so hundreds of years ago, but it is today. If you read as much as I did on issues of freedom, equality, and intellectual property, and if you have thought about it as much as I did (every single day, not an hour goes by that I do not think about it) then you would see. I don't expect you to understand though, neither do I expect a majority of people to understand. I just wish that people would listen and think about it. That is all it takes to make a change. It first starts with a thought.
America's beginning was full rebellion and revolution. It seems to me that Australia is doing better in that category than America is now-a-days. America is no longer about revolution. Now it's all politics, profit, and popularity. America is only going downhill. Australia, although no better than America, still has some spirit left in it's people. The Austrilian people are disappointed with the broadband pricing and so they got together and are working to solve it. They didn't leave it up to the government or the corporations to do it for them, they are taking the charge.
I think this is time for people to really start thinking. It is time for a revolution. Not like those you read about in your history books. No one needs to die. People need to work on fixing the system. There should be no reliance on a central authority. There is too much centralization these days. We are humans, not machines. Why not start acting like humans and throw out the old rules. Australia is not perfect, but the people have a better sense of what freedom really means. Check out http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/ this is Brian Martin's page. He teachs over at the University of Wollongong in Australia, after reading some of his material you'll realize what I mean by a better sense of freedom.
I find no reason why one man/woman can be a hundred or a thousand times richer than another. All men are created equal. In our constitution it says. Yet our practice is otherwise. No I am not communist, and no I do not believe that every man should make exactly the same as any other, but our current state of "equalness" is ridiculous. When the system is flawed, do not say "Atleast it's better than other systems", FIX IT.
I'm done with my rant, go ahead, mod me down. Supression only seems to help the problem doesn't it?
The problem is that everyone is asking and answering the wrong questions. It is a sad thing that lawyers relate everything to laws, old and new. Problems do not solve themselves when you relate them and attempt to solve them using current flawed laws. It should not be about laws or acts, it should be about what is right and what is not.
If you want to know how to solve the problem with the music industry then listen up. The industry is large and that is the way most want it, atleast those who are a part of it. To them it is about lifestyle, money, jobs, and simply put it, it is the way they have lived their lives for as long as they can remember. They are not willing to let go and just like most people, they want more. The problem is that the whole idea of a music industry is just crazy. Yes, we do need companies that work with music and such, but why make the industry so large. Those who work in the industry have it all well planned out to make more money and to keeps the profits rolling. We do not need an industry and we do not need copy protection, we do not need the DMCA. What we need is more music, more jobs, more valueable work, and less profits for those who only work on making more profit. Sometimes profit is needed to proceed with bigger plans, ones in which more money, but why would the music industry need to make large profits? Artists do not get paid enough. A majority of the music we listen to is on the radio and CDs that we buy or pay for to the industry; various record companies. What happens to all the small time artists? All they can hope for is to make it in the industry. No matter how much work they put into their music or how hard they try to "make it", it will all come down to chance that some record label will make a deal with them. Not only is that a problem, but when the deal is finally made, the artist only gets a small fraction of the profit. The right thing to do is take the power away from the wealthy and give it to the artists. The record companies want money, people want music, and artists want to make music and be able to live off of it. The solution is simple, take away the companies and take away the laws. The only thing you will be left with is people making music and people paying the artists for their work. Sure people will spread the music around, but artists have many avenues for making money, and when the companies and lawyers are taken out of the equation then the artists are the ones that take in the share. Jobs will always exist in our economy no matter what the government or companies tell you. It is people that work and people that make up companies. Yet when a small group wants more money and or more power they attempt to take more profit away from those below them. Stop the cycle, stop the problem, do not fix the problems with current laws, do what is right. It is not what I say that will change things for the better, it is what everybody says.
You claim "why would anyone want to run Windows and Linux apps on the same OS?" seems like a completely bad idea. Then again I suppose VMWare and WINE aren't doing well either. Just vaporware huh?
Everyone in the industry is crying out about cross-platform. Why did they make Java? Yet Lindows is all wrong?
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We launch all these vertical craft using so much fuel, yet our planes do not. Planes do not use as much fuel and there are planes that are very large and heavy. So why not launch a plane holding a space shuttle, get the plane to the highest altitude it possibly can and then let loose the shuttle and launch it from there. Wouldn't this save a lot on fuel? Or is there really that much more to go from that "highest altitude" that it needs a large payload of fuel that the plane just wouldn't be able to carry?
You want change, you want revolution, you want something innovative? Get rid of intellectual property laws. There is no need for them. Check out my recent comment. The idea of patents and copyrights was a bad idea to begin with.
Better yet, when will people realize that patents and copyrights are wrong all together? Sure it isn't an idea that many will agree on. Very unpopular idea actually, but so was the idea of the earth being round. Simply put it, to believe in intellectual property is selfish. When I was young--and selfish as kids are when they are young--I wanted to come up with ideas and make money on them. As I grew older I realized how wrong patents were. Whatever your beliefs, please read some of Brian Martin's material on the subject http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa. html I think about the subject everyday. Not one single day goes by now that I think about patents. It is my strong belief that doing away with patents and copyrights and any form of intellectual property will solve many of our worlds problems. You may think I'm crazy or ignorant, but then again you don't think about the subject everyday. If you do, then try the other side of the coin, you will be surprised how much you will learn.
Focus on making software on and for Linux and *nix compatibles like BSD only. Do what MS does to try and lock people into their OS. Although you can't exactly lock someone into Linux since you have many distro's and it's free and open; then there is BSD and all the other *nix's. Still, the focus should be on making Linux and GNU software better and keep it away from proprietary areas. Make open software that's compatible with the proprietary versions, port software for the MS OS's to Linux. As the Linux OS and it's software base evolves, then MS software users will find a good reason to switch, and it will be ever harder for MS to lock users in. If we port great Linux software to the MS OS's, we only help MS in locking users in.
The only software that I see that would benefit porting to Window's, etc. is development software; compilers and such. This would help developers make an easier transition to developing on Linux.
Stop the BS. MS is infiltrating into our government. That's it, the world is completely f... Bad enough as it is, with all the crap that already goes on. Now completely obvious crap is allowed, and no one is doing anything about it.
Theft at UPS? Practically non-existant. You wouldn't be able to get away with it at UPS. I work there, you definitely can't just take something, and/or open packages just to look inside. Check my other comments for more info.
Revenge on who? Do you know the people that work at UPS? Do you know who just happened to handle that package? Blindly firing a weapon isn't smart, and neither is blind revenge. Kinda stupid I have to say. I work at UPS, it's hard work, and I do my best not to damage the packages, and it just so happens that it's usually the customers fault. Check my other comment
Yea, that package is quite torn up, I see packages like that often. I have to say though, a lot of blame has to go to the customer. Most packages I've found that get damaged are because of a few reasons:
- Not taped well enough
- Reusing an old box that is already close to falling apart
- Not insulating the areas inside the box with styrofoam or some other insulator to prevent the contents from moving around inside and/or puncturing the box, and also the contents are only being protected by a thin layer of cardboard
- Extremely uneven weight distribution, makes it harder to load/sort/unload/etc which can cause UPS workers (like me) to drop it
You have to understand that packages are not treated with utmost care, no matter what delivery service you go with. You have to make sure that your box can withstand a fair amount of tossing/moving/weight/bumping/puncturing (due to sharp edges that exist around the building's that packages are being sorted in). There are occasions where I'm sure that UPS workers are to blame, but for the most part, it's the customer, they work us hard, speed is important to them, so handling packages like they were made of glass is not of concern to UPS workers. They do keep an eye on preventing workers from doing anything that can damage the package and it's contents, but we work fast, really fast, it's hard work. Throwing/kicking/hitting/etc packages is not allowed, it happens though, but not to the extent where the package and it's contents may be damaged, unless of course it isn't packaged properly.
btw, I'm sure you've received or seen the boxes that Dell and other companies ship their products in (actually I've found a few companies are quite ignorant on how they ship their products, but they are generally small companies). Those boxes have a good deal of styrofoam, or air packs, or some sort of filler. The Dell boxes in particular (I sort a lot of those) are very well protected, I'm sure you could drop it from a 5 story building without damaging the contents. Can't always blame the company, but I agree on one thing, companies should be help more accountable. I would recommend that UPS do more to prevent this sort of bad packaging.
I work at the Orlando Hub, a very large facility. I sort probably over 4000 packages every night Mon-Fri in only about 3 hours a night. It's hard work, but I get paid well. I just have to say one thing, if you use good packaging, you should have very little to worry about. I almost never see a good package get damaged to such an extent that the contents would be damaged. Actually I can't remember any.
Store it all on cdr's. You can most likely fit atleast 1-10, 24 hour day video's on one cdr, maybe even more, especially if you use compression such as divx. This would require some automation to burn the cdr's and do the compression either real-time or after the video has been recorded. Sticking to the issue though, it'll cost only about $.20 per cd, with 1-10 video's per cdr and a total of 3000 camera's that is only about $60-$600 a day for the cdr's. Pretty low compared to tapes, which will cost more than $.20 each, and take up a lot more room.
As automation goes, cd's are easier and less expensive.
Modding down this comment due to other comments is obsurd. Sure, maybe I did make bad comments in the past, but does that justify modding down for future comments that aren't really bad?
Also, you should remember that both sides of a point should be taken, not everything has to agree with the majority. Back in the day a "spherical world" was extremely unpopular.
Windows allows all those not-so-smart people to spread virus's. Just look at all the virus's that spread the most, ones like MELISSA, ILOVEYOU, etc. these virus's worked so well not becuase they were so well done, but because people allowed them to perform well. Windows comes with many "features" that allow virus's to spread easily, yes, most can be disabled, but not many people do. As with Linux, most Linux deployments prevent most of these problems. They don't usually include so many "features" that aid in the spread of virus's. Also, most deployments of Linux are managed by much more experienced system administrators, and users alike. As MS attempts to make things "easier" for the general public (obviously we know why and it isn't just to make things easier), they make it "easier" for the spread of virus's, not that they want to, but their main concern is make things "easier" so that more people buy their software as opposed to software that's not so easy to use. As Linux developers attempt to make things "easier" they tend to think a lot more along the lines of keeping everything secure at the same time. Any business wants to make a larger profit and as MS starts seeing that security is just as important to stay on top as making things "easier", even more important really, then they will continue to work more on security. MS has realised this actually, the secure side of MS is NT and 2000, the not so secure side ME and XP. The user base again, being the leaast secure, the base which just so happens to be the ones that helped spread those great ILOVEYOU virus's and such. MS is split, the Linux community isn't so much, there is no business Linux OS or desktop Linux OS, there are just different distributions. As with most distributions, they focus on both security and ease-of-use, but because there is no central authority, anyone who's concerned with security works on that area, and those concerned with ease-of-use work on making software easier.
It isn't really about the OS, NT, 2K, Linux, BSD, BeOS, OSX, etc. it's about how they are developed and who maintains them that makes the difference between secure and not-so-secure. Hierarchy is not the best way to develop software, neither is running a business or government, or any organization. That is why democracy is better than communism or dictatorship, because they steer further from hierarchy.
Why talk about converting water to hydrogen and oxygen, then taking and storing it in cars and stations, etc. Why not create an efficient method of converting water, on-the-fly into the gases, then put one of those devices in the car, with the hydrogen engine, and you would never need to store anything. We constantly talk about making things easier, more effiecient, renewable, etc., yet we take the concept of making water into gas and using it as fuel and seperate them rather then putting it all into one package. I would much more prefer stopping by the grocery buying a gallon of water and pouring it into my tank then going to a gas station and paying them much more just to pump my car full of gas I could've easily produced myself.
I don't believe anything that restricts anyone from copying, transporting, changing, or presenting media is right. It's a basic natural freedom that people own what they have in their hand or in their head. Why should anyone else own and control something you hold in your hand, on your computer, on some sort of media or even in your mind? It's simply wrong. If I have it, I think of it, I own it. No law should prevent people from controlling their own environment. Owning people is wrong, so how is owning people's ideas or media's right?
Voice recognition obviously is next. Atleast it could be, but the way things go with IP, who knows. There are but a few ways to input, mechanical such as hands, fingers, etc. visual such as moving eyes, hands, etc. sound such as voice, waves such as brain waves, which is far off from any product. It's obvious to see that other than using mice, keyboards and various other devices that are similar, voice recognition is the alternative. Although there is always visual, but I doubt that will ever make it, it seems to inefficient.
We could have clothes that generated power integrating these things into them. Then we could plug in various devices into a plug in our clothes, like handhelds, watches, cellphones.
But wait, is the price that these things will be selling at be feasable? Why not make panels out of these things, put them across a black panel surface and use them as solar panels that take in the heat from the sun and produce energy, but will it produce more than solar panels? will it be cheaper?
ideas = thoughts = mind = thinking = knowledge, control of one = control of the others
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Thank god the US has a good constitution to prevent crap like that. Oh yea, that great consitution. Seems our rights go straight out the door when other laws get used against us anyway. The U.S. constitution is being bent in every direction it can by our government and corporations. It only takes time till those wealthy and powerful few gain enough to send us back to the days of kings. Very ironic that during the middle ages, the royalty thought their lives were so great. Yet as we see today, the middle class enjoys more luxury than those wealthy in the middle ages. Of course those were bad times and technology improves people's lives. It should still be quite obvious that more equality brings about a better life for everyone. Poor want what the rich have, the rich want more. It all becomes conflict. Call me what you want, say whatever you want, and live your happy little life the way you want until that pissed off terrorist blows up another building which you may just be in and your voice will no longer be heard, you will no longer be able to say what you want, or do what you want. You cannot deny the facts. I want something more than profit, I want more than a happy life. I want peace and equality among all. You really want to know what the biggest problem is in our world? Do you really have any idea what it could be? I'll tell you, it's intellectual property. Yes, the great tool of suppression. It is on the top of the list on causing societies problems. It would not have been so hundreds of years ago, but it is today. If you read as much as I did on issues of freedom, equality, and intellectual property, and if you have thought about it as much as I did (every single day, not an hour goes by that I do not think about it) then you would see. I don't expect you to understand though, neither do I expect a majority of people to understand. I just wish that people would listen and think about it. That is all it takes to make a change. It first starts with a thought.
America's beginning was full rebellion and revolution. It seems to me that Australia is doing better in that category than America is now-a-days. America is no longer about revolution. Now it's all politics, profit, and popularity. America is only going downhill. Australia, although no better than America, still has some spirit left in it's people. The Austrilian people are disappointed with the broadband pricing and so they got together and are working to solve it. They didn't leave it up to the government or the corporations to do it for them, they are taking the charge.
I think this is time for people to really start thinking. It is time for a revolution. Not like those you read about in your history books. No one needs to die. People need to work on fixing the system. There should be no reliance on a central authority. There is too much centralization these days. We are humans, not machines. Why not start acting like humans and throw out the old rules. Australia is not perfect, but the people have a better sense of what freedom really means. Check out http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/ this is Brian Martin's page. He teachs over at the University of Wollongong in Australia, after reading some of his material you'll realize what I mean by a better sense of freedom.
I find no reason why one man/woman can be a hundred or a thousand times richer than another. All men are created equal. In our constitution it says. Yet our practice is otherwise. No I am not communist, and no I do not believe that every man should make exactly the same as any other, but our current state of "equalness" is ridiculous. When the system is flawed, do not say "Atleast it's better than other systems", FIX IT.
I'm done with my rant, go ahead, mod me down. Supression only seems to help the problem doesn't it?
Go to bsagrace.com and fill out there form for reporting piracy. I did; I put in Microsoft.
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The problem is that everyone is asking and answering the wrong questions. It is a sad thing that lawyers relate everything to laws, old and new. Problems do not solve themselves when you relate them and attempt to solve them using current flawed laws. It should not be about laws or acts, it should be about what is right and what is not.
If you want to know how to solve the problem with the music industry then listen up. The industry is large and that is the way most want it, atleast those who are a part of it. To them it is about lifestyle, money, jobs, and simply put it, it is the way they have lived their lives for as long as they can remember. They are not willing to let go and just like most people, they want more. The problem is that the whole idea of a music industry is just crazy. Yes, we do need companies that work with music and such, but why make the industry so large. Those who work in the industry have it all well planned out to make more money and to keeps the profits rolling. We do not need an industry and we do not need copy protection, we do not need the DMCA. What we need is more music, more jobs, more valueable work, and less profits for those who only work on making more profit. Sometimes profit is needed to proceed with bigger plans, ones in which more money, but why would the music industry need to make large profits? Artists do not get paid enough. A majority of the music we listen to is on the radio and CDs that we buy or pay for to the industry; various record companies. What happens to all the small time artists? All they can hope for is to make it in the industry. No matter how much work they put into their music or how hard they try to "make it", it will all come down to chance that some record label will make a deal with them. Not only is that a problem, but when the deal is finally made, the artist only gets a small fraction of the profit. The right thing to do is take the power away from the wealthy and give it to the artists. The record companies want money, people want music, and artists want to make music and be able to live off of it. The solution is simple, take away the companies and take away the laws. The only thing you will be left with is people making music and people paying the artists for their work. Sure people will spread the music around, but artists have many avenues for making money, and when the companies and lawyers are taken out of the equation then the artists are the ones that take in the share. Jobs will always exist in our economy no matter what the government or companies tell you. It is people that work and people that make up companies. Yet when a small group wants more money and or more power they attempt to take more profit away from those below them. Stop the cycle, stop the problem, do not fix the problems with current laws, do what is right. It is not what I say that will change things for the better, it is what everybody says.
You claim "why would anyone want to run Windows and Linux apps on the same OS?" seems like a completely bad idea. Then again I suppose VMWare and WINE aren't doing well either. Just vaporware huh?
Everyone in the industry is crying out about cross-platform. Why did they make Java? Yet Lindows is all wrong?
Actually it is Apache on Linux, it looks like they used to run NT.
We launch all these vertical craft using so much fuel, yet our planes do not. Planes do not use as much fuel and there are planes that are very large and heavy. So why not launch a plane holding a space shuttle, get the plane to the highest altitude it possibly can and then let loose the shuttle and launch it from there. Wouldn't this save a lot on fuel? Or is there really that much more to go from that "highest altitude" that it needs a large payload of fuel that the plane just wouldn't be able to carry?
You want change, you want revolution, you want something innovative? Get rid of intellectual property laws. There is no need for them. Check out my recent comment. The idea of patents and copyrights was a bad idea to begin with.
Better yet, when will people realize that patents and copyrights are wrong all together? Sure it isn't an idea that many will agree on. Very unpopular idea actually, but so was the idea of the earth being round. Simply put it, to believe in intellectual property is selfish. When I was young--and selfish as kids are when they are young--I wanted to come up with ideas and make money on them. As I grew older I realized how wrong patents were. Whatever your beliefs, please read some of Brian Martin's material on the subject http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa. html I think about the subject everyday. Not one single day goes by now that I think about patents. It is my strong belief that doing away with patents and copyrights and any form of intellectual property will solve many of our worlds problems. You may think I'm crazy or ignorant, but then again you don't think about the subject everyday. If you do, then try the other side of the coin, you will be surprised how much you will learn.
Focus on making software on and for Linux and *nix compatibles like BSD only. Do what MS does to try and lock people into their OS. Although you can't exactly lock someone into Linux since you have many distro's and it's free and open; then there is BSD and all the other *nix's. Still, the focus should be on making Linux and GNU software better and keep it away from proprietary areas. Make open software that's compatible with the proprietary versions, port software for the MS OS's to Linux. As the Linux OS and it's software base evolves, then MS software users will find a good reason to switch, and it will be ever harder for MS to lock users in. If we port great Linux software to the MS OS's, we only help MS in locking users in.
The only software that I see that would benefit porting to Window's, etc. is development software; compilers and such. This would help developers make an easier transition to developing on Linux.
Stop the BS. MS is infiltrating into our government. That's it, the world is completely f... Bad enough as it is, with all the crap that already goes on. Now completely obvious crap is allowed, and no one is doing anything about it.
Theft at UPS? Practically non-existant. You wouldn't be able to get away with it at UPS. I work there, you definitely can't just take something, and/or open packages just to look inside. Check my other comments for more info.
Revenge on who? Do you know the people that work at UPS? Do you know who just happened to handle that package? Blindly firing a weapon isn't smart, and neither is blind revenge. Kinda stupid I have to say. I work at UPS, it's hard work, and I do my best not to damage the packages, and it just so happens that it's usually the customers fault. Check my other comment
Yea, that package is quite torn up, I see packages like that often. I have to say though, a lot of blame has to go to the customer. Most packages I've found that get damaged are because of a few reasons:
- Not taped well enough
- Reusing an old box that is already close to falling apart
- Not insulating the areas inside the box with styrofoam or some other insulator to prevent the contents from moving around inside and/or puncturing the box, and also the contents are only being protected by a thin layer of cardboard
- Extremely uneven weight distribution, makes it harder to load/sort/unload/etc which can cause UPS workers (like me) to drop it
You have to understand that packages are not treated with utmost care, no matter what delivery service you go with. You have to make sure that your box can withstand a fair amount of tossing/moving/weight/bumping/puncturing (due to sharp edges that exist around the building's that packages are being sorted in). There are occasions where I'm sure that UPS workers are to blame, but for the most part, it's the customer, they work us hard, speed is important to them, so handling packages like they were made of glass is not of concern to UPS workers. They do keep an eye on preventing workers from doing anything that can damage the package and it's contents, but we work fast, really fast, it's hard work. Throwing/kicking/hitting/etc packages is not allowed, it happens though, but not to the extent where the package and it's contents may be damaged, unless of course it isn't packaged properly.
btw, I'm sure you've received or seen the boxes that Dell and other companies ship their products in (actually I've found a few companies are quite ignorant on how they ship their products, but they are generally small companies). Those boxes have a good deal of styrofoam, or air packs, or some sort of filler. The Dell boxes in particular (I sort a lot of those) are very well protected, I'm sure you could drop it from a 5 story building without damaging the contents. Can't always blame the company, but I agree on one thing, companies should be help more accountable. I would recommend that UPS do more to prevent this sort of bad packaging.
I work at the Orlando Hub, a very large facility. I sort probably over 4000 packages every night Mon-Fri in only about 3 hours a night. It's hard work, but I get paid well. I just have to say one thing, if you use good packaging, you should have very little to worry about. I almost never see a good package get damaged to such an extent that the contents would be damaged. Actually I can't remember any.
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Store it all on cdr's. You can most likely fit atleast 1-10, 24 hour day video's on one cdr, maybe even more, especially if you use compression such as divx. This would require some automation to burn the cdr's and do the compression either real-time or after the video has been recorded. Sticking to the issue though, it'll cost only about $.20 per cd, with 1-10 video's per cdr and a total of 3000 camera's that is only about $60-$600 a day for the cdr's. Pretty low compared to tapes, which will cost more than $.20 each, and take up a lot more room.
As automation goes, cd's are easier and less expensive.
It's bound to happen, I just wonder when.
Modding down this comment due to other comments is obsurd. Sure, maybe I did make bad comments in the past, but does that justify modding down for future comments that aren't really bad?
Also, you should remember that both sides of a point should be taken, not everything has to agree with the majority. Back in the day a "spherical world" was extremely unpopular.
Do you happen to work for MS?, hehe
Windows allows all those not-so-smart people to spread virus's. Just look at all the virus's that spread the most, ones like MELISSA, ILOVEYOU, etc. these virus's worked so well not becuase they were so well done, but because people allowed them to perform well. Windows comes with many "features" that allow virus's to spread easily, yes, most can be disabled, but not many people do. As with Linux, most Linux deployments prevent most of these problems. They don't usually include so many "features" that aid in the spread of virus's. Also, most deployments of Linux are managed by much more experienced system administrators, and users alike. As MS attempts to make things "easier" for the general public (obviously we know why and it isn't just to make things easier), they make it "easier" for the spread of virus's, not that they want to, but their main concern is make things "easier" so that more people buy their software as opposed to software that's not so easy to use. As Linux developers attempt to make things "easier" they tend to think a lot more along the lines of keeping everything secure at the same time. Any business wants to make a larger profit and as MS starts seeing that security is just as important to stay on top as making things "easier", even more important really, then they will continue to work more on security. MS has realised this actually, the secure side of MS is NT and 2000, the not so secure side ME and XP. The user base again, being the leaast secure, the base which just so happens to be the ones that helped spread those great ILOVEYOU virus's and such. MS is split, the Linux community isn't so much, there is no business Linux OS or desktop Linux OS, there are just different distributions. As with most distributions, they focus on both security and ease-of-use, but because there is no central authority, anyone who's concerned with security works on that area, and those concerned with ease-of-use work on making software easier.
It isn't really about the OS, NT, 2K, Linux, BSD, BeOS, OSX, etc. it's about how they are developed and who maintains them that makes the difference between secure and not-so-secure. Hierarchy is not the best way to develop software, neither is running a business or government, or any organization. That is why democracy is better than communism or dictatorship, because they steer further from hierarchy.
Why talk about converting water to hydrogen and oxygen, then taking and storing it in cars and stations, etc. Why not create an efficient method of converting water, on-the-fly into the gases, then put one of those devices in the car, with the hydrogen engine, and you would never need to store anything. We constantly talk about making things easier, more effiecient, renewable, etc., yet we take the concept of making water into gas and using it as fuel and seperate them rather then putting it all into one package. I would much more prefer stopping by the grocery buying a gallon of water and pouring it into my tank then going to a gas station and paying them much more just to pump my car full of gas I could've easily produced myself.
I don't believe anything that restricts anyone from copying, transporting, changing, or presenting media is right. It's a basic natural freedom that people own what they have in their hand or in their head. Why should anyone else own and control something you hold in your hand, on your computer, on some sort of media or even in your mind? It's simply wrong. If I have it, I think of it, I own it. No law should prevent people from controlling their own environment. Owning people is wrong, so how is owning people's ideas or media's right?
Voice recognition obviously is next. Atleast it could be, but the way things go with IP, who knows. There are but a few ways to input, mechanical such as hands, fingers, etc. visual such as moving eyes, hands, etc. sound such as voice, waves such as brain waves, which is far off from any product. It's obvious to see that other than using mice, keyboards and various other devices that are similar, voice recognition is the alternative. Although there is always visual, but I doubt that will ever make it, it seems to inefficient.
Why not Linux, why Unix?
Is it like that ? in place of " I see sometimes?
We could have clothes that generated power integrating these things into them. Then we could plug in various devices into a plug in our clothes, like handhelds, watches, cellphones.
But wait, is the price that these things will be selling at be feasable? Why not make panels out of these things, put them across a black panel surface and use them as solar panels that take in the heat from the sun and produce energy, but will it produce more than solar panels? will it be cheaper?
ideas = thoughts = mind = thinking = knowledge, control of one = control of the others
Polish sites, .pl the Perl extension, pl is great. Words that start with pl
Play
Plug
Plastic
Plus
Port
aren't they great?
I'm trolling aren't I?