These articles almost never include any information about the OS platform, for some reason. It's very strange; that's fundamental information. But googling around shows that-- as always, when the platform is omitted-- the platform is Windows.
Okay, yay Firefly and all that. But the science? I'll be very interested to hear how interplanetary travel, which takes a matter of days, almost invariably results in passing within a couple hundred feet of another ship headed the opposite direction at a few feet per second relative velocity....very small solar system? With a couple hundred planets?
If we have to punish 8400 innocents to get just one alleged criminal, it's all worthwhile. You don't agree? Why are you supporting child molesters (terrorists)?
I mean, what's the alternative, go through the courts? Some of those bastard judges like to see evidence!
"There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them."
Interesting that they're finally coming right out and saying that their goal is to make you poorer and less productive, to waste resources, and to eliminate cooperation from society. They don't want to make better products, they want to break those of their competitors. The honesty is refreshing.
"We will crush you! We will not stop until the entire world cowers under our dominion! We will stop at nothing! Windows uber alles!"
It's a shame about Nokia, though. This is going to be a pretty big it to the Finnish economy.
The bill will be reintroduced and will pass easily, probably with an end to sunset provisions. It's amazing how many erstwhile defenders of the Constitution, like Patrick Leahy, have become rubber stamps-- fig leaves, at best-- for the surveillance state ever since the Patriot Act made wiretapping of important people ubiquitous. Well, it wasn't just since the Patriot Act. It was right around the time US Government anthrax went out to the most liberal members of Congress and Paul Wellstone's plane crashed. Good times.
We can track their breeding and migratory patterns, learn about where they eat, and-- wait, you're talking about people? What do you mean, "just brown people, for now?" Not cool.
"Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data," Facebook wrote. "Since this is only the 13,125th time we've done this, you can be sure that it was an honest mistake, and it will never, ever happen again. Keep on trustin', dipshits!"
Customers should demand that the phone's come with documentation stating A) What upgrade rights the customer has, B) The minimum span for which the vendor promises to support the phone by issuing upgrades to the standard Android build or a variant, and C) In the event that the company cannot fulfill (B), for example, because that particular model sold poorly, or the company goes out of business, that the phones will be completely unlocked (except for the black box components that let you violate FCC regs) and third party vendors or OSS hackers can issue their own upgrades, at the customer's own risk. Oh, and include a revert to original state option in case an upgrade goes south.
These rules could probably use some fine tuning, but I believe that this will make purchasing decisions simpler and budgets more predictable. It will also establish a sense of trust and even loyalty with the vendors that follow this model. As it stands, very few phone makers or telcos have earned any trust whatsoever. We just have to guess who will screw us hardest-- and when the contestants are Microsoft, Sony, AT&T, Verizon, Apple, Samsung, that's not a fun game.
Smart phones are expensive, and they're taking the place of PCs in many areas. PC vendors don't restrict your ability to install an alternative OS. We should expect the same from phone vendors. The status quo encourages forced waste-- which is always profitable for a few scumbags, but it's bad for all other life on the planet, consumers included.
Hmm, I guess it's different for you. I'm still getting the same traceroutes and ~72ms average to my colo that was <15ms before. So are a couple others around town.
Comcast is also doing stupid things with their Internet routing. For example, to get from Denver to anywhere else in Denver, you go through Dallas. This adds at least 30 ms to each ping. This is actually one of the more efficient routes they have now; google on CRAN and traceroute and you'll see.
Their rationale is that CRAN is all 10Ge, and therefore no matter how far it travels it will always be faster than any other connection via their peers (even if those are all 10Ge). Apparently Comcast has FTL links.
Oh, here's a hilarious quote from a FAQ on the matter:
"Such a network can provide network speeds far in excess of what Verizon's Fios offers with little upgrade by Comcast should they want to offer equivalent speeds.
All areas are being converted to the CRAN. The most apparent thing you will notice when you are switched, is the additional hops. These hops have little to no effect on speeds or latency. The good news is; by keeping the traffic more internal, it reduces cost to Comcast and allows the subscriber to put a less detrimental affect on the network."
I love the bit about how they could easily offer faster than Fios speeds if they ever felt the need to compete, which they don't.
And of course it would be impossible for a small, modestly skilled company like Facebook to come up with a procedure for making funeral information available without giving all of the deceased's social life to whoever wins the inheritance.
But this will also let the heirs (sometimes the ones intended by the deceased, often the ones who win in court) learn all sort of private things about the deceased's relationships, preferences, beliefs, likely passwords, etc. And those of others, still living. It will be an absolute bonanza for attorneys and other scumbags.
Good news is, we'll get to see sex pics of most dead celebrities now.
"what are the chances that any more technology transfer is going to be allowed into China by anybody when four years after you are competing with your own technology plus Chinese improvements?"
I would say very near 100%. Corporate executives are compensated based on quarterly performance. They got to where they are by being sociopaths, and power makes people more sociopathic. They don't give a rip about destroying their company two years from now; they can move on to their next victim, with a nice golden parachute on the way out-- see Carly Fiorina or Jonathan Miller.
We could mitigate this by requiring that most executive bonuses be deferred and scaled to performance of the company over, say, three years. This would have some nice side effects-- companies would have to reconsider layoffs and offshoring, for example.
Or any telco, but especially ATT. When the iPhone/ATT first earned its reputation as a horribly unreliable phone, ATT said they were going to invest $15 billion in the next year to fix the issue. A year later, they boasted that they'd spent $2 Billion in the last year, yet somehow it still wasn't enough. Huh. Pretty sure the ball got dropped somewhere between engineering's requirements and yacht hookers for executive yachts. Just like when the US government handed out tens of billions for infrastructure upgrades that the telcos translated into record profits and third world Internet speeds. Telcos and cable companies enjoy taking the money, see, but the part about investing some of it seems pointless, given their government supported monopolies.
MS wants to own everything, and often deliberately damages data managed by competitor systems.
This is why if you want to run a dual boot system, you should always install Windows first; it will attempt to destroy any other OS you have. This is why Windows constantly grabs focus from you, and the default behaviour with system updates is to install and reboot whenever you step away for ten minutes: because you couldn't possibly have been doing anything important. If you were, you wouldn't be running Windows. It's why if you tell Windows to shutdown, you must hang around for five minutes to watch, because something might have an open file, or just feel insecure about shutting down. Your wishes are an annoyance to the OS; your time is worth nothing.
It's not enough for them to be #1, they want to put everybody else out of business. And one of the ways to ensure nobody else succeeds is to waste as much of their time as possible. This attitude permeates the Windows platform.
In game theory terms, the difference between the OSS and Microsoft platforms is that the former is filled with habitual cooperators, the latter by habitual defectors. Really, Windows should be called DefectOS.
Yes. Also, Microsoft's model (and Apple's) relies on deliberately crippling their products-- preventing you from using the tools you buy, purely for profit. This is the active version of artificial scarcity; it's an enforced waste of resources. So it's not just our economy they're making less efficient (which is another way of saying our distribution of resources), it's another layer of waste on top of that. And, now that we are using resources faster than they can be replenished, deliberate waste advances the end of humanity, at least as a technological/industrial species. But what else can they do? Bill and Steve's biggest dick contest must go on!
The bread will land buttered side down, then the cat will land on the bread and skate across the room. Buttercat becomes a youtube sensation. Three years from now your mom FW: FW: Fw: Fwds you the video.
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These articles almost never include any information about the OS platform, for some reason. It's very strange; that's fundamental information. But googling around shows that-- as always, when the platform is omitted-- the platform is Windows.
Okay, yay Firefly and all that. But the science? I'll be very interested to hear how interplanetary travel, which takes a matter of days, almost invariably results in passing within a couple hundred feet of another ship headed the opposite direction at a few feet per second relative velocity. ...very small solar system? With a couple hundred planets?
If we have to punish 8400 innocents to get just one alleged criminal, it's all worthwhile. You don't agree? Why are you supporting child molesters (terrorists)?
I mean, what's the alternative, go through the courts? Some of those bastard judges like to see evidence!
Yep. See SGI for how this works out.
"There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them."
Interesting that they're finally coming right out and saying that their goal is to make you poorer and less productive, to waste resources, and to eliminate cooperation from society. They don't want to make better products, they want to break those of their competitors. The honesty is refreshing.
"We will crush you! We will not stop until the entire world cowers under our dominion! We will stop at nothing! Windows uber alles!"
It's a shame about Nokia, though. This is going to be a pretty big it to the Finnish economy.
The bill will be reintroduced and will pass easily, probably with an end to sunset provisions. It's amazing how many erstwhile defenders of the Constitution, like Patrick Leahy, have become rubber stamps-- fig leaves, at best-- for the surveillance state ever since the Patriot Act made wiretapping of important people ubiquitous. Well, it wasn't just since the Patriot Act. It was right around the time US Government anthrax went out to the most liberal members of Congress and Paul Wellstone's plane crashed. Good times.
We can track their breeding and migratory patterns, learn about where they eat, and-- wait, you're talking about people? What do you mean, "just brown people, for now?" Not cool.
"Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data," Facebook wrote. "Since this is only the 13,125th time we've done this, you can be sure that it was an honest mistake, and it will never, ever happen again. Keep on trustin', dipshits!"
Customers should demand that the phone's come with documentation stating A) What upgrade rights the customer has, B) The minimum span for which the vendor promises to support the phone by issuing upgrades to the standard Android build or a variant, and C) In the event that the company cannot fulfill (B), for example, because that particular model sold poorly, or the company goes out of business, that the phones will be completely unlocked (except for the black box components that let you violate FCC regs) and third party vendors or OSS hackers can issue their own upgrades, at the customer's own risk. Oh, and include a revert to original state option in case an upgrade goes south.
These rules could probably use some fine tuning, but I believe that this will make purchasing decisions simpler and budgets more predictable. It will also establish a sense of trust and even loyalty with the vendors that follow this model. As it stands, very few phone makers or telcos have earned any trust whatsoever. We just have to guess who will screw us hardest-- and when the contestants are Microsoft, Sony, AT&T, Verizon, Apple, Samsung, that's not a fun game.
Smart phones are expensive, and they're taking the place of PCs in many areas. PC vendors don't restrict your ability to install an alternative OS. We should expect the same from phone vendors. The status quo encourages forced waste-- which is always profitable for a few scumbags, but it's bad for all other life on the planet, consumers included.
Capital!
Well, granted, but you see: people are stupid.
Hmm, I guess it's different for you. I'm still getting the same traceroutes and ~72ms average to my colo that was <15ms before. So are a couple others around town.
Comcast is also doing stupid things with their Internet routing. For example, to get from Denver to anywhere else in Denver, you go through Dallas. This adds at least 30 ms to each ping. This is actually one of the more efficient routes they have now; google on CRAN and traceroute and you'll see.
Their rationale is that CRAN is all 10Ge, and therefore no matter how far it travels it will always be faster than any other connection via their peers (even if those are all 10Ge). Apparently Comcast has FTL links.
Oh, here's a hilarious quote from a FAQ on the matter:
"Such a network can provide network speeds far in excess of what Verizon's Fios offers with little upgrade by Comcast should they want to offer equivalent speeds.
All areas are being converted to the CRAN. The most apparent thing you will notice when you are switched, is the additional hops. These hops have little to no effect on speeds or latency. The good news is; by keeping the traffic more internal, it reduces cost to Comcast and allows the subscriber to put a less detrimental affect on the network."
I love the bit about how they could easily offer faster than Fios speeds if they ever felt the need to compete, which they don't.
Citation: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/07/assassinations
So the ones who couldn't get through aren't accounted for. It would have been 90% of the respondents...
Minor correction: EasyDNS never hosted Wikileaks; *EveryDNS* are the bootlicking cowards. Carry on.
They don't care, but other people involved very well might.
I don't care, either, actually. It's just something for people should be aware of.
What you wrote is valid and true.
And of course it would be impossible for a small, modestly skilled company like Facebook to come up with a procedure for making funeral information available without giving all of the deceased's social life to whoever wins the inheritance.
But this will also let the heirs (sometimes the ones intended by the deceased, often the ones who win in court) learn all sort of private things about the deceased's relationships, preferences, beliefs, likely passwords, etc. And those of others, still living. It will be an absolute bonanza for attorneys and other scumbags.
Good news is, we'll get to see sex pics of most dead celebrities now.
GOOD NIGHT!
"what are the chances that any more technology transfer is going to be allowed into China by anybody when four years after you are competing with your own technology plus Chinese improvements?"
I would say very near 100%. Corporate executives are compensated based on quarterly performance. They got to where they are by being sociopaths, and power makes people more sociopathic. They don't give a rip about destroying their company two years from now; they can move on to their next victim, with a nice golden parachute on the way out-- see Carly Fiorina or Jonathan Miller.
We could mitigate this by requiring that most executive bonuses be deferred and scaled to performance of the company over, say, three years. This would have some nice side effects-- companies would have to reconsider layoffs and offshoring, for example.
Or any telco, but especially ATT. When the iPhone/ATT first earned its reputation as a horribly unreliable phone, ATT said they were going to invest $15 billion in the next year to fix the issue. A year later, they boasted that they'd spent $2 Billion in the last year, yet somehow it still wasn't enough. Huh. Pretty sure the ball got dropped somewhere between engineering's requirements and yacht hookers for executive yachts. Just like when the US government handed out tens of billions for infrastructure upgrades that the telcos translated into record profits and third world Internet speeds. Telcos and cable companies enjoy taking the money, see, but the part about investing some of it seems pointless, given their government supported monopolies.
MS wants to own everything, and often deliberately damages data managed by competitor systems.
This is why if you want to run a dual boot system, you should always install Windows first; it will attempt to destroy any other OS you have. This is why Windows constantly grabs focus from you, and the default behaviour with system updates is to install and reboot whenever you step away for ten minutes: because you couldn't possibly have been doing anything important. If you were, you wouldn't be running Windows. It's why if you tell Windows to shutdown, you must hang around for five minutes to watch, because something might have an open file, or just feel insecure about shutting down. Your wishes are an annoyance to the OS; your time is worth nothing.
It's not enough for them to be #1, they want to put everybody else out of business. And one of the ways to ensure nobody else succeeds is to waste as much of their time as possible. This attitude permeates the Windows platform.
In game theory terms, the difference between the OSS and Microsoft platforms is that the former is filled with habitual cooperators, the latter by habitual defectors. Really, Windows should be called DefectOS.
Many countries now have taxes on recordable media to compensate the content industry for piracy.
So the solution in this case is obvious: Kleenex Tax.
Okay. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/12/nation/na-gop12
Yes. Also, Microsoft's model (and Apple's) relies on deliberately crippling their products-- preventing you from using the tools you buy, purely for profit. This is the active version of artificial scarcity; it's an enforced waste of resources. So it's not just our economy they're making less efficient (which is another way of saying our distribution of resources), it's another layer of waste on top of that. And, now that we are using resources faster than they can be replenished, deliberate waste advances the end of humanity, at least as a technological/industrial species. But what else can they do? Bill and Steve's biggest dick contest must go on!
The bread will land buttered side down, then the cat will land on the bread and skate across the room. Buttercat becomes a youtube sensation. Three years from now your mom FW: FW: Fw: Fwds you the video.