`Economist Edward Hadas writes in the NYT that developers of bitcoin are trying to show that money can be successfully privatized but money that is not issued by governments is always doomed to failure because money is inevitably a tool of the state'
Then why is control of the US dollar under the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank?
"most Microsoft Haters apparently assume their stance largely as a rebellion. They seem to take their identity from their opposition. And, in extreme cases, could be described as conspiracy theorists" link
And straight from the mother ship..
“I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux they should do a delicate dance”, Joachim Kempin, Microsoft
"Attackers are using route injection attacks against BGP-speaking routers.. a disturbing trend that indicates attackers could finally have an increased interest in weaknesses inherent in core Internet infrastructure."
Like how, if a router is hackable then the weakness resides in the router, not the core Internet infrastructure, the internet is doing what it was designed for, routing packets...
"My suggestion to you folks is that if you have such issues with Microsoft offering course content to schools, go ahead and come up with an alternative"
The whole fucking reason for this 'free' offer is to keep alternatives out of Australian schools. How about the Australian educational establishment coming up with their own material, like they used do it BM, that is before Microsoft.
"Todd founded The Cameron Group i[n] August 2001 as a sole proprietorship. The company was incorporated in the State of Washington as eCameron, Inc. in July 2002, continuing to use the name The Cameron Group as a legal trade name."
"August 2001 sounded like just as good a time as any to start a business; however, as we all know[,] the following month [] most of the expansion dreams were dashed. eCameron took off to a very slow start, but by mid-2002 had gained critical mass and became profitable. The focus of the company was squarely centered [on] rescuing failing projects." link
"The difference between these two cloud giant is that everything OpenStack does, it does in the open. All our successes and failures are in the open.
"The OpenStack community is an awesome software factory which has an awe-inspiring process for managing releases with a continuous integration, source code management, peer review tools so much so that one of its community members has packaged up the process itself as a product offering." ref
"While Ubuntu has become a more or less Canonical-owned project, openSUSE is becoming more and more community-driven."
I recall something about Microsoft promising not to sue developers as long as they acknowledge Microsofts patent claims against Linux and agree they don't own their own code and undertake not to work on OpenSuSE in company time. Not much community driving going on there that I can see.
While there is such a close proximity between the avian population and humans in certain societies, we can expect to see more of the same. That and air travel and I don't mean of the avian kind ref.
"One could see the TPP as a Christmas wish-list for major corporations, and the copyright parts of the text support such a view," Dr Rimmer said."
"Hollywood, the music industry, big IT companies such as Microsoft and the pharmaceutical sector would all be very happy with this."
'Proposals with the potential to impact significantly on Australiaâ(TM)s Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme include a requirement that patents be available for new uses of existing drugs, effectively allowing for the "ever-greening" of existing patents.'
'WikiLeaks has condemned the TPP negotiations as a "corporatist trade deal".'
"According to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, the SCADA systems on board the International Space Station have been infected by malware", DavidGilbert99
'Kaspersky doesn't give any details about when the infection he was told about took place, but it appears as if it was prior to May of this year when the United Space Alliance.. moved all systems entirely to Linux to make them more "stable and reliable."' ref
"Prior to this move the "dozens of laptops" used on board the space station had been using Windows XP, which is inherently more vulnerable to infection from malware than Linux." ref..
"The ISS's control systems (known generally as SCADA systems) were already running various flavours of Linux prior to this switch for laptops last May." ref
"Elite GCHQ teams targeted employees of mobile communications companies and billing companies to gain access to their company networks. The spies used fake copies of LinkedIn profiles as one of their tools... The victims didn't notice that what they were looking at wasn't the original site but a fake profile with one invisible added feature: a small piece of malware that turned their computers into tools for Britain's GCHQ intelligence service." ref
"Narrator: In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered their people. Those dreams failed and today people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life, but now they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us: from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international terrorism, a powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries across the world, a threat that needs to be fought by a War on Terror.
But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It's a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media. This is a series of films about how and why that fantasy was created, and who it benefits. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world, and both had a very similar explanation of what caused that failure.
These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret organized evil that threatens the world, a fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful."
"several years ago I contacted their legal department with a request to be permitted to use the Ubuntu logo.. for printing on the sails of small kites for sale at the cost of production"
"TRON(*).. was launched in 1984.. An article in IEEE MICRO, a magazine focusing on computers, gives an overview of RTOSs by comparing several popular RTOSs including ITRON, and T-Kernel."
"How did Microsoft squander the lead they had with the Windows CE devices? They had a great lead, they were years ahead. And they completely blew it. And they completely blew it because of the bureaucracy." ref
They didn't, they could have been way ahead of the curve, when they joined the Tron consortium, but not totally owning it, they acted to supress it in the US while promoting the much inferior WinCE. A replay of the WinNT - OS/2 collaboration/war with IBM.
"Google should start taking them to court. I do not know why they are not doing something about it and letting all this back room blackmail stuff go on."
Because Gates isn't claiming IP rights against Google but against the third party hardware manufacturers - who can't afford the lawyer costs. And equally Ballmer is never going to spell out what 'undisclosed balance-sheet liability' there is in Linux.
"Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company. He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin"
How does it cost £100 million per year to fax an extortion note? ref
"Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8.1 for nonprofits. The move is an extension of the company's nod to the nonprofit community with the launch Windows 8. The announcement means eligible nonprofit organizations and public libraries can request Windows 8.1 through Microsoft's software donation program."
Still runnning the same ole engulf-and-assimilate game plan. In this case keeping Linux off the Desktop and getting some free publicity in return. Remember this is the company that acted to sabotage the OLPC project by offering to 'support' the effort but only if they came with Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
And these botnets wouldn't be viable without that leaky tub known as Microsoft Windows ..
"the next generation miniature USB connector will fit either way
..
What an innovative idea, who would ever have thought that USB connectors you could plug-in the wrong way round was a bad idea
Will these chimpanzees be able to apply for citizenship or run for President if native born?
`Economist Edward Hadas writes in the NYT that developers of bitcoin are trying to show that money can be successfully privatized but money that is not issued by governments is always doomed to failure because money is inevitably a tool of the state'
Then why is control of the US dollar under the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank?
"most Microsoft Haters apparently assume their stance largely as a rebellion. They seem to take their identity from their opposition. And, in extreme cases, could be described as conspiracy theorists" link
..
And straight from the mother ship
“I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux they should do a delicate dance”, Joachim Kempin, Microsoft
"Attackers are using route injection attacks against BGP-speaking routers .. a disturbing trend that indicates attackers could finally have an increased interest in weaknesses inherent in core Internet infrastructure."
...
Like how, if a router is hackable then the weakness resides in the router, not the core Internet infrastructure, the internet is doing what it was designed for, routing packets
"The industry will value an MCSE over a Austrialian educational certificate of completion" any day", SteveC5
...
Commonly known in the industry as a Microsoft Certified Sandwich Engineer Certification, for anyone not familiar with the term
"My suggestion to you folks is that if you have such issues with Microsoft offering course content to schools, go ahead and come up with an alternative"
The whole fucking reason for this 'free' offer is to keep alternatives out of Australian schools. How about the Australian educational establishment coming up with their own material, like they used do it BM, that is before Microsoft.
"Todd founded The Cameron Group i[n] August 2001 as a sole proprietorship. The company was incorporated in the State of Washington as eCameron, Inc. in July 2002, continuing to use the name The Cameron Group as a legal trade name."
"August 2001 sounded like just as good a time as any to start a business; however, as we all know[,] the following month [] most of the expansion dreams were dashed. eCameron took off to a very slow start, but by mid-2002 had gained critical mass and became profitable. The focus of the company was squarely centered [on] rescuing failing projects." link
"The difference between these two cloud giant is that everything OpenStack does, it does in the open. All our successes and failures are in the open.
"The OpenStack community is an awesome software factory which has an awe-inspiring process for managing releases with a continuous integration, source code management, peer review tools so much so that one of its community members has packaged up the process itself as a product offering." ref
"With the cost of healthcare services increasing"
Healthcare costs aren't going up, what is going on is price gouging by the insurance companies.
"While Ubuntu has become a more or less Canonical-owned project, openSUSE is becoming more and more community-driven."
I recall something about Microsoft promising not to sue developers as long as they acknowledge Microsofts patent claims against Linux and agree they don't own their own code and undertake not to work on OpenSuSE in company time. Not much community driving going on there that I can see.
Microsoft’s Patent Pledge for Individual Contributors to openSUSE.org
While there is such a close proximity between the avian population and humans in certain societies, we can expect to see more of the same. That and air travel and I don't mean of the avian kind ref.
"One could see the TPP as a Christmas wish-list for major corporations, and the copyright parts of the text support such a view," Dr Rimmer said."
"Hollywood, the music industry, big IT companies such as Microsoft and the pharmaceutical sector would all be very happy with this."
'Proposals with the potential to impact significantly on Australiaâ(TM)s Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme include a requirement that patents be available for new uses of existing drugs, effectively allowing for the "ever-greening" of existing patents.'
'WikiLeaks has condemned the TPP negotiations as a "corporatist trade deal".'
Does Rhinehart know what soylent was made of in the original story. ref
"According to Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, the SCADA systems on board the International Space Station have been infected by malware", DavidGilbert99
.. moved all systems entirely to Linux to make them more "stable and reliable."' ref
'Kaspersky doesn't give any details about when the infection he was told about took place, but it appears as if it was prior to May of this year when the United Space Alliance
"Prior to this move the "dozens of laptops" used on board the space station had been using Windows XP, which is inherently more vulnerable to infection from malware than Linux." ref..
"The ISS's control systems (known generally as SCADA systems) were already running various flavours of Linux prior to this switch for laptops last May." ref
"Elite GCHQ teams targeted employees of mobile communications companies and billing companies to gain access to their company networks. The spies used fake copies of LinkedIn profiles as one of their tools. .. The victims didn't notice that what they were looking at wasn't the original site but a fake profile with one invisible added feature: a small piece of malware that turned their computers into tools for Britain's GCHQ intelligence service." ref
Does any of this malware work on Linux?
In regards to the technology, what do they use under-the-hood in the battery ..
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain
"Narrator: In the past, politicians promised to create a better world. They had different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from the optimistic visions they offered their people. Those dreams failed and today people have lost faith in ideologies. Increasingly, politicians are seen simply as managers of public life, but now they have discovered a new role that restores their power and authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect us: from nightmares. They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international terrorism, a powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries across the world, a threat that needs to be fought by a War on Terror.
But much of this threat is a fantasy, which has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It's a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media. This is a series of films about how and why that fantasy was created, and who it benefits. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world, and both had a very similar explanation of what caused that failure.
These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today's nightmare vision of a secret organized evil that threatens the world, a fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful."
"several years ago I contacted their legal department with a request to be permitted to use the Ubuntu logo .. for printing on the sails of small kites for sale at the cost of production"
Ubuntu T-shirts & Shirts
Real-Time OS for Embedded Systems
.. was launched in 1984 .. An article in IEEE MICRO, a magazine focusing on computers, gives an overview of RTOSs by comparing several popular RTOSs including ITRON, and T-Kernel."
"TRON(*)
"How did Microsoft squander the lead they had with the Windows CE devices? They had a great lead, they were years ahead. And they completely blew it. And they completely blew it because of the bureaucracy." ref
They didn't, they could have been way ahead of the curve, when they joined the Tron consortium, but not totally owning it, they acted to supress it in the US while promoting the much inferior WinCE. A replay of the WinNT - OS/2 collaboration/war with IBM.
'Microsoft Teams Up with Japanese Group That Promotes Archrival Tron'
'Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would collaborate with a consortium that promotes an open operating system for consumer electronics called TRON'
'Microsoft Corp., which was the first U. S. supplier to lobby Washington about TRON'
'We don't want the Japanese to create a specification that would preclude competition,', former Deputy U. S. Trade Representative Michael B. Smith
"Google should start taking them to court. I do not know why they are not doing something about it and letting all this back room blackmail stuff go on."
Because Gates isn't claiming IP rights against Google but against the third party hardware manufacturers - who can't afford the lawyer costs. And equally Ballmer is never going to spell out what 'undisclosed balance-sheet liability' there is in Linux.
"Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company. He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin"
How does it cost £100 million per year to fax an extortion note? ref
"Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8.1 for nonprofits. The move is an extension of the company's nod to the nonprofit community with the launch Windows 8. The announcement means eligible nonprofit organizations and public libraries can request Windows 8.1 through Microsoft's software donation program."
Still runnning the same ole engulf-and-assimilate game plan. In this case keeping Linux off the Desktop and getting some free publicity in return. Remember this is the company that acted to sabotage the OLPC project by offering to 'support' the effort but only if they came with Windows.