The purpose of this is not to solve the problem of terrorism, it is to solve the problem of unemployment...
Most of the unemployed in East London are going to have highly paid jobs in the ID card forging business for the forseable future.
And it gives the police a cool excuse to harass people they are p*ssed off with "Yeah, sure your ID is in your other jacket/dog/why". Its really cool...
that were the case then Piracy, Murder and Mayhem would be legal, as means of making money (kill someone, take their money, etc). As would organized crime, etc.
It would appear to most of the world that GW Bush thinks these things are legal.
The trick is, finally, to educate people who pay for ads about how valuable those click throughs are compared to a nebulous subscriber count.
Well the/. article about how millions of Indians spend all day clicking "click through" ads for money will explain to everyone the value of "click through".
Its not in the same league with search engines that tell you the answer to your search is "Barnes and Noble" and "Alamo Car Rentals", even when you are searching for your ancestors or hotels in Africa, but what you pay per click needs to reflect the value of sales or you will go down the dotcom plug hole.
Actually, the "Normal Consumer" has never heard of Linux, and thinks "MS Windows" means "Word". They also think Windows is part of the hardware, and don't know how to lift the bonnet of their car.
The people who believe as described in that post are far better informed, which is not very good news.
However, its not all "doom and gloom" the number of people who use Linux today greatly exceeds the number who had used a computer in 1980. Very few Linux users would go back to Windows without bloodshed. Most Windows users would go anywhere if led by the nose.
Us *BSD users stick to our guns.... John Wayne, in the "The day a car rental firm won the west"
You are wrong - the solution is to block entire ISPs until they get their act together.
And another thing to ponder on...
All this extra traffic caused by viruses...who profits?
Now who makes the routers that pass on the virsuse, and have no virus protection? Its a company called "Cisco" - if ISPs told Cisco they would not buy routers that had no effective virus filter, then viruses would be gone by next thursday.
If someone won't cooperate with the community, a swift kick in the balls does wonders to their brain power.
Heaven forfend the idea that American spammers be prosecuted for all the Viagra spams they inflict on Europeans who cant even understand English when its spelt right!
If they complain that we sign the treaty, and they sign the treaty, then they keep their side of the bargain, but we dont keep ours, we just bomb the f*&@ out of them.
That way we retain our prestige on the world stage?
USPTO as a small roadside ice cream stand that hands out weapons-grade plutonium
They don't hand it out They sell it for money - that is the American Way - Government of the corrupt, by the corrupt, for the corrupt. [and you thought the Russian Mafia was bad]
If this patent is not valid in the rest of the world, can we just get on with our lives? - No they will hit us with shock and awe. You wonder why Americans are not popular every where they go?
Give me an OS that you would install by putting a CD in a drive, typing a computer name, and where you would not see one setting unless you REALLY wanted to mess with them
The UK press have an agenda of rubbishing Europe - its because the banks are funding a massive anti-euro campaign.
Hardly surprising: at present they screw us for 4% of all we import (most of our food) and 4% of all we export to pay for it in overpriced money exchanging charges (in the form of the "spread" between buy and sell prices). IE at present the banks are taxing us 8% of our food budget, and some more.
They also take 3 days to clear cheques - which allows them to embezzle 10% of our GNP (they have your pay cheque for 3 days out of 30 every month - and recently have managed to stretch those 3 to 4 in some cases), and its not just pay cheques - its all payment for all commercial transactions for all commodities made by cheque - basically ever commercial trasaction in the UK. They justify it by lying that you can't do financial transactions safely by computer although they swear their cash machines do.
They get away with this because there are only 3 banks allowed to clear cheques in the UK, and they are all in it together - now there's a case of fraud, conspiracy to defraud, abuse of monopoly, obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception, and others too numerous to list here. We dont have a law against racketeering here. We dont have a mafia - organised crime is called "the banks" here in the UK!
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The purpose of this is not to solve the problem of terrorism, it is to solve the problem of unemployment ...
Most of the unemployed in East London are going to have highly paid jobs in the ID card forging business for the forseable future.
And it gives the police a cool excuse to harass people they are p*ssed off with "Yeah, sure your ID is in your other jacket/dog/why". Its really cool ...
It would appear to most of the world that GW Bush thinks these things are legal.
In the case of Windows, it is You that is owned.
Not my mother ... she is a Mac user!
Dont you even read ./?
Dont worry, they will soon get to see "Days of our lives", "Gerry Springer" and "Dukes of Hazzard"!
Well the /. article about how millions of Indians spend all day clicking "click through" ads for money will explain to everyone the value of "click through".
Its not in the same league with search engines that tell you the answer to your search is "Barnes and Noble" and "Alamo Car Rentals", even when you are searching for your ancestors or hotels in Africa, but what you pay per click needs to reflect the value of sales or you will go down the dotcom plug hole.
Now we can predict when Linux will take over the desktop...
Yeah, but the godfather gets to own both of them!
wait...
*Unless IBM insist on a pound of flesh, of course, in which case IBM might just opensource Unix anyway.
He makes the point perfectly clear: "You can shove it ...".
Windows is not ready for server prime time anyway:
Cant run headless (cant even boot without a mouse and keyboard attached!)
Gets viruses every few minutes unless autopatched
Patches crash it as often as they fix it
Takes more lawyers to understand the licence than to defeat a SCO law suit.
Read the ... WTF!
The only way I'll sign up for this is if the money is spent on torture chambers for spammers.
If there's any left after you finish spraying your dick!
The people who believe as described in that post are far better informed, which is not very good news.
However, its not all "doom and gloom" the number of people who use Linux today greatly exceeds the number who had used a computer in 1980. Very few Linux users would go back to Windows without bloodshed. Most Windows users would go anywhere if led by the nose.
Us *BSD users stick to our guns. ... John Wayne, in the "The day a car rental firm won the west"
Probably not a big deal, since they already asked me to disable that god-awful autoplay feature
so they go to the website and download it, unable to install it and blaming it on Windows
You might want to tell them not to install Ford parts on the Mercedes as well.
Well you can rule out MS products then, cos you sure wont get support from MS, but OO support is pretty damn good.
Are you prepared to have your whole country blacklisted, just to protect some scum who dirty your name and harass the rest of the world?
What you are defending is not the right to free speach, but the right to commit crimes unmolested.
If you think it is right for the ISPs to do nothing about spam, then I think you SHOULD be disconnected from the rest of us!
And another thing to ponder on...
All this extra traffic caused by viruses...who profits?
Now who makes the routers that pass on the virsuse, and have no virus protection? Its a company called "Cisco" - if ISPs told Cisco they would not buy routers that had no effective virus filter, then viruses would be gone by next thursday.
If someone won't cooperate with the community, a swift kick in the balls does wonders to their brain power.
Heaven forfend the idea that American spammers be prosecuted for all the Viagra spams they inflict on Europeans who cant even understand English when its spelt right!
That way we retain our prestige on the world stage?
They don't hand it out They sell it for money - that is the American Way - Government of the corrupt, by the corrupt, for the corrupt. [and you thought the Russian Mafia was bad]
If this patent is not valid in the rest of the world, can we just get on with our lives? - No they will hit us with shock and awe. You wonder why Americans are not popular every where they go?
Its called FreeBSD.
Hardly surprising: at present they screw us for 4% of all we import (most of our food) and 4% of all we export to pay for it in overpriced money exchanging charges (in the form of the "spread" between buy and sell prices). IE at present the banks are taxing us 8% of our food budget, and some more.
They also take 3 days to clear cheques - which allows them to embezzle 10% of our GNP (they have your pay cheque for 3 days out of 30 every month - and recently have managed to stretch those 3 to 4 in some cases), and its not just pay cheques - its all payment for all commercial transactions for all commodities made by cheque - basically ever commercial trasaction in the UK. They justify it by lying that you can't do financial transactions safely by computer although they swear their cash machines do.
They get away with this because there are only 3 banks allowed to clear cheques in the UK, and they are all in it together - now there's a case of fraud, conspiracy to defraud, abuse of monopoly, obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception, and others too numerous to list here. We dont have a law against racketeering here. We dont have a mafia - organised crime is called "the banks" here in the UK!