How many times did you cross child porn indexed by google?
How many times did you cross with torrents indexed by google?
Do you really believe that google isn't able to block torrents? It's just not worth the money... DMCA safe harbour rules are on their side, and they'd only loose eyeballs + money tightening their filters.
Have you also questioned why if its legal to stream media from youtube / spotify. And It's legal to record it for personal purposes. Why It's illegal to aquire it from "alternative ways".
I see no irony... PGP Can be used for authentication for users.
So you have descentralized authetication: PGP (to authenthicate users and files origin).
Descentralized File sharing: Torrents
What's lacking is a descentralized scoring system and a descentralized universal index system (I have no Idea what's the best way to implement that).
Another issue is a descentralized way to track torrents health...
The paper version is not cheap.
It's as repeatable as any other election method.
It's easy to rig it on small scale, and enough small rigs can alter the election results.
It's extremely susceptible to human errors, an they are not minimized as the vote count is not performed by auditing trained people.
Paper version presents other issues in places without bipartisan systems.
You can have more than 10 ballots for an election, and some ballots are "missed", depriving the possibility of choose. It's important because a significant number of persons don't decide until the last moment.
I was really surprised by Venezuela's voting system. I believe that a mixed electronic/paper system is the most auditable way.
It'd be better if you were provided with a ticket with a vote ID and a random key pair, to be able to validate your own vote online without violating the secrecy principle.
If your "Anglo" culture includes the US...
1) They treat freedom of speech by caging it in "free speech zones".
2) They treat privacy by bugging the whole world in the name of security.
Yes, it could be a lot worse than that... but I see no evidence showing that the Anglo culture takes freedom nor privacy as core values.
The real villains all push their drugs across our borders while Americans pay the price of those drugs.
FTFY.
And remember that mexican cartels get their weapons from the US
To be fair, today I have no fucking idea about what are people refering to when they talk about "the cloud", and what makes it different/new from what we had 10 years ago.
So I could understand that RMS's deffinition of "the cloud" would be different from the "expected" deffinition.
In the particular case of Argentina, protests have done something...
2001 Riots took down the president.
Kosteki & Santillan deaths lead to early elections call.
125 Protest lead to the congress tie, the law wasn't passed.
Last year the (illegal) police strike and subsequent riot.
Similar events can be found through all latam
I believe that the main difference between US and latam is:
a) Latin Amerca has strong presidential systems. US has a strong party system.
So in Latin America presidents have more political capital to spend. In US the political capital isn't theirs but the party's.
b) From the outside, the US seems to have a really fucked up concept of free speech. Just the concept of "Free speech zones" is ludicrous to me. If there is no economical / social impact produced by the protest, no one is going to give a fuck about it.
c) Like anywhere else in the world, US media lies, but unlike anywhere else in the world, the US media AND the US government are both pro status quo, so the protest news are minimized or hidden.
d) The subsets of 'People that have the balls' and 'People that protest' don't seem to intersect frequently in the US.
Which is irrelevant because the suggested direction is Windows to Linux, not Linux to Windows. What is needed is Windows apps ported to Linux.
Agree... But if we think about the scenario we have now you won't improve your office productivity with Linux tools because they don't exists. So you need to think the ( (weight factor) * productivity / cost ) ratio. The productivity lost by not having the right tools in Linux, vs the productivity lost caused by windows bad maintainance (That's one reason you'd switch) and the cost (of windows licenses + your current windows admin) vs ( linux admin cost).
I've seen lots of old XP PC's that crawl because of bad / null maintenance. That's a productivity loss also.
Having supported both in variously sized companies, I can safely say this is a false statement. In fact, the primary reason for maintenance was people doing non-business things(surfing porn, etc) on the business computers.
And so, in Linux that wouldn't be an issue, you wouldn't loose productivity because of maintenance, and that's what dancing pigs are about.
Some little guys don't have proper support. They just call some guy when it's needed, and sometimes they don't realize they need it . For places with little / null maintenance Linux is better.
With the rest I agree, but I still think there are cases for small size business were the migration could save you money...
Exchange isn't ubiquitous, specially with this new 'cloud' trend. So if your office work flow doesn't depend on any crucial windows application, and you expect your company to grow, In a medium term (say 6 years) you'll be saving money.
If you require QuickBooks Pro 2013, then you require a newish windows / office, which require new hardware + new licenses...
I don't know of any useful userland linux program that hasn't been ported to windows...
You'd never switch to linux to increase productivity by upgrading your tools...
You'd switch to linux becasue:
1) It's easier to mantain than widnows, (for the little guys), and that reduces support costs.
2) It's more secure than for the user (not because of the os, but because dancing pigs won't be able to dance on linux). That also reduces support costs.
3) It provies longer life to your hardware, saving you money.
4) Its free and that saves you money.
The mayor obstacle for typical environments that don't require special sofware are the huge amount of VBA excell files. If your company doesn't use them much then with some windows boxes kept for those special case you'd befine.
The Linux way would be to have a group per application, run the application with 'sg', and have an iptables rule per that group...
SELinux should has fine grained networking, just google them.
You're proposing this from an american point of view...
There are countries with other issues.
Banks collapse in the rest of the world, and people don't get their money immediately back. As banks sometimes collapse in inflationary periods, you are effectively being stolen by banks and governments.
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How many times did you cross child porn indexed by google?
How many times did you cross with torrents indexed by google?
Do you really believe that google isn't able to block torrents? It's just not worth the money... DMCA safe harbour rules are on their side, and they'd only loose eyeballs + money tightening their filters.
Have you also questioned why if its legal to stream media from youtube / spotify. And It's legal to record it for personal purposes. Why It's illegal to aquire it from "alternative ways".
I see no irony... PGP Can be used for authentication for users.
So you have descentralized authetication: PGP (to authenthicate users and files origin).
Descentralized File sharing: Torrents
What's lacking is a descentralized scoring system and a descentralized universal index system (I have no Idea what's the best way to implement that).
Another issue is a descentralized way to track torrents health...
The main issues with wikipedia are:
a) Truth is not a democracy.
b) It lack's a scoring system to measure the trustworthy of its references.
The paper version is not cheap. It's as repeatable as any other election method.
It's easy to rig it on small scale, and enough small rigs can alter the election results.
It's extremely susceptible to human errors, an they are not minimized as the vote count is not performed by auditing trained people.
Paper version presents other issues in places without bipartisan systems.
You can have more than 10 ballots for an election, and some ballots are "missed", depriving the possibility of choose. It's important because a significant number of persons don't decide until the last moment.
I was really surprised by Venezuela's voting system. I believe that a mixed electronic/paper system is the most auditable way.
It'd be better if you were provided with a ticket with a vote ID and a random key pair, to be able to validate your own vote online without violating the secrecy principle.
If your "Anglo" culture includes the US...
1) They treat freedom of speech by caging it in "free speech zones".
2) They treat privacy by bugging the whole world in the name of security.
Yes, it could be a lot worse than that... but I see no evidence showing that the Anglo culture takes freedom nor privacy as core values.
The real villains all push their drugs across our borders while Americans pay the price of those drugs.
FTFY. And remember that mexican cartels get their weapons from the US
citation needed... It sounds too stupid to be true.
To be fair, today I have no fucking idea about what are people refering to when they talk about "the cloud", and what makes it different/new from what we had 10 years ago.
So I could understand that RMS's deffinition of "the cloud" would be different from the "expected" deffinition.
That's why Freedom of Speech is central to how the US operates politically
From the outside, with you Free Speech Zones, it doesn't look like that.
For each music player "news" on /. someone complains about Foobar2000 on Linux...
Can you tell me what makes it superior to MPD?
AND excluding Libre Office.
Good one, mod this guy up!
In the particular case of Argentina, protests have done something...
2001 Riots took down the president.
Kosteki & Santillan deaths lead to early elections call.
125 Protest lead to the congress tie, the law wasn't passed.
Last year the (illegal) police strike and subsequent riot.
Similar events can be found through all latam
I believe that the main difference between US and latam is:
a) Latin Amerca has strong presidential systems. US has a strong party system.
So in Latin America presidents have more political capital to spend. In US the political capital isn't theirs but the party's.
b) From the outside, the US seems to have a really fucked up concept of free speech. Just the concept of "Free speech zones" is ludicrous to me. If there is no economical / social impact produced by the protest, no one is going to give a fuck about it.
c) Like anywhere else in the world, US media lies, but unlike anywhere else in the world, the US media AND the US government are both pro status quo, so the protest news are minimized or hidden.
d) The subsets of 'People that have the balls' and 'People that protest' don't seem to intersect frequently in the US.
Which is irrelevant because the suggested direction is Windows to Linux, not Linux to Windows. What is needed is Windows apps ported to Linux.
Agree... But if we think about the scenario we have now you won't improve your office productivity with Linux tools because they don't exists. So you need to think the ( (weight factor) * productivity / cost ) ratio. The productivity lost by not having the right tools in Linux, vs the productivity lost caused by windows bad maintainance (That's one reason you'd switch) and the cost (of windows licenses + your current windows admin) vs ( linux admin cost).
I've seen lots of old XP PC's that crawl because of bad / null maintenance. That's a productivity loss also.
Having supported both in variously sized companies, I can safely say this is a false statement. In fact, the primary reason for maintenance was people doing non-business things(surfing porn, etc) on the business computers.
And so, in Linux that wouldn't be an issue, you wouldn't loose productivity because of maintenance, and that's what dancing pigs are about.
Some little guys don't have proper support. They just call some guy when it's needed, and sometimes they don't realize they need it . For places with little / null maintenance Linux is better.
I am not sure what you mean by "dancing pigs".
This dancing pigs
With the rest I agree, but I still think there are cases for small size business were the migration could save you money... Exchange isn't ubiquitous, specially with this new 'cloud' trend. So if your office work flow doesn't depend on any crucial windows application, and you expect your company to grow, In a medium term (say 6 years) you'll be saving money.
If you require QuickBooks Pro 2013, then you require a newish windows / office, which require new hardware + new licenses...
I don't know of any useful userland linux program that hasn't been ported to windows...
You'd never switch to linux to increase productivity by upgrading your tools...
You'd switch to linux becasue:
1) It's easier to mantain than widnows, (for the little guys), and that reduces support costs.
2) It's more secure than for the user (not because of the os, but because dancing pigs won't be able to dance on linux). That also reduces support costs.
3) It provies longer life to your hardware, saving you money.
4) Its free and that saves you money.
The mayor obstacle for typical environments that don't require special sofware are the huge amount of VBA excell files. If your company doesn't use them much then with some windows boxes kept for those special case you'd befine.
Why QoS should prioritize VoIP over bittorrent? If both customers are paying equally, the bottleneck should apply to them equally.
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The Linux way would be to have a group per application, run the application with 'sg', and have an iptables rule per that group... SELinux should has fine grained networking, just google them.
What?????? I suppose you never heard of DDNS?
Notepad is horrible, it doesn't even recognizes the text encoding... WordPad, on the other hand...
one must endure one of the, if not the, steepest learning curves of any DE out there.
steeper than the awesome?
You're proposing this from an american point of view... There are countries with other issues. Banks collapse in the rest of the world, and people don't get their money immediately back. As banks sometimes collapse in inflationary periods, you are effectively being stolen by banks and governments.
Wait until they launch yesterday shipping
Too lazy to google
Do they lend you a dead tree book?
Wasn't that the same thing people said when google launched the marketplace?