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Im not sure about how useful is their content, but very sure about how hateful are their policy.
It's not the only one FOSS P2P program that interacts with Fasttrack networks. MLDonkey does too (and with a lot more networks), and giFT (is KCEasy based on it?) had that capability too.
Anyway, think that is a mistake doing that, even leaving the "free speech" argumentation on a side. More clients means more ways to access means more people that is at the very least aware of them, and a far richer network. Of course, they could had seen that a dangerous percent of the clients of that networks weren't their own client, but still that was not the right reaction.
Suse Linux default install (there is almost anything i need, maybe just install mplayer from sources to avoid SuSE's policy on some file formats)
Mandrake Linux default install
Mepis default install
(not including Fedora just because i don't tried it)
And that's it. Anyone of those alternatives already have most i could want, including most what was suggested here (well, no antivirus, no adblocker, etc that have no meaning in linux). Maybe i would install some spam blocker (i.e. popfile is an easy one that is not in the default installation of those distributions), maybe add some alternative choices (opera is nice, and if well all those have their own firewall, i could choose another one i.e. shorewall), but by default the system gets installed pretty well.
They more could be seen as micromachines (with a builtin replication engine) than "life". The replication part is nice, but the potential of what it could do is even nicer.
Think on them as working as metacatalizers to enable very hard to do for conventional methods chemical products. Or as detectors, not only for TNT as they said there, but also as more trustable than current applications using i.e. animals (dogs to discover drugs). Or as filters, they could assimilate some elements and maybe concentrate them.
Another nice thing about the article is the concept of building blocks. Maybe in a future could, on demand (i.e. an authomatic system), make an specific one to react under certain conditions (i.e. to clean some dangerous contaminator).
In the minus side, working with self-replicating things could be risky. If things goes off control and there is no "shutdown" mechanism (i.e. they die in an environment with O2) the potential for a big disaster could be high
Teorizing about lack of information is sometimes worse than the lack of information itself. One could go to someone more objective about that that should have more information or confirmation about this company claims (i.e. the IBM investors?) or wait for the final version for more concrete facts as that previous announcement was just a big ball of smoke.
In any case, vapourware announcement sometimes preceded by some years the real Microsoft products, maybe their part of emulation includes that behaviour too.
Since i only can receive mails from myself, I stopped receiving spam. Of course, can't receive mails from nobody else, but, well, killing completely spam should worth something... luckily i only manage mails from myself, if i would an ISP with that policy i could risk to have to shut down mail entirely to be really safe, as maybe any of my users being used to send spam thru any of the trojan, vulnerabilities exploit, or worm that goes around.
I don't think that is a solution, banning most of the "outside" big groups of IP ranges (i.e. 80.0.0.0/8) to stop receiving spam... also will stop to receive legitimate mails, and receiving mail is the goal of maintaining an email system internet wide.
But could make a bit more sense to block dynamic IP ranges, or ip ranges where is not supposed to be mail servers (if IPs are fixed and source of spam, could be blocked individually or reported to their ISP). If they are blocking the entire Telefonica range, including their mail server or other "official" mail servers that are there, their users could lose not only mails with individuals there, but also more "automated" things like mailing lists, announcements from web sites, or things like that.
What about chain letters in those servers instead of p2p networks for distributing files? You send something to one of this systems users, that forward the messages to other users of this servers, at almost zero cost of bandwidth for both sides (at least the part of sharing, in some moment that should be downloaded or the mailbox emptied).
GMail not only will have 1Gb mail capacity, but also (from what i remember from the gmail announcement) spam/virus protection (ok, this company will have it also, but not sure how good/accurate will it be against google, but is something that could mark a clear difference between both), non bloated pages (should check how much weight pages from company, if have graphic ads will be in big disadvantage against google text ads at the very least), multilingual interface, and... well, is google behind, for good or bad (if it was Microsoft, will be a very bad, but still have some trust in google over companies that i simply don't know) and probably future integration with more things from google.
Not have big problems against the origin of the company, but maybe things could be slower for US residents or countries that have to connect thru US to reach it, or if it have some kind of success, if their (and maybe their country) bandwidth could handle the load that handles google already.
It don't need to be a portal bloated of information, just integrate better they information resources keeping the bare page approach. Now when you do a search you have i.e. also results from Google News and doing the search in other of the alternatives it provides, and that with very few added weigth to result/search pages.
Smart integration of features, keeping what is good and adding what is needed (but is not yet very very evident) is a good way to grow.
Plone is not the only one open source CMS around. Tikiwiki, Typo3,Drupal and a lot more are open source, some even with commercial support (i.e. Typo3, comparing with it could be a bit more fair) if eWeek want that "feature" over every other possible functionality they could have.
... for eWeek seems to be "commercial support", doesn't matter cost, functionality, adaptability, extensibility and other obviously wrong ways to compare CMSs. It don't matter either if there are other ways of support that could eventually be far better than the standard commercial support they are used to, if it dont fit in they preconcepts, it is bad, period.
The problem is not where, but when. The FTP version usually goes "public" after a month or so of the official release, and I suppose that the betas are only released to selected testers.
Ok, lets put in jail weapon owners for murder because "they could kill people".
The concerns are that google could violate privacy, in hypotetical speach, so they must be condemned in advance because they surely will do.
I think that most of the problems that raised concerns could be more related to the way google will store and manage messages (i.e. a cluster-like big bunch of machines where if someone brokens will be left there, not replaced, and that one could keep copies of deleted messages because could disconnected from network) than with how evil are google managers.
About the "violated privacy" of showing ads related with the mail i'm reading, I think that if I install a webmail anywhere, and put there google ads to finance it, the impact on privacy will be almost the same (in fact, probably will be less).
What fun have a game if the others wont react? if they are just sitting ducks waiting for a shot?
Of course, playing it in/sbin or/etc will have a kind of shooting back in the long run, but that would be more like pacman type game eating poisoned pills than an FPS.
Thinking more on this, maybe a gaming interface could be good for some task like file management, but... what kind of game would be? An FPS have not the right analogies, something like Mario (i.e jump over a file to destroy it, but you can walk over it and see information, or even pick it and run over the place to move it to another dir, if you fit thru the door) or other classic arcade games, where actions are more like what should have done.
Of course, the review was just a report of missing dependencies that could happen in a beta, and how the user disliked some of the choices taken by the distribution. Most of the "good" things of the distribution (yast, how gnome apps integrates in kde or special packages that it could include, manuals or packaging, installation process describing anything that wasn't the time it took) is missing from the article.
There are a lot of distributions that are in a way or another "based" on debian (knoppix, mepis, xandros?, etc), whats the difference between those custom and the based on debian ones? Just the project that holds them? Is a technical difference or more like a political one?
Microsoft ALWAYS says that it is improving security. Maybe Microsoft Calendar have a bug and show to them every day that is April 1st. I can even visualize the message for this day in microsoft press desktop "Announce that we are improving security"
I forgot to add a funny reference to an old Heinlein story on that line (from where i took the idea, btw). It described pretty much the same as you are talking about. Of course, it adds some "emotion" to this when people give problems stopping lanes. Throwing something to the center (i.e. an iron bar) will mean that could hit people at 200mph, not very healthy.
The nice thing about that is that a new discover could put them nearer than we think.
Transporters a la Star Trek, or another way of instant transportation could be cool, but we must get rid of those damn flys.
Wormholes thru earth! Cool! You could be in another place in seconds, and the rest of the world also! (is bad luck that that "another place" is called hell).
If an orbital elevator is done, why not build a ring around the world with elevators going up and down in strategical places? You could take an elevator, round around the earth, and descend in the other side of the world with almost cost zero and probably pretty fast.
Brain switching (i think i saw a movie about that last days:) upload your brain to someone's else brain, do what you have to do in the other side of the world and reswich to go back. The risk is with who you made the switch.
Duplicators: what if with certain process, an exact copy of you can emerge hundreds of miles away and do what you need to do? (well, unless you want to take vacations). The problem is what you do after with your clones (at least in Rogue Moon Algys Budrys had a solution)
Why use cars? just use rolling roads and people could go everywhere.
Last but not least: why travel? if everywhere exist good bandwidth, maybe most tasks could be done remotely and with voip and videoconferences the need to be in other places could be relative. And if you want to travel to rest, going slow will be better than going fast.
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Anyway, think that is a mistake doing that, even leaving the "free speech" argumentation on a side. More clients means more ways to access means more people that is at the very least aware of them, and a far richer network. Of course, they could had seen that a dangerous percent of the clients of that networks weren't their own client, but still that was not the right reaction.
- Suse Linux default install (there is almost anything i need, maybe just install mplayer from sources to avoid SuSE's policy on some file formats)
- Mandrake Linux default install
- Mepis default install
(not including Fedora just because i don't tried it)And that's it. Anyone of those alternatives already have most i could want, including most what was suggested here (well, no antivirus, no adblocker, etc that have no meaning in linux). Maybe i would install some spam blocker (i.e. popfile is an easy one that is not in the default installation of those distributions), maybe add some alternative choices (opera is nice, and if well all those have their own firewall, i could choose another one i.e. shorewall), but by default the system gets installed pretty well.
Think on them as working as metacatalizers to enable very hard to do for conventional methods chemical products. Or as detectors, not only for TNT as they said there, but also as more trustable than current applications using i.e. animals (dogs to discover drugs). Or as filters, they could assimilate some elements and maybe concentrate them.
Another nice thing about the article is the concept of building blocks. Maybe in a future could, on demand (i.e. an authomatic system), make an specific one to react under certain conditions (i.e. to clean some dangerous contaminator).
In the minus side, working with self-replicating things could be risky. If things goes off control and there is no "shutdown" mechanism (i.e. they die in an environment with O2) the potential for a big disaster could be high
In any case, vapourware announcement sometimes preceded by some years the real Microsoft products, maybe their part of emulation includes that behaviour too.
I don't think that is a solution, banning most of the "outside" big groups of IP ranges (i.e. 80.0.0.0/8) to stop receiving spam... also will stop to receive legitimate mails, and receiving mail is the goal of maintaining an email system internet wide.
But could make a bit more sense to block dynamic IP ranges, or ip ranges where is not supposed to be mail servers (if IPs are fixed and source of spam, could be blocked individually or reported to their ISP). If they are blocking the entire Telefonica range, including their mail server or other "official" mail servers that are there, their users could lose not only mails with individuals there, but also more "automated" things like mailing lists, announcements from web sites, or things like that.
What about chain letters in those servers instead of p2p networks for distributing files? You send something to one of this systems users, that forward the messages to other users of this servers, at almost zero cost of bandwidth for both sides (at least the part of sharing, in some moment that should be downloaded or the mailbox emptied).
Not have big problems against the origin of the company, but maybe things could be slower for US residents or countries that have to connect thru US to reach it, or if it have some kind of success, if their (and maybe their country) bandwidth could handle the load that handles google already.
All those estimates are innacurate... measure better and will find that instead of 1/3 all are 42/100
Really... when spam is more near to 100% then all could switch safely to another, more spam-safe, system.
...is not like the luggage will grow feets and go away by itself, like this one.
Is a sci-fi award, dammit! Why don't give the "Forward awards" for the best SciFi stories and related work on 2054?
Smart integration of features, keeping what is good and adding what is needed (but is not yet very very evident) is a good way to grow.
Plone is not the only one open source CMS around. Tikiwiki, Typo3,Drupal and a lot more are open source, some even with commercial support (i.e. Typo3, comparing with it could be a bit more fair) if eWeek want that "feature" over every other possible functionality they could have.
... for eWeek seems to be "commercial support", doesn't matter cost, functionality, adaptability, extensibility and other obviously wrong ways to compare CMSs. It don't matter either if there are other ways of support that could eventually be far better than the standard commercial support they are used to, if it dont fit in they preconcepts, it is bad, period.
The problem is not where, but when. The FTP version usually goes "public" after a month or so of the official release, and I suppose that the betas are only released to selected testers.
The concerns are that google could violate privacy, in hypotetical speach, so they must be condemned in advance because they surely will do.
I think that most of the problems that raised concerns could be more related to the way google will store and manage messages (i.e. a cluster-like big bunch of machines where if someone brokens will be left there, not replaced, and that one could keep copies of deleted messages because could disconnected from network) than with how evil are google managers.
About the "violated privacy" of showing ads related with the mail i'm reading, I think that if I install a webmail anywhere, and put there google ads to finance it, the impact on privacy will be almost the same (in fact, probably will be less).
Not sure if for simple spam he would have a problem under ireland's law, but as scammer probabilities go up.
Of course, playing it in /sbin or /etc will have a kind of shooting back in the long run, but that would be more like pacman type game eating poisoned pills than an FPS.
Thinking more on this, maybe a gaming interface could be good for some task like file management, but... what kind of game would be? An FPS have not the right analogies, something like Mario (i.e jump over a file to destroy it, but you can walk over it and see information, or even pick it and run over the place to move it to another dir, if you fit thru the door) or other classic arcade games, where actions are more like what should have done.
Of course, the review was just a report of missing dependencies that could happen in a beta, and how the user disliked some of the choices taken by the distribution. Most of the "good" things of the distribution (yast, how gnome apps integrates in kde or special packages that it could include, manuals or packaging, installation process describing anything that wasn't the time it took) is missing from the article.
There are a lot of distributions that are in a way or another "based" on debian (knoppix, mepis, xandros?, etc), whats the difference between those custom and the based on debian ones? Just the project that holds them? Is a technical difference or more like a political one?
Microsoft ALWAYS says that it is improving security. Maybe Microsoft Calendar have a bug and show to them every day that is April 1st. I can even visualize the message for this day in microsoft press desktop "Announce that we are improving security"
I forgot to add a funny reference to an old Heinlein story on that line (from where i took the idea, btw). It described pretty much the same as you are talking about. Of course, it adds some "emotion" to this when people give problems stopping lanes. Throwing something to the center (i.e. an iron bar) will mean that could hit people at 200mph, not very healthy.