The argument is that of the balance between freedom and security, and that argument goes back a long way. When Moses (I don't really believe in the Bible, but I like to use this as an illustration) freed his peeps from slavery some of them wanted to go back. Obviously they would rather have security rather than freedom.
People high in government know this and they are very willing to promise us security in exchange for our freedoms. Erich Fromm wrote something about it in Escape from Freedom. People want to feel secure because they don't like the unknown.
Well, I like the fact that geeks tend to better at logical reasoning than average plebes. A real geek would never say something silly like "Keep your government off my Medicare!" or "The universe is too complex FOR ME to understand therefore God exists!"
I switched to Debian from Red Hat way back when Red Hat started going commercial. I send them a check every once in a while. Debian and the packaging are sublime compared to my experience with RPMs. I assume file dependency hell has been fixed. I still get newbies going on Kubuntu, though...
Of course such a move violates our 9th and 10th Amendment rights.
I'm not sure (you may be right) but I'm a little concerned that disclosure of ACTA is being labeled as a matter of national security and the Executive office wants to get itself an Internet kill switch. I can't help but feel our federal government is setting itself up to perform "biblical" levels of censorship.
I'm not sure how old you are, young man, but, corporations (through lawyers, of course) have been writing some of our laws for quite some time. For a current example, see the DMCA; for an old example, we can see that Du Pont appears to be responsible for making marijuana illegal in this country.
But I do find it odd that they are now doing it so blatantly, right in front of our eyes!
Yeah, X.25, we are talking about a government that would cheer on a corporation attempting to get $1,000,000,000.00 from a person making $17,000 a year.
Say what you will, but the masses are sheep and they're happy as sheep. You cannot teach them to think, vote, raise children, or use computers responsibly because they DO NOT WANT TO BE THE SHEPHERD, only the sheep. And there will always be a market to sell them sheep-friendly devices."
It's so sad! How do you make someone think critically (instead of merely think, which they do anyway)?
Who else would hack one of the most successful companies in the world...?
I suppose the US government wouldn't need to hack, it would just ask for the information from third parties or would recruit the help of the telecoms, right?
They may have the best intentions in the world but when our government goes in and asks for information, well, I don't think Uncle Sam thinks it even has to ask. Of course, it's wrong, it does have to ask, but our Fed government has become the biggest, baddest, mutha fucking bully on the entire planet and I think Google will only be able to fight them off so much.
The main problem with OS/2 was that it came out too soon...
Besides, the main problem with OS/2 was not that it came out too soon but that Microsoft pushed their weight around and the computer vendors didn't put up a fight. Even IBM's own PC division just caved in to Microsoft's unethical business practices.
"The second problem with OS/2 was the GUI's single-threaded model...."
What are you talking about? The Presentation Manager was totally multi-threaded. Do you mean the single input queue, which was Microsoft's idea anyway? I do believe they fixed the problem of the GUI "locking up" before they stopped selling it retail, before I switched to Linux at least.
So sad. Through hard work Caldera could have been as big and successful as Red Hat. I'm not saying that Red Hat is the culmination of all computing enterprises but I do believe they make an honest living providing services for big business over there.
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"... why on Earth does Microsoft advertise..." Viking, you sound fluent in logic and reasoning, I'm pretty sure you're not their intended audience.
The argument is that of the balance between freedom and security, and that argument goes back a long way. When Moses (I don't really believe in the Bible, but I like to use this as an illustration) freed his peeps from slavery some of them wanted to go back. Obviously they would rather have security rather than freedom.
People high in government know this and they are very willing to promise us security in exchange for our freedoms. Erich Fromm wrote something about it in Escape from Freedom. People want to feel secure because they don't like the unknown.
I also loved my typing class because it was mostly girls!
Well, I like the fact that geeks tend to better at logical reasoning than average plebes. A real geek would never say something silly like "Keep your government off my Medicare!" or "The universe is too complex FOR ME to understand therefore God exists!"
Holy stuff, you have a very low /. ID number!
I switched to Debian from Red Hat way back when Red Hat started going commercial. I send them a check every once in a while. Debian and the packaging are sublime compared to my experience with RPMs. I assume file dependency hell has been fixed. I still get newbies going on Kubuntu, though...
Of course such a move violates our 9th and 10th Amendment rights.
I'm not sure (you may be right) but I'm a little concerned that disclosure of ACTA is being labeled as a matter of national security and the Executive office wants to get itself an Internet kill switch. I can't help but feel our federal government is setting itself up to perform "biblical" levels of censorship.
Dude, how about one that does! Like Galaxina or Cherry 2000!!
They will be more exciting when iRobot...
And they will be more exciting over the top when they look like Galaxina or Cherry 2000!
I've been living a lie all these years??? Fuk!
I'm not sure how old you are, young man, but, corporations (through lawyers, of course) have been writing some of our laws for quite some time. For a current example, see the DMCA; for an old example, we can see that Du Pont appears to be responsible for making marijuana illegal in this country.
But I do find it odd that they are now doing it so blatantly, right in front of our eyes!
Yeah, X.25, we are talking about a government that would cheer on a corporation attempting to get $1,000,000,000.00 from a person making $17,000 a year.
Something is seriously F'ed up, man!
Surely even Congress will have to laugh them out of the building?
Yes, until ASScap show them checks!!!
The ones I hate are the developers who write the shitty bug-ridden code that gets loaded onto computers that I have to support.
You mean Microsoft?
Are my thoughts real?
No, but you probably think they are.
... why the 1600s? Fuck if I know..
Maybe because that's the beginning of science as we know it? What with Galileo (1564 to 1642), Rene Descarte (1596 – 1650), Leibnitz (1646 - 1716)), and Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) being from that era. Heck, maybe to them the Roman Inquisition are the good old days?
Say what you will, but the masses are sheep and they're happy as sheep. You cannot teach them to think, vote, raise children, or use computers responsibly because they DO NOT WANT TO BE THE SHEPHERD, only the sheep. And there will always be a market to sell them sheep-friendly devices."
It's so sad! How do you make someone think critically (instead of merely think, which they do anyway)?
Who else would hack one of the most successful companies in the world...?
I suppose the US government wouldn't need to hack, it would just ask for the information from third parties or would recruit the help of the telecoms, right?
Did you hear about his being for immunity against the telcos before or after you voted for him?
Well, it does appear to be small and toothless when it comes to corporations.
They may have the best intentions in the world but when our government goes in and asks for information, well, I don't think Uncle Sam thinks it even has to ask. Of course, it's wrong, it does have to ask, but our Fed government has become the biggest, baddest, mutha fucking bully on the entire planet and I think Google will only be able to fight them off so much.
That could maybe double the bandwidth available, no?
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3597701/EFF+Charges+ATT+Assisted+NSA+in+Surveillance+Plan.htm
http://www.eff.org/nsa/faq
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdawg/93928749/
This should be modded Insightful not Funny. I was so pissed that people were saying exactly that when Obama voted for immunity against the telecoms.
The main problem with OS/2 was that it came out too soon...
Besides, the main problem with OS/2 was not that it came out too soon but that Microsoft pushed their weight around and the computer vendors didn't put up a fight. Even IBM's own PC division just caved in to Microsoft's unethical business practices.
"The second problem with OS/2 was the GUI's single-threaded model...."
What are you talking about? The Presentation Manager was totally multi-threaded. Do you mean the single input queue, which was Microsoft's idea anyway? I do believe they fixed the problem of the GUI "locking up" before they stopped selling it retail, before I switched to Linux at least.
So sad. Through hard work Caldera could have been as big and successful as Red Hat. I'm not saying that Red Hat is the culmination of all computing enterprises but I do believe they make an honest living providing services for big business over there.