How come I am under the impression that I'm just talking to one person who is upset about this?
Talk to me fifty years from now and I will tell you about the experimentation that went on in 2006.
Humanity may have made a couple of leaps forwards in technology hence, but certainly not in ethics
so what makes you think a third world life is worth more than four figure value a piece?
The question is so much of a no-brainer I could write the entire discussion to go along with it myself.
The only thing you people would have to supply are such delightfully insightful crap comments like "I would trust my mother's vagina with Google" or on "the Soviet Google they inspect mother's vaginas".. That is the really challenging part.
An obviously false GPS reading will indicate to the pilot that the GPS is on the blink. But what about if it's just twenty miles off? Oh okay, there are still radio beacons and for really spectacular results you would have to manipulate an airport's ILS (remember the movie with Bruce Willis?) and people do tend to look out the window every so often but... hey how about hijacking ships at sea that way? (Now that could work if you could make ships run onto sand banks and the like).
Okay... that just makes the case once more for the GPS jammer, a device that emulates GPS signals and fools every GPS receiver in its vicinity into thinking it is located near the south pole. Of course the car is still trackable by triangulating the location beacon. Of course a GPS jammer like that would be a dangerous thing to have and I'm thinking of here is what if someone happens to put that on a plane. I fly myself so that's a scary thought.
I myself expect to be paid for my products and I don't think people are upset that "Bill" in the guise of Micro-soft wants to be paid for his efforts. What really upsets people is that he saturated the market with crap and is either squeezing us out of the market altogether or if we come and play on his terms (in other words consult for his products) he collects a huge tithe in the form of software kits, training credentials etc. To keep it in the analogy of the playground he's a bully and playing with him around isn't fun and this is why we had to create a new economy of free software: getting paid for consulting and training on it.
I just looked at Monty Widenius's company this morning and thought to myself damm... way to go and if there's any inspiration floating around then it's those of us "small fries" who are leveraging this newer model of doing business as opposed to the old model of holding a whip in one hand and another to collect the shekel. But even as I rant the bigtime players are also catching on bigtime.
Look at Sun. They open-sourced Solaris 10 and are thinking taking it GPLv3. It is clear where they see their future at least for their OS: not so much selling it per cpu units than selling services around it. They might someday even abandon making their admittedly fine machines as they've been looking at using x86 chips for their lower models. IBM is still stuck in the middle, renting z/OS out per cpu units while other parts of it are investing heavily in our model (Eclipse, gotta be thankful for that).
Microsoft will have to go down that alley soon, as I have said they've saturated the market to the point their own products are competing with each other. They're putting a lot of effort into their "Vista" project but as people lined up in front of stores a day before Windows 95 was released, I can't see that happening for "Vista". At some point in the future, probably within the next three years we'll be getting the Microsoft embrace.
German law (article 130 of the German penal code) bans a great deal of internet sites dealing with historic revisionism, especially sites which arrive at the conclusion that the holocaust itself (holocaust meaning the systematic executions in the death camps) never happened or if it did happen then not in the numbers and dimensions which are found in the "official" schoolbooks. Sites that have been banned on Google Germany include sites such as http://www.stormfront.org/ and http://www.zundelsite.org/ etc. to name a few.
Was this scheduled? According to Terence McKenna there's no such thing as random coincidence and I happen to agree with him more and more lately.
Let me put it this way... Microsoft is already planning on a complete rewrite from scratch following IE7.. I wouldn't be surprised if they would just switch to Firebird and owning up they did so and maybe integrate Mozilla code into their Desktop and OLE enabled apps like they do with IE's mshtml.dll. Microsoft already knows that they will have to open the sources to a lot of their code, it's just they're not done whining about it yet.
In theory.. in theory but neither do we live exactly by the books nor do we live in them:-)
In practice however it would be next to impossible for Zhidkov to prove his software does not degrade the system in stability, performance and/or security. So even though the burden of proving that his allegations are factual is initially on Doctorow, Zhidkov would have to respond by disproving Doctorows findings, an undertaking by far more difficult, meaning if he's smart he'll threaten, cajole and whine for a while and then move on.
By the power of the forces of Market I command...
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I wonder why people always conjure up those magical market forces when in fact the "market" is tightly
controlled by a few and extremely powerful monopolies? So what do you think will happen if IPv4 addresses
really get scarce... I can tell you what's going to happen. Internet consumers (dialup/cable/adsl etc.)
will find their asses behind NAT boxes and transparent proxies, maybe even limited to only being allowed
to use http(s) in the "basic service plan" while "premium users" get limited access to smtp. I think having
to choose between the excuse to extremely curtail service while charging more for less and going through a
costly migration that gives more power to the consumer... ask yourself WWMD: What would Microsoft do?
campaign:
Microsoft Spending $120M To Look Smaller
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 23, @06:40PM
from the someone-alert-alanis dept.
Ant writes "Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Microsoft Corp. will spend $120 million a year on an advertising campaign to fight its image as "a huge American company." That sound you heard while reading the article is my head exploding.
Yeah well you're right of course, technically speaking. But you know, this being/. and all that... It is however in its own right a pretty cool story about our favorite bunch of scumbags going after some poor mentally challenged jerk.
However the story I would have wanted to read would have had this headline: Hacker tricks Microsoft's Ballmer into jail. Now that's what I would really call a story.
Too bad Slashdot itself is not a wiki. You really get it into your system so when I saw the typo in your post my first impulse was I wanted to hit edit and correct it:-)
It was the first thing that came to my mind. Actually I thought of an oven on wheels smart enough to run little animals over and then cook them as it made its way home but then my left brain kicked in, my eyes focused again and I temporarily entered the reality you obviously prefer (because you spend so much time in it) so I could tell you about it.
If someone is really dumb enough to throw money down that toilet I just hope
they remember to flush often between handfuls of bill. Sorry to see IA64 go
without even ever having had a chance at it, but even viable 64-bit veteran architectures
like the Alpha have gone down that drain.
The only thing you should get modded down for is that you adhere to the concept of linear time, i.e. "what does the
soul do when it is in suspended animation"? That question has already been asked (and channeled:-) ) a couple of
times and the answer is usually the same as what does a process or task do when it's not on the CPU. Nothing.
Just like a program running in a process (without querying some sort of clock) can't tell whether it's been paused
for a million years between two instructions neither can you (you as in your soul I mean). Once you're in suspended
animation you're off "the GREAT CPU". Once you're dead you're off it too and time (which is just the set of changes
the GREAT PROGRAM calculated on the GREAT DATASET (aka the Universe) while you were part of the GREAT PROGRAM, time just
doesn't apply anymore). You might get some more CPU time as you're placed afterwards in other simulation environments
(heaven, hell, your pick really) but that's conjecture because as far as the GREAT PROGRAM is concerned there is no
trap to a hypervisor API I know of that would allow to query what other processes may be on the system.
Why is it though that I have to even indicate on a job application what my race is?? I'm white and I'm being discriminated against because it's not the Department doing the hiring but HR people who believe they have to somehow come up with a non-white person that is at least remotely qualified.
Tell you what: The only question I want to answer is "Do you have what it takes to do the job (Yes/No). If yes, what makes you think so?". I don't want to answer questions like "Please indicate your ethnicity (African American/ European /...)", "what is your DOB (or how old are you anway, pops?)". I'm pretty incensed about this because I can see it happen all around me. Oh I get work if that's what you're getting at, but after all those years of self-employed consulting it would be great to get paid on time for reasonable working hours.
Tell you what: Affirmative Action and whatever else they call this crap is pure racism. Nobody in this country should get a job just because of their race (uhoh of course I meant to say "Ethnicity") or extra jailtime because of it.
Tell you what, on my next job application I'm definitely going to say I'm jewish (I really mean it). I think I'm going to be able to live with not eating a pork sandwich at work.
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How come I am under the impression that I'm just talking to one person who is upset about this? Talk to me fifty years from now and I will tell you about the experimentation that went on in 2006. Humanity may have made a couple of leaps forwards in technology hence, but certainly not in ethics so what makes you think a third world life is worth more than four figure value a piece?
Dept. of Energy Human Radiation Experiments
Tuskekee Syphilis Experimentation
Essay on Human Experimentation ...
...
Though I just yanked the top most of my mind and located that on Google for you, this should get you started.
Medinole,
Illegal human experimentation sans knowledge and sans consent is a fact. Spare us stupid excuses.
awesomely generous. Hope there are no patent string attached.
The question is so much of a no-brainer I could write the entire discussion to go along with it myself.
The only thing you people would have to supply are such delightfully insightful crap comments like "I would trust my mother's vagina with Google" or on "the Soviet Google they inspect mother's vaginas".. That is the really challenging part.
Ouuuchh... my head hurts.. I wonder why those stupid humans had to stick all that metal into my head?!?!
An obviously false GPS reading will indicate to the pilot that the GPS is on the blink. But what about if it's just twenty miles off? Oh okay, there are still radio beacons and for really spectacular results you would have to manipulate an airport's ILS (remember the movie with Bruce Willis?) and people do tend to look out the window every so often but ... hey how about hijacking ships at sea that way? (Now that could work if you could make ships run onto sand banks and the like).
Okay... that just makes the case once more for the GPS jammer, a device that emulates GPS signals and fools every GPS receiver in its vicinity into thinking it is located near the south pole. Of course the car is still trackable by triangulating the location beacon. Of course a GPS jammer like that would be a dangerous thing to have and I'm thinking of here is what if someone happens to put that on a plane. I fly myself so that's a scary thought.
I myself expect to be paid for my products and I don't think people are upset that "Bill" in the guise of Micro-soft wants to be paid for his efforts. What really upsets people is that he saturated the market with crap and is either squeezing us out of the market altogether or if we come and play on his terms (in other words consult for his products) he collects a huge tithe in the form of software kits, training credentials etc. To keep it in the analogy of the playground he's a bully and playing with him around isn't fun and this is why we had to create a new economy of free software: getting paid for consulting and training on it.
I just looked at Monty Widenius's company this morning and thought to myself damm... way to go and if there's any inspiration floating around then it's those of us "small fries" who are leveraging this newer model of doing business as opposed to the old model of holding a whip in one hand and another to collect the shekel. But even as I rant the bigtime players are also catching on bigtime.
Look at Sun. They open-sourced Solaris 10 and are thinking taking it GPLv3. It is clear where they see their future at least for their OS: not so much selling it per cpu units than selling services around it. They might someday even abandon making their admittedly fine machines as they've been looking at using x86 chips for their lower models. IBM is still stuck in the middle, renting z/OS out per cpu units while other parts of it are investing heavily in our model (Eclipse, gotta be thankful for that).
Microsoft will have to go down that alley soon, as I have said they've saturated the market to the point their own products are competing with each other. They're putting a lot of effort into their "Vista" project but as people lined up in front of stores a day before Windows 95 was released, I can't see that happening for "Vista". At some point in the future, probably within the next three years we'll be getting the Microsoft embrace.
You know, your handle "Shark72" isn't all that confidence inspiring either...
German law (article 130 of the German penal code) bans a great deal of internet sites dealing with historic revisionism, especially sites which arrive at the conclusion that the holocaust itself (holocaust meaning the systematic executions in the death camps) never happened or if it did happen then not in the numbers and dimensions which are found in the "official" schoolbooks. Sites that have been banned on Google Germany include sites such as http://www.stormfront.org/ and http://www.zundelsite.org/ etc. to name a few.
Was this scheduled? According to Terence McKenna there's no such thing as random coincidence and I happen to agree with
him more and more lately.
Let me put it this way... Microsoft is already planning on a complete rewrite from scratch following IE7.. I wouldn't be
surprised if they would just switch to Firebird and owning up they did so and maybe integrate Mozilla code into their
Desktop and OLE enabled apps like they do with IE's mshtml.dll. Microsoft already knows that they will have to open the
sources to a lot of their code, it's just they're not done whining about it yet.
In theory.. in theory but neither do we live exactly by the books nor do we live in them :-)
In practice however it would be next to impossible for Zhidkov to prove his software does not
degrade the system in stability, performance and/or security. So even though the burden of
proving that his allegations are factual is initially on Doctorow, Zhidkov would have to respond by
disproving Doctorows findings, an undertaking by far more difficult, meaning if he's smart
he'll threaten, cajole and whine for a while and then move on.
I wonder why people always conjure up those magical market forces when in fact the "market" is tightly controlled by a few and extremely powerful monopolies? So what do you think will happen if IPv4 addresses really get scarce... I can tell you what's going to happen. Internet consumers (dialup/cable/adsl etc.) will find their asses behind NAT boxes and transparent proxies, maybe even limited to only being allowed to use http(s) in the "basic service plan" while "premium users" get limited access to smtp. I think having to choose between the excuse to extremely curtail service while charging more for less and going through a costly migration that gives more power to the consumer... ask yourself WWMD: What would Microsoft do?
It's all part of this
campaign: Microsoft Spending $120M To Look Smaller
Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 23, @06:40PM
from the someone-alert-alanis dept.
Ant writes "Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Microsoft Corp. will spend $120 million a year on an advertising campaign to fight its image as "a huge American company." That sound you heard while reading the article is my head exploding.
Yeah well you're right of course, technically speaking. But you know, this being /. and all that... It is however in its own right a pretty cool story about our favorite bunch of scumbags going after some poor mentally challenged jerk.
However the story I would have wanted to read would have had this headline: Hacker tricks Microsoft's Ballmer into jail. Now that's what I would really call a story.
Too bad Slashdot itself is not a wiki. You really get it into your system so when I saw the typo in your post my first impulse was I wanted to hit edit and correct it :-)
It was the first thing that came to my mind. Actually I thought of an oven on wheels smart enough to run little animals over and then cook them as it made its way home but then my left brain kicked in, my eyes focused again and I temporarily entered the reality you obviously prefer (because you spend so much time in it) so I could tell you about it.
If someone is really dumb enough to throw money down that toilet I just hope they remember to flush often between handfuls of bill. Sorry to see IA64 go without even ever having had a chance at it, but even viable 64-bit veteran architectures like the Alpha have gone down that drain.
Given Nasa's poor track record of failed probes hypothetical martians would most likely chalk it up as another earth probe that failed ;-)
If the evidence is so damming you forgot all about National Security. Under house rules National Security trumps all.
I'm sure you meant to say: I think you are an unthinking Waco!
The only thing you should get modded down for is that you adhere to the concept of linear time, i.e. "what does the soul do when it is in suspended animation"? That question has already been asked (and channeled :-) ) a couple of
times and the answer is usually the same as what does a process or task do when it's not on the CPU. Nothing.
Just like a program running in a process (without querying some sort of clock) can't tell whether it's been paused
for a million years between two instructions neither can you (you as in your soul I mean). Once you're in suspended
animation you're off "the GREAT CPU". Once you're dead you're off it too and time (which is just the set of changes
the GREAT PROGRAM calculated on the GREAT DATASET (aka the Universe) while you were part of the GREAT PROGRAM, time just
doesn't apply anymore). You might get some more CPU time as you're placed afterwards in other simulation environments
(heaven, hell, your pick really) but that's conjecture because as far as the GREAT PROGRAM is concerned there is no
trap to a hypervisor API I know of that would allow to query what other processes may be on the system.
Why is it though that I have to even indicate on a job application what my race is?? I'm white and I'm being discriminated against because it's not the Department doing the hiring but HR people who believe they have to somehow come up with a non-white person that is at least remotely qualified. Tell you what: The only question I want to answer is "Do you have what it takes to do the job (Yes/No). If yes, what makes you think so?". I don't want to answer questions like "Please indicate your ethnicity (African American/ European / ...)", "what is your DOB (or how old are you anway, pops?)". I'm pretty incensed about this because I can see it happen all around me. Oh I get work if that's what you're getting at, but after all those years of self-employed consulting it would be great to get paid on time for reasonable working hours.
Tell you what: Affirmative Action and whatever else they call this crap is pure racism. Nobody in this country should get a job just because of their race (uhoh of course I meant to say "Ethnicity") or extra jailtime because of it.
Tell you what, on my next job application I'm definitely going to say I'm jewish (I really mean it). I think I'm going to be able to live with not eating a pork sandwich at work.
.. a few years ago. I wish I had registered shit,com, it wouldn't be worth crap today :-)