Well, Linux is about freedom of knowledge. It's the liberty. As a nature of humans on earth, not borg, we must defend it to the very last drip of our blood. Thus, we don't want others to steal it and seize it for their own. We know that M$ always use this dirty strategy is used by Microsoft as a part of its plot in world domination. GNU/Linux/OSS are immune to this so-called "embrace-and-extend" thing. No wonder this Balmer guy (or any M$ cohort) tries dissing Linux in every event.
You can find additional info about OLED here and here. They said: OLED production is currently 20% more expensive than LCD (!). But if a "highly productive" fabrication can ramp up, it will cut the cost.
Let's suppose FBI were successful to intercept the password or even the identity of the hacker(s). Then what? If according to the law where they live it's not a crime, then their government will reluctantly cooperate with FBI. If this is the case (which I strongly believe), what FBI will do? To intervene and kidnap them silently? Or lure them out to US? This is not only ethical but can also trigger wrath from other countries for intervening a country's internal issues.
This could be unfavorable for US as many countries view US as the "world cop" and this solution is clearly one-sided. Hence, many will speculate this as a prelude for a more daring effort to "secure" all digital piracy around the globe or at least make other countries tune into the same perspective.
I think the more reasonable way is to make a world consortium about this, sit down and make an agreement or convention or whatever to prevent further damages.
Well, well, Osteoarthritis doesn't only attack seniors nowadays, but also a newborn species of space shuttle. Seems that NASA should begin looking for geriatrics experts.:-)
Well, we have to admit that software as service revolution is inevitable. This change will really revolutionize our world. The work *has* already begun since P2P "discovery" by Napster and such. It was then intensified by the invention of Java as "universal" programming language and XML as the "universal" data format. Naturally, if we have world-wide connections, universal programming language and universal data, we'd like to unify the framework, right?
Recall in the OSI network layer we have "presentation layer". You can see that this layer has never emerge as a solid standard eventhough there were some attempts. Thus, this becomes the biggest stumbling block in the unification. However, after *the* invention, this should not be problem any longer.
But, there is another problem: Control. With software as service, the service-provider company will exercise control over your data. Basically, your data is belong to us. Eventhough the provider does respect privacy, it won't let you get away without signing ToS which is basically make you agree to for a "responsible disclosure" from it. Even worse, the company seems to take the privacy pretty lightly
Now, this has a serious implication: Government agents can pin down those service providers and possibly giving them monopoly access to ease them "keeping track of malicious citizens". Is this an indication? If so, then your privacy agreement is "useless" basically. Unless...
If we agree on universal programming language, data, and protocols and decentralized P2P connection like Freenet does. This case, our privacy will remain and we can defend it to our best.
Just my 2 cents, though.
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Well, Linux is about freedom of knowledge. It's the liberty. As a nature of humans on earth, not borg, we must defend it to the very last drip of our blood. Thus, we don't want others to steal it and seize it for their own. We know that M$ always use this dirty strategy is used by Microsoft as a part of its plot in world domination. GNU/Linux/OSS are immune to this so-called "embrace-and-extend" thing. No wonder this Balmer guy (or any M$ cohort) tries dissing Linux in every event.
P.S.: Linux does help in solving cancer. And how 'bout Microsoft? Read here muhahaha...
You can find additional info about OLED here and here. They said: OLED production is currently 20% more expensive than LCD (!). But if a "highly productive" fabrication can ramp up, it will cut the cost.
Let's suppose FBI were successful to intercept the password or even the identity of the hacker(s). Then what? If according to the law where they live it's not a crime, then their government will reluctantly cooperate with FBI. If this is the case (which I strongly believe), what FBI will do? To intervene and kidnap them silently? Or lure them out to US? This is not only ethical but can also trigger wrath from other countries for intervening a country's internal issues.
This could be unfavorable for US as many countries view US as the "world cop" and this solution is clearly one-sided. Hence, many will speculate this as a prelude for a more daring effort to "secure" all digital piracy around the globe or at least make other countries tune into the same perspective.
I think the more reasonable way is to make a world consortium about this, sit down and make an agreement or convention or whatever to prevent further damages.
Well, well, Osteoarthritis doesn't only attack seniors nowadays, but also a newborn species of space shuttle. Seems that NASA should begin looking for geriatrics experts. :-)
Well, we have to admit that software as service revolution is inevitable. This change will really revolutionize our world. The work *has* already begun since P2P "discovery" by Napster and such. It was then intensified by the invention of Java as "universal" programming language and XML as the "universal" data format. Naturally, if we have world-wide connections, universal programming language and universal data, we'd like to unify the framework, right?
Recall in the OSI network layer we have "presentation layer". You can see that this layer has never emerge as a solid standard eventhough there were some attempts. Thus, this becomes the biggest stumbling block in the unification. However, after *the* invention, this should not be problem any longer.
But, there is another problem: Control. With software as service, the service-provider company will exercise control over your data. Basically, your data is belong to us. Eventhough the provider does respect privacy, it won't let you get away without signing ToS which is basically make you agree to for a "responsible disclosure" from it. Even worse, the company seems to take the privacy pretty lightly
Now, this has a serious implication: Government agents can pin down those service providers and possibly giving them monopoly access to ease them "keeping track of malicious citizens". Is this an indication? If so, then your privacy agreement is "useless" basically. Unless...
If we agree on universal programming language, data, and protocols and decentralized P2P connection like Freenet does. This case, our privacy will remain and we can defend it to our best. Just my 2 cents, though.