Have been phased out for UK nationals and the Conservatives have promised to scrap them if they win power altogether.
Now write to your Labour MP and tell him in no uncertain terms you will vote for other party unless they also scrap the ID card monster.
If you think this change of heart has nothing to do with political pressure, then I frankly believe you are living in a different planet, in which case you should not involve yourself with UK politics of all things.
Many big banks are moving data centres from The City and Canary Wharf to places where the power supply is guaranteed to be more stable (in as much as this can be assured) as well as implementing virtualization in more power efficient big servers.
Should people roll up and cry while in foetal position or should they try to do something about the situation, if anything to ensure there is a start point once the system collapses?
But if you are a big corporation or big wig of some kind, then it is all right to go hat in hand to finance (i.e. use other people's money) your company, even if it is a pipe dream. In several situations the government will even bail you out if you become too big to fail.
Honestly, the more people talk about the irresponsibility of the poor the more enraged I get at the hypocrisy and double standards of the people judging the poor.
Software patents are descriptions of thoughts that can be represented 100% accurately with natural languages and speech.
Software patents are a direct intrusion in the freedom of speech liberal democracies are supposed to champion.
The patentability of physical devices is another matter, since the capital investment to design and build a working device is not small.
Ideas are cheap, anybody can have them and express them, it stands to reason that any idiot with money to pay a Texan patent lawyer can hold big swathes of the IT industry hostage.
The US had eyed the whole American continent as its natural area of influence, it didn't conquest it all because it was too big to manage.
Texas was a small step in that way, the history of how the Texan settlers, supported by the US government, gained "independence" is a shameful chapter of the many the US is responsible for on its long history of abuse of the countries in the American continent.
From Wikipedia:
"Many new settlers to Texas openly flouted Mexican law, especially the prohibition against slavery. This, combined with several attempts by the United States to purchase Texas, convinced Mexican authorities that immigration should be halted."
Lets not forget the roots of the Texan "independence": continous attempts of the US to buy it from Mexico without success.
Because if they would buy the US congressmen to enact laws abolishing software and business models patents, then we would not be in this mess.
The big companies simply can't patent everything (it is ideas we are talking about, that is what software patents are, software patents are asking that people stop being people and stop solving problems), as long as software patents have any legal credibility this kind of cases will continue unabated.
All the big players in the IT industry should band together and buy enough congress people in order to pass the necessary laws to stop this nonsense.
That is moving the industry forward and creating lots of jobs for us techies. I pity the lawyers that are starving due to this innovative environment that is being created by software patents.
- Mosques get official funding while Chines temples or other religious buildings get none.
- The government (Malay dominated of course) counts non Muslims in East Malaysia (check a map) as Bumiputra, which although ethnologicaly may be correct, it is a scam: native people in Borneo are not Muslim, but adding them to the Bumiputra population helps Muslims to claim they are the majority.
.... and was requested several times to show my ID by the lovely Malaysian religious police while committing the hideous possible crime of eating a burger in McDonalds (I am not joking).
If industries in China are polluting it is because it is the only cost effective way to satisfy western consumerism.
Ditto for hiring cheap Indian technicians and Engineers.
For decades the US was told that its way of live was not sustainable in the long term, but the reply was always about US exceptionalism and how you could walk on water.
When on of my previous UK companies asked me to opt out of the EU Working Time Directive I said no.
I was told how my career would suffer, about not getting bonuses, etc.
Then 2 months later the company reorganized personnel, several of the people that issued the "advice" were moved or let go, and I got my bonus and career progression continued as expected, but without ever killing myself (for the last 11 years I rarely have worked more than 35 hours per week).
In another job I knew I was the person clocking the least hours (35/week). Other people were doing 50 or 60. At the end when the crisis came that devotion counted for precious little, since people were made redundant irrespective of their contribution to the company.
People allowing companies to exploit them have nobody to blame but themselves (unless you live in Cuba or Vietnam, then you may be screwed).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Disgruntled_System_Admin_Holds_San_Francisco_Network_Hostage_20523.html
The naivety around here is astounding.
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Disgruntled_System_Admin_Holds_San_Francisco_Network_Hostage_20523.html
There are many ways to segregate access to data and resources.
The "you have to trust somebody" is just an excuse from people that don't have enough technical know how to secure their data and systems properly.
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Disgruntled_System_Admin_Holds_San_Francisco_Network_Hostage_20523.html
The only solution is proper segregation of privileges at the OS level.
It should trust no one:
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Disgruntled_System_Admin_Holds_San_Francisco_Network_Hostage_20523.html
Have been phased out for UK nationals and the Conservatives have promised to scrap them if they win power altogether.
Now write to your Labour MP and tell him in no uncertain terms you will vote for other party unless they also scrap the ID card monster.
If you think this change of heart has nothing to do with political pressure, then I frankly believe you are living in a different planet, in which case you should not involve yourself with UK politics of all things.
Many big banks are moving data centres from The City and Canary Wharf to places where the power supply is guaranteed to be more stable (in as much as this can be assured) as well as implementing virtualization in more power efficient big servers.
Many parties that changed whole countries were started in a bedroom between a few friends and relatives, against the ruling class and their cronies.
Somebody like you certainly will change nothing, because to affect change the necessary requisite is conviction.
What is exactly your point?
Should people roll up and cry while in foetal position or should they try to do something about the situation, if anything to ensure there is a start point once the system collapses?
This idiotic hatred of politicians as a class must go.
There are good politicians and bad politicians, painting them all with the same brush discourages the good ones.
Because before copyright we humans produced no culture at all.....
.... most people could not progress in life, no matter how much they tried.
But if you are a big corporation or big wig of some kind, then it is all right to go hat in hand to finance (i.e. use other people's money) your company, even if it is a pipe dream. In several situations the government will even bail you out if you become too big to fail.
Honestly, the more people talk about the irresponsibility of the poor the more enraged I get at the hypocrisy and double standards of the people judging the poor.
And no Irish, Blacks or Latinos allowed to apply for rental places, or hotel rooms, or well, whatever.
And people can be forced to work without holidays, for no pay, and shall obey whatever their employers requests from them.
I hope you have got the inkling of where I am heading.
The above examples just make clear why yous posting is a complete bunch of nonsense.
Software patents are descriptions of thoughts that can be represented 100% accurately with natural languages and speech.
Software patents are a direct intrusion in the freedom of speech liberal democracies are supposed to champion.
The patentability of physical devices is another matter, since the capital investment to design and build a working device is not small.
Ideas are cheap, anybody can have them and express them, it stands to reason that any idiot with money to pay a Texan patent lawyer can hold big swathes of the IT industry hostage.
The US had eyed the whole American continent as its natural area of influence, it didn't conquest it all because it was too big to manage.
Texas was a small step in that way, the history of how the Texan settlers, supported by the US government, gained "independence" is a shameful chapter of the many the US is responsible for on its long history of abuse of the countries in the American continent.
From Wikipedia:
"Many new settlers to Texas openly flouted Mexican law, especially the prohibition against slavery. This, combined with several attempts by the United States to purchase Texas, convinced Mexican authorities that immigration should be halted."
Lets not forget the roots of the Texan "independence": continous attempts of the US to buy it from Mexico without success.
Because if they would buy the US congressmen to enact laws abolishing software and business models patents, then we would not be in this mess.
The big companies simply can't patent everything (it is ideas we are talking about, that is what software patents are, software patents are asking that people stop being people and stop solving problems), as long as software patents have any legal credibility this kind of cases will continue unabated.
All the big players in the IT industry should band together and buy enough congress people in order to pass the necessary laws to stop this nonsense.
That is moving the industry forward and creating lots of jobs for us techies. I pity the lawyers that are starving due to this innovative environment that is being created by software patents.
"anybody who has ever worked in business management knows these very simple rules of business. Morals are shit, cash is king"
On the one side I am glad I can walk holding my head high and saying I have never ever broken my ethical and moral standards in the name of business.
On the other hand it is scary that somebody doing business today is prepared to endorse such an statement in such a casual manner.
Other delicious tidbits:
- Mosques get official funding while Chines temples or other religious buildings get none.
- The government (Malay dominated of course) counts non Muslims in East Malaysia (check a map) as Bumiputra, which although ethnologicaly may be correct, it is a scam: native people in Borneo are not Muslim, but adding them to the Bumiputra population helps Muslims to claim they are the majority.
- Although enshrined in Malaysia's constitution, freedom of religion does not exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Joy
Honestly, Malaysia is a place that George Orwell would have been proud to have invented...
.... and was requested several times to show my ID by the lovely Malaysian religious police while committing the hideous possible crime of eating a burger in McDonalds (I am not joking).
... progress ... errr, uhm, forget about it.
If industries in China are polluting it is because it is the only cost effective way to satisfy western consumerism.
Ditto for hiring cheap Indian technicians and Engineers.
For decades the US was told that its way of live was not sustainable in the long term, but the reply was always about US exceptionalism and how you could walk on water.
Guess what? You can't.
Welcome to the real world.
When on of my previous UK companies asked me to opt out of the EU Working Time Directive I said no.
I was told how my career would suffer, about not getting bonuses, etc.
Then 2 months later the company reorganized personnel, several of the people that issued the "advice" were moved or let go, and I got my bonus and career progression continued as expected, but without ever killing myself (for the last 11 years I rarely have worked more than 35 hours per week).
In another job I knew I was the person clocking the least hours (35/week). Other people were doing 50 or 60. At the end when the crisis came that devotion counted for precious little, since people were made redundant irrespective of their contribution to the company.
People allowing companies to exploit them have nobody to blame but themselves (unless you live in Cuba or Vietnam, then you may be screwed).
But are lousy readers:
"seek to hold vendors liable for 'knowingly' shipping buggy software"
Do I need to explain what knowingly means?
How many /.ers complain bitterly about PHBs pushing software to users in full knowledge that it is not fit for purpose?
Those are the people that should be worried.
Just because your boss didn't know why it does not mean the company is not the adequate one.
In most cases you use Oracle because its features and support, maybe your boss was checking how gullible you are.