Except that the findings were never overturned on appeal. The politics changed and the DoJ also changed... its _mind_ about what it wanted, negotiating with MS on a punishment. Since when do those found guilty get to negotiate?
Since the original punishment was negotiated between the DoJ and MS, I guess the extesion should be, too. O_o I mean, it wasn't a plea bargain -- they'd already been found guilty.
Talk to the bodies littering the road MS has trod on -- business "partners" who were later leveraged into an obituary column inch reciting their demise.
If IBM had not been subject to antitrust rulings, would it have developed its own OS for the PC?
Under no circumstances. The PC project was fast and needed as much outsourcing as they could get in order to get to market within a year. IBM had no chance to develop its own OS because the project didn't have the time for that.[1]
None of this had anything to do with an anti-trust ruling. It's more like Gates' hurried adoption of the BSD TCP stack in NT. "Would MS have developed its own if it hadn't been under scrutiny by the DoJ?" Absurd!
In reality, adding the ability to register (and verify) accounts based on the citizen ID number is probably just too much effort for Google. Many Korean websites are having a difficult time complying with the new law.
May I interest you in learning about representative democracy? You'll notice the U.S. is included on that page. Republics and democracies aren't mutually exclusive.
If you read up and know the story, you will find that the government actually did call up the banks and "strongly discourage" them from trading U.S. currency, In effect, he's being tried on a technicality and being railroaded, and the government -- for all intents and purposes -- did what he said they did. I suspect that they are just upset that he knew, and are looking for a way to silence his blog, which routinely reports anti-majority news.
I'm not Korean, but I've been in Korea for almost five years now. How do you feel about the new online identity laws? Most Koreans I know seem to be for the laws, but very few of these people are technically literate. Personally, I think the laws are terrifying.
Now that Korea doesn't allow anonymous postings (requiring the citizen's ID number to register) and has started a (mostly unregulated) Inter police taskforce, this type of arrest is surely to become more common.
I live in Korea, and my friends and I have been blocked (with required scary Internet police warning) from websites they deemed morally questionable. Right now, these mostly appear to be dating and gay sites, but who knows where it'll go from here. Putting a force in place to watch your people and giving them carte blanche to block whatever they don't like is just inviting trouble.
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My alien ID doesn't seem to work with any sites, so I am effectively silenced.
This law was passed in response to a celebrity suicide. The Korean govenment chose to protect people from themselves instead of having an intelligent discussion about why suicide isn't an appropriate response to online slander.
Maybe KDE is the problem (I'm not accusing -- I don't know and don't use it), but most Freedesktop.org-compliant desktops (KDE is supposed to be one of them) use $APPNAME + $APPFUNCTION in the menu (e.g. Gimp Image Editor, Epiphany Web Browser, Empathy Instant messenger).
That is about 450GB monthly, and doesn't include the other computers on my network. I guess that my traffic is ~600GB per month every month. My ISP never makes a peep about it. Caps are just one reason I could never go back to living in the US.
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Except that the findings were never overturned on appeal. The politics changed and the DoJ also changed ... its _mind_ about what it wanted, negotiating with MS on a punishment. Since when do those found guilty get to negotiate?
Since the original punishment was negotiated between the DoJ and MS, I guess the extesion should be, too. O_o I mean, it wasn't a plea bargain -- they'd already been found guilty.
Talk to the bodies littering the road MS has trod on -- business "partners" who were later leveraged into an obituary column inch reciting their demise.
earlymon may have missed the point, but the point was absurd since IBM outsource to get to market early, not to avoid anti-trust problems.
If IBM had not been subject to antitrust rulings, would it have developed its own OS for the PC?
Under no circumstances. The PC project was fast and needed as much outsourcing as they could get in order to get to market within a year. IBM had no chance to develop its own OS because the project didn't have the time for that.[1]
None of this had anything to do with an anti-trust ruling. It's more like Gates' hurried adoption of the BSD TCP stack in NT. "Would MS have developed its own if it hadn't been under scrutiny by the DoJ?" Absurd!
Have you heard about ODF support in MS Office 2007? It won't be compatible with other implementations. Surprise!
I guess that your "usable" IE wasn't versions 1-3.x. IE4 was only barely there.
You should work for Blizzard.
"the suicide rate in the constellation quadrupled overnight."
Every February I was in Seattle I wanted to put a shotgun in my mouth and pull the trigger.
In reality, adding the ability to register (and verify) accounts based on the citizen ID number is probably just too much effort for Google. Many Korean websites are having a difficult time complying with the new law.
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May I interest you in learning about representative democracy? You'll notice the U.S. is included on that page. Republics and democracies aren't mutually exclusive.
If you read up and know the story, you will find that the government actually did call up the banks and "strongly discourage" them from trading U.S. currency, In effect, he's being tried on a technicality and being railroaded, and the government -- for all intents and purposes -- did what he said they did. I suspect that they are just upset that he knew, and are looking for a way to silence his blog, which routinely reports anti-majority news.
Inter police -> Internet police.
I'm not Korean, but I've been in Korea for almost five years now. How do you feel about the new online identity laws? Most Koreans I know seem to be for the laws, but very few of these people are technically literate. Personally, I think the laws are terrifying.
There's nothing as cathartic as shooting the messenger, eh?
Now that Korea doesn't allow anonymous postings (requiring the citizen's ID number to register) and has started a (mostly unregulated) Inter police taskforce, this type of arrest is surely to become more common.
I live in Korea, and my friends and I have been blocked (with required scary Internet police warning) from websites they deemed morally questionable. Right now, these mostly appear to be dating and gay sites, but who knows where it'll go from here. Putting a force in place to watch your people and giving them carte blanche to block whatever they don't like is just inviting trouble.
Two further comments:
Or even more recently, creating an implementation of ODF which isn't interoperable.
You should just set up an apt-cache on one and direct the others to fetch from the first. There are several to choose from. Search for "apt proxy."
The site doesn't have much information, but other sources I have read state that apt-p2p is very experimental. Use at your own peril!
Microsoft, where neither the source nor the beer are free. ;) j/k
:D. ISP -- KT. Service Megapass Lite. It's the most popular one in the country.
Yes, there are some apps from the 80s and 90s (mostly posix ones) that can and do run on Linux.
Maybe KDE is the problem (I'm not accusing -- I don't know and don't use it), but most Freedesktop.org-compliant desktops (KDE is supposed to be one of them) use $APPNAME + $APPFUNCTION in the menu (e.g. Gimp Image Editor, Epiphany Web Browser, Empathy Instant messenger).
Maybe the problem is your distribution.
You should install XPUD on it. It boots fast, too.
Current home server stats
RX bytes:158.2 GB
Uptime: 11 days
Cost of Internet connection: USD 22.50 (30000KRW)
That is about 450GB monthly, and doesn't include the other computers on my network. I guess that my traffic is ~600GB per month every month. My ISP never makes a peep about it. Caps are just one reason I could never go back to living in the US.