I have Time Warner Cable and I see advertisments for DSL, and even satalite TV systems. I can't remember if this happens in the time warner exclusive channels.
In a mass extention, the top order preditors go first because they are the most specilized. MS is the saber tooth tiger of the buisness world.
MS scares the hell out of me for a lot of reasons, but they can release products until they are blue in the face and it won't change that much. They are big and have a very strong presence, but we (the IT and software engineers) have to choose their products. Despide their monopoly in many areas writing it from scratch is still an option and there are other options for just about everything MS sells. They can't succeed in a consumer market if most of the consumers (not general, but IT, etc) choose not to buy from them because we are smart enough to know how dangerous their monopoly is.
The most dangerous pattern in these attacks is that M$ is trying to play the political game. They are making the free software community out to be a bunch of free loaders getting goverment pork! This has the potential to swing public opinion (I don't want my tax dollars going to the those free software commies).
This, as we all know is completly false. Free software is by and large a way developers give freely to the community (and in fact alot, possibly even a majority of the big user apps are from out of the states). It ammazes me how selfless many of the developers in the FS world are. I am very proud of this. We have done what many groups in history have failed to do.
However, the average Joe is clueless. If the population at large starts to buy this CR*P then the FS developers in the US could find themselves legislated into oblivion (Extra, Extra: FCC now controls all software releases! - as stupid as it sounds it would not surprise me).
I don't see any problem with one of the conditions of goverement grants being that the software must be released under a particular licence. If I want to release code under GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache,... that is my choice, but if I am receiving funds, the funder has a right to specify conditions including licencing.
All work done with federal grant dollars are released under the FFSL (federal free software licence) which is somewhere between the GPL and BSD. You can use the code in your work without your work becoming a derivative work, but any changes in the code itself must be released under the FFSL. Ballmer's biggest b*tch is solved. Now he can use the code, only embrace and extend is not as easy so I am happy.
There is a fundamental problem with the email system: It doesn't care who you are. You can say you are the king of egypt and most SMTP server will gleefully accept this as your return address. This fundamental problem prevents any easy solution (i.e. traded lists of spamming domains).
If there was a way to enforce the FROM portion of the email (and I really can't think of a good way) then eventually most people who don't want span could buy a simple AntiSpamScanner that could be updated in much the same way as a virus scanner. Simple and effective. Companies like MacAfee and Norton could start finding spammers and maintaining the list. They make money and people get an effective way to prevent spam.
Right now the goverments of the world and the special interest that control the goverments have the preceived power over the web. 250+ yeears ago the British goverment help the preceived power over the Americas. A few terrorist (now called the founding fathers) fought a war and showed where the real power was.
It may be getting close to time for a REAL technical revolution. I don't mean grandmothers looking at their grandchildren through a web cam. I mean the technical comunity needs to revolt and show the bean counters and buissness men that they reall have no power without our cooperation.
If a goverment inacts a law that is wrong in anyone's humble opinion then that person has an obligation to themseves and humanity at large to subvert that law. Civil disobediance is powerful.
I'm not suggesting that the technical community riot, but there are more subtle ways we can flex our muscles.
I've been trained on TAO's stuff and it is what AmigaOS is based on. This is no joke. I've seen it run on DosGUI 2000 and Linux and it works well and relativly fast. TAO uses a port of GCC... You get the idea. This may become what the Java machine wanted to be.
They should go after FIMA. They use hand helds to collect data in disasters. Attach the federal goverment. At least the PR won't be so bad.
Losers... Make money the real way, don't let other people do all the work and then try to steel it.
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I have Time Warner Cable and I see advertisments for DSL, and even satalite TV systems. I can't remember if this happens in the time warner exclusive channels.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
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In a mass extention, the top order preditors go first because they are the most specilized. MS is the saber tooth tiger of the buisness world.
MS scares the hell out of me for a lot of reasons, but they can release products until they are blue in the face and it won't change that much. They are big and have a very strong presence, but we (the IT and software engineers) have to choose their products. Despide their monopoly in many areas writing it from scratch is still an option and there are other options for just about everything MS sells. They can't succeed in a consumer market if most of the consumers (not general, but IT, etc) choose not to buy from them because we are smart enough to know how dangerous their monopoly is.
The most dangerous pattern in these attacks is that M$ is trying to play the political game. They are making the free software community out to be a bunch of free loaders getting goverment pork! This has the potential to swing public opinion (I don't want my tax dollars going to the those free software commies).
This, as we all know is completly false. Free software is by and large a way developers give freely to the community (and in fact alot, possibly even a majority of the big user apps are from out of the states). It ammazes me how selfless many of the developers in the FS world are. I am very proud of this. We have done what many groups in history have failed to do.
However, the average Joe is clueless. If the population at large starts to buy this CR*P then the FS developers in the US could find themselves legislated into oblivion (Extra, Extra: FCC now controls all software releases! - as stupid as it sounds it would not surprise me).
I don't see any problem with one of the conditions of goverement grants being that the software must be released under a particular licence. If I want to release code under GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache, ... that is my choice, but if I am receiving funds, the funder has a right to specify conditions including licencing.
All work done with federal grant dollars are released under the FFSL (federal free software licence) which is somewhere between the GPL and BSD. You can use the code in your work without your work becoming a derivative work, but any changes in the code itself must be released under the FFSL. Ballmer's biggest b*tch is solved. Now he can use the code, only embrace and extend is not as easy so I am happy.
There is a fundamental problem with the email system: It doesn't care who you are. You can say you are the king of egypt and most SMTP server will gleefully accept this as your return address. This fundamental problem prevents any easy solution (i.e. traded lists of spamming domains).
If there was a way to enforce the FROM portion of the email (and I really can't think of a good way) then eventually most people who don't want span could buy a simple AntiSpamScanner that could be updated in much the same way as a virus scanner. Simple and effective. Companies like MacAfee and Norton could start finding spammers and maintaining the list. They make money and people get an effective way to prevent spam.
Right now the goverments of the world and the special interest that control the goverments have the preceived power over the web. 250+ yeears ago the British goverment help the preceived power over the Americas. A few terrorist (now called the founding fathers) fought a war and showed where the real power was. It may be getting close to time for a REAL technical revolution. I don't mean grandmothers looking at their grandchildren through a web cam. I mean the technical comunity needs to revolt and show the bean counters and buissness men that they reall have no power without our cooperation. If a goverment inacts a law that is wrong in anyone's humble opinion then that person has an obligation to themseves and humanity at large to subvert that law. Civil disobediance is powerful. I'm not suggesting that the technical community riot, but there are more subtle ways we can flex our muscles.
I've been trained on TAO's stuff and it is what AmigaOS is based on. This is no joke. I've seen it run on DosGUI 2000 and Linux and it works well and relativly fast. TAO uses a port of GCC... You get the idea. This may become what the Java machine wanted to be.
They should go after FIMA. They use hand helds to collect data in disasters. Attach the federal goverment. At least the PR won't be so bad. Losers... Make money the real way, don't let other people do all the work and then try to steel it.
I see another useful application: When the aliens come, all the oil companies can save us by turning there drilling lasers around... :)