He sounds like he's doing what was mentioned a few posts ago, hiring people to try and make Linux less efficient or less desirable or whatever. But how could he do that if the entire idea of linux is that a worldwide community can modify and improve the code? If there were a Microsoft-planted problem in the kernel, it would be fixed within hours.
It's either a low-quality fake or a Microsoft employee who knows jack about his competition.
I heard a few posts back the argument that, while now people are throwing away civil liberties like so many empty Doritos bags, the idea of implanting a chip in everyone's arm would force people to wake up to what they're doing.
Not to sound like a doomsayer, but at this rate, there is no doubt people would accept these in mass if they were offered today.
Governments are notorious for their propaganda skills. If they started running flashy commercials telling America that this is the only way to fight terrorism, the lines for these microchips would be miles long. Americans already have a convenient unique serial number, the Social Security number, that could easily be put onto everyone's microchip.
I always thought Americans valued their rights, but two incidents are giving me leanings otherwise. First was the entire election mess a year ago. It boils down to this: Gore was the president chosen by the American people. When they put Bush in office, there was so little protest it disgusted me. The people made a choice, and the government said it didn't care what the people wanted.
Second, and even more shocking, was the lack of outrage over Ashcroft's comment a few weeks ago, that speaking out against the government is aiding and abetting the enemy. It's not hard to imagine Ashcroft adding "and aiding and abetting the enemy is treason, a criminal offense" onto the end of that sentence.
Will no one stand up and defend the rights we are owed as Americans? Or will this entire country simply march into a 1984-like hell to be started by these invasive microchips?
The thing is, people have adopted the terms megabyte and gigabyte to mean what they do now, the power of two unit insted of the proper power of ten. This is how language evolves - the improper becomes accepted.
The same thing happened with the word Judaism. It's supposed to be pronounced jew-DUH-ism, but in America we call it jew-DEE-ism. While it's not technically correct, everyone knows what you're talking about, and it's the standard, accepted way to talk about the Jewish faith.
Basically this is an effort to reverse linguistic evolution. The current terminology isn't broken for the public which understands gigabyte and megabyte, so don't fix it.
My biggest probem with the AT&T outage was their total inability to give us, the poor customers up in Fort Collins, Colorado, any straight information.
We heard that "Denver and the Rocky Mountain region" were going to be some of the fastest areas to be back up. We heard that they had to build the new network from scratch here in Fort Collins, and it would take "several weeks". The local paper reported two weeks. Of course, the tech guys took four hours (literally) to answer the phone and didn't know a thing.
After attbi came back up, the DNS servers were so unreliable it was disgusting. It would fluctuate between unusually fast and nothing at all every five to ten minutes, until one of my friends called tech support twice, each time with the four hour wait, and got the IP's for some working DNS servers. I still don't know if the standard assigned servers are working properly for everyone who didn't call support.
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So that means regular phone-text-entry is satanic?
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Why does South Africa have .za?
Last I checked, there's no Z in South Africa, and don't they speak english down there?
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He sounds like he's doing what was mentioned a few posts ago, hiring people to try and make Linux less efficient or less desirable or whatever. But how could he do that if the entire idea of linux is that a worldwide community can modify and improve the code? If there were a Microsoft-planted problem in the kernel, it would be fixed within hours.
It's either a low-quality fake or a Microsoft employee who knows jack about his competition.
I heard a few posts back the argument that, while now people are throwing away civil liberties like so many empty Doritos bags, the idea of implanting a chip in everyone's arm would force people to wake up to what they're doing.
Not to sound like a doomsayer, but at this rate, there is no doubt people would accept these in mass if they were offered today.
Governments are notorious for their propaganda skills. If they started running flashy commercials telling America that this is the only way to fight terrorism, the lines for these microchips would be miles long. Americans already have a convenient unique serial number, the Social Security number, that could easily be put onto everyone's microchip.
I always thought Americans valued their rights, but two incidents are giving me leanings otherwise. First was the entire election mess a year ago. It boils down to this: Gore was the president chosen by the American people. When they put Bush in office, there was so little protest it disgusted me. The people made a choice, and the government said it didn't care what the people wanted.
Second, and even more shocking, was the lack of outrage over Ashcroft's comment a few weeks ago, that speaking out against the government is aiding and abetting the enemy. It's not hard to imagine Ashcroft adding "and aiding and abetting the enemy is treason, a criminal offense" onto the end of that sentence.
Will no one stand up and defend the rights we are owed as Americans? Or will this entire country simply march into a 1984-like hell to be started by these invasive microchips?
The thing is, people have adopted the terms megabyte and gigabyte to mean what they do now, the power of two unit insted of the proper power of ten. This is how language evolves - the improper becomes accepted.
The same thing happened with the word Judaism. It's supposed to be pronounced jew-DUH-ism, but in America we call it jew-DEE-ism. While it's not technically correct, everyone knows what you're talking about, and it's the standard, accepted way to talk about the Jewish faith.
Basically this is an effort to reverse linguistic evolution. The current terminology isn't broken for the public which understands gigabyte and megabyte, so don't fix it.
My biggest probem with the AT&T outage was their total inability to give us, the poor customers up in Fort Collins, Colorado, any straight information. We heard that "Denver and the Rocky Mountain region" were going to be some of the fastest areas to be back up. We heard that they had to build the new network from scratch here in Fort Collins, and it would take "several weeks". The local paper reported two weeks. Of course, the tech guys took four hours (literally) to answer the phone and didn't know a thing. After attbi came back up, the DNS servers were so unreliable it was disgusting. It would fluctuate between unusually fast and nothing at all every five to ten minutes, until one of my friends called tech support twice, each time with the four hour wait, and got the IP's for some working DNS servers. I still don't know if the standard assigned servers are working properly for everyone who didn't call support.