Instead of trying to make everyone using the internet some kind of security expert perhaps its time to make computers handle more of the security decisions?
If the OS vendor cant make a good judgement, how could a normal user? A geek can, but here we have millions of users who want to do stuff, not act all computer technician.
Google has gotten it right with the specs and design docs for Google Chrome OS. They explicitly state the goal of the OS taking all the hard decisions and acting as a safety net should the user do stupid things. Thats how Windows should have been built instead of Windows UAC that dumps even more decisions onto the user. An internet license is just a way to further force the users to learn stuff the OS vendor should have solved years ago. Its also every suppressing states wet dream to be able to control who will be let onto the net and not.
If Google somehow gets taken out of the picture, this is what we are facing. I much rather have Google sucking my tits than Microsoft taking me hard from behind with a pinapple thank you!
Usama Bin Laden have proved that terrorism is infact a very succesful tool. This law alone proves that it works just as intended. If the goal is to tighten the screws on your opponents population and make their life living 1984 i cant think of a better way. I find it very amusing that someone crate a law that proves that terrorism works just dandy and at the same time forbid anyone to speak about it.
I dont condone terrorism but it sure seems to work very well for some tasks. The US has a public perception of being evil and we westerners are now monitored, searched, scanned, Without free speech and controlled in any way possible.
The best we could have done was to gotten to the core of the problem, why do terrorists exist, what do they want? How do we go about getting rid of them peacefully, take away their reasons to commit terrorist acts and thus support from the general population?
As of now we just wander straight into the trap waving a big sign against the terrorists "Do it again! It works!" while we all loose essential human rights one after another.
One possible way of solving and failproof a potentiometer controlled gas pedal is to have a microswitch with its own circuit breaking fuel injection whenever the pedal is released, regardless of where the primary system thinks the throttle is. Helps against both logical errors in software and mechanical errors.
That way even if the potentiometer/whatever fails the car stops accelerating as soon as you take your foot off the pedal which is the normal reaction to a sudden acceleration.
Pure unhindered greed is slowly dismantling America. Green is todays color of fashion. As long as you reach the goal of getting rich anything seems ok in the US.
People care, they just care more about money than about other people.
Greed is a powerful driving force for a society but left totally unchecked it takes any country down because at some point money always takes precedence over everything else.
I think this is partly because greed, religion and big corps has taken over pretty much everything in the west. We dont listen to our scholars, we dont let them into the debate, we counter their arguments with pseudo science like "intelligent design" and we generally treat them like the scum of the earth. Doing research in the west is not that hot anymore, especially if youre into basic research and not on the productification side of things. Facts and science are in the west just a tool people above the scientists twist and distort to make their personal view come forward.
China hasnt yet had its government taken over by big corps like the US and EU has. Their biggest advantage is a govt that runs the agenda instead of lobbyists just looking out for their very small part of the big picture running the show. We live in a fantasy world where people will pay for our IP but what people fail to understand is that the groundwork laid out now with regards to WIPO is something that will bite us royally in the ass in the future when all the new fancy IP is really coming out from China.
Its a really good game with excellent levels and layout. The real fun starts when you play it with a couple of friends. I really hope there will be more games like this coming out.
The slide is a manufactured one stemming in direct link from Microsoft. If you look carefully at the bloggers, commenters, journalists etc you will start seeing a pattern. Its the same exact nicks/people lambasting Linux, dancing in joy over any new or old Microsofts product that badmouths Google. Sometime in september -09 Microsoft started a orchestred effort into throwin FUD at Google. Since finding dirt on Google is about as easy as getting a picture of Bill Gates using Linux most of it consists of lame attacks about privacy.
I dont know what Google does about this but at some point they will have to take this up into the open. No company that has tried to ignore Microsofts criminal activities and not take an open fight has ever survived.
PS. I do understand i sound like a raving lunatic to some people but please, read this and come back and tell me Microsoft is your everyday normal corporation. DS
Just do it our western way instead of using old-school hacking. In the EU we have total monitoring of citizens mails, connections and movements of mobiles at hand for any government agency. Travels, purchases and just about anything we do is monitored, checked, logged and stored for future use. The US has almost as draconian laws and monitoring in place.
I also strongly suggest you and everyone else that thinks Google isnt the target for a whisper campaing to read the Comes VS Microsoft documents and internal Microsoft e-mails. Read them, think about it for a while and then come back and tell me its not plausible or infact very probable.
I would never in my life hire someone for a technical position if they have a hotmail account in their resume. Hotmail is to me and i suspect many others the most lame address anyone can have. If someone is a geek and still has a hotmail account i instantly file those under "rampant Microsoft fanboy" because most techies with some skills choose a much better mail provider.
Everywhere i read i see posts from astroturfers pretending to be very concerned about their privacy. Lambasting Google for all they are worth and trying to purport them as a very evil and vile company.
The thing is, Google hasnt got half of the information many other sources has like twitter, facebook etc. The problem isnt that Google has access to vast amount of data. To provide good search technology and ad placement they have to analyze things, just like every other ad network does, like Microsofts for eg.
The problem isnt Google or Microsoft Bing but rather that the governments can demand any and all information about you at a whim. Not just from Google but from your bank, healtcare, utilities, ISP, telephone companies, other sites etc etc. If the information about your searches etc isnt at google its somewhere else. The only way to avoid getting stuff logged is to get off the net.
This problem is so easy to understand that its blatantly clear that this is all part of a campaign to paint Google as an evil company. Instead you should put pressure on the politicians to stop snooping into your life and write strong privacy laws. A small number of people are so stupid they fall for the Microsoft astroturfing but one would think people on slashdot would understand perfectly whats going on.
First of all, since when do the estate sell something or protect something called "Nexus One", "Android" or something at all with a name that resembles those two?
Someone getting inspired by a book are not supposed to pay for the inspiration other than having bought the damn book. This is just some assholes trying to get money.
Android is an old latin word of andro- "human" + eides "form, shape. Nexus translates to connection or center and is also a latin word. It wouldnt even been a problem if Mr. Dick had invented the names himself but its just old words that happens to be in his books like "him", "her", "greedy" or "obnoxious".
I think that the west are about to bite itself in the butt. I really dont think that we in the west will run around selling movies, patents, music and other IP to the rest of the world for very long. When we moved our factories abroad we also shipped out all of our knowledge. We have a short overtake on the research side that will be overcome in a not so distand future by other countries.
The same goes for music and movies. The best movies arent made in the US anymore. They are so far paid by the US and produced by US financials but much of them are in their entierly somewhere else. Its not that long of a stretch to imagine other people starting to put money into moviemaking. Music are as of now a matter of the industrys tight grip on the distribution channels and most of all the radio. Thats why i think the music industry is so afraid of the internet. If they cant influence what gets onto the radio and tv anymore the risk are that bands and artists get large fanbases by themselves.
Some artists are gullable and believe that pirates are really depriving them of silly amounts of money. I personally think that the hunt for pirates are hurting them in the long run. More work should be pstupidut into making the music/movies better so that it can withstand competition from emerging countries. Some Asian movies and music ive heard in later years could really wipe our collective arses once they manage to get a foot into our culture. We laughed about asian cars and look at our carpark today. If we build hars rules for IP we will eat it all up later when its us who have to get patents from other countries for whatever we try to do.
I manage a large network of computers and servers. I have never even considered blocking access except where it make sense from a technical standpoint. Its really QOS i want but since i have never gotten it to work reliably id rather throttle specific sites like youtube, snotr, facebook and the like because thats the real bandwidth hogs.
All of the demands for power has come from upstairs. The management likes to be ontop of everything but since security (real security) is so hard to grasp they go for something they almost understand instead. Like crazy policies that nor add anything nor kills any real problems.
We run WSUS without any AD and it does work. Just throw a.reg file at the machines. The only drawback with WSUS is that if you upgrade all machines at once a broken patch will break them all, at once.
Im just managing the servers and i have automated the crap out of those. I have put countless hours into working every single kink out of the systems and make them behave. My job is the easy one, the grunt work lies at the user side of things.
Most of the Nokia patents are old, non-obvious and already established. Its not like patents on "doing thing x, but this time on the internet!". Why Apple decided to spit in Nokias face i dont really understand. They cant win this one, especially since the US is trying to get software patents acknowledged in the EU. Now is really not the time to play the protectionist game so i dont think political pressure will be put into the courts.
I run Google Chrome 4.0.266.0 on Debian Lenny and my experiences so far has been very good. Plugins in general works just fine, even flash.
I really dont care for "integrated" apps. I want an application to do what its supposed to and do it well. The only thing important is to be able to export stuff in a readable open format. Chrome is by far the best browser i have ever used and the worst thing that could happen to it is if it becomes Gnome/KDE/windows-ified like firefox or konqueror.
Once enough people gets their eye on Google Chrome/Chromium i think both Firefox and IE is in for a ride. Especially on Linux since mozilla seems to view Linux as a sideshow project nowadays, atleast for a bystander. I mean, after this time shouldnt it atleast keep systemwide settings in/etc/firefox?
We would probably have Gnu with another kernel.
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While i dont want to belittle Linus work i think that GNU would just have another kernel and be about as popular as of now.
The reason i think that is that im my mind the GPL license and GNU was the single most significant factor to GNU/Linux success. If Linus had went for eg. a BSD license Linux would be a mostly one man show were people took Linux code, altered it and didnt return anything back. Now, thanks to the GPL, we have numoreous companies working together on the same code and nobody can take the code and hide it away.
The Linux kernel wouldnt do that much by itself without all the various GPL code that it fits in with. Personally i would love if there was more active kernels in use with GNU. A standardized API for drivers would also be nice. That way it would be immensely easier for new kernel/OS projects to lift off the ground.
SAAB was once a great car for its time. From the first SAAB 92 up until the middle 900 series they was pretty excellent compared to many other cars. The heating in a SAAB was very good and suitable for northern climate, not to mention the nice handling in heavy snow.
I dont know what went wrong really but a big shift in the target audience of the cars was made. Later cars was very expensive, bland and gaz guzzlers.
The Chinese are getting up to speed making cars so i guess it was just a matter of time before European and American cars started to disappear. The worst that could happen is if the Chinese somehow manage to make fuel efficient cars much cheaper than other countries. Up until now there has been easy to keep trade barriers up in the name of the enviroment.
Mono still wont end up on any system i support or manage. If Microsoft wants Silverlight on Linux they have to release their own official client. Moonlight is still crap, buggy and hopelessly behind Silverlight.
The funny thing is that Microsoft already have promised a Silverlight port to Linux through maemo but with de Iqaza helping them implementing the mono trap in Linux they wouldnt dream of stopping that stupid implementation.
The worst thing you can do in the computing world is play nice with Microsoft. Countless of companies along the roadside is proof of that.
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Instead of trying to make everyone using the internet some kind of security expert perhaps its time to make computers handle more of the security decisions?
If the OS vendor cant make a good judgement, how could a normal user? A geek can, but here we have millions of users who want to do stuff, not act all computer technician.
Google has gotten it right with the specs and design docs for Google Chrome OS. They explicitly state the goal of the OS taking all the hard decisions and acting as a safety net should the user do stupid things. Thats how Windows should have been built instead of Windows UAC that dumps even more decisions onto the user. An internet license is just a way to further force the users to learn stuff the OS vendor should have solved years ago. Its also every suppressing states wet dream to be able to control who will be let onto the net and not.
If Google somehow gets taken out of the picture, this is what we are facing. I much rather have Google sucking my tits than Microsoft taking me hard from behind with a pinapple thank you!
Usama Bin Laden have proved that terrorism is infact a very succesful tool. This law alone proves that it works just as intended. If the goal is to tighten the screws on your opponents population and make their life living 1984 i cant think of a better way. I find it very amusing that someone crate a law that proves that terrorism works just dandy and at the same time forbid anyone to speak about it.
I dont condone terrorism but it sure seems to work very well for some tasks. The US has a public perception of being evil and we westerners are now monitored, searched, scanned, Without free speech and controlled in any way possible.
The best we could have done was to gotten to the core of the problem, why do terrorists exist, what do they want? How do we go about getting rid of them peacefully, take away their reasons to commit terrorist acts and thus support from the general population?
As of now we just wander straight into the trap waving a big sign against the terrorists "Do it again! It works!" while we all loose essential human rights one after another.
One possible way of solving and failproof a potentiometer controlled gas pedal is to have a microswitch with its own circuit breaking fuel injection whenever the pedal is released, regardless of where the primary system thinks the throttle is. Helps against both logical errors in software and mechanical errors.
That way even if the potentiometer/whatever fails the car stops accelerating as soon as you take your foot off the pedal which is the normal reaction to a sudden acceleration.
Pure unhindered greed is slowly dismantling America. Green is todays color of fashion. As long as you reach the goal of getting rich anything seems ok in the US.
People care, they just care more about money than about other people.
Greed is a powerful driving force for a society but left totally unchecked it takes any country down because at some point money always takes precedence over everything else.
Exactly, and its already on its way.
http://www.renault.com/en/innovation/vehicule-electrique/pages/modes-de-charge.aspx
I think this is partly because greed, religion and big corps has taken over pretty much everything in the west. We dont listen to our scholars, we dont let them into the debate, we counter their arguments with pseudo science like "intelligent design" and we generally treat them like the scum of the earth. Doing research in the west is not that hot anymore, especially if youre into basic research and not on the productification side of things. Facts and science are in the west just a tool people above the scientists twist and distort to make their personal view come forward.
China hasnt yet had its government taken over by big corps like the US and EU has. Their biggest advantage is a govt that runs the agenda instead of lobbyists just looking out for their very small part of the big picture running the show. We live in a fantasy world where people will pay for our IP but what people fail to understand is that the groundwork laid out now with regards to WIPO is something that will bite us royally in the ass in the future when all the new fancy IP is really coming out from China.
Its a really good game with excellent levels and layout. The real fun starts when you play it with a couple of friends. I really hope there will be more games like this coming out.
The slide is a manufactured one stemming in direct link from Microsoft. If you look carefully at the bloggers, commenters, journalists etc you will start seeing a pattern. Its the same exact nicks/people lambasting Linux, dancing in joy over any new or old Microsofts product that badmouths Google. Sometime in september -09 Microsoft started a orchestred effort into throwin FUD at Google. Since finding dirt on Google is about as easy as getting a picture of Bill Gates using Linux most of it consists of lame attacks about privacy.
I dont know what Google does about this but at some point they will have to take this up into the open. No company that has tried to ignore Microsofts criminal activities and not take an open fight has ever survived.
PS. I do understand i sound like a raving lunatic to some people but please, read this and come back and tell me Microsoft is your everyday normal corporation. DS
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2007021720190018
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/
Just do it our western way instead of using old-school hacking. In the EU we have total monitoring of citizens mails, connections and movements of mobiles at hand for any government agency. Travels, purchases and just about anything we do is monitored, checked, logged and stored for future use. The US has almost as draconian laws and monitoring in place.
Hacking is so last year.
Read the articles that the link below points to:
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/08/30/anti-google-astroturf-lawmedia/
I also strongly suggest you and everyone else that thinks Google isnt the target for a whisper campaing to read the Comes VS Microsoft documents and internal Microsoft e-mails. Read them, think about it for a while and then come back and tell me its not plausible or infact very probable.
I would never in my life hire someone for a technical position if they have a hotmail account in their resume. Hotmail is to me and i suspect many others the most lame address anyone can have. If someone is a geek and still has a hotmail account i instantly file those under "rampant Microsoft fanboy" because most techies with some skills choose a much better mail provider.
Everywhere i read i see posts from astroturfers pretending to be very concerned about their privacy. Lambasting Google for all they are worth and trying to purport them as a very evil and vile company.
The thing is, Google hasnt got half of the information many other sources has like twitter, facebook etc. The problem isnt that Google has access to vast amount of data. To provide good search technology and ad placement they have to analyze things, just like every other ad network does, like Microsofts for eg.
The problem isnt Google or Microsoft Bing but rather that the governments can demand any and all information about you at a whim. Not just from Google but from your bank, healtcare, utilities, ISP, telephone companies, other sites etc etc. If the information about your searches etc isnt at google its somewhere else. The only way to avoid getting stuff logged is to get off the net.
This problem is so easy to understand that its blatantly clear that this is all part of a campaign to paint Google as an evil company. Instead you should put pressure on the politicians to stop snooping into your life and write strong privacy laws. A small number of people are so stupid they fall for the Microsoft astroturfing but one would think people on slashdot would understand perfectly whats going on.
First of all, since when do the estate sell something or protect something called "Nexus One", "Android" or something at all with a name that resembles those two?
Someone getting inspired by a book are not supposed to pay for the inspiration other than having bought the damn book. This is just some assholes trying to get money.
Android is an old latin word of andro- "human" + eides "form, shape. Nexus translates to connection or center and is also a latin word. It wouldnt even been a problem if Mr. Dick had invented the names himself but its just old words that happens to be in his books like "him", "her", "greedy" or "obnoxious".
I think that the west are about to bite itself in the butt. I really dont think that we in the west will run around selling movies, patents, music and other IP to the rest of the world for very long. When we moved our factories abroad we also shipped out all of our knowledge. We have a short overtake on the research side that will be overcome in a not so distand future by other countries.
The same goes for music and movies. The best movies arent made in the US anymore. They are so far paid by the US and produced by US financials but much of them are in their entierly somewhere else. Its not that long of a stretch to imagine other people starting to put money into moviemaking. Music are as of now a matter of the industrys tight grip on the distribution channels and most of all the radio. Thats why i think the music industry is so afraid of the internet. If they cant influence what gets onto the radio and tv anymore the risk are that bands and artists get large fanbases by themselves.
Some artists are gullable and believe that pirates are really depriving them of silly amounts of money. I personally think that the hunt for pirates are hurting them in the long run. More work should be pstupidut into making the music/movies better so that it can withstand competition from emerging countries. Some Asian movies and music ive heard in later years could really wipe our collective arses once they manage to get a foot into our culture. We laughed about asian cars and look at our carpark today. If we build hars rules for IP we will eat it all up later when its us who have to get patents from other countries for whatever we try to do.
I manage a large network of computers and servers. I have never even considered blocking access except where it make sense from a technical standpoint. Its really QOS i want but since i have never gotten it to work reliably id rather throttle specific sites like youtube, snotr, facebook and the like because thats the real bandwidth hogs.
All of the demands for power has come from upstairs. The management likes to be ontop of everything but since security (real security) is so hard to grasp they go for something they almost understand instead. Like crazy policies that nor add anything nor kills any real problems.
We run WSUS without any AD and it does work. Just throw a .reg file at the machines. The only drawback with WSUS is that if you upgrade all machines at once a broken patch will break them all, at once.
Most of the work we have is helping users do stuff they dont know how to do. The knowledge level is pretty low despite recent educational projects.
Im just managing the servers and i have automated the crap out of those. I have put countless hours into working every single kink out of the systems and make them behave. My job is the easy one, the grunt work lies at the user side of things.
Most of the Nokia patents are old, non-obvious and already established. Its not like patents on "doing thing x, but this time on the internet!". Why Apple decided to spit in Nokias face i dont really understand. They cant win this one, especially since the US is trying to get software patents acknowledged in the EU. Now is really not the time to play the protectionist game so i dont think political pressure will be put into the courts.
I run Google Chrome 4.0.266.0 on Debian Lenny and my experiences so far has been very good. Plugins in general works just fine, even flash.
I really dont care for "integrated" apps. I want an application to do what its supposed to and do it well. The only thing important is to be able to export stuff in a readable open format. Chrome is by far the best browser i have ever used and the worst thing that could happen to it is if it becomes Gnome/KDE/windows-ified like firefox or konqueror.
Once enough people gets their eye on Google Chrome/Chromium i think both Firefox and IE is in for a ride. Especially on Linux since mozilla seems to view Linux as a sideshow project nowadays, atleast for a bystander. I mean, after this time shouldnt it atleast keep systemwide settings in /etc/firefox?
While i dont want to belittle Linus work i think that GNU would just have another kernel and be about as popular as of now.
The reason i think that is that im my mind the GPL license and GNU was the single most significant factor to GNU/Linux success. If Linus had went for eg. a BSD license Linux would be a mostly one man show were people took Linux code, altered it and didnt return anything back. Now, thanks to the GPL, we have numoreous companies working together on the same code and nobody can take the code and hide it away.
The Linux kernel wouldnt do that much by itself without all the various GPL code that it fits in with. Personally i would love if there was more active kernels in use with GNU. A standardized API for drivers would also be nice. That way it would be immensely easier for new kernel/OS projects to lift off the ground.
SAAB was once a great car for its time. From the first SAAB 92 up until the middle 900 series they was pretty excellent compared to many other cars. The heating in a SAAB was very good and suitable for northern climate, not to mention the nice handling in heavy snow.
I dont know what went wrong really but a big shift in the target audience of the cars was made. Later cars was very expensive, bland and gaz guzzlers.
The Chinese are getting up to speed making cars so i guess it was just a matter of time before European and American cars started to disappear. The worst that could happen is if the Chinese somehow manage to make fuel efficient cars much cheaper than other countries. Up until now there has been easy to keep trade barriers up in the name of the enviroment.
Mono still wont end up on any system i support or manage. If Microsoft wants Silverlight on Linux they have to release their own official client. Moonlight is still crap, buggy and hopelessly behind Silverlight.
The funny thing is that Microsoft already have promised a Silverlight port to Linux through maemo but with de Iqaza helping them implementing the mono trap in Linux they wouldnt dream of stopping that stupid implementation.
The worst thing you can do in the computing world is play nice with Microsoft. Countless of companies along the roadside is proof of that.
Thanks, i really enjoy reading about China. The current misinformation going on is pretty annoying at times.