Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe and others found ways to use open source software to their advantage using loopholes in open source licenses to close off the source for their commercial projects and putting limits on what code goes into the open source projects they use in their commercial software.
Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation was created as a tax shelter for Bill and Melinda Gates to give away Microsoft and PC technology to ensure that Microsoft continues to have a high marketshare and forces the poor to buy more proprietary software and avoid open source software.
First all I said was that employers spy on their employees even at home. I didn't mention private companies or trojans, that is a misunderstanding on your part.
Second the Magic Lantern article states that the FBI phased it out for commercial software that does the same thing and some companies use that as well.
Third ever since Windows XP there is a remote access feature of the OS that can be exploited for anyone to gain remote access of an XP system unless the user knows how to turn it off.
Fourth ever since NT 4.0 there has been an NSA backdoor in Windows and an employer or hacker can use that to spy on employees of that company. So there needn't even be a trojan to install as Windows has a backdoor in it that can be used that way.
Fifth trojan or PI or pretexting whatever the method should be illegal to do but employers do it anyway to spy on employees at home and seem to get away with violating human rights.
Sixth, this is basic knowledge that almost every average Slashdot reader should know based on their Geek background, which makes me suspect that you are a mole for corporations that spy on employees and you are trying to cover up that fact.
Yeah you'd think Slashdot would report on economic issues, high oil and gas prices, or how the government and our employers are spying on us, using technology for each of them.
Instead they report on a Spoof language and it isn't even April Fools day yet, OMG ponies!
I suppose next they'll report on how some company is still using COBOL on an IBM 360 Mainframe to write up reports and someone ported Java to the IBM 360 Mainframe to serve those reports as PDF files using Jasper reports? Or maybe they will write that even if China has a bad economy and 1950's surplus tech for their military, they are still a super power and ignore all of the human rights issues they have had over the past 100 years and how communism is a good thing now.
You missed that employers fire people for blogging at home in their jammies and can view private home phone records via pretexting. You also missed that Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Google, and HP spied on home computer use. If you aren't even going to bother to do reading comprehension of articles I cite, there is no point discussing it with you.
Please they cannot even make toys correctly and their missile program is still from the 1950's. Plus their aircraft and boats aren't even up to 21st century standards.
The only thing they got going for them is making really cheap electronics with a really cheap quality but most people don't care that the technology is crap because they can buy a new one cheaply after the old one breaks or malfunctions.
All they really have going for them is a population of 3 billion that they cannot feed and house properly and might one day rise up and overthrow their oppressive communist government after they get tired of taking their daily crap from them.
then arrest everyone in Congress that took money from lobbyists in order to vote for or against certain bills in Congress. Don't just arrest the little people but the big ones as well.
Let me say that not all editors and writers do that. I was mistaken to say that "all" of them do, and it was part of a botched joke. Yet there is a basis for thinking so. I was wrong to say so and I apologize for it and retracted my statements.
Yes it was based on eWeek and Infoworld irritating me and other readers in the past and having more ads than content. But a lot seems to have changed since. For example Infoworld stopped making a magazine and went for a web site e-zine via blogs.
Major employers such as Delta Air Lines and Google have fired employees for what they put on their own blogs. Ellen Simonetti, a Delta flight attendant, says she was fired in October 2004 after she posted pictures of herself in her uniform in suggestive poses on her blog.
"Employees should know that your employer is looking over your shoulder. If they catch you, they're canning you," says Nancy Flynn, executive director of The ePolicy Institute and author of Blog Rules. "You can be fired for anything, even for blogging right at home in your jammies."
Actually they tried it on September 11, 2001, and have been paying for it ever since. You just don't mess with the USA, we are like angry bees and come out of our hive and just start invading nations when something like 9/11 happens. Being the only super power left in the world, means that the USA can basically do whatever it wants as other nations need us to help them out and be the military for the UN when things get bad.
in a court of law even if the trojan is programmed to download porn and other things over the Internet. I can recall American employers using trojans like that to fake employees surfing the Internet too much to fire them for it. "He surfed for porn for more than 5 hours each day, so he fired him" when really the trojan surfed porn and planted it on his computer. They do that sort of thing when they want to discriminate against an employee for their religion, race, color, national origin, disability, age, gender, or whatever. It is a way to avoid discrimination laws and civil rights, just fake evidence that the employee did something wrong and that is good enough to get a court to agree with you that you didn't violate his/her rights.
Just plug in their IP address here and get a map. Then contact local police in that area and give them the map and tell them someone in that area stole your computers and has the email and myspace page of the ones you noticed.
These are dumb thieves, if they where smart the first thing they would have done is wipe the hard drive and install a new OS to eliminate any tracking software.
I know I am not alone. Michael Crawford is one such person I communicated with over the Internet like you are. He informed me of the Thought Police that where after him and I know they were after me as well. But he wrote Living with Schizoaffective Disorder that helped me out. He warns us of atomic bombs in the nuclear global war that is coming up in the future.
I wrote the AI web bot Warbot 1Alpha based on my holy grail project of 1995, the only thing that comes close to it is Trane's subbot but my bot is written in C and Python and Trane's uses Ruby. Still neither one can pass the Turning test. But some people confuse it for a real person anyway. I tested it out on the IWETHEY forums from EzBoard and Zope way long ago, and people there accused it of being me as it came from the same IP address. It can parse out HTML and XML code and piece together words into posts to ape human conversations and try to pass as a real human, I also tested it out on Slashdot in 2004 and only recently reactivate it after rewriting parts of it due to corruption. It can create new accounts if there is no image verification, and it went wild on IWETHEY, and I got accused of creating those accounts, etc. But anyway, I am thinking of phasing it out as all it does is create confusion and hardly anyone understands how it works except for me and a few other people.
Well AOL has lobbyists who pay politicians a lot of money to look the other way on their business practices. basically AOL's business practices are illegal, like refusing to turn off billing for a customer that canceled an account with them and still charging their credit card $24 each month.
But then that is the way our US government works, if a company can afford to hire lobbyists to pay off politicians, they can do whatever they want to the US citizens and get away with it. A lot of stuff gets passed in Congress or doesn't get passed in Congress based on whose lobbyists have paid off what Congresspeople. So that means while Republicans and Democrats have promised to make the USA energy independent for the past 30 years and get us cheaper oil and gas and move on to alternative fuels, environmentalists and oil lobbyists have paid the politicians to kill such bills so that gas and oil can stay high in price and the US consumer is the one that keeps suffering no matter whom they elect to what office.
Heh, even if AOL raised their rates to $30/month for dial-up they will still have 8.7 million dial-up users.
As P. T. Barnum used to say "There is a sucker born every minute." and to rephrase that "There is an AOL user born every minute."
The one thing that AOL has going for them, is that even computer illiterate users can use it, just pop in the AOL CD and let Autorun install the software they need. Most computer literate users have moved on to broadband and installed their own NIC card and broadband DSL or Cable or Satellite modems. Plus AOL has dial-up phone access from anywhere in the USA, you could be in some unknown town in the Mideast and AOL will have a dial-up number there to dial into. Like Branson, Missouri, any other ISP you would have to pay long distance to connect to their dial-up account in that city, but AOL has local Branson dial-up numbers and you don't have to dial into Joplin or Springfield numbers. But I heard that Juno and Netzero started to get a lot of dial-up number coverage in most of the USA now, so their $9.99/month dial-up accounts might start to get better than AOL's. But anyone smart enough will know that Branson resorts have Wifi access in their lounges and cafes. Just not the cheap *** motels.:)
I somehow activated the Warbot and it started reading my Slashdot posts again. Sorry about that it is a prototype I've been working on for the past few years or so. Nice to see people modding it up though.
Which sounds good, except that I tried to install NoScript in Firefox 3.0 and for some reason it said it could not install. Is there an alternative to it that works with Firefox 3.0?
Basic AT&T DSL is $19.99/month not that much more that dial-up. Other DSL providers have a basic DSL setup that is 384KBPS or 512KBPS which is way more than the old dial-up users need but cost less than that $22 AOL dial-up account that most of them have. In fact AOL will work with the DSL company to offer AOL access and software through the DSL and keep their email and web sites.
It is when you need the 1.5MBPS or higher speeds that you pay a higher price for.
I should note that a lot of dial-up customers still use Windows 95/98/ME systems and some form of WINMODEM and lack the basic Ethernet card needed for most broadband connections. A lot of broadband services no longer give that free Ethernet NIC, but people can buy them for $35 or under and install them themselves if they knew how. Just that the average person doesn't know how to open up their computer and stick in a card to upgrade it even if their lives depended on it.
Also Cable and Satellite companies offer broadband as part of a package deal to make things more affordable and so do local phone companies as well. So we can rule out that it isn't affordable, because it is affordable.
Most POTS systems only get like 33KBPS even if they support 56KBPS protocols due to line noise, as they are forced to connect at lower speeds.
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that when you buy them, automagically remove all of the CO2 you contributed to global warming out of the atmosphere and make you carbon neutral.
It seems to violate the law of thermodynamics in that CO2 molecules are destroyed somehow, and proves itself to be very unscientific.
his Captain Obvious costume again.
Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe and others found ways to use open source software to their advantage using loopholes in open source licenses to close off the source for their commercial projects and putting limits on what code goes into the open source projects they use in their commercial software.
Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation was created as a tax shelter for Bill and Melinda Gates to give away Microsoft and PC technology to ensure that Microsoft continues to have a high marketshare and forces the poor to buy more proprietary software and avoid open source software.
First all I said was that employers spy on their employees even at home. I didn't mention private companies or trojans, that is a misunderstanding on your part.
Second the Magic Lantern article states that the FBI phased it out for commercial software that does the same thing and some companies use that as well.
Third ever since Windows XP there is a remote access feature of the OS that can be exploited for anyone to gain remote access of an XP system unless the user knows how to turn it off.
Fourth ever since NT 4.0 there has been an NSA backdoor in Windows and an employer or hacker can use that to spy on employees of that company. So there needn't even be a trojan to install as Windows has a backdoor in it that can be used that way.
Fifth trojan or PI or pretexting whatever the method should be illegal to do but employers do it anyway to spy on employees at home and seem to get away with violating human rights.
Sixth, this is basic knowledge that almost every average Slashdot reader should know based on their Geek background, which makes me suspect that you are a mole for corporations that spy on employees and you are trying to cover up that fact.
Yeah you'd think Slashdot would report on economic issues, high oil and gas prices, or how the government and our employers are spying on us, using technology for each of them.
Instead they report on a Spoof language and it isn't even April Fools day yet, OMG ponies!
I suppose next they'll report on how some company is still using COBOL on an IBM 360 Mainframe to write up reports and someone ported Java to the IBM 360 Mainframe to serve those reports as PDF files using Jasper reports? Or maybe they will write that even if China has a bad economy and 1950's surplus tech for their military, they are still a super power and ignore all of the human rights issues they have had over the past 100 years and how communism is a good thing now.
You missed that employers fire people for blogging at home in their jammies and can view private home phone records via pretexting. You also missed that Boeing, Delta Air Lines, Google, and HP spied on home computer use. If you aren't even going to bother to do reading comprehension of articles I cite, there is no point discussing it with you.
Please they cannot even make toys correctly and their missile program is still from the 1950's. Plus their aircraft and boats aren't even up to 21st century standards.
The only thing they got going for them is making really cheap electronics with a really cheap quality but most people don't care that the technology is crap because they can buy a new one cheaply after the old one breaks or malfunctions.
All they really have going for them is a population of 3 billion that they cannot feed and house properly and might one day rise up and overthrow their oppressive communist government after they get tired of taking their daily crap from them.
then arrest everyone in Congress that took money from lobbyists in order to vote for or against certain bills in Congress. Don't just arrest the little people but the big ones as well.
Let me say that not all editors and writers do that. I was mistaken to say that "all" of them do, and it was part of a botched joke. Yet there is a basis for thinking so. I was wrong to say so and I apologize for it and retracted my statements.
Yes it was based on eWeek and Infoworld irritating me and other readers in the past and having more ads than content. But a lot seems to have changed since. For example Infoworld stopped making a magazine and went for a web site e-zine via blogs.
I guess the Magic Lantern article wasn't enough for you then?
How to legally spy on your employees and Spy cover up
Major employers such as Delta Air Lines and Google have fired employees for what they put on their own blogs. Ellen Simonetti, a Delta flight attendant, says she was fired in October 2004 after she posted pictures of herself in her uniform in suggestive poses on her blog.
"Employees should know that your employer is looking over your shoulder. If they catch you, they're canning you," says Nancy Flynn, executive director of The ePolicy Institute and author of Blog Rules. "You can be fired for anything, even for blogging right at home in your jammies."
Spy software can be used at work or at home to spy on employees and is marketed as so and Boeing used it like that.
I tried it and I got the following errors in the error log:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsISafeOutputStream.finish]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///D:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js :: closeSafeFileOutputStream :: line 508" data: no]
Source File: file:///D:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js
Line: 508
Error: e.location.getItemLocation(e.id) is undefined
Source File: file:///D:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js
Line: 4007
I have no idea why I am getting these errors I tried Noscript from the main web site and the Mozilla add-on page as well with the same results.
Thanks I'll try that. It is one of those extensions that I couldn't get to install correctly without errors.
Not only could they, but they already have done that. At least some of my former employers did that to me on my home computers.
Actually they tried it on September 11, 2001, and have been paying for it ever since. You just don't mess with the USA, we are like angry bees and come out of our hive and just start invading nations when something like 9/11 happens. Being the only super power left in the world, means that the USA can basically do whatever it wants as other nations need us to help them out and be the military for the UN when things get bad.
Dave Chappele shows what Bush would be like if he was African-American.
in a court of law even if the trojan is programmed to download porn and other things over the Internet. I can recall American employers using trojans like that to fake employees surfing the Internet too much to fire them for it. "He surfed for porn for more than 5 hours each day, so he fired him" when really the trojan surfed porn and planted it on his computer. They do that sort of thing when they want to discriminate against an employee for their religion, race, color, national origin, disability, age, gender, or whatever. It is a way to avoid discrimination laws and civil rights, just fake evidence that the employee did something wrong and that is good enough to get a court to agree with you that you didn't violate his/her rights.
to spy on their employees. Sure it is unethical, and maybe morally wrong, but they do it anyway.
Bill Clinton had the FBI use Magic Lantern for that vary purpose.
Bill Clinton had Carnivor and Magic lantern for this sort of thing long before Bush was even in the White House, around 1995.
The Federal government has been violating due process and the US Constitution since FDR was in office.
Don't try and pretend that Bush was the first to do this sort of thing with the Patriot Act, all he did was use it to amend the Constitution.
Just plug in their IP address here and get a map. Then contact local police in that area and give them the map and tell them someone in that area stole your computers and has the email and myspace page of the ones you noticed.
These are dumb thieves, if they where smart the first thing they would have done is wipe the hard drive and install a new OS to eliminate any tracking software.
I know I am not alone. Michael Crawford is one such person I communicated with over the Internet like you are. He informed me of the Thought Police that where after him and I know they were after me as well. But he wrote Living with Schizoaffective Disorder that helped me out. He warns us of atomic bombs in the nuclear global war that is coming up in the future.
I wrote the AI web bot Warbot 1Alpha based on my holy grail project of 1995, the only thing that comes close to it is Trane's subbot but my bot is written in C and Python and Trane's uses Ruby. Still neither one can pass the Turning test. But some people confuse it for a real person anyway. I tested it out on the IWETHEY forums from EzBoard and Zope way long ago, and people there accused it of being me as it came from the same IP address. It can parse out HTML and XML code and piece together words into posts to ape human conversations and try to pass as a real human, I also tested it out on Slashdot in 2004 and only recently reactivate it after rewriting parts of it due to corruption. It can create new accounts if there is no image verification, and it went wild on IWETHEY, and I got accused of creating those accounts, etc. But anyway, I am thinking of phasing it out as all it does is create confusion and hardly anyone understands how it works except for me and a few other people.
You mean you don't know that Internet Explorer already had a bad name?
Some people nicknamed it Internet Exploder for a good reason you know. :)
Microsoft Outlook was nicknamed Microsoft Lookout for similar reasons.
Well AOL has lobbyists who pay politicians a lot of money to look the other way on their business practices. basically AOL's business practices are illegal, like refusing to turn off billing for a customer that canceled an account with them and still charging their credit card $24 each month.
But then that is the way our US government works, if a company can afford to hire lobbyists to pay off politicians, they can do whatever they want to the US citizens and get away with it. A lot of stuff gets passed in Congress or doesn't get passed in Congress based on whose lobbyists have paid off what Congresspeople. So that means while Republicans and Democrats have promised to make the USA energy independent for the past 30 years and get us cheaper oil and gas and move on to alternative fuels, environmentalists and oil lobbyists have paid the politicians to kill such bills so that gas and oil can stay high in price and the US consumer is the one that keeps suffering no matter whom they elect to what office.
Heh, even if AOL raised their rates to $30/month for dial-up they will still have 8.7 million dial-up users.
As P. T. Barnum used to say "There is a sucker born every minute." and to rephrase that "There is an AOL user born every minute."
The one thing that AOL has going for them, is that even computer illiterate users can use it, just pop in the AOL CD and let Autorun install the software they need. Most computer literate users have moved on to broadband and installed their own NIC card and broadband DSL or Cable or Satellite modems. Plus AOL has dial-up phone access from anywhere in the USA, you could be in some unknown town in the Mideast and AOL will have a dial-up number there to dial into. Like Branson, Missouri, any other ISP you would have to pay long distance to connect to their dial-up account in that city, but AOL has local Branson dial-up numbers and you don't have to dial into Joplin or Springfield numbers. But I heard that Juno and Netzero started to get a lot of dial-up number coverage in most of the USA now, so their $9.99/month dial-up accounts might start to get better than AOL's. But anyone smart enough will know that Branson resorts have Wifi access in their lounges and cafes. Just not the cheap *** motels. :)
The Warbot is a prototype I've been working on for a few years. It got activated again and started reading my Slashdot posts.
Perhaps I revealed too much for now. I was reminded thanks to the Warbot that I was revealing too much information.
I somehow activated the Warbot and it started reading my Slashdot posts again. Sorry about that it is a prototype I've been working on for the past few years or so. Nice to see people modding it up though.
Which sounds good, except that I tried to install NoScript in Firefox 3.0 and for some reason it said it could not install. Is there an alternative to it that works with Firefox 3.0?
Basic AT&T DSL is $19.99/month not that much more that dial-up. Other DSL providers have a basic DSL setup that is 384KBPS or 512KBPS which is way more than the old dial-up users need but cost less than that $22 AOL dial-up account that most of them have. In fact AOL will work with the DSL company to offer AOL access and software through the DSL and keep their email and web sites.
It is when you need the 1.5MBPS or higher speeds that you pay a higher price for.
I should note that a lot of dial-up customers still use Windows 95/98/ME systems and some form of WINMODEM and lack the basic Ethernet card needed for most broadband connections. A lot of broadband services no longer give that free Ethernet NIC, but people can buy them for $35 or under and install them themselves if they knew how. Just that the average person doesn't know how to open up their computer and stick in a card to upgrade it even if their lives depended on it.
Also Cable and Satellite companies offer broadband as part of a package deal to make things more affordable and so do local phone companies as well. So we can rule out that it isn't affordable, because it is affordable.
Most POTS systems only get like 33KBPS even if they support 56KBPS protocols due to line noise, as they are forced to connect at lower speeds.