make things more affordable could perhaps be one solution, eh?
I'm fairly sure that the Movie & Music industries would sooner make themselves look like idiots, make dopy mistakes, publish books about it, hire trolls to hit forums with anti-piracy posts, bribe governments & police forces, spend hundreds of millions on lobbyists and degrade the quality of their produced content before they even tried that!
Where does Google sit in the Android heap? They don't sell the phones, they don't take responsibility for the impact of the Malware? Oh yeah! That's right, they just develop the software then 'give it away' to the world.. warts and all.
It sickens me a great deal to see the Google's, Facebooks & Microsoft's of the world just sit back in their soft leather sided armchairs watching other people to discover the security flaws in their software. Microsoft has done it for years with the third party 'Virus Scanner' software providers. Now Google has picked up on the trend.. they can write the software which mines whatever information is useful to their behaviour analysis software without taking any responsibility for the damage they do.
This is what I call an unsustainable business practice. People have to wake up to the understanding that they're being abused. But far, far more importantly.. corporations need to understand that there is no competition, just compromise.
every sane person should be sickened to their core
The US government, NSA, FBI, CIA are all scared shitless of us. That's why they're trying to monitor everything we do (apart from the obvious perverted thrill of it).
Sickened? I'm not sickened, I just don't buy into the fear you're mongering. These scared government groups will be monitoring and influencing the behaviour of their scared citizens because the fear is contagious. Don't buy into it! Overcome your fear and stand as a person for the government fear mongerers to fear. This is where they reside, in fear of YOU. If the reverse is true, they win.
This isn't a fight and there will be no justice until the government of your country respects you. As long as you spend your time imitating their fear mongering, you won't accomplish anything. Okay, the XBone is full of spying gear.. don't buy one. Problem solved.
It's really for stolen phones.. just like the kill switch for the internet was for emergency purposes. This has nothing whatsoever to do with cutting off people's means of communicating effectively with each other.
It's great that Microsoft is saying "It was our crumby software that allowed this botnet to spawn, we've got to do something about it". But I think we've got to be really careful about giving the company any credit for it's actions. These are fundamental things which every maker of a product needs to be responsible for. If GM sold cars which exploded, they'd be taken to account. Software producers have long since gotten away with destructive negligence through the use of (often illegal) EULA's.
It's about time that the law recognised the essential nature of computers in society and the makers of such should be held to account when their product doesn't live up to expectations.
I thought that the US was in debt so far that they're defaulting on the bonds they sold to China? And the government has 860 million to throw around just to find out where their citizens are eating lunch?
It's amazing that this data centre is worth more to the US government that financial liquidity.
will we have to endure 12 years of conspiracy theories about false flags
No.. it would collapse in record time. Even physics would fail in the face of the record conspiracy theory collapse, fueling still more'anecdotal' evidence of China's control of the masses.
Absolutely not. There are a multitiude of solutions to the current socio-economic structure of the world.
- The forgiving of all debt. This is the most important part of the process because it will force the hand of the people behind the scenes controlling the government puppets. Checkout what happened in Iceland, it stopped getting mainstream news after they solved their impossible financial problems with the stroke of a pen
- A change of individual human mentality from 'compete' to 'co-operate'. If the people started to co-operate with the people, then the government would slowly become irrelevant. ie. planting community gardens, starting community restaurants, working within your neighbourhood for 'the good' rather than 'the money'. When people connect, then the isolation that government programming hides behind becomes far more clear
- Wide spread non-compliance with authorities. First and foremost, start a campaign to not vote or to vote for no confidence. It may take a couple of elections, but the government can't pretend to be in power if only 5% of the population is voting for them to be in power. Next up you would want to show 'people power'. ie. when someone is going to court to have their freedom removed for something ridiculous like copyright infringement, you really want 200,000 'peaceful spectators' outside the courthouse looking for seating. When drones start flying over your cities, you want to organise 2,000 amateur drone pilots flying their drones over the whitehouse. Start a political campaign for the professional government soldiers to simply put down their arms and stop killing on behalf of the people nobody trusts anymore.. these are the kind of humanistic demonstrations that will force the government to bend to your will rather than vice versa.
- Implement your own community funding model, your own currency. The government can't dictate what you and your community values. Find someone with a lockup, decide what value the currency will be based on and when people deposit that valuable item in the lockup, give them a note saying that they've deposited that item into the lockup. It might be the 'kilo of lentils' note or the 'hunk of sandstone' note or the 'block of coal' note. Your community can now be independent of government financial control.
- By far the absolute most important thing to do is to free your mind from the tyranny of systematic programming. Modern marketing (used in all forms of news, politics, product promotions and even childrens programming) is propaganda and psychological warfare. Marketing firms hire expert psychologists and physiologists to accomplish this (they literally monitor the physical reactions of people's brains to design their marketing campaigns). Go out and search the internets for information that you've never heard of before and absord it with enthusiasm and vigor. Accessing varied and independent sources of information will completely change the way you think, and changing the way you think will allow you to see a wider perspective on the information being broadcast to you. Open your mind to the possibilities, no matter how far fetched. An open mind is healthy.. not crazy.
The problem isn't 'government' per se, it's the endemic centralisation of wealth from an accumulation of hundreds of years of capitalist democratic rule. There's just a handful, a very few handful of people with nearly all of the money. The money itself isn't the problem, the problem is that the money buys people and those people then have the power.. the power over governments, elections, companies and (in some form or another) over just about all of the information 90+% of the population consumes. Finance is just the latest weapon of the ultra wealthy to ensure that they never lose their seat of power. But if you think carefully about it, you might just realise that there's a few thousand people controlling a planet of ~7 billion. That's not a good reason to 'go for your guns' but it is a very good reason to question why you live by the rules of such a tiny minority.
explore the possibility that the myths of a small tribe in the middle east may have ceased to be relevant as anything other than a historical curiosity
Not as long as religious zealots believe in it. Prophecy is made, people believe in it, hence.. prophecy gets fulfilled. Religion is a whole lot more dangerous than you're giving it credit for. There's never been anything more destructive in human history.
Now I don't have to bother re-charging my laptop when I go to bed. It's always the most problematic of times because of that horrible humming noise recharging a laptop battery makes.
Who cares? Who serious considers Sony laptops anymore? The train has left the station and Sony is the conductor on the platform waving the red flag. "We have some completely awesome irrelevant technology, look at us!"... "Our laptops are 10 grams lighter than Apple!" It just goes to prove how completely out of touch Sony is with reality.
both Ultrabooks run Windows 8
Epic fail. People need a battery that lasts properly between recharges.. a very, very, very small minority need something that lasts for 2 days of work. Sony just isn't a mainstream computer producer anymore. It doesn't matter how much they pay for shiny displays in retail stores, nobody who knows anything about computers would buy one nor recommend one to somebody else.
And what does Sony have to sell the latest VAIO?
Sony has also included X-Reality, which apparently optimizes video playback quality
Since when has anyone needed optimized video playback? All the R&D in the world is no good to you if you're researching how bear's wipe their arses in the woods.
It's bad form for such a peace loving and friendly nation to focus their attention on war, even if it is out of respect for those innocent people who died. This could provoke animosity from nationals of other middle eastern states towards the state of Israel. What if the Palestinians suddenly attacked across Israel's borders? It would be a sad day if Israel needed to use it's nuclear weapons as a threat to protect it's borders.
And it would be such a horrid day for the UN to see war in the middle east for the first time in 46 years! Imagine Israel having to stand in the UN and call for concerted action against warlike middle eastern states? Armageddon I tell you.. those Palestinians are a dangerous lot, don't provoke them!
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make things more affordable could perhaps be one solution, eh?
I'm fairly sure that the Movie & Music industries would sooner make themselves look like idiots, make dopy mistakes, publish books about it, hire trolls to hit forums with anti-piracy posts, bribe governments & police forces, spend hundreds of millions on lobbyists and degrade the quality of their produced content before they even tried that!
*fairly* sure.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
... John Adams
Ever wonder how Google packed all of the Google Glass functionality into a slender eyeglass frame?
They're evil.
Where does Google sit in the Android heap? They don't sell the phones, they don't take responsibility for the impact of the Malware? Oh yeah! That's right, they just develop the software then 'give it away' to the world .. warts and all.
.. they can write the software which mines whatever information is useful to their behaviour analysis software without taking any responsibility for the damage they do.
.. corporations need to understand that there is no competition, just compromise.
It sickens me a great deal to see the Google's, Facebooks & Microsoft's of the world just sit back in their soft leather sided armchairs watching other people to discover the security flaws in their software. Microsoft has done it for years with the third party 'Virus Scanner' software providers. Now Google has picked up on the trend
This is what I call an unsustainable business practice. People have to wake up to the understanding that they're being abused. But far, far more importantly
It gives me some hope
Wow! You make a good point. You should come here more often.
every sane person should be sickened to their core
The US government, NSA, FBI, CIA are all scared shitless of us. That's why they're trying to monitor everything we do (apart from the obvious perverted thrill of it).
.. don't buy one. Problem solved.
Sickened? I'm not sickened, I just don't buy into the fear you're mongering. These scared government groups will be monitoring and influencing the behaviour of their scared citizens because the fear is contagious. Don't buy into it! Overcome your fear and stand as a person for the government fear mongerers to fear. This is where they reside, in fear of YOU. If the reverse is true, they win.
This isn't a fight and there will be no justice until the government of your country respects you. As long as you spend your time imitating their fear mongering, you won't accomplish anything. Okay, the XBone is full of spying gear
Certainly not the NSA or the FBI, they saw it coming.
industry-wide 'kill switch' system
It's really for stolen phones .. just like the kill switch for the internet was for emergency purposes. This has nothing whatsoever to do with cutting off people's means of communicating effectively with each other.
It's great that Microsoft is saying "It was our crumby software that allowed this botnet to spawn, we've got to do something about it". But I think we've got to be really careful about giving the company any credit for it's actions. These are fundamental things which every maker of a product needs to be responsible for. If GM sold cars which exploded, they'd be taken to account. Software producers have long since gotten away with destructive negligence through the use of (often illegal) EULA's.
It's about time that the law recognised the essential nature of computers in society and the makers of such should be held to account when their product doesn't live up to expectations.
I thought that the US was in debt so far that they're defaulting on the bonds they sold to China? And the government has 860 million to throw around just to find out where their citizens are eating lunch?
It's amazing that this data centre is worth more to the US government that financial liquidity.
Yeah, no kidding. Why is this even a story?
I'm sorry, it's too early in the comments to be asking that question.
even programmers
No such thing!
That is THE most awesome generalization I've ever seen. Would you consider allowing me to have your children?
will we have to endure 12 years of conspiracy theories about false flags
No .. it would collapse in record time. Even physics would fail in the face of the record conspiracy theory collapse, fueling still more'anecdotal' evidence of China's control of the masses.
Well that depends on how you calculate time doesn't it?
Is something to be wary of
You're a hard, hard man
Is anarchy the only solution then?
Absolutely not. There are a multitiude of solutions to the current socio-economic structure of the world. .. these are the kind of humanistic demonstrations that will force the government to bend to your will rather than vice versa. .. not crazy.
.. the power over governments, elections, companies and (in some form or another) over just about all of the information 90+% of the population consumes. Finance is just the latest weapon of the ultra wealthy to ensure that they never lose their seat of power. But if you think carefully about it, you might just realise that there's a few thousand people controlling a planet of ~7 billion. That's not a good reason to 'go for your guns' but it is a very good reason to question why you live by the rules of such a tiny minority.
- The forgiving of all debt. This is the most important part of the process because it will force the hand of the people behind the scenes controlling the government puppets. Checkout what happened in Iceland, it stopped getting mainstream news after they solved their impossible financial problems with the stroke of a pen
- A change of individual human mentality from 'compete' to 'co-operate'. If the people started to co-operate with the people, then the government would slowly become irrelevant. ie. planting community gardens, starting community restaurants, working within your neighbourhood for 'the good' rather than 'the money'. When people connect, then the isolation that government programming hides behind becomes far more clear
- Wide spread non-compliance with authorities. First and foremost, start a campaign to not vote or to vote for no confidence. It may take a couple of elections, but the government can't pretend to be in power if only 5% of the population is voting for them to be in power. Next up you would want to show 'people power'. ie. when someone is going to court to have their freedom removed for something ridiculous like copyright infringement, you really want 200,000 'peaceful spectators' outside the courthouse looking for seating. When drones start flying over your cities, you want to organise 2,000 amateur drone pilots flying their drones over the whitehouse. Start a political campaign for the professional government soldiers to simply put down their arms and stop killing on behalf of the people nobody trusts anymore
- Implement your own community funding model, your own currency. The government can't dictate what you and your community values. Find someone with a lockup, decide what value the currency will be based on and when people deposit that valuable item in the lockup, give them a note saying that they've deposited that item into the lockup. It might be the 'kilo of lentils' note or the 'hunk of sandstone' note or the 'block of coal' note. Your community can now be independent of government financial control.
- By far the absolute most important thing to do is to free your mind from the tyranny of systematic programming. Modern marketing (used in all forms of news, politics, product promotions and even childrens programming) is propaganda and psychological warfare. Marketing firms hire expert psychologists and physiologists to accomplish this (they literally monitor the physical reactions of people's brains to design their marketing campaigns). Go out and search the internets for information that you've never heard of before and absord it with enthusiasm and vigor. Accessing varied and independent sources of information will completely change the way you think, and changing the way you think will allow you to see a wider perspective on the information being broadcast to you. Open your mind to the possibilities, no matter how far fetched. An open mind is healthy
The problem isn't 'government' per se, it's the endemic centralisation of wealth from an accumulation of hundreds of years of capitalist democratic rule. There's just a handful, a very few handful of people with nearly all of the money. The money itself isn't the problem, the problem is that the money buys people and those people then have the power
Take the red pill.
What was Verizon's response?
No need to worry, you can trust corporations.
What you said on slashdot, even as AC, including drafts
I'm fucked aren't I?
explore the possibility that the myths of a small tribe in the middle east may have ceased to be relevant as anything other than a historical curiosity
Not as long as religious zealots believe in it. Prophecy is made, people believe in it, hence .. prophecy gets fulfilled. Religion is a whole lot more dangerous than you're giving it credit for. There's never been anything more destructive in human history.
there's enough people here that really think that way
Lulz .. it's not my thinking which caused you to misinterpret the post.
Who cares? Who serious considers Sony laptops anymore? The train has left the station and Sony is the conductor on the platform waving the red flag. "We have some completely awesome irrelevant technology, look at us!"
both Ultrabooks run Windows 8
Epic fail. People need a battery that lasts properly between recharges .. a very, very, very small minority need something that lasts for 2 days of work. Sony just isn't a mainstream computer producer anymore. It doesn't matter how much they pay for shiny displays in retail stores, nobody who knows anything about computers would buy one nor recommend one to somebody else.
And what does Sony have to sell the latest VAIO?
Sony has also included X-Reality, which apparently optimizes video playback quality
Since when has anyone needed optimized video playback? All the R&D in the world is no good to you if you're researching how bear's wipe their arses in the woods.
Even in extinction it still faces persecution.
Just a plain dick move
Was that pun intended?
It's bad form for such a peace loving and friendly nation to focus their attention on war, even if it is out of respect for those innocent people who died. This could provoke animosity from nationals of other middle eastern states towards the state of Israel. What if the Palestinians suddenly attacked across Israel's borders? It would be a sad day if Israel needed to use it's nuclear weapons as a threat to protect it's borders.
.. those Palestinians are a dangerous lot, don't provoke them!
And it would be such a horrid day for the UN to see war in the middle east for the first time in 46 years! Imagine Israel having to stand in the UN and call for concerted action against warlike middle eastern states? Armageddon I tell you